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J&K all set to get annual plan by mid June, final meeting between Montek, CM on June 15 | Wrap up meeting concluded on positive note, claim officers | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 21: With crucial wrap up meeting having concluded on a positive note with Planning Commission today, J&K is all set to get its annual plan for current financial year approved by the latter by mid June. The final date of meeting between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and the J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has been fixed on June 15. J&K Finance Minister AR Rather will also attend this meeting.
A high level team of state officers led by Chief Secretary Madhav Lal today held what in PC parlance is termed as the wrap up meeting, this being the last one in a series of meetings held earlier at various levels mandatory for justifying the projected plan size by the state government. The wrap meeting, sources said was held in very congenial atmosphere with the PC member BK Chaturvedi today at New Delhi in which the J&K officers pushed forward the draft of the annual plan prepared by the Finance minister for current fiscal year. " The high level official team also elaborated on certain clarifications which were sought by the Commiss... | |
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Police deptt ignores Home, Law in IGP Farooq's joining back | "No knowledge of IGP's joining", Principal Secretary Home and Adv General | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, May 21: Even as everybody from the state Home Department to the union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), and from the state Law Department to Advocate General, appears to be in the dark, Police Headquarters here have not only entertained IGP Farooq Ahmed's joining report but also allotted a room to him, pending his posting by the state government.
Informed sources revealed that Farooq Ahmed, whose reinstatement had been ordered by Mr Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar of Jammu & Kashmir High Court on Thursday last, produced his joining report at Police Headquarters on Friday. His report was entertained and a room was subsequently allotted to the Police official, pendin... | |
| | Claiming Cong edge in Panchayat polls, Soz asks party to get ready for Local bodies elections | 'Separatists must take cue from massive poll percentage, join talks' | | Jammu, May 21: Even as ongoing panchayat polls are being held on non party basis, the J&K Congress chief Prof Saif-u-Din Soz today claimed success of the candidates backed by the party particularly in Kashmir valley which showed the ideology of the party was acceptable to the people across the state.He asked the party to get ready for the Local Bodies polls which will be held soon. Soz also said the separatists must take cue from the huge participation of the people in the state and come forward for talks.
?"Indeed the polls were held on non party basis ....we did not campaign for any candidate nor gave them any money or material support but we certainly offered them moral support", Soz sa... | |
| | FCI blocks MDM ration to Poonch edu deptt | 8 No official lunch cooked for last 5 months in Poonch schools | | Amit Sharma
RAJOURI, May 21: Notwithstanding the tall claims of state and centre government for providing smooth Mid Day Meal (MDM), Food Corporation of India has reportedly blocked ration of education department for district Poonch for the last 5 months which has resulted in the cooking of no Mid Day meal in Poonch schools.
Sources said that FCI has blocked ration supply to education department Poonch since they have not made payments to FCI. Sources said that department is yet to clear Rs. 20 lakh pending for payment. They added that department had to pay Rs. 70 lakh, of which it has cleared an amount of Rs. 50 lakh.
Tussle between two government bodies over non-payments of ration has ... | |
| | Motorist dragged to Police Station over verbal clash with Traffic cops | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 21: Traffic Police officials have dragged a junior assistant of Planning Department to Police Station of Shaheed Gunj and filed a matter of criminal assault against him. Posted at Civil Secretariat, the official has questioned the authority of Traffic Police to "kidnap civilians" and complained that he was not only assaulted but his driving license was torn into shreds and his vehicle damaged.
Eyewitnesses said that Traffic Police squad near Jehangir Chowk signaled a motorist to swerve to extreme left and clear the way for a VIP's motorcade. The driver refused to act, pleading that his car would be damaged with the razor wire barrier. There was a verbal du... | |
| | Congress dissidents need a dose of discipline | | | Jammu, May 21 :-When compared to the National Conference the state unit of the Congress is likely to suffer more as far as the ant incumbency factor is concerned. This is so because of the continued factional feud that has plagued the congress in Jammu and Kashmir.
Invariably a party in power is likely to expand its areas of influence and the Congress, which has been sharing power since 2002,first with the PDP and now with the National Conference, should have by now grown in size and stature but it has frittered away the chances for its growth mainly on account of the conflict between the loyalists, headed by Saif-ud-Din Soz,PCC Chief,and the dissidents,led by Ghulam Nabi Azad.
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| | Tripathi likely to take as head of BJP Disciplinary committee. | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 21: Former speaker of UP Assembly and MP, Kesar Nath Tripathi is likely to success the BJP Central Disciplinary Committee Chief Prof. O.P. Kohli who has been appointed Party's Prabhari at its Central Headquarter New Delhi early this month.
According to High placed party sources Mr. Tripathi's name has been proposed by Party Chief Nitin Gadkari for the post as Prof. Kohli is overburdened with the party affairs at Central Headquartes.
The appointment of Mr. Tripathi as head of Party's Disciplinary Committee will be a good news for several suspended MLA's from the State who are facing trial before it as Mr. Tripathi is considered as a close friend of Prof. Ch... | |
| | Establish CU in Jammu to ensure peace | Genuine Concern | | MINCING NO WORDS
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JAMMU, May 21: It is not a secret that the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry contemplated last October the appointment of Amitabh Mattoo as Vice-Chancellor of the Central University of Jammu. The HRD Ministry had taken this decision despite the fact that the people of Jammu province, including students, had been fighting since 2009 for the appointment of a Jammu-based academician as the first Vice-Chancellor of the sanctioned Central University of Jammu. It was the Jammu's anger against the reported move of the HRD Ministry to impose Mattoo on the Central University that made the President of India not to accept the HRD Ministry's proposal. It was expected ... | |
| | Shrinking Support-base | Congress must get CM post after three years Rustam | | JAMMU, May 21: It is almost clear that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will hold the highest executive office in Jammu and Kashmir for full term of six years. This clearly means that the Congress high command has agreed to the suggestion of the Valley-based National Conference that the office of Chief Minister should be the sole preserve of the Valley. The statements of the Chief Minister made in this regard from time to time do not convey any other meaning.
It is obvious there are persons in New Delhi who lobby on behalf of the National Conference and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. President of the party Farooq Abdullah is there in the Union Cabinet. Omar Abdullah' brother-in-law Sachin Pilot... | |
| | LeT ultra's brother among 2 held in Doda | | | JAMMU : Two militant sympathisers, including brother of a top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) ultra, were today apprehended by police in Doda forests.
Acting on a tip-off, police today laid a trap in Doda woods and apprehended Farooq Ahmad and Zafarullah for their alleged LeT links.
Farooq was the younger brother of top LeT militant Zahid Mohammad alias Abu Farar, who was active in Doda mountains for the past three years, the sources added.LeT literature and some other incriminating documents were recovered from them at the time of their arrest.Their sustained interrogation was on. Police hoped to get vital information from them about LeT activities in Doda district.... | |
| | Why has APDP forgotten 6 foreign tourists? | | |
Jammu : The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) has been agitating the issue of disappearance for the past fifteen years. Every month the members assemble at the Municipal Park to seek the whereabouts of their disappeared wards. However, never has the organization talked about the disappearance of six foreign tourists abducted by the Al Faran in 1995. On the contrary, the aggrieved wives of the tourists expressed sympathy with the relatives of the disappeared in Kashmir repeatedly during their unsuccessful search for their missing husbands.
Al Faran, an outfit that abducted six foreign tourists from Aru, a health resort in the Valley of Shepherds in South Kashmir on ... | |
| | CBI Court rejects Mir's plea | | |
Chandigarh : Special Court Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has rejected former minister of Jammu Kashmir and senior Congress leader Ghulam Ahmad Mir's plea to discharge him from the infamous Srinagar sex scandal case.
CBI judge Ritu Tagore pronounced the judgement here Friday.
Mir had submitted in his petition that the investigation could not establish his and other persons' role indicted in the sex scandal case including senior bureaucrat Iqbal Khandey, former minister Raman Mattoo, ex Dy SP Yusuf Mir and Advocate Anil Sethi. He further said that CBI has no evidence against him while most of the witnesses have also retracted from their statements. Even the victim had also turned ... | |
| | Balakote poll violence: 19 locals, 3 cops injured | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Rajouri : Amidst tight security, Poonch districts border block Balakote went on polls with reports of poll clashes at 4 election booths resulting in injuries to 22 persons including 3 police personals. As per reports, polling was held today in Balakote block for 15 Panchayat Halqas and 108 Panch Halqas. Polling goes peaceful upto 9:30 but there was big clashes among the people in Nakamajeri area of block.
Sources said that the clashes started at 3 polling booths in Middle School Nakamajeri where some poll agents challenged double alleged voting by some people. These agents aborted the elections which resulted in tussle between two groups. Sources said that atleast 15 p... | |
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