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| Manmohan India's PM again; 19 others in A-team | | | |
New Delhi, May 22 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday took oath along with 19 cabinet colleagues to begin a second five-year term at the head of a multi-party government in which his Congress party is the overwhelmingly dominant partner after a sweeping win in India's general elections.
He is only the second prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to have a second innings after a successful five-year term.
There were four new faces in the first edition of the union cabinet that is expected to be followed up by another expansion of the council of ministers in the next few days. All the others were in the outgoing cabinet. All but two were from the Congress party.
Overseen by President Pratibha Patil, Manmohan Singh, 76, was the first to take oath at a 45-minute function at the ornate Ashoka Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential mansion. This is the first time she has administered the oath of office.
In the front rows of the ceremony was a sombre-looking L.K. Advani, who was the prime ministerial candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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| Manali-Leh highway re-opens | | | | Early Times Report
Shimla May 22: The strategic Manali-Leh National Highway 21 is re-opened on Thursday for vehicular traffic after remaining closed for six months.
The highway was closed in mid-December due to heavy snowfall.
"The crucial 475 km Manali-Leh highway reopened for the traffic this (Thursday) morning," said S.K. Doon, commander of the 38 Task Force of the General Reserve Engineering Force (GREF) - a wing of the Border Roads Organisation that maintains the highway. "All types of vehicles can now ply on the highway," Doon told media.
The Manali-Leh highway passes through the most rugged and inhospitable terrain of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.
The highway play... | |
| | | | Ladakh mis(adventure) costs Farooq Ministry? | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 22: The National Conference misadventure in Ladakh –first allowing a partyman to contest election against coalition nominee and parading him at party platform upon his victory –seems to have cost Farooq Abdullah his ministerial berth in Manmohan Singh government.
The disappointment in National Conference was quite evident as an upset Dr Farooq Abdullah flew out of India to South Africa to watch the cricket match and the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah hardly minced any words in expressing the displeasure.
Omar told a news channel that the Cabinet formation is the prerogative of Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh along with Congress President Sonia Gandhi and th... | |
| | | | 10 injured as Shia township witnesses, violence, shutdown | | NC-PDP clash over Mufti-Ansari rally in Budgam | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 22: Shia-dominated township of Budgam in Central Kashmir today observed complete shutdown against PDP’s rally and witnessed ding-dong clashes between the followers of the National Conference leader, Aga Syed Ruhullah, and the PDP leaders, Maulvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari and Aga Syed Mehmood. Even as Police used tearsmoke to dirperse the hostile crowds and enforced undeclared curfew at the district headquarters, at least 10 persons sustained injuries in the day-long clashes.
As exclusively reported in today’s issue of this newspaper, Shia followers of the Budgam MLA, Aga Ruhullah, had converged on the streets blast evening, shouted anti-PDP and anti-... | |
| | | | Indo-Pak water talk this month | | | |
Islamabad, May 22: India and Pakistan will hold talks on water-related issues later this month against the backdrop of Islamabad's allegations that New Delhi is diverting river waters in violation of a bilateral treaty.
A delegation headed by Pakistan's Indus Waters Commissioner Jamaat Ali Shah will leave for New Delhi on May 30 for a five-day visit, sources in the Foreign Office told PTI. The delegation will hold talks with a team headed by India's Indus Waters Commissioner G Ranganathan.
Though India suspended the composite dialogue process with Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks, the Indus Waters Commissioners have continued meetings and interactions.
They had met d... | |
| | | | J&K could also see worst if remedial steps are not taken to curb female foeticide: Experts | | | |
Munish Gupta
Jammu May 22
The sorry status of the girl child in India could be noticed in sex-ratio in the age groiup of 0-6 years, which has registered a sharp decline over the last decade - from 945 females per 1,000 males in the 1991 Census to 927:1,000 in 2001 and it is sliding down with each passing year, said Dr. Sabu M. George,
Expressing concerns over the data regarding projected not only in the Indian but also in the Jammu and Kashmir, he asserted that J&K shares in this record is a slide to <900 girls to per 1000of males.’
“I see the child sex ratio in J&K may go worsening in the years to come and worst as compared to Punjab and Haryana if the remedial measures are not ta... | |
| | | | Jammu 43.4 and going up | | | |
SANDEEP BHAT
Jammu, Apr 28: With the mercury level crossing a sizzling 43.4 degrees Celsius, Jammu saw the upward trend in the temperature if compare to the last ten years. Severe heat wave conditions have developed over the Jammu region and are expected to last for another three to four days. The heat wave conditions prevailed in many parts of the regions including Kathua, Samba, Vijaypur, Bishnah, R.S. Pura, Suchetgarh, Akhnoor, Nagrota, Chamb, Palanwala and many other places.
Keeping in view the serious effects of the heat wave people prefer to stay indoors during day time, but school gang children face the burnt of this heat. A large number of schools in the region lack basic facil... | |
| | | | Azad bounces back | | | |
NIRBHAY JAMMUAL
Jammu, May 22: After a brief but bitter experience in Jammu and Kashmir, the top crisis manager of the Congress is back in high spirits with a restructured role not only for the party and government but also for the home state.
After having been sworn in as cabinet Minister in the union cabinet headed by Dr Manmohan Singh Ghulam Nabi Azad will have a major say in the cabinet expansion in Jammu and Kashmir. By getting berth in the union cabinet Azad no longer stands sidelined and he may have some say in the streamlining the policies aimed at ameliorating the lot of people in Jammu and Kashmir.
If his views are given weightage, people like BR Kundal, a former Chief secr... | |
| | | | 3 dead while cleaning well in Kathua village | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 22: Three people, including a father and his son, were killed and as many were injured, two of them critically while they were cleaning a well this morning in a remote village of tehsil Hiranagar in district Kathua of Jammu and Kashmir, police sources said here today.
‘’Three people of village Kanah in Hiranagar died on the spot and three were rescued from 100-feet deep well with the help of a team of fire and emergency services besides police and locals and were later referred to the Government Medical College Jammu,’’ police sources said. Police sources said they (victims), with the help of an electronic genset, were pumping water out of the well, which sto... | |
| | | | Infiltration bid foiled in Kashmir, three killed | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 22 : Alert troops foiled yet another major infiltration bid when they gunned down three heavily armed militants near the Line of Control (LoC) in Tangdhar sector in Jammu and Kashmir.
A defence ministry spokesman said that troops guarding the border noticed a group of militants sneaking into this side from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) under the cover of darkness this morning.
When challenged and asked to surrender near a particular area on this side of the LoC, the militants opened fire. The fire was returned and in the fierce clash three infiltrators were killed so far, he said.
The operation was still going on when the reports last came in, he said.... | |
| | | | Court offers reprieve to banquet halls till Dec 31 | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 22- In a much publicized closure of 85 banquet halls, Division Bench of J&K High Court Jammu Wing, comprising Chief Justice Barin Ghosh and Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar, today recalled order dated May 7, 2009 whereby these banquet halls, operating within the municipal limits, had been ordered to be closed.
This order was dictated in the open Court and while modifying the last order DB allowed these banquet halls to operate till December 31, 2009 and after the expiry of said date the earlier interim direction will automatically be revived.
DB further issued directions to Pollution Control Board to ensure that noise level does not arose the permissible limi... | |
| | | | Wrong Injection claims 2 lives in Rajouri, ‘doctor arrested’ | | | | Early Times report
Rajouri, May 22: Two children including a seven month old minor died while another has been hospitalized in critical condition when a local self styled pseudo medical assistant injects ‘wrong medicine’ to them in city chowk area here, this evening.
Informed sources told that two children died after a ‘self styled medical assistant’ Murli Manohar Datta injects ‘higher dose of medicine’ to them at a local medical shop here, while another female child was reportedly admitted in local hospital and doctors attending her stated her condition as critical.
“Two children identified as Atib (4 years old) son of Mohd Kabir resident of Rajdhani Bagla Thanamandi and a seven m... | |
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