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| Petrol costlier by Rs 7.50 | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, May 23: Oil companies have hiked petrol prices by Rs 7.54 per litre with effect from Wednesday midnight.
Also, an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) is likely to meet Friday to discuss the pricing of diesel and LPG.
According to sources the price of diesel is expected to shoot up by Rs 5 per litre. With rupee depreciation leading to jump in oil import bill, Petroleum Minister S Jaipal Reddy had yesterday said that there was an immediate need to raise fuel prices.
State-owned oil firms said they will raise petrol price by Rs 6.28 per litre excluding local sales tax or VAT. The hike translates into Rs 7.54 per litre in Delhi.
Following the hike, the price of petr... | |
| | | | Amarnath Board can't rely on one-way information | | | | early times report
Jammu, May 23: The Amarnath Shrine Board has been repeatedly issuing press statements and pictures about fresh snowfall along the Amarnathji track. The Board is taking it as a peg to substantiate its decision on shortening the duration of yatra and giving enough signals it could be reduced further.
The fact remains as that as Yatra has become hugely controversial issue, with right wing in either side having extreme view, the statements and pictures can't be taken on their face value.
This one sided movement of information is only adding to suspicion and apprehension rather than subsiding it. The apprehensions and suspicions and not ill founded and without any substance... | |
| | | | Who is served by insulating JKB from RTI Act? | | | | early times report
Jammu, May 23: The resistance to being declared as a "Public Authority" by the State Information Commission by the J&K Bank Ltd continues even when thousands of bank's customers are asking why keep the bank's doors and windows closed to information.
The latest CAG report has lambasted the J&K Bank Ltd for losing heavily on its lendings by negotiating settlements when there were no pressing legal reasons to do so.
The affairs of the bank, which is the premier financial institution of the state, cannot be kept away from public access for long and if the management of the bank believes it is in the best interests of the institution to keep the organization away from the r... | |
| | | | Police foils employees Raj Bhavan march, resorts to cane charging | | | | Bashir Assad
Srinagar,May23: Lead by the Joint Consultative Committee (JCC), employees of Jammu and Kashmir Government today held a strong demonstration at the Raj Bhavan demanding an increase in retirement age and regularisation of daily wagers. Hundreds of employees marched towards Raj Bhavan situated on the shores of world famous Dal Lake to register their protest against what they termed insensitivity of the Government led by Omar Abdullah in mitigating their problems which include enhancement of retirement age from present 58 to 60 years. The march came ahead of their scheduled 3 day strike from May 24 to press for their demands. The protesting employees were stopped by the heav... | |
| | | | Triple murder accused held from HP | | | | early times report
JAMMU, May 23: A triple murder accused, who was wanted by Bhaderwah police and had been absconding since 2004, was today arrested by police from Solan, Himachal Pradesh.
Manjeet Singh, son of Hari Ram Bhagat of Drone in Prem Nagar, Doda, was wanted by police in a triple murder case for the past about eight years.
A case was registered against him at Bhaderwah police station under sections 302, 436 and 460 of RPC, and section 4/27 of arms act at Bhaderwah police station.
He was accused of having allegedly murdered Ghulam Nabi, his wife Sakina Begum and their servant Mohammad Azam at Chakrabati on the night of November 13, 2004, police sources said.
After the killing... | |
| | | | Duties & functions of Shri Amarnath Shrine Board | | Duration Of Yatra | | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, May 23: Situation changed dramatically in the Kashmir Valley on August 1, 2000, when the militants attacked the base camp at Pahalgam and shot dead as many as twenty one pilgrims. The terrorist attack also left ten others, including security personnel and local civilians, dead and several others seriously wounded. This was the first major terrorist attack on the Amarnath pilgrims and it was obviously aimed at frightening and discouraging the Amarnath devotees. The dreaded attack in no way deterred the pilgrims. But more than that, it did not create animosity and bitterness between the local population and the pilgrims, although it provoked massive protests in Jammu and elsew... | |
| | | | No room for contradictory statements from Army | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 23: It is nothing short of a contradiction when a senior Army functionary decla-red,the other day,that the recent incidents of violence, including grenade explosions,had been engineered by criminals. The highly competent and people-friendly Lt.General S.A.Hasnain has said that involvement of criminals in the recent incidents of violence cannot be ruled out.And in the same breath the Army General has said that the possibility of militants,who are still active in the state, having engineered these incidents cannot be brushed aside. People wish to know if there is a wide margin of difference between criminals and the militants.Can a militant ... | |
| | | | Study Group's Proposed Visit | | Even after 65 years of accession BJP ignorant about J&K | | | NEHA
JAMMU, May 23: Member of Lok Sabha and former BJP national president Rajnath Singh-led 6-member Study Group of Parliamentarians would visit Jammu & Kashmir for five days for an on-the--spot assessment of the situation as it prevails in different parts of this sensitive border state. The visit would commence on May 28. This would be the Study Group's second and final visit to the state. The other prominent members of the Study Group include Ravi Shankar Prasad, J P Nadda, Avinash Rai Khanna, Maya Singh and Bhupinder Yadav, all MPs.
The study Group was constituted way back in 2011 and it visited the state the same year in April at a time when 7 of the 11 BJP MLAs had shocked everyone ... | |
| | | | MLA Langate lashes out at Mirwaiz Hurriyat | | 'They are preparing for 2014 elections' | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 23: MLA Langate, Engineer Rashid lashed out at Hurriyat (M) for ‘nurturing double standards’. He was addressing a press conference in the summer capital today.
Rashid claimed that the recent rally of Bilal Lone at Langate was attended by panches and sarpanches. He showed a video clip in support of his claim. The rally had been held to commemorate the death anniversary of Peoples Conference founder and senior Hurriyat leader, Abdul Ghani Lone who was gunned down by unidentified gunmen at Eidgah, Srinagar a few years ago.
Rashid identified panches and sarpanches listening keenly to Lone. "They (Hurriyat M) leaders are preparing for 2014 elections. I am p... | |
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