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| Charismatic Narendera Modi in, graceful Manmohan out | | SAARC leaders watch Modi's rise to power in New Delhi | |  Early Times Report
NEW DELHI, May 26: Modi is in. Manmohan Singh is out without taking part in the recent battle of the ballot. Modi won from two constituencies where he was the BJP candidate.
The long wait was over when Narendra Modi was administered oath of office as India's 15th Prime Minister by President, Pranab Mukherjee, at a glittering ceremony in the lawns of the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi today. The oath taking ceremony had assumed a new colour when heads of SAARC nations were among the 5,000 guests present when Modi took the oath followed by Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley.
There were loud cheers when Modi, dressed in kurta pyjama and waist coat, walked to the podium to be a sworn in as the new Prime Minister. There were louder cheers when he completed the oath taking... | |
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| Defeat resulting in internal bickering, staunch loyalists switching over to other parties | | 'Demand to replace Provincial heads growing within NC leadership' | | | Javaid Naikoo
Srinagar, May 26: As Farooq and Omar Abdullah are busy these days in meeting flood of delegations and handling administrative affairs themselves, internal bickering within the grand old party is growing fast with rumors gaining impetus each passing day that die hard supporters and staunch loyalist families switching over to other parties. Demands are also getting loud to change the provincial heads of the party within the party which is in introspection mode at present. Sources said that after recently NC patron Farooq Abdullah lashed out on MLAs of his party, including senior party leader Ali Muhammad Sagar, Mubarak Gul, Shameema Firdous, MLA Sonwar and MLA Hazra... | |
| | | | Adhoc body runs scam tainted J&K Board, new chairman unlikely | | No lessons learnt from Lok Sabha debacle | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, May 26: Affairs in Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education (SBSE) seemingly showcase complete refusal of Congress Ministers to learn form the debacle in the recently held Lok Sabha elections in Jammu region.
Though the top leaders of the party did hold a marathon meeting in Srinagar with the Ministers both cabinet as well as state but no action was taken against the constituency specific and tainted Ministers. Instead, blame was solely put on the workers for having not been able to convert the purported public support for Congress into votes.
To add insult to the injury, Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for School Education Tara Chand in blatant viol... | |
| | | | Inadequacies smack Monitoring of PMGSY works | | Of 219 completed road projects only 101 inspected | | | Arun Singh
Jammu, May 26: Notwithstanding the large scale allegations of discrepancies and misappropriation in the execution of road projects under Pradhan Manti Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) in J&K, the mechanism of monitoring of such projects has itself come under sharp scanner as inspection of only 101 out of 219 completed road projects has been completed by the monitoring agencies.
Sources told Early Times that the guidelines stipulate that only such roads would be reported as completed which had been cleared by the National Quality Monitors (NQMs)/ State Quality Monitors (SQMs). They said that as per the guidelines it is mandatory to maintain Quality Control Registers (QCR) containing ... | |
| | | | India's first fine diplomatic move to emerge leader of South Asia | | Separatists in Kashmir a disappointed lot | | | Neha
JAMMU, May 26: It's a welcome development for the nation. Pakistan Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, who today reached New Delhi to attend the oath taking ceremony of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi and will return to Islamabad on May 27 after holding a brief meeting with the new Prime Minister of India, did not meet any of the
Kashmiri separatists. In fact, the Pakistan High Commissioner in New Delhi didn't invite any of the Kashmiri separatists and this happened after several years. This is not to suggest that the stand of Mian Nawaz Sharif on Kashmir and his attitude towards the so-called Hurriyat leaders has changed. It's not changed. Kashmir is on the top of his agenda... | |
| | | | State loses 25 lac SFT of timber annualy | | Loot of green gold continues unabated | | | Shakeel A Khan
SRINAGAR, May 26: The state government seems to have given free hand to the timber smugglers as the loot of green gold is going on unabated.
Every year smugglers manage to get twenty to twenty five lakh square feet of timber illegally." There is a nexus between the officials of the forest department and the smugglers. Smuggling of timber in such a huge quantity is not possible without the involvement of the officers of the concerned department," said Nisar Ahmad of Khag Budgam.
The day is not far away when the state will be deprived of this non - renewable natural resource if a check is not put on this illegal practice. Also the place will offer an ugly look if it is sho... | |
| | | | Jitendra Singh gets MoS (Independent charge) | | Jammu pins high hopes on 'son of soil' | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, May 26: As Dr Jitendra Singh sworn in as Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Union Council of Ministers led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the people of the state in general and Jammu region in particular while pinning high hopes on the 'doctor turned politician' termed his induction as a positive development in state politics.
A cross section of the society in Jammu while speaking to Early Times said that no doubt the responsibility given to Dr Jitendra Singh is huge but they expect that his intellect added with Modi's leadership qualities will prevail in discharging his duty as a Minister.
Though Dr Singh has not much of administrative experience ... | |
| | | | SCs, STs and women discard Congress and the like parties | | 2014 election: Some interesting facts | | | Rustam
JAMMU, May 26: The 2014 general elections were significant on many counts. One, these elections decimated most of the "secular" parties across the country, including Jammu and Kashmir where the NC and Congress remained at the helm for almost 62 years. The coalition contested election in all the six seats, but failed to open its account. In the 15th Lok Sabha, the Congress and the NC had 5 members. Two, these elections ended an era of coalition politics much to the chagrin of "secularists" and those who practiced politics of blackmail, including the NC leadership. Three, it was after 25 long years that the nation got a strong and stable Government. No one had ever thought that it wo... | |
| | | | Kashmir optimistic about Modi-Nawaz meet | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 26: Notwithstanding severe opposition from the hawks, the Pakistan Prime Minister arrived in New Delhi to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi. Similarly Modi ignored opposition from Congress and Shiv Sena and went ahead with the idea of hosting the Pakistan Prime Minister.
Nawaz Sharief has opted to keep the separatist leadership away from the Pakistan embassy this time. This is the first time in the recent history that visiting head of Pakistan Government has chosen not to invite the Hurriyat leaders. This shows Nawaz's sincerity viz-a-viz the dialogue that is going to happen tomorrow between Modi and Sharief.
The former Pakistan Presiden... | |
| | | | SSH turns into boxing rink, doctors engage in fists and blows | | | |
Sumit Sharma
JAMMU, May 26: The celebrated Super Specialty Hospital was reduced into a boxing rink today when two senior doctors came into fists and blows in full public view.
Dr Ryaz, Medical Superintendent of the Hospital and Dr Haroon Salaria, Neuro Surgeon grappled and slapped each other to the dismay of onlookers during the office hours.
The doctors slapped each other so hard that melee left both of them red faced , eye witnesses in the hospital said.
The wrestle mania between the doctors went on until a complaint was filed with Principal GMC &H and Associated Hospitals Dr. Ghanshyam. The principal's intervention pacified the matter, the report said.
Reports said that the... | |
| | | | Despite drubbing Omar continues to live in 'imaginary' world | | Fails to establish contact with people | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, May 26: Despite the drubbing in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections the National Conference leaders more so Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah are yet to come to terms and establish contact with the people.
Omar few days back had to face the anger of a group of top notch businessmen of Srinagar after failing to listen to them. The angered businessmen made it clear to CM that they don't have the time to wait and that Omar should consider his responsibilities as a public representative.
Sources told Early Times that a group of businessmen dropped in at the residence of Omar few days back hoping that he would give some solution to their grievance. But to their ... | |
| | | | Thupstan likely to get Ministerial berth | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 26: BJP candidate from Ladakh Thupstan Chhewang is likely to be accommodated in the next Cabinet expansion. The party has decided to give Ministerial berth to Jatindra Singh considering the forthcoming Assembly election as BJP is eyeing for most of the seats .
Thupstan was the front runner for the Ministerial berth. The party had virtually promised him and it was further strengthened by the fact that former BJP president Nitin Gadkari came to address the rally at the Leh after his victory.
It was probably first time that a senior party leader revisited the place after winning the seat with a slender margin. According to sources he was assured of the Minister... | |
| | | | Court to frame charges next week | | Molestation case | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 26: A local court here today reserved orders till next week on framing of charge against former Minister of State for Health and senior Congress leader Shabir Ahmad Khan.
Khan, sitting MLA from Rajouri, has been charged under section 354 RPC (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 509 RPC (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman).
Prosecution said that there is enough material on record for charging the accused for the commission of offences while Khan rejected it.
The charge sheet against Khan was filed before the CJM on April 3 by police in Khan's absence following which the court had summoned ... | |
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