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| Omar leads 4-member NC team to participate in oath-taking ceremony | | Farooq Abdullah getting Non-conventional Energy | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, May 27: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today left for New Delhi and arrived in the Union Capital alongwith three senior leaders of his party to participate in the swearing-in ceremony that will make the National Conference (NC) patriarch, Dr Farooq Abdullah, a Union Minister for the first time in his 29-year-long political career. Portfolio of Non-conventional Energy has been reserved by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the high-profile politician who has earlier served as Jammu & Kashmir’s Chief Minister for four terms spanning over 11 years.
Winding up a hectic schedule of official meetings, inaugurations, foundation stone laying ceremonies and inspection of offices in Baramulla and Sumbal areas in North Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah skipped his scheduled visit to Bandipore and left for New Delhi to participate in his father Farooq Abdullah’s oath-taking at Rashtrapati Bhavan. He, however, kept his programme of meeting party workers at the former NC MLA Mohammad Sayeed Akhoon’s house near Zakoora and asked them to leave no stone unturned ... | |
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| Nothing works like hard work’ | | J&K CBSE topper (98%) shows how | | | Munish Gupta
Jammu, May 27: JAWAHARLAL NEHRU once said, "Success often comes to those who dare and act, it seldom goes to the timid that are even afraid of the consequences." It is true that success comes to those who work hard and reach great heights. Success doesn’t come overnight. It requires perseverance. Somebody once asked Alexander Fleming the secret of success. He replied, "Work, work, work, work and work hard.
Hard work is the key to success; the old saying seems to be proved true by Anubhav Malhotra second topper in state from KC Public School in class X, CBSE examinations, who has tasted success only by burning midnight oil throughout the year.
It is also essential to study th... | |
| | | | Farooq Abdullah getting Non-conventional Energy Ahmed Ali Fayyaz | | Omar leads 4-member NC team to participate in oath-taking ceremony | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 27: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today left for New Delhi and arrived in the Union Capital alongwith three senior leaders of his party to participate in the swearing-in ceremony that will make the National Conference (NC) patriarch, Dr Farooq Abdullah, a Union Minister for the first time in his 29-year-long political career. Portfolio of Non-conventional Energy has been reserved by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the high-profile politician who has earlier served as Jammu & Kashmir’s Chief Minister for four terms spanning over 11 years.
Winding up a hectic schedule of official meetings, inaugurations, foundation stone laying ceremonies and inspection of ... | |
| | | | Singh completes team today : 59 to take oath | | | | Agencies
NEW DELHI, May 27 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is set to lead a 78-member council of ministers, including 33 cabinet ministers and 45 ministers of
PM & Sonia Gandhi state, in his second term as head of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in India. The outgoing government also had 78 ministers.
While 19 cabinet ministers had been sworn in last week Friday, 14 more will take oath Thursday morning along with 45 ministers of state, seven of whom will hold independent charge.
Former chief ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh, Virbhadra Singh and Farooq Abdullah will be inducted into the Union Cabinet on Thursday when the Union Council of Ministers will be expanded to take in ... | |
| | | | Nine women ministers in Manmohan Singh government | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, May 27: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's cabinet will have nine women ministers, one less than the previous Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
While Mamata Banerjee, Ambika Soni and Meira Kumar took oath of office last week, on Wednesday six more names were announced for the swearing-in ceremony Thursay.
Out of the six, three are first time ministers -- Congress MPs Krishna Tirath (Delhi) and Preneet Kaur (Patiala, Punjab) and Nationalist Congress Party MP Agatha Sangma (Tura, Meghalaya).
While Tirath will be minister of state with independent charge Kaur and Sangma will both be ministers of state.
Kumari Selja, who was minister of state for h... | |
| | | | Govt to revise hydel policy | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, MAY 27: Identifying the huge potential of J&K in hydro-electric power generation, Chief Minister Mr. Omar Abdullah Wednesday said the State Hydel Policy will be revised to attract investment in power sector.
The chief minister Mr Omar called for better coordination between different agencies for completion of all power projects in a time-bound manner.
Mr Omer Abdullah said this while chairing a high-level meeting to discuss issues related to Independent Power Producers (IPP), here today.
Yesterday, the Chief Minister had reduced timeframe for completion of all ongoing projects by one year and stressed the need for indigenous power generation to meet the re... | |
| | | | Now, SMS your queries for railway enquiry | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, May 27: Opening up more options for travellers seeking details of train services, Railways have started an SMS service on the 139 passenger information system.
The service would enable one to know the PNR status, current train running positions, accommodation and availability and fare enquiry.
"All that a passenger needs to do is SMS the queries to 139 and the information would be provided within minutes," a senior Railway ministry official said.
The official said the SMS service would basically supplement the existing facilities available in 139 and reduce the burden of the network flooded with calls every day.
The round-the-clock enquiry service 139 is a call cen... | |
| | | | Power blues push industries to brink of collapse | | | | CHAMAN KAUL
JAMMU, May 27: Despite the fact that power is life line of industry, for the last sixty years the condition of power infrastructure of industrial areas of Jammu remains unaltered. Before 30 years when there was only 6MW power needed by the industry through the existing infrastructure is even today supplying 30MW with the same 30 year old of infrastructure. Uninterrupted supply of power for 24 hours could have changed the scenario of the dying industry of Jammu but instead of ensuing facilities to industrial sector for its survival several taxes and hard bindings by Pollution Control Board (PCB), Labour Department in terms of provident fund and Employees Service Insurance (ESI) ... | |
| | | | Amarnath Yatra : over 17000 booking trip every day | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 27: The registration of Shri Amarnathji Yatra through the special counters set up by the J&K Bank across the country, at the request of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board, had registered nearly 52000 pilgrims in the first three days since the commencement of advance registration
According to a spokesperson of the SASB, 51,518 pilgrims registered themselves through on-line and by on-the-spot booking in 110 branches of the J&K Bank in various parts of the country from May 20 to 23.This number includes 26,787 pilgrims seeking registration from the traditional route via Pahalgam and 24,731 from the route via Baltal.
The J&K Bank has also introduced a scheme to ... | |
| | | | PDP to brain storm poll debacle on June 11 | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 27: PDP patron Mufti Mohammed Sayeed and party Chief Mehbooba Mufti seems to have gone into self imposed hibernation after tasting defeat on all the three Lok Sabha seats in the Kashmir valley.
Ironically, all those senior PDP leaders who were active in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls have suddenly vanished from the political scene to do some kind of self introspection.
During the campaign trail the PDP leaders were expecting to win at least one Lok Sabha seat of Anantnag and had campaigned aggressively on two other Lok Sabha seats but failed to salvage their party’s pride. National Conference won all three Lok Sabha seats from Kashmir valley defeating riv... | |
| | | | Think before you fiddle | | Private practice of Doctors | | | Nirbhay Jammual
Jammu, May 27: Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah,has expressed his anger over the way doctors insist on private practice.He believes,as some of his predecessors had believed,that Doctors working in Government hospitals and medical colleges do not show as much interest in attending to the patients as they show it in their private clinics.Before Omar Abdullah dangles a stick on the doctors he should carry out survey on people visiting private clinics for tratment.If he carries out a survey he will find that 70 per cent of these politicians and bureaucrats visit the private clinics instead of the Government hospitals and medical collegs.Only those politicians and bur eaucrats visi... | |
| | | | Minor reshuffle: Govt transfers 9 KAS, 2 KPS officers | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 27: With Election Code of Conduct coming to an end, the Jammu and Kashmir government has started the reshuffle process. The government has issued transfer orders of nine Kashmir Administrative Service (KAS) officers beside some minor reshuffle in vigilance and revenue department.
As per the government order N o.673-GAD of 2009 Ram Ditta Charak, KAS, Collector, Land Acquisition Sawalkote Hydroelectric Project has been transferred and posted as Deputy Commissioner, Labour (Central) in his own pay and grade against an available vacancy.
Radesh Kumar Sethi, KAS, Collector, Baghlihar Hydroelectric Project has been transferred and posted as Joint Registrar (Ban... | |
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