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| Draft proposal ready' | | J&K's plan finalization by May end, WG meeting on May 23 | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, May 8: In complete contrast to certain media reports, Annual plan for the year 2011-12 for Jammu and Kashmir is likely to be finalized when a high level team, headed by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, from the state will meet Planning Commission in the union capital in the last week of May.
Sources said that a high-level team, comprising of chief minister Omar Abdullah, finance minister Abdul Rahim Rather, economic advisor Jalil Ahmed Khan and administrative secretaries of planning and finance departments will leave for union capital on May 28 and hold the meeting tentatively on May 29. "They are scheduled to meet Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia on March 29 for finalizing state's annual plan," said the sources.
Ahead of this crucial meeting on tentatively on May 29, sources in the planning commission said that working group discussions over Rs. 6600 crore plan proposals of Jammu and Kashmir would be held on May 23. They added that an official communiqué has been sent to the state government intimating them about the wor... | |
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| Darbar opens today amid tight security | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 8: The Darbar is scheduled to open here amid tight security. The secretariat building and the adjoining roads have already received a face lift to welcome the Darbar.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his ministerial colleagues are all expected to reach Srinagar on the opening day of the durbar. The offices would be thrown open after welcoming the Chief Minister in the portico of the civil secretariat followed by customary guard of honour. Office of the Governor Raj Bhawan would also start functioning from Monday in Kashmir valley.
Kashmir based employees and those from Jammu have already reached Srinagar to join their duties. The soothing weather condi... | |
| | | | Govt decision unfortunate, opine Jammuites | | | | JAMMU, May 8: Himalayas have a special place in the cultural and spiritual life of India. It is the source of many rivers including holy Ganga and abode of some of most important shrines which are visited by lakes of devoted pilgrims every year from all corners of the country and abroad and among them is holy shrine of Amarnath ji. ... | |
| | | | | Sugandha Sharma, University students:- | |  There should no curtailment in yatra period. People in the country will have bad opinion with regard functioning of administration. Religion is totally a private affair and govt. should not put hurdles in smooth, functioning of the annual yatra.
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| | | | | Rattan Lal Gupta, NC Provincial president | |  National Conference main slogan is Hindu-Muslim unity and never bleave in divide and rule policy. It is the SASB which can take decision with regard to duration of yatra period; Govt. has no role in it. National conference bleave in peace and over all development of all the three regions and has no role to put hurdles in any matter.... | |
| | | | | MLA, Ashwani Sharma:- | |  The decision taken by BAYN to start pilgrimage to Holy cave as per past practice for full 60 days is a welcome step. Why the state govt. is putting pressure on the SASB to curtail by 15 days shows high handiness against the Hindus by the state govt. no restriction be laid on yatra let the devotees of “Barfuani Baba” perform annual yatra peacefully.... | |
| | | | UPA Of Blunders - I | | Krishna, Rao, Aiyar unleash ‘help Pakistan’ campaign outside India | | | STARK REALITY
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 8: "Disengaging Pakistan, because of Osma bin Laden's episode in Pakistan, certainly would not be a very wise move… The issues [in India-Pakistan ties] will have to be played very carefully, cautiously, [given] the fact that Pakistan is our neighbour…Despite Osama episode, we will have to deal with Islamabad..." Who said so? Foreign Minister S M Krishna. When did he express these views? He expressed these views on May 6. Where did he express these views? He expressed these views in Singapore. He shared his views with the correspondent of The Hindu prior to his departure from Singapore on May 6 after a visit to Malaysia and Singapore.
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| | | | Politics of paying tribute to Gulab Singh, harming Dogras | | | | Neha
JAMMU, May 8: It is ridiculous. It is disgusting. It is just duplicity. It is politics of sheer opportunism self-seekers indulge in. How else should one interpret the desire of certain Jammu-based ministers to use or create an opportunity to pay tributes to the Dogra Maharajas, including Maharaja Gulab Singh, to hoodwink the Dogras and their unflinching support to the anti-Dogra decisions taken by the government of which they are the most vital part? Only the other day, one of the Jammu-based ministers paid tributes to Maharaja Gulab Singh in Jammu. It was an official function and an occasion for the said minister to remember Maharaja Gulab Singh and he made optimum use of the occasio... | |
| | | | Over 100 militantswaiting to sneak in: HM | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, May 8: According to official sources around 700 militants are getting training across the LoC . The sources said 100 militants were waiting at the launching pads to sneak into the state.
Home Ministry sources said: "Notwithstanding our repeated protests, the terror infrastructure hasnot been dismantled in Pakistan. And militants are being trained in camps across the border. There are around 42 training camps across the LoC." Sources suggest that Pakistan may try to push more LeT militants into the state in a bid to divert attention from Islamabad after killing of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad last week. Recent cease-fire violations, sources said, indicate that Pakist... | |
| | | | Eminent journalist ON Koul passes away | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 8: Veteran journalist, O N Koul, breathed his last in Delhi Sunday morning following a brief illness. Koul, 74, is survived by his wife, Makhani Koul, and three daughters. He served as media advisor to Jammu and Kashmir government. Born on January 6, 1937 in Srinagar, Koul did his graduation from Kashmir University and MA in Economics from Delhi School of Economics.
He started his career as a teacher with Rajasthan University and later resigned to join journalism in the Valley. He joined Kashmir Post, one of the oldest tabloid newspaper in J&K and later Economic Times as special correspondent and reported for it from Jammu and Kashmir for two decades.
Koul, ... | |
| | | | On Mothers' Day, a ‘half widow’ begs for a living | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 8: Mothers day is like any other day for Hasina. She was quick to rush to the neighbouring market in Kellar, Pulwama in South Kashmir where she begs to make a living. Instead of wasting time in a seminar organized to observe mothers' day at Srinagar, She preferred to make a few bucks to feed her four children.
How can I forget the day when they (militants) abducted my husband? She was quick to narrate her woeful tale. Winter was severe in 2000. However, the onset of spring brought relief to Valley. The almond orchards in the Zampathri (Kellar) Pulwama, the place where 37-year-old Hasina lived with her husband Nazir Husain and four children were in fu... | |
| | | | Bovine smuggler breaks police naka, held | | | | JAMMU: A truck-borne bovine smuggler was today arrested and booked by police in an attempt to murder case after he broke a police naka at Jhajjar Kotli near here and tried to run over cops.
Police sources said cops signalled a truck (JK02AA/0311) to stop for checking at Jhajjar Kotli. Its driver, however, ignored the signal and sped away, breaking the barrier, the sources added. Had the cops not jumped to safety, they could have been run over by the speeding truck, the sources added.
Police, however, chased the truck in their Maruti gypsy and overtook it soon. The cattle smuggler, whom sources identified as Fateh Hussain, son of Mehraj Din of Ragoora, was overpowered by the cops and taken... | |
| | | | Youth held with charas | | | | JAMMU : A car-borne youth was today arrested along with 250 grams of charas at Vijaypur near here. He was identified as Bittu Ram of Suankha Morh. Police had registered a case against him. His car was also seized by police.... | |
| | | | Undertrial consumes poison, serious | | | | Jammu : An undertrial today tried to end his life by swallowing poison inside the "high-security" district jail, Ambphalla, here. Baffled police were trying to find out how the poison reached him inside the jail despite high security and round-the-clock vigil. Police sources said Pankaj Singh alias Pinku, son of Gopal Singh of Kotli Mian Fateh, R S Pura, who was lodged in the district jail in a murder case, consumed poison in an attempt to end his life. He was undergoing treatment at the GMC hospital here.
Police had registered a case in this connection.... | |
| | | | BSF man goes missing | | | | JAMMU: A BSF Havaldar went missing under mysterious circumstances from Paloura area here yesterday. Police sources said Ravinder Kumar of 32 Bn, who was at present posted at Pargwal, Saturday came to the BSF headquarters at Paloura in connection with some official work.
After the work was done, he left the headquarters, but did not reach Pargwal.
Police had registered a case in this connection.... | |
| | | | JCO dies of heart attack on LoC | | | | JAMMU : A JCO of army today died due to heart attack on the Line of Control (LoC) in Balakote border area of Poonch.
Police sources said JCO Baljinder Singh, who was posted in a forward post in Balakote sub-sector, died of cardiac arrest.
He was on duty when the incident took place, the sources added.... | |
| | | | CM vindicates ET Let separatists prove their mettle | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 7: When Early Times wrote on August 1, 2010 that the government should not ban Hurriyat's chalo programmes, nobody heeded the suggestion. Ten months down the line, the Chief Minister vindicated Early Times stand. "Detaining Geelani was a mistake. I made him a hero."
"Geelani was allowed to reach Batmaloo Friday to lead funeral of Osama with a purpose. Had we stopped him, he would say that thousands of people would have assembled to participate in the prayers."
Inspite of being a strong bastion of Geelani, the funeral prayers attracted a few hundred persons. Last year, the government was scared of Hurriyat's Chalo programmes. Whenever the separatist conglom... | |
| | | | BJP high command to announce 'action' against MLAs individually......? | | Conduct of few MLAs registered as 'anti party activity' | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 7: With replies of the 7 suspended MLAs of BJP having been sent to the Disciplinary Action committee and other concerned quarters, immediate action in whatsoever form is unlikely from high command. The latter instead of announcing a cumulative 'penultimate action' may do so individually, implying one by one each MLA, after thoroughly scrutinising and scanning the details of the reply each has given.
Sources said the high command of BJP is thinking on lines of 'going steady' in the matter of 'tough action' envisaged earlier , though that is almost final but the grind is unlikely to fall on all the 7 MLAs simultaneously. Sources further said expulsion from the ... | |
| | | | Pure ice Lingam signify the oneness of nature and god | | | | Among the Hindu shrines which are situated in the Himalayas, Amarnath is unique in many ways. Here the sacred 'Shivalingam', is formed on full-moon day of Shravan Purnamashi, out of pure ice which signify the oneness of nature and god. People of the country even from aboard visit this holy cave shrine to have a glimpse of the ice Shivalingam, beside the joy of adventure that a trek in the Himalayas always provides.... | |
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