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Home Minister asks Omar to identify state land for permanent return of KPs to Valley 16,800 kanals of land needed for creation of 3 satellite cities 6/21/2014 12:16:02 AM Jehangir Rashid SRINAGAR, June 20: Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh today sought cooperation from Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah to expedite the process of permanent return of Kashmiri Pandits to the Kashmir valley. The matter came up for discussion between the two after Omar called on Union Home Minister. Omar also called upon Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and the issue of return of Kashmiri Pandits to Valley was discussed during this meeting as well. The overall security scenario also came up for discussion besides other matters of administrative importance. Sources told Early Times that Singh asked the Chief Minister to identify more than 16,000 kanals of Government land for the creation of three satellite cities in Central, South and North Kashmir. The land would be used for the creation of the three satellite cities wherein all the facilities would be provided to the members of Pandit community. "It is not easy to create a state out of a state and as such all the stake holders have to be taken into confidence. The Chief Minister of the state is an important player in this ...   READ MORE

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KPs averse to return, seek abrogation of Art 370 6/21/2014 12:15:49 AM Early Times Report NEW DELHI, June 20: To set its return formula in motion Union Home Ministry convened a meeting with leaders of various KP organizations here today. The Government was represented by R.K. Srivastava Joint Secretary Home Ministry and Director Kashmir Affairs Home Ministry. The KP leaders who attended the meeting included Moti Koul President All India Kashmiri Samaj, Kundan Kashmiri president KPC, Sunil Shakdhar ex-President Delhi Samiti, M.K. Kaw former President AIKS, S.K. Gudoo a BJP leader and M.L. Raina Vice-President KPC. The Kashmiri Pandit leaders made it clear to Union Home Ministry team that situation was not conducive for the return of displaced Pandits to Va...   READ MORE   Omar upsets unemployed Forestry graduates, reached out to stone-pelters 6/21/2014 12:15:38 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 20: Disappointed with the Omar Abdullah Government's failure to take them into the regular service, about 700 Forestry graduates and post-graduates have threatened self-immolation outside the Civil Secretariat and Assembly complex if all the vacancies of the Range Officers, Assistant Directors of the defunct Forest Protection Force and Assistant Conservators of Forest (ACFs) were not notified through the State Public Service Commission (PSC) or some other independent recruitment board within the next 15 days. "Should we pick up the gun, resort to stone pelting on Government properties and ambulances or burn the official vehicles to attract the Chief Minis...   READ MORE   BJP leaders targetted by CM go into hibernation Party workers happy, say their 'observation' stands vindicated 6/21/2014 12:15:28 AM ET Report JAMMU, June 20: A handful of BJP leaders who faced embarrassment at the hands of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in a function at Jammu club last week have gone into hibernation and have not attended the party office nor taken part in any routine political activity for the last few days. On the contrary, the workers of the party post this development are said to be a happy lot for certain reasons and in a way celebrating for what they contend that their oft repeated views and observations stand vindicated. Sources said after revelations made by Chief Minister against the BJP , particularly a couple of leaders by name, they have stayed away from the party office even as the leaders ...   READ MORE   Azad blames media, Lal Singh, Kishtwar violence for stunning defeat Thanks those who did not vote for him 6/21/2014 12:15:17 AM Asif Iqbal Naik KISHTWAR, June 20: Former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad in an emotional outburst said that Kishtwar was like a cancer that had spread to other parts of the Jammu region and then to other parts of the country thus paving way for the defeat of Congress party. Azad's comments came in the wake of clash between the two groups of the Congress party workers in which the party leaders while blaming each other for poor performance in recently held Lok Sabha election had heated exchanges and even came into fists and blows. While referring to last year August 9 Kishtwar communal violence Azad said that Kishtwar violence acted like a cancer t...   READ MORE   Farooq unlikely to lead NC in Assembly elections Omar's writ continues to run 6/21/2014 12:15:03 AM Rustam JAMMU, June 20: National Conference president and three-time Chief Minister and former Union Minister Farooq Abdullah who suffered the first ever defeat in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections, is unlikely to lead the party in the coming Assembly elections. According to credible sources in the party, Farooq Abdullah will not contest the Assembly election, despite the fact that there are leaders in the party who want him to contest the upcoming election. And if it happens, it would be the third time in a row that Farooq Abdullah would be putting all the eggs in the basket of his son Omar Abdullah, Chief Minister and party's working president. It would simply mean that he has lost...   READ MORE   Omar realizes futility of raising AFSPA revocation 6/21/2014 12:14:48 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 20: The Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has now officially dropped the issue of revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). During his maiden meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Omar did not make any mention of it. A press statement issued after the meeting with the PM didn't make any mention of this issue. Even in his meeting with the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, this issue did not come up for discussion and it has been confirmed by the press statement issued by the department headed by Omar. The CM has been quite vocal about in the past. He had even made mention of it with the outgoing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Omar had...   READ MORE   Probing 2010 killings now makes no sense 6/21/2014 12:14:41 AM Shakeel A Khan SRINAGAR, June 20: The National Conference led Government has made mockery of the things by announcing probe into the 2010 killings. Scores of youth fell to bullets who were protesting against the killing of youth in the Srinagar city. According to people, it makes no sense to order a probe after a gap of four years that too by the same people who were in power that time. The people are of the opinion that the probe ordered by the killers is a cruel joke as according to them all this is being done to derive a political mileage. During an Assembly session in March 2014 it was revealed by the Government that "76 FIRs were registered in different police stations of the Vall...   READ MORE   Supreme Court's 10th March judgment 53 tainted MPs face disqualification 6/21/2014 12:14:32 AM Early Times Report NEW DELHI, June 20: The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW) two independent NGO's headed by former Professors of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad have been rigorously working on the political and electoral reforms in India from the last one decade. These NGO's according to a statement have analysed the affidavits of 541 newly-elected Members of Parliament out of which 53 have declared criminal cases (where charges have been framed) under Section 8(1) and/or 8(3) of the RP Act. These MPs will face disqualification whereby the seat would be declared vacant if convicted. This includes Union Minister for Water Resources, R...   READ MORE   Stumped by defeat, NC resorts to vindictive politics 6/20/2014 11:31:03 PM Mustansir Srinagar, June 20: In what could be termed as its strategy in the face if its depleting popularity and inability to fight the opposition politically, the ruling National Conference is blaming opposition People’s Democratic Party for the wrongs committed by the Omar Abdullah regime. If sources in the state administration are to be believed, the ruling NC after facing the humiliating defeat in the Parliamentary elections last month, has started implicating opposition PDP workers and leaders in false cases. It was reliably learnt that after facing the electoral drubbing in the LokSabha elections, ruling NC leaders first approached the leaders of the opposition PDP particular...   READ MORE   Bloody civil war in Iraq might provoke explosions in J&K Time for an inclusive framework 6/20/2014 11:22:36 PM Neha JAMMU, June 20: Iraq is on fire. The Arab Sunnis, who constitute nearly 15 to 20 per cent population Iraq are up in arms and a number of dreaded organizations of this minority community have unleashed a reign of terror in that country. Their objective is to capture the whole of Iraq and establish there a particular type of rule. Their grouses are many and one of them is that the Arab Shiites, who constitute around 65 per cent of the country's population and have been at the helm of affairs since long, have no place in their scheme of things for the Arab Sunnis. Convinced that the Arab Shiite rule in the country will not give them their due share, the Arab Sunnis have launched an a...   READ MORE   JKTDC causes losses to JK 6/20/2014 11:14:30 PM Arun Singh Jammu, June 20: In order to provide monetary benefits to a private company, Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Development Corporation (JKTDC), brushing aside its declining financial condition, provided it undue favors which caused huge loss of revenue to the corporation to the tune of crores of rupees. Sources told Early Times that JKTDC had leased out its Tourist Complexes at Dayalachack, JagharKotli and Lakhanpur to a private operator M/S Ashvick Consultants in 2003 for running them as restaurants on a minimum monthly rent of Rs 31,500, Rs 52,500 and Rs 18,500 respectively for a period of five years. They said that M/S Ashvick Consultants managed to get extended lease up to 25 ye...   READ MORE   Bullet ridden body of Lashkar cadre found in Kulgam 6/20/2014 11:14:17 PM Saahil Suhail Kulgam, June 20: Kulgam police claimed to have found a bullet ridden body of a local militant reportedly associated with Lashkar -e-Toiba (LeT) in Chinigam village who found it in filed and then reported the matter to concerned police station. Official sources said that a group of people from the village this morning approached Police Post FrisalYaripora and informed them that a body was found in an open field in the village. Receiving the Police party rushed on the spot and took the custody of the body. Later during preliminary investigation the identity of body was identified as Zakir Syed Bhat s/o Syed ul-lahBhat of SangusKulgam. Meanwhile Police sources said that Zaki...   READ MORE   Young aspirants seek mandate as veterans stake claim NC mandate committee in a fix 6/20/2014 11:14:07 PM Javaid Naikoo Srinagar, June 20: Political affairs committee of the National Conference (NC) is under tremendous pressure as the new faces in the party are expecting mandate for the forthcoming assembly elections while the veterans of political battles are not ready to call it quits as yet. NC Mandate committee comprising NasirAslam, Ali Muhammad Sagar, Mouhammad Shafiuri, Abdul Rahemm Rather and Ramzan Chowdry is in a fix as there as as many as six aspirants from several seats central, North and South Kashmir. In Mini battle ground Sonawar where from NC Patron DrFarooq Abdullah Is doubtful to contest, besides sitting MLA Muhammad Yaseen Shah, Ghulam Muhammad Pardesi and Moulvi Bilal ...   READ MORE   Shown fake attendance sheets; Intrigued with fabricated cases Lone bread earner of family denied 3 months' salary "Access Call centre-A School of Duping" 6/20/2014 11:13:55 PM Bivek Mathur Jammu, June 20: Duping employees and cheating at the call centres has become a routine in Jammu and Kashmir and a similar instance has came to fore from a leading call centre "Access" which takes Airtell's calls in Jammu, where a lone bread earner of the family was duped by depriving him of his three month's salary. How pathetic? The victim Vijay Mankotia, a resident of Nad (Samba) shared his pain with Early Times saying-"As I am the lone bread earner of my family and all liabilities are on my shoulders. In this tough time, I was denied of what I am in strong need of-my three months' salary". Vijay said he joined the Call Centre on January 29, 2013 and worked there till Ma...   READ MORE

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