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| PCC skips, Azad 'swoops' to pay tributes to Master Beli Ram | | Makes resounding presence in Rajouri, announces sops in Health sector | | | early times report
Jammu, June 23: Union Health Minister and former Chief Minister of J&K Ghulam Nabi Azad today made a resounding presence in district Rajouri not only by making some lucrative offers to doctors besides sops in Health Sector but also politically. While the PCC chose to play the occasion down, not even paying formal tributes to party's stalwart Master Beli Ram on his death anniversary, Azad came all the way from Delhi to attend the function organized at Nowshera by one of the local leaders in his camp.
Though Azad has been making frequent visits to state in recent past, his visit today to the border township today primarily to mark this occasion has unnerved not only some leaders within the party but his rivals in the political circles of state, who of late have been feeling uneasy and uncomfortable with his assertive presence loaded with political connotations. What made the things worse for the rival faction within the party today was that there was no ceremony, not even a formal statement of paying tribute to the late leader whose contribution and associati... | |
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| Soz loyalists abstain from Azad rally | | Fissures in Congress become more visible | | | Emroz SURI
RAJOURI, June 23: The Soz loyalists made no bones about their differences with the former Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad. None of them attended Azad’s rally at Nowshera, Rajouri today. The rally was organized to commemorate the 7th death anniversary of former MLA and Cabinet Minister, Baili Ram who also happens to be the father of former cabinet minister, Dr Ramesh Sharma.
Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Deputy CM Tara Chand, and Minister for Tourism Nawang Rigzin Jora, Minister for Cooper-ative Affairs, Manohar Lal Sharma,
Ex-Forest Minister Puran Singh Thakur and think tank of other senior Congress leaders attended the programme. But no cong... | |
| | | | Name of Underworld Don Dawood Ibrahim's close associate surfaces up during investigations | | Laila Khan mysterious disappearance case | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Kishtwar, June 23: In the ongoing investigations into mysterious disappearance of Bollywood starlet Laila Khan, the name of close associate of underworld Don Dawood Ibrahim surfaced during questioning of the main accuse Parvaiz Iqbal Tak presently in the custody of Kishtwar police.
According to police sources, during sustained questioning of Tak, the name of Kamal Yadwala and his son Sonu alias Wufi Khan has surfaced up. Sources said Tak informed the investigating agency that Laila Khan was married to Sonu alias Wufi Khan son of Kamal Yadwala, a close associate of underworld Don Dawood Ibrahim wanted by Mumbai police and ATS in connection with Mumbai serial blasts.
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| | | | Rs 20 crore HSRP contract allotted to blacklisted firm | | | | early times report
Jammu, June 23: Rupees 20 crore contract for High Security Registration Plates (HSRP) has been allotted by the State Transport Department to a firm that has been blacklisted by three states.
Sources have told Early Times that the high profile contract was initially given to Pormuk Holffman, but later the Transport Department cancelled the contract and allotted it to another firm, Real Mazon. The officials of the State Transport Department and the State police had initially found Real Mazon as 'unfit' to handle the contract. The State Police had sufficiently warned the Transport Department not to give the contract to Real Mazon as the firm was already under surveillance... | |
| | | | Sex determination rampant in JK despite crackdown | | | | early times report
Srinagar, June 23: A year after the Jammu and Kashmir government cracked down on sex determination centres, the unlawful practice continues unabated as most of the centres have opned up again.
The 2011 census figures had revealed the declining number of the girl child. Taking serious note of the report, the state government came down heavily on the diagnostic centres suspected of conducting sex determination tests.
A year later these clinics have started to open slowly prompting questions whether these clinic owners have been emboldened or the government has just become complacent.
More than 90 clinics were sealed when the census report suggested that sex rati... | |
| | | | NHPC in catch-22 situation- ultimate loser either way | | | | Bashir Assad
Srinagar, Jun23; At a time when people are hanging their hands on the head as the poor power scenario in Jammu and Kashmir is haunting them like a nightmare while Chief Minister Omar Abdullah asking to pay market price for power they consume, NHPC in the meantime is busy in chalking out future strategy to safeguard its interests in the state.
Sources in NHPC headquarters at Faridabad told Early Times that NHPC management is very upset as the state government since last couple of months has been talking tough against the corporation demanding implementation of agreements and decisions taken by the state cabinet from time to time about power share, employment to the l... | |
| | | | Omar should repeat his Srinagar act in Jammu | | ‘CM could feel pain by night stay without power’ | | | early times report
Jammu, June 23: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah representing all three-regions should repeat what he did in Srinagar during winters. The CM last year ordered cutting off the supply of his residence and other official bunglows when Srinagar was witnessing power cuts in nights.
He had then given logic, quite sensible, that when ordinary person are reeling under power cuts he shouldn't be exception.
Bu the same logic, Omar Abdullah must come to Jammu at this time. He should stay here for a single day with power cuts and should feel the pain and agony of the people.
Infact, this advise was given to him by PDP when he generated debate about Durbar move.
"Omar should... | |
| | | | Jora to flag off first batch of Amarnath ji yatra today | | DGP welcomes yatris, ensures fool proof security, logistic support | | | SUMIT SHARMA
Jammu, June 23: Come June and stage is set for the annual Amarnath yatra 2012 with all foolproof arrangements made by the authorities while the first batch of Amarnath pilgrims ready to be flagged off from Bhagwati Nagar - the Jammu base camp of Amarnath yatris on Sunday morning by Minister for Tourism and Culture, Nawang Rigzin Jora.
"The first batch of yatris to be thousands is expected to reach Nunwan and Baltal base camps on Sunday evening and will leave for the yatra from the forward base camps on Monday, sources said. Police sources said, "As per data collected from Lakhanpur about 4099 yatris (3515 male, 1075 female, 315 children and 4 sadhus) in 299 vehicles crossed t... | |
| | | | PCB in deep slumber as thick smoke clouds from factory pollute air in picturesque Bhaderwah | | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
JAMMU, June 23: Notwithstanding the directive of House Panel on Environment (HPE) to preserve the environment of tourist resorts in the state, air pollution continues to influence the atmosphere and daily lives of people in the mountain-locked Bhaderwah valley as a factory continues to pump smoke clouds into the sky.
Locals feel that the factory discharges dirty and dangerous smokes and fumes into the atmosphere. "We simply cannot ignore this potential threat called pollution," they asserted.
The industrial unit -- Cedarwood Oil Factory -- is situated on Jai road and close to the gupt Ganga in the heart of town. "At times, due to the smoke emanating from the factory, we fe... | |
| | | | Smriti taunts Omar, asks him to tweet on 2G, CWG | | CM Of Tweets | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 23: Member of Parliament and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Mahila Morcha national president Smriti Irani yesterday taunted Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and asked him to use the modern information technology for mitigating problems being faced by "common man", instead of "improving his own image". She was here in Jammu to participate in "Jail Bharo Andolan" to register protest against price rise, corruption and black money. The BJP organized "Jail Bharo" programme across the country to expose the wrong doings of the Congress-led UPA Government.
Taunting Omar Abdullah, Smriti Irani said "it is unfortunate that the same Chief Minister, who comments on almost eve... | |
| | | | Hold referendum in India to decide J&K fate | | Interlocutors' Report | | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, June 23: The Delhi-appointed interlocutors' report was made public on May 24. Ever since then, Kashmiri commentators have been criticizing them. One of their complaints is that the interlocutors have distorted history by saying that "Jammu and Kashmir was a princely state, which was acceded to India by the virtue of a constitutional document, called Instrument of Accession, under the Indian Independence Act, 1947", as also by saying that "Maharaja Hari Singh, then supreme ruler of Jammu and Kashmir and the sole designated authority of the state, signed the Instrument of Succession on October 26, 1947". The interlocutors have committed no wrong. They were absolutely right when... | |
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