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| Paid darshan scheme is class segregation | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | June 3
Pilgrims' darshan in the historic shrine of Mata Vaishnov Devi has been put on sale.The highest bidders would be treated as VIPS.They have not to stand in the queues.Each pilgrim who can afford to pay Rs.1000 will be ushered into the holy cave within seconds.Those who pay Rs.500 may have to wait for a few minutes.Those who can afford to pay Rs.200 can have darshan of the Mata hardly after a wait of 10 minutes.Those millions of the poor who travel from distant places in the country,who cannot afford to buy priority tickets,which are on sale,have to cool their heels in rain and icy winds in the winter and in sizzling temperature during the summer.They,wi... | |
| | | | Police recovers 10-years old drug addict | | School boy had withdrawn Rs 2.60 lakh through father’s ATM | | | Early Times Repoter
Jammu | June 3
Unbelievably True!
Silencing the protests over a missing boy, the Srinagar Police, in a record time, has recovered an absconding schoolboy, and confirmed that his addiction for drugs forced him decamp father’s bank account with Rs 2.6 lakhs.
The Police has recovered a boy who had gone missing from Bypass, falling under the jurisdiction of Police Station Sadder, a stolen ATM of his father has also been recovered and two persons have been arrested in this connection.
Giving details of the case at a press conference, at police station sadder today, SSP Srinagar S. A. Mujtaba said that on 30.05.2008, Police Post Chanpora received a written complaint f... | |
| | | | Vohra to replace Sinha | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | June 3
The name of former Cabinet Secretary and Central government’s chief interlocutor on Kashmir, Narendra Nath Vohra has been reportedly finalized to take over as next Governor of Jammu and Kashmir replacing Lt Gen SK Sinha whose term of five years expires tomorrow.
Highly places sources told EARLY TIMES that the Union Government has finalized the name of Vohra for the gubernatorial post in Jammu and Kashmir and the same has been forwarded to the President of India for issuing the formal communiqué.
This was however not clear as when Vohra takes over at the Srinagar Raj Bhawan. Sources said that it may take the new incumbent few days to take over as new... | |
| | | | BJP again in Article 370 trade –is there any taker? | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | June 3
In a desperate bid to hoodwink electorate of a particular thought just ahead of general elections, the Bhartiya Janta Party has once again enacted its bogey of cultural nationalism and abrogation of Article 370 but much to chagrin of the saffron party there have left very few people ready to buy this slogan.
With Lok Sabha elections just a year away, has brought back on its agenda contentious demands for scrapping Article 370 and bringing in a uniform civil code even as it projected itself as the "obvious front runner". "Along with cultural nationalism, Article 370, uniform civil code and true secularism, we are committed to preserve national unity an... | |
| | | | SASB welcomes tourists, assures free movement | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | June 3
Putting the controversies to rest on use of forest land, the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) has reiterated that it has taken all necessary measures to maintain the ecology of the yatra area while raising temporary shelter huts and other utility services.
Replying to media queries regarding transfer of land to the Board, Director Public Relations, SASB, Madan Mantoo confirmed that the State Government has accorded sanction to diversion of forest-land measuring 39.88 hectares falling in Block Kukllan, Range Sindh in the Sindh Forest Division.
The DPR said that the Board is fulfilling all the conditions laid down for the transfer of the land at Balt... | |
| | | | Terrorist attack: Pakistan is sowing what it has sown in India | | | | Gareeb Dass
Jammu | June 3
As you sow,so shall you reap is an old adage and the four-year long incidents of violence in Pakistan are a proof to the veracity of the maxim,if at all it was required.Since mid-70's Pakistan used to get sophisticated weapons from the US administration for training and equipping Afghans while they were engaged in a fierce fight against the Soviet troops who had occupied the mountain locked region.However,by late 80's,even after the Soviet troops pulled out of Afghanistan,the Pakistani troops not only siphoned the US weapons and ammunition to terrorists who were being trained on fighting a jehad in Jammu and Kashmir but also equipped these terrorists with the R... | |
| | | | Mehbooba seeks introducing ‘Rehbar-i-Sayahat’ in state | | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | June 3
People's Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti today urged Centre and State governments to find ways to develop the tourism industry in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).
"Central and state governments should devise ways and means for the development of tourist industry by introducing "Rehbar-i-Sayahat" (tourist volunteers) and provide finances and appropriate management to take the industry to new heights," she said interacting with a delegation of unemployed tourism and hotel management youth here.
She said the government should take steps to introduce "Rehbar-i-Sayahat" scheme to absorb the unemployed educated youth and provide managem... | |
| | | | Yet all hoped to be well with ending well | | A slip between cup and lip or hurry making curry | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | June 3
News Analysis
Call it a slip between the cup and the lip or hurry having made the curry, the master stroke struck by the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to win over and consolidate Scheduled Caste votes for the Congress in the forthcoming state assembly elections, by inducting the first Scheduled Caste high bureaucrat in the state, who by dint of his hard work and acumen had climbed the highest ladder in bureaucracy, to acquire the position of Chief Secretary of the state, Balwant Rai Kundal, into his cabinet has run into a rough weather. This may be a temporary phenomenon and a short time hitch in the prematurely retired Chief Secretary t... | |
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