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BJP approach Union Govt to reopen Amarnath land agitation Some police officers likely to face the music 6/30/2014 11:55:46 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 30: After attaining power at New Delhi, state unit of BJP has decided to reopen the cases of 2008 Amarnath land row controversy to bring those police officers to book who had committed atrocities on people of Jammu during the stir. Credible sources in the BJP said that party leadership is in consultation with the erstwhile Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samittee (AYSS), which had launched 60 days long stir. AYSS has been asked to prepare list of those police officers who had committed atrocities on the people of Jammu region. The officers, who were responsible for insulting and mutilating dead body of martyr Kuldeep Verma, have been enjoying pump postings. These officers have been deliberately given important positions by the present Government to rub salts on the wounds of those who had bore brunt of the atrocities of police at that time. BJP leaders have already prepared a list of those officers including those who have attained retirement. Party is especially targeting those officers who had mutilated dead body of Kuldeep Verma and killed some inno...   READ MORE

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NC undergoes vertical split in Mendhar over mandate to Rana 6/30/2014 11:55:31 PM Farooq Nazki SRINAGAR, June 30: National Conference has undergone a vertical split in Mendhar with one group of party workers and office bearers openly and vehemently opposing party mandate for Javed Rana and the other supporting him. The split wide open was on display during the recent visit of NC provincial president Devendra Rana and Minister for Planning and former provincial president Ajay Sadhotra to Mendhar. According to reports, a delegation led by Shoukat Choudhary, president Sarpanchs' association along with former legislators Nissar Ahmad, Ikhlaq Ahmad and Rahim Dar made it clear to the visiting leaders that they would openly oppose if the party gave mandate to Javed Rana, who ...   READ MORE   Separate homeland or settlement at a single Place, consensus eludes among KPs 6/30/2014 11:55:23 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 30: Separate home land or settlement at a consolidated place within Kashmir Valley is emerging a consensus among the Kashmiri Pandit organizations slated to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi next month. The various KP organizations which held marathon meetings at Jammu and Delhi last this week to discuss the return and rehabilitation issue of displaced Pandits have made it clear that cash doles or few jobs will not make the community to compromise on its honour and dignity. They said that Pandits have been forced to leave Valley leaving behind movable and immovable property worth cores of rupees and they can't be lured to return and compromise with the ant...   READ MORE   ‘Sher-e-Kashmir finds no takers in the region’ NC banks on Omar yet again in Jammu rallies 6/30/2014 11:55:10 PM Early Times Report KALAKOTE, June 30: Senior National Conference leaders Devinder Singh Rana and Ajay Sadhotra have lauded Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for giving new dimension to development and setting a positive political discourse to steer the sensitive state of Jammu and Kashmir to a new era of peace, progress and prosperity. The two leaders have been touring various places in Jammu region to woo others ahead of Assembly elections. In most of the rallies addressed by them, the two leaders tried to cash the achievements of NC founder, Sher-e-Kashmir. They have perhaps realized that there were no, or a few takers for Sher-e-Kashmir in the region. Today while addressing a rally at Kal...   READ MORE   Injuring religious sensitivities of Kashmiri Hindus Terming Hari Parbat as Koh-i-Maran 6/30/2014 11:54:57 PM Rustam JAMMU, June 30: In March this year, a number of Kashmiri Hindu organizations held a demonstration at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, to register their protest against the alleged move to rename Shankaracharya Hill and Hari Parbat as Takht-e-Suleiman (Suleiman Taing) and Koh-i-Maran (mountain of tyranny). Those who participated in the dharna included representatives of organizations like All India Kashmiri Samaj (AIKS); Chinar Art & Culture Trust, Srinagar; Ishwar Ashram Trust, Srinagar; Jammu Kashmir Vichar Manch; Kashmiri Hindu Association; Rohini Kashmiri Migrant Welfare Association (KMWA), Noida; Kashmiri Pandits United Forum (KPUF); Kashmiri Pandit Welfare Association, Faridabad; Kashmir...   READ MORE   Petrol price hiked by Rs 1.69/litre, diesel by 0.50 paise 6/30/2014 11:54:40 PM Agencies New Delhi, June 30: Petrol price was on Monday hiked by a steep Rs 1.69 per litre and diesel by 50 paise a litre as the crisis in Iraq spooked international oil and currency markets. The hike, effective July 1, excludes local sales tax or VAT and the actual increase will be higher, varying from city to city. Petrol in Delhi will cost Rs 73.58 per litre, up Rs 2.02 from Rs 71.56 at present. Diesel rates will go up by 56 paise to Rs 57.84 per litre. "Due to geo-political unrest in the Middle East, there has been significant increase in international oil prices during the past two weeks. "The international prices of gasoline (petrol) have increased by more than USD 4 per barrel...   READ MORE   Govt gears up to enact new LAA After Azad intervention 6/30/2014 11:54:31 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 30: After senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad made it clear during his recent visit to Srinagar that Omar Abdullah lead Government must enact the new Land Acquisition Act (LAA) in Jammu and Kashmir, the Government according to sources is planning to bring this bill in state legislature during the upcoming session which will commence from the month of August. According to sources the Revenue department has been asked to prepare a draft bill on this matter which would be presented in the state legislature when the session begins after a month or so. Earlier also the National Conference has created hurdles in implementing the 73rd amendment of the Panch...   READ MORE   Pandits to approach court, DC assures protection Mafia continues to eat into temple lands 6/30/2014 11:54:16 PM Javaid Naikoo SRINAGAR, June 30: Much to the shock of Kashmiri Pandits, days after they started construction of a temple at Shopian, District administration today while showing 'status quo order' of an unknown petitioner asked agitating Pandits to stop work on the temple land and informed them about the claim of property rights by the said petitioner. Dozens of migrant Kashmiri Pandits who today staged protest demonstrations at Hergam area of Shopian after District administration stopped the construction of a temple on a piece of land which as per agitating Pandits has been illegally sold by Land Mafia and are claiming property rights over the temple land. "We were asked to stop work and...   READ MORE   In 2002, Cong sought mandate to redefine centre-state relations Playing with national interest 6/30/2014 11:53:55 PM Neha JAMMU, June 30: Friends and well-wishers of India, people of Jammu and Ladakh and sections of Kashmiri population, including the persecuted and hounded out Kashmiri Hindus, criticize the National Conference (NC), saying it always questions the presence of India in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), opposes the Central laws and Central institutions and demands autonomy from India. Their criticism is valid. But what is intriguing is their different attitude towards the Congress whose attitude towards the state is no different. They consider the Congress as a mainstream political party, which is not the case. The Congress is as a reactionary and questionable party as the NC and similar other outfi...   READ MORE   Paucity of funds leaves irrigation canals in peril No de-silting work taken up as tail end farmers suffer 6/30/2014 10:52:49 PM Bashir Assad Srinagar, June 30: Owing to the failure of the J&K The Planning Development Department to release funds under the annual plan for de-silting, the irrigation canals across the state are in peril and farmers are agitating the issue but to in vain. While doing away with the established principal of allocating funds to the irrigation and flood control department under a separate head for desilting of major and minor irrigation canals, the Planning Development Department, according to reliable sources, has not released any money for the purpose. Instead the Irrigation and Flood Control Department has reportedly been told to undertake De-silting of the canals under main...   READ MORE   In violation of Minimum Wages Act, Govt to engage 16000 youth under ReK 6/30/2014 10:52:40 PM Avinash Azad Jammu, June 30: A week after it realized its blunder and dissolved its new recruitment policy that had pushed the educated youth of the state into deprivation, government is likely to repeat its misdoing by engaging around 16000 unemployed educated youth under government's proposed Rehbar-e-Khurak (ReK) scheme but they will be paid in violation of Minimum Wages Act. Though the proposal for ReK scheme yet to be cleared by state cabinet, highly placed sources informed Early Times that to run affairs of 7000 proposed ration depots to streamline the public distribution with additional manpower, the government would engage 16000 unemployed educated youth. "Each depot will hav...   READ MORE   Rs 48 Cr earmarked for Samba, Shopian unspent, later diverted Two districts deprived from NABARD benefits 6/30/2014 10:52:34 PM Arun Singh Jammu, June 30: Blame it on political vendetta or discriminatory polices persued by coalition government, Rs 48 crore allocated to two districts of the state in last two years under National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) schemes were not spent on development related works and later diverted to other districts. Sources told Early Times the funds allocated to two districts including Samba in Jammu province and Shopian in Kashmir Province of the state under NABARD which is centrally sponsored schemes were not utilized keeping them away from benefits. "The amount of Rs 12 crore which is allocated to each district in District Development Meeting every yea...   READ MORE   Ganderbal to prove NC's Waterloo 6/30/2014 10:50:46 PM Shakeel A Khan GANDERBAL, June 30: District Ganderbal is going to prove Waterloo for National Conference given its poor governance. People are fed up with the NC led government as it has done nothing more than exploiting them. The people seem to be adamant to blow off the candle of NC. Ganderbal, which has remained the political capital of the state for decades as it used to be the headquarter of the National Conference. Despite this, the district could not progress and the people rue their association with the NC. "This district didn't get the deal it deserved. The National conference leaders, including the ones from the Sheikh dynasty, played with the emotions and nothing people cen...   READ MORE

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