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With 13 New Faces, Omar’s Cabinet Goes Lopsided No representation from 9 distts, 22 Ministers drawn from 12 distts 7/12/2009 12:28:51 AM Bhalla, Chib, Akhoon, Malik, Agha, Hassan Mir, Saroori, Sakina in Cabinet Independent Charge for Ajaz, Manohar; Shabir, Javed, Nasir Sogami Ministers of State ZAFAR CHOUDHARY Srinagar, July 11: The six-month old coalition ministry of National Conference and Congress headed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was expanded this afternoon with induction of 13 new faces –eight Cabinet Ministers, two Ministers of State with Independent Charge and three Ministers of State. Governor NN Vohra administered the oath of office and secrecy to new Ministers at a simple ceremony held at Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Center. The Chief Minister later in the evening chaired an informed meeting of his Cabinet. Prominent dignitaries present on the occasion were National Conference president and Union Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah, Congress General Secretary (incharge Jammu and Kashmir affairs) and MoS in Prime Minister’s Office Prithviraj Chavan, PCC president Prof Saifuddin and opposition PDP president Mehbooba Mufti while conspicuous by his absence was senior Congress leader and Union ...   READ MORE

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Tale of two Choudharies may create history for the ruling coalition in J&K NC drops top crowd puller in valley, Cong dumps a veteran in Jammu 7/12/2009 12:28:23 AM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz SRINAGAR, Jul 11: Twenty-eight candidates of different political parties had secured more than 20,000 votes each while contesting and winning the Assembly elections of 2008 in Jammu & Kashmir. They did not include veterans like Dr Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Mehbooba Mufti etcetera. Eighteen of them were from Jammu, nine from the Valley and one from Ladakh region. In the Valley of 46 segments, NC’s four-time MLA Choudhary Mohammad Ramzan was one-odd winner among the top 10 positions in the state in terms of total votes polled and several other indicators of distinction. Ramzan created a history not only by arranging his party’s largest election ...   READ MORE   Army Captain sacked for 'false' harassment charges 7/12/2009 12:10:23 AM Agencies Chandigarh, July 11: An Army court martial has ordered the dismissal of a woman officer from service, a first in almost two decades since women were recruited, after holding her guilty of falsely accusing her seniors of sexual harassment. The court martial, which had assembled in the Division Headquarters at Patiala in Punjab near here, gave its orders yesterday and ordered that Army Service Corps (ASC) officer Captain Poonam Kaur be sacked. "The Court Martial has ordered her dismissal from service. Capt Kaur had been charged on 10 counts including disobedience, making false allegations against superior officers and addressing the media pertaining to service matters," Kaur'...   READ MORE   Century's first total solar eclipse on Jul 22 7/12/2009 12:09:58 AM Agencies Chennai, Jul 11: A total solar eclipse of the longest duration in the 21st century will occur on the morning of July 22. According to a press release from India Meterorological Department here today, the eclipse would be of special interest for scientists as well as the people of the country as its path of totality would pass through thickly populated regions of west, central, east and north-east India. The eclipse, whose partial phase would be visible throughout the country, would provide a rare opportunity to view and study a grand spectacle of nature. In general, the partial phase could be seen in the regions of eastern Asia and Pacific Ocean. At around 0623 hrs (IST), the c...   READ MORE   Boy killed in Mendhar blast 7/12/2009 12:09:40 AM Early Times Report Jammu, July 11: A blast in Mendhar region killed a boy and left two teenage girls badly injured on Saturday. The blast was triggered off when three kids found some explosive lying in a forest area near the Pakistan border. The boy, identified as Waqar Ahmed, aged 12, died on the spot, while the girls Sahila Praveen, 13, and Shahida Praveen, 14, suffered critical splinter injuries. "The children found some explosive lying around in the forest area and out of curiosity they touched it triggering the blast. One boy died on the spot and two little girls have been brought here to the hospital and they will be sent to Jammu Medical College for further treatment," said Mumta...   READ MORE   Future of 18000 ETT students in jeopardy 7/12/2009 12:09:27 AM CHAMAN KAUL/ARUN TRISAL JAMMU/KATHUA, JULY 9: Career and future of hundreds of students of Elemetry Teachers Training has fallen into acute jeopardy for quite flimsy reasons. Elementary Teachers Training course of two years is required in many states for securing job of a government teacher but not in Jammu and Kashmir where many colleges imparting this ‘special training’ thrive. Chasing their job goals, hundreds and thousands of aspirants throng every year to the state to obtain the degree after qualifying the examinations conducted by Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education through normal session scheduled of which exams held in June-July and also through special session bei...   READ MORE   Take it from Azad, TV new contraceptive? 7/12/2009 12:09:16 AM ET DESK Jammu, July 11: It may sound ludicrous, but the senior Congress leader and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has a unique formula for population control. Talk of the country as it remained today, Azad’s spanner, interestingly, comes on the occasion of World Population Day. In an unusual observation, Azad today became a votary of rapid electrification of villages in India but for a different reason - to curb population growth by ensuring access to television. "Electricity in our villages can help control population growth. Electricity will lead to television in houses, which will lead to population control. When there is no light, people get engaged in the process of popula...   READ MORE   Pakistan needs to shed path of terrorism, PM tells G-8 7/12/2009 12:09:04 AM On Board Air India One, July 11: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said that he had asked influential countries of the G-8 and G-5 to exert pressure on Pakistan to leave the path of terrorism and choose friendship with India. Dr Singh also expressed hope that he would come out of his meeting with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani next week in Egypt convinced that Pakistan will bring to justice the perpetrators of the Mumbai "massacre" and not allow terrorism directed against India from its soil. The PM, who returned to New Delhi today after a four-day trip to Italy where he attended the summits of G-8 and G-5 leaders, was speaking to reporters onboard his special aircraft, on his...   READ MORE

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