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| Soz meets Sonia, gets backing | | | |
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NEW DELHI: Amid demands by some partymen in Jammu and Kashmir for his removal, State Congress chief Saifuddin Soz has met party chief Sonia Gandhi who is understood to have backed him.
Gandhi is believed to have told him to work for strengthening the party, ensure "discipline" and promote stability of the Congress-National Conference Government, sources said today.
When contacted, Soz confirmed the meeting that took place last evening but refused to divulge details.
The meeting assumes significance as it comes amid demands by some partymen of the State unit for Soz's removal as PCC chief.
The rebellion is led by former PCC president Choudhary Aslam and Abdul Gani Vakil.
Aslam is unhappy as he has not been included in the Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet, which he alleged was done at the behest of Soz and Prithviraj Chavan, AICC in-charge of the party affairs of the State.
The party tried to rehabilitate Aslam by offering the post of Gujjar Board Chairman but he rejected it.
Congress has already made it clear that there is no move to remove Soz and indicated... | |
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| Locating Central University | | Higher Education Minister faces wrath of agitating students | | |
Students continue to boycott classes, disrupt traffic on Highway on CU issue
Munish Gupta
Jammu, July 25
The Minister for Higher Education Abdul Gani Malik had to face wrath from the agitating students who were protesting against shifting of Central University to Kashmir. As soon as the minister visited the Government College for Women at Gandhinagar, the agitating activists of ABVP along with other students made their entry into the campus and shouted slogans against the Chief Minister and forced the Minister to come out from the meeting hall. Though the police contingent deployed at the college tried its level best to control the agitating students but all in vain.
The Minister was... | |
| | | | 101st Session of Legislative Council from July,27 | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar July 25: According to the notification, issued by Secretary, J&K Legislative Council, the 101st session of the Legislative Council will commence from July 27, 2009 and September 1, 2009 would be the last day of the business of the house.
There would be Government Business on July, 27, 29 and Sep 1, 2009, and on August 3,7,20, and 31 the private members resolution would be taken up, the notification says.
The Annual Financial Statement of Expenditure for 2009-2010 would be presented on August 10 and the general discussion on budget would be held on August 12 and 17. On August 18 there would be general discussion on budget and reply , while as on August 24 , ... | |
| | | | J&K gets Rs 5500 Cr. Plan , Rs 1200 Cr for PMRP | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, JULY 25 – J&K State gets an all time high plan outlay of Rs 5500 crore under normal plan and Rs 1200 crore under Prime Minister Reconstruction Plan (PMRP) in the Annual plan meeting 2009-10 for Jammu and Kashmir held today afternoon in Yojana Bhawan, New Delhi .
This was stated by the Minister for Finance Mr. A. R. Rather while addressing a Jam packed press conference here today. He said as compared to Rs. 2500 crore allocated in 2003-04, the state received Rs. 5500 crore for the current financial year which is 22% higher in the normal plan.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was assisted by Finance Minister. Abdul R... | |
| | | | Musharraf a liar, says former Indian Army chief | | | | Early Times Report
Drass (J&K), July 25
Accusing former Pakistan military ruler Pervez Musharraf of "telling lies", the retired Indian Army chief V P Malik Saturday said that the Pakistani General seemed to change his perceptions and actions on the Kargil war before different audiences.
"He (Musharraf) keeps changing his statements. There was time, he was not owning up his role in the conflict. First he said it was only irregular militants fighting, but later changed his views and owned up that regular Pakistani army troops were involved in the intrusion," Malik said at a ceremony to mark 10 years of the conflict, which saw extraordinary feats of bravery and dare-devilry by Indian army ... | |
| | | | No differences between govt, Cong over Indo-Pak statement: PM | | | | Agencies
NEW DELHI: Under attack over the Indo-Pak joint statement, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the government has all the "relevant
answers" to the questions raised over it and these will be spelt out by him in Parliament on July 29. ( Watch )
He also dismissed as "media creation" the reported difference of opinion between the government and Congress party on the issue.
"I have made a statement in Parliament and Parliament is again going to discuss the issue. I will clarify," Singh told reporters here when asked about the controversy over the Joint Statement which had made mention of Balochistan and delinked terrorism and holding of composite dialogue with Paki... | |
| | | | Major power cuts in J and K tomorrow | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jul 25
The power supply in the Jammu and Kashmir will remain affected tomorrow for 24 hours when the generation will be reduced to around 300 MW.
An official spokesman said here consequent to the outage of one unit of Baglihar Hydro Electric Project (HEP) and shutdown of Salal HEP tomorrow from 0600 hrs, which is likely to be continued for 24 hours, the power schedule of the Jammu and Kashmir would get reduced by around 300 MW.
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| | | | PM can't dilute 'monumental lapse' in Indo-Pak joint statement" | | | |
New Delhi: Dismissing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's claim that his government had all the relevant answers to questions raised on the Indo-Pak joint statement, BJP on Saturday said "unilateral explanations" by him cannot dilute the "monumental lapse".
"The language of the Joint Statement between India and Pakistan is clear. The language is loaded against India. Unilateral explanations by either the Prime Minister or the ruling party cannot dilute the monumental lapse," senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley told a news agency.
Earlier in the day, Singh said his government has all relevant answers on the Indo-Pak joint statement and these will be spelt out by him in the scheduled discuss... | |
| | | | A tiny spark waiting to burn the house | | | |
Early Times Special
JAMMU, July 25, 2009:
The geographical, ethnic, cultural and religious divide that has existed between the three regions of the State – Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh – is not about to be bridged in a day. Certainly not by allowing the controversy regarding the proposed Central university to gather further momentum.
The Chief Minister, Mr Omar Abdullah, has declared that his party, the National Conference, will treat the two regions of Jammu and Kashmir equitably. He said that both the capital cities, Jammu and Srinagar, have been sanctioned Rs 30 crore each for blacktopping of the roads.
The point he has tried to make is that the coalition government headed by him is t... | |
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