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| Omar quits as PDP bids to dump him in slur | | A DAY OF HIGH DRAMA IN ‘JINXED’ HOUSE | | | Coalition seeks Baig’s dismissal through privilege motion, CBI disowns accused ‘list’
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, July 28: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today submitted his resignation to Governor Narendar Nath Vohra after a senior leader of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig alleged on the floor of the state legislative Assembly that the head of the coalition government was an accused in the infamous Srinagar Sex Scandal of 2006 and had, thus, no moral authority to run the government. However, in a sequence of dramatic developments till late tonight, Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) disowned the list produced by Mr Baig and clarified to Speaker, Mohammad Akbar Lone, that Omar Abdullah did not figure among the individuals wanted by CBI and he was not an accused. Immediately after the salvo fired by Mr Baig began boomeranging on PDP, ruling coalition partners, National Conference and Congress not only expressed complete faith in Omar Abdullah’s leadership but also moved a privilege motion in the Assembly Secretar... | |
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| RBI Credit Policy: Rates Unchanged | | | | Agencies
Mumbai, July 28: The Reserve Bank on Tuesday kept the key rates unchanged and said there are progressive signs of economic recovery but warned that the overall scenario continued to be uncertain with fiscal consolidation posing a challenge.
In its quarterly review of the monetary policy, the Reserve Bank while keeping the repo and reverse repo — shot-term rates at which banks lend and borrow from RBI — retained economic growth projection at 6 per cent with an upward bias in current fiscal.
The policy, in line with the expectations of the bankers, however, said that there are progressive signs of recovery with increased food stocks, positive industrial production and optimist... | |
| | | | Word from Raj Bhawan: Stay On | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 28 - A Spokesperson of the Raj Bhavan disclosed that the Chief Minister Sh. Omar Abdullah called on the Governor J&K today afternoon and requested him to enquire, on a time-bound basis, into the allegations made against his moral character by Sh. Muzaffar Hussain Beigh, an MLA belonging to the PDP, during the course of proceedings in the Legislative Assembly today and to immediately accept his resignation in case the Governor is satisfied that there is any basis therein.
The Governor is reported to have observed that he would be able to consider the C.M.’s resignation only after first being fully informed about the details of the allegation against him an... | |
| | | | Members nominated to BAC | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 28: Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone has nominated 8 members and 2 special invitees for the Business Advisory Committee in pursuance to Rule 317 of the Rules of Procedure and conduct of Business in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly here today. According to a notification of Assembly Secretariat the members of Business Advisory Committee include Deputy Chief Minister, Mr. Tara Chand, Finance Minister, Mr. A. R. Rather, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Mr. Ali Mohammad Sagar, Deputy Speaker, Mr. Mohammad Sartaj Madni, MLAs Mtr. Mehbooba Mufti, Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta, Mr. Hareshdev Singh and Mr. M. Y. Tarigami.
MLAs Ch. Mohammad Aslam and Mr. Ashw... | |
| | | | Omar’s resignation, Mehbooba’s antics tragic for J&K | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 28: What a dramatic day it was: Beginning with the Chief Minister, Mr Omar Abdullah, storming out of the Legislative Assembly to submit his resignation to the Governor, Mr N N Vohra, and the latter rejecting the same by late evening.
It all started after senior Peoples Democratic Party leader Muzaffar Hussein Beigh alleged in the Assembly that Omar’s name figured in the infamous Srinagar sex scandal. Reading out from some papers which he was holding, Mr Beigh went on to say that Omar’s name reportedly figured at serial no 102 in a list submitted to the Punjab & Haryana High Court.
Mr Beigh claimed that the list contained the names of those people who were ... | |
| | | | Amarnath Yatra remains suspended | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, JULY 28
Due to inclement weather and slippery condition of the tracks, the Yatra to the Holy Cave Shrine of Shri Amarnathji remained suspended today and no batch of Yatris was allowed to proceed from Baltal and Pahalgam base camp, said an official spokesperson of Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB)
According to a Spokesperson of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board, due to inclement weather and slippery condition of the tracks, the Yatra to the Holy Cave Shrine of Shri Amarnathji remained suspended today and no batch of Yatris was allowed to proceed from the Baltal and Nunwan Base Camps to the Sanctum Sanctorum. He further added that the decision to resume the... | |
| | | | PC to 'clarify' controversy: CBI | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, July 28 : Home Minister P. Chidambaram is likely to make a statement in parliament on the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) probe into a 2006 sex scandal that created a storm in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly Tuesday with the PDP alleging that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was also involved, officials here said.
As a political crisis gripped Jammu and Kashmir after Abdullah submitted his resignation, the CBI said it would not react immediately on whether his name figured in the case.
"We are not commenting on this issue just now. The home minister is likely to make a statement in parliament to clarify matters," said a senior CBI official.
However, highly placed ... | |
| | | | Is the House inauspicious? | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 28: Counting his achievements, the then Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad would always say that he completed what was initiated by Sheilkh Mohammad Abdullah –the new legislature complex in Srinagar. Incidentally, Azad had to resign as Chief Minister and his government had to fall from grace within 24 hours after he inaugurated the master-piece assembly complex on the evening July 6, 2009.
A year later, the same month and same legislative complex –a different Chief Minister but nearly same situation: the new Legislative Complex has certainly proved unlucky for the government, claims are being made in political and official circles.
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| | | | AFSPA may be made humane, not repealed | | | | AGENCIES
New Delhi, July 28: The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) for counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir and the northeastern states is being reviewed but cannot be repealed, a top home ministry official said Tuesday.
"AFSPA is required to fight with insurgents, so it cannot be repealed. However, it is being reviewed and it will be made more humane by doing away with provisions like shoot at sight," Home Secretary Gopal Pillai told. He indicated that the provision of extra-judicial executions is likely to be done away with. Pillai will head for Assam Wednesday to study the situation in the insurgency-hit state and address the press in Guwahati Friday.
‘AFSPA has o... | |
| | | | Army keeps eagle’s eye on Kargil peaks | | | | Early Times Report
Batalik (Kargil) July 28: Braving bone-chilling cold and high velocity winds, an entire division of the Indian army is keeping a hawk-eye vigil over the high-altitude mountain clips in Kargil and Drass sector and not vacating them even during unbearable winter to avoid another Kargil War 99.
The Army stopped its winter withdrawals from the scores of high-altitude areas after Pakistani forces took them by surprise in 1999. Even as the Indian Army trounced the Pakistani troops and recaptured the peaks, they now maintain a round-the-year vigil over these areas.
Taking lessons from the Kargil war in which the country lost 533 soldiers, officers of the Drass and Batalik br... | |
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