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| Privilege motion against Baig | | NC supporters attack Ansari’s business center, Baig’s house in Valley-wide angry protests | | | AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Jul 29: Even as Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone today admitted 12 of the ruling coalition members’ motion on breach of privilege against the opposition PDP leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig amid hours of mayhem in the Legislative Assembly and the PDP MLAs tore off documents, National Conference (NC) supporters staged strong protests against the former Deputy Chief Minister and attacked his houses, both in Srinagar and Baramulla. On Tuesday, Baig had forced the Chief Minister to resign after he claimed that Mr Omar Abdullah’s name had figured among nearly 200 influential persons allegedly involved in the infamous Srinagar Sex Scandal of year 2006.
Obviously emboldened by CBI’s clean chit to Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, NC today launched a multi-pronged counter-offensive on the opposition party and selected two of the senior leaders of PDP---Muzaffar Hussain Baig and Maulvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari---as its first target. Reports said that infuriated NC supporters staged protest demonstrations against Baig and Mehbooba Mufti at nearly 20 places in the capital city ... | |
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| Politics falls from grace | | NC MLA ‘circulates’ questionnaire in Assembly linking Muzaffar Hussain Baig with six women | | | ZAFAR CHOUDHARY
Srinagar, July 29: A day after Peoples Democratic Party leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig’s unwarranted howler against the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, the course of political decency in Jammu and Kashmir today stooped to lowest possible with the National Conference misusing the highest democratic institution like state legislature and the most respected chair of the Speaker of Legislative Assembly to settle its scores in a highly reprehensible manner.
A questionnaire carrying six questions on personal life of former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig was circulated in the Assembly by none else than the Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone. While relevance of six questions a... | |
| | | | Yatra suspended for second consecutive day | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar: Amarnath Yatra was suspended for second consecutive day as fresh rains forced authorities to stop the movement of devotees along the tracks. However, in the afternoon devotees were allowed to proceed towards the cave from the Baltal route. Sources said that fresh rainfall was received along the Baltal and Pahalgam tracks on Wednesday morning making both the tracks slippery.
“As the tracks were slippery we decided to suspend the Yatra from both the tracks,” a senior official associated with the Yatra said. He said that later in the afternoon devotees were allowed to proceed towards the cave from Baltal. Meanwhile, a fresh batch of 502 pilgrims, including 92 wo... | |
| | | | Pak should act on terror: PM | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, July 29: Defending the India-Pak joint statement on Wednesday, in Parliament, the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, "It is impossible for any government in India to work for full normalisation of relations with Pakistan unless that country fulfills commitment to not to allow its territory to be used for terror against India".
Dr. Singh added that the people of India expect Pakistan to fulfill the commitment given in the joint statement of Vajpayee-Musharraf that Pak will not allow its territory to be used for terror against India. That is a common national consensus in India.
He also added that the Pak dossier makes it clear that LeT inspired, financed and executed ... | |
| | | | AICTE chairman suspended over graft charges | | | | Agencies
New Delhi: Facing graft charges, Chairman of All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) R A Yadav was on Wednesday suspended by the government to ensure that the probe into the criminal offence lodged against him by the CBI is not influenced.
Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal took the step after Yadav, appointed as the chairman of the premier regulatory body in 2008, defied the Ministry's instruction to step down or go on leave in view of the inqury against him in the case filed by CBI early this month.
"Chairman of AICTE Prof. R A Yadav, who is under investigation for a criminal offence, has been placed under suspension today so that there is no possi... | |
| | | | Yes, Govt exists: Speaker confirms | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jul 29: The question of Constitutional validity of the Jammu and Kashmir Government following the resignation of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was raised by the BJP in the state Legistative Assembly here today.
As the House assembled for taking up the day's business, Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone announced that he had suspended Question hour in view of the serious developments in the House yesterday.
The Speaker allowed Mr Chaman Lal Gupta(BJP) to speak first in the House when the main Opposition PDP and ruling members were on their feet, shouting at each other.
Mr Gupta quoting rules and Supreme Court directives said after the resignation of a Chief Minister, ... | |
| | | | Healthy rivalry, animosity are two different things | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 29: The bitter acrimony between the ruling National Conference (NC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has virtually paralysed the state. Over the past couple of days, the focus has entirely been upon actions taken by the bigwigs of these two parties and nothing else.
On Wednesday, the Speaker, Mohammad Akbar Lone, had to direct the government to take all necessary measures to protect life and property of PDP MLAs, Mr. Iftikhar Hussain Ansari and Muzaffar Hussein Beig.
The direction was issued after Mehbooba Mufti voiced concern about reports of ransacking of the property of the two MLAs by miscreants. These miscreants were apparently the ... | |
| | | | India has 53,000 HIV positive children: Azad | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, July 29 : Nearly 53,000 children in the country are HIV positive, with Tamil Nadu topping the list with new 2,650 cases, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told the Lok Sabha Wednesday.
The minister said in 2006, about 2,253 cases were reported, while the following year 24,977 were registered. In November 2008, the figure touched 19,116.
'The cumulative total among children now stands at 52,973 in May 2009,' Azad said.
India has 2.5 million HIV/AIDS cases.
The minister said the major source of the HIV infection in children is vertical transmission from their infected pregnant mothers.
'To arrest this trend, the Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission (PPTCT) p... | |
| | | | Who are Shabir and Reyaz? | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 29: Whenever a controversy breaks out bringing National Conference Congress government at loggerheads with public, Hurriyat or the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, a mysterious ‘Public Relations’ mechanism suddenly comes into fore with quite juicy information hard for any editor to blackout but the person at the other end is always “invisible” and “unidentifiable”.
When television screens on Wednesday beamed the scenes from Legislative Assembly showing Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone forwarding a questionnaire to former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig, which the latter tore apart, the journalist fraternity started keenly looking forward to an em... | |
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