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| J&K’s finances in sorry state | | | |
Early Times Special
JAMMU, August 15: The state of Jammu & Kashmir lives on charity and it is the Central Government’s generosity that keeps it afloat. It spends many times more than it earns, year after year, and the Central Government keeps on underwriting its deficit. This becomes clear when one goes through the speech of the Chief Minister, Mr Omar Abdullah, made on the eve of Independence Day.
For its four lakh employees, the government has to spend Rs 7,100 crore towards salaries and other allied expenses every year. For buying power from available resources and providing the same to the citizens, it spends Rs 2,200 crore per annum.
Therefore, the state government spends at least Rs 9,300 crore per annum on just two heads, salaries and power purchased. Besides, it also spends hundreds of crores on development activities like construction of roads and buildings etc.
How much does it earn from all resources? In other words, what is the annual income of the state? According to the CM, the government can earn only Rs 4,330 crore per annum from all available resources.
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| Omar apologises for Shopian mishandling | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 13: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, in his Independence Day speech in Srinagar on Saturday, said his government would not tolerate human rights violations by the security forces and also apologised for the lapses in the probe into the rape and murder of two women in Shopian district.
"I cannot overlook the tragic incident that occurred at Shopian. I accept that there were mistakes by the administration and the government initially with regard to this incident," Abdullah said. "I am sorry and apologise this. But my government is determined to bring the guilty to book in the Shopian incident," the Chief Minister said while addressing the main parade at the ... | |
| | | | Pilgrim dies on way back from Vaishnodevi | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 15: An 85-year-old pilgrim from Delhi died on his way back from the cave shrine of Vaishnodevi in Katra belt of Reasi district.
Babu Ram, a resident of Shastri Nagar in New Delhi, died due to cardiac arrest last night while he was returning to Katra, the base camp of the shrine, police said.
Babu Ram's body has been handed over to his family, they said.
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| | | | Fighting H1N1, China way | | | |
Nirbhay Jammual
Jammu, Aug 15: The Indian Ayurvedic doctors believe that by consuming 20 to 25 basil leaves (leaves of Tulsi plants) twice a day can keep the swine flue at an arms length. They are of the opinion that leaves of Tulsi plants have the capacity of developing one's immunity against viral infections. Noted Yogacharya, Baba Ramdev, is of the opinion that people can fight swine flue through Yoga. And the Chinese believe that keeping swine flue affected people quarantined is the only way to prevent the virus from spreading. Since India has been affected by the HINI virus for the first time one is yet to test the efficacy of Tulsi leaves in fighting swine flue infection. Again one... | |
| | | | PM: We Respect Constitutional Concessions to J&K Elections proved irrelevance of separatist thought | | | |
ET DESK
New Delhi/Jammu, Aug 15: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the recent elections in Jammu and Kashmir had demonstrated that separatist ideology has no place in the state and the Centre will work to ensure that human rights are respected in the region. Referring to the so called special status Jammu and Kashmir enjoys under Indian Constitution, the Prime Minister said, “we respect the special assurances and concessions provided to Jammu and Kashmir in our Constitution. We will continue to honour these special provisions”. It is first time in several years that the a Prime Minister in his independence day speech referred to the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and held out as... | |
| | | | Who assigned Pathribal to CBI? Did CBI shield culprits? | | | |
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Aug 15: Interrupting her emotional speech over the tragedy of rape-cum-murder of two young women in Shopian on the floor of House on August 12th, Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone asked PDP chief, Mehbooba Mufti, as many as 12 times as to what specifically should replace the Police investigation in the wake of reported DNA fudging. Striking on left, right and the center, she refused to be categorical. Lone suggested that the complaining members would have to propose something concrete and specific if they had faith neither in a commission of enquiry comprising a retired judge of J&K High Court nor in the Special Investigating Team (SIT) headed by IGP Kashmir.
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| | | | Four militants killed | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 15 : Four terrorists have been killed in a gun battle with the Indian Army in Jammu and Kashmir, a defence official said Saturday.
The army raided the militants' hideout in the forested area of Mahore, 175 km from here, Thursday. The terrorists were killed Friday night, the source said.
'The gun battle is still on,' the official told .
Early this week, security forces had gunned down four militants, three of them of the Hizbul Mujahadeen outfit, in the same area.
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