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| STATE GOVERNMENT UNDER PRESSURE TO START WORK ON NEW DISTRICTS | | MAY APPROACH CENTRE FOR MORE FUNDS | | |
Jammu, August 21 : The state Government is in a dilemma. The Chief Minister,Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad,announced with a spirit of pride that the state cabinet had gone beyond the Wazir Committee report and has decided to carve out eight new districts, four in the valley and four in the Jammu region. The cabinet cleared the creation of eight new districts and 13 tehsils on July 6.
However,till date there has been no work on the ground relating to the building of the infrastructure required for the new district and tehsil headquarters. Even prior to the allotment of funds the Government has not yet started the work on demarcating the areas that would fall in the new districts.
Informed sources said that when the state cabinet decided in favour of the creation of eight new districts,Kulgam,Ganderbal,Budgam,Shopian(all in the valley) and Ramban,Samba,Reasi and Kishtwar(all in the Jammu region) it had not taken into consideration the financial implications.It had hoped that the centre would provided some assistance but so far there has been no indications from Delhi that additional... | |
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| Islamabad's important message to New Delhi | | India is asked to reactivate peace process | | |
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, AUG. 21: In a significant turn of events, Islamabad has taken the initative to egg New Delhi on to move forward to resume the stalled dialogue between thew two countries. Pakistan has sent a message to the Indian leadership, asking them to reactivate the peace process between the two countries and manage the tangle through diplomatic channels instead of consigning irritants to media glare for maligning the other side.
A report from Islamabad on Monday evening said: “Pakistan is willing to come to the table of comprehensive dialogue provided India realises the mistake of stalling the peace process and show sincerity of purpose". In fact, this me... | |
| | | | Dr. Abdullah favours talks with HM Chief in third country | | | | Jammu, August 21 : Favoring resumption of talks with the top leadership of Hizbul Mujahideen in a foreign land, Patron of the National Conference and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Dr Farooq Abdullah has said that HM leadership should be invited for talks in a third country other than India and Pakistan to resolve the issue of Kashmir.
Earlier, Government of India had engaged HM leadership in talks in August 2000 but the same remained inconclusive.
In an exclusive interview to a local media, Dr Abdullah favoured talks with Hizbul Chief Syed Salahuddin in foriegn land to resolve the issue of Kashmir.
He also emphasized the need to maintain utmost secrecy during these talks... | |
| | | | Dear woman, thy name is 'fighter'! | | Alleged abuses in Kashmir agitate Supreme Court lawyer | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, AUG. 21: She is not an ordinary Indian woman. She is reported to be eager, anxious for taking up cudgels with all those who have committed atrocities against Kashmirs. And as she launches a crusade against abuses in Kashmir, she obviously has Indian security personnel, particularly the Army, in her mind. She? She is Sonia Raj Sood, a Supreme Court lawyer.
Sonia Sood has just been quoted by a French wire agency as saying: "My longer term goal is to have some of the Army out (of Kashmir)--and definitely out of the civilian areas". Quite interesting revelation: Just one visit to the troubled Valley of Kashmir by Sonia Sood turned her into a crusader. And she is report... | |
| | | | Will educated Muslims replace traditional leaders? | | Political Islam is haunting Indian Muslims:Ekhram | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, AUG. 21: The rank-and-file of the Indian Muslim community is slowly finding itself "sucked into the vortex of pan-Islamic movements sponsored from beyond India's borders". This finding is from Khwaja Ekhram, currently Assistant Professor, Centre for Indian Languages, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The finding is contained in a paper authored by Ekhram himself.
Khwaja Ekhram's finding number two: The spectre of political Islam is haunting Indian Muslims, which is not helped by certain sections of the them joining pan-Islamic groups, terror outfits and espousing the cause of Muslims in distant parts of the globe.... | |
| | | | News from land of Lord Krishna | | Scientists produce a kid goat through IVF | | |
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, AUG. 21: Central Institue for Research on Goats (CIRG), Mathura, has succeeded in genetically engineering goats. And scientists in the institute hold out the promise of the animals being reared in the country for their high milk yield and high quality meet to boost incomes of Indian farmers.
According to a delayed report from Mathura in UP, a kid goat was born at CIRG barely a day after Janamashtami wascelebrated to mark the birth of Lord Krishna on August 16. Mathura, in ancient lore, is considered Lord Krishna's birthplace. The report divulted that the four scientists, involved in the project, took three years to achieve success in impregnating a no... | |
| | | | India, Pakistan should both demilitarise: Hizb chief | | | | New Delhi, Aug 21: Hizbul Mujahideen chief commander Syed Salahuddin has said demilitarisation should take place on either side of the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir.
He also said that his contesting of elections could only take place under United Nations dispensation.
“Demilitarisation means, both Pakistan and India call back their forces from all regions of Jammu and Kashmir,” the Indian Express quoted Salahuddin, as saying.
“We have said time and again that we are ready for polls, but if they are held under the United Nations or any other international agency,” he added.
Demanding ‘self-rule’ for the entire region of Kashmir, Salahuddin said that maintaining a cease-fir... | |
| | | | PM asks youth to work for nation's overall progress | | Addresses group of youths from J-K | | | New Delhi, Aug 21: Observing that even after 59 years of country's independence several tasks still remained to be accomplished, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asked the youth to work unitedly for the nation's overall progress.
Interacting with a group of youths from Jammu and Kashmir at his residence, Singh advocated that exchange of views among people from different states would ensure strengthening of the unity of the country and speed up all-round development.
The Prime Minister told the group, which would travel across the country, that they should enlighten the people with the problems faced by them in Jammu and Kashmir and at the same time take the opportunity to understan... | |
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