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| Cabinet reshuffle on cards, Omar Abdullah takes Sonia Gandhi on board | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 24: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah is likely to announce a Cabinet reshuffle and induction of at least two new Ministers in his Council of Ministers before the closure of the Darebar move offices in summer capital Srinagar, authoritative sources told ET.
It is reliably learnt that Omar Abdullah has already got the go ahead on the much overdue Cabinet expansion, an idea with which Omar Abdullah has been toying for long, but had to wait because of bickering within the State Congress party.
"Some of the known non-performers in the Cabinet would be divested of their important portfolios and moved to the periphery as easing them out of the Cabinet at present is likely to jolt the balance of power in the Congress-NC coalition," highly placed sources close to the Congress high command in New Delhi told ET.
Same sources revealed the allegations of serious corruption against some of the Congress Ministers were also discussed by Omar Abdullah with the Congress high command recently. "Because of the coalition dharma, the CM made all the allegations of serious c... | |
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| Retired in 2007; official continues to hold office, will continue till 2014 | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 24: Notwithstanding a clear-cut Cabinet order of 2007 which says that "re-employment of a retired Government servant shall be for a maximum period of one year, a Private Secretary with a Minister who retired in December 2007, continues to hold the office since that day. Interestingly the official has formed a clout around his office leading to corruption and favoritism.
SK Arora Private Secretary to Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control who retired in December 2007 was, at the first instance, given extension of one year in January 2008. Arora lost his extension in the middle when Ghulam Nabi Azad led coalition Government was toppled in July/Augu... | |
| | | | Geelani's hate campaign force Bihari Muslims to flee | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 24: Days after separatist leader Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani asked to throw away outsiders from the State, a labourer from Bihar was beaten in Shopian triggering migration from there. The locals not only protested against them but have even asked Bihari labourers-who incidentally are all Muslims- to vacate shops and residential houses.
Early this week police in Surankote area of Poonch had seized a book written by Geelani in which he had asked among other things to throw away Bihari labourers from the State saying while people of the State are unemployed they are eating into the economy of the State.
It was hateful campaign, just like the hate messages which re... | |
| | | | High drama at Jamia Masjid: Insas snatched back from militants | | 2 cops injured in scuffle but residents help Police to disarm ultras | | | ET Report
srinagar, Aug 24: In a wild goose chase, residents and shopkeepers of downtown Srinagar today overpowered two unidentified militants and snatched away from them an automatic rifle that they had earlier snatched away from a Policeman.
Informed sources revealed to Early Times that minutes after the Friday congregational prayers concluded at Jamia Masjid, two unidentified militants attacked Constable Nazir Ahmad of IRP 2nd Bn at sentry post No: 4 of the mosque while hitting his head with a pistol. As the constable collapsed, they snatched away his Insas rifle and began running away in the direction of Bohri Kadal Chowk. Other guards at the post raised an alarm and began chasing the... | |
| | | | HM poster urges surrendered militants to join back | | Gives 15 days for return of `trust' money | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
kishtwar, Aug 24: The Hizbul Mujahideen has proved its presence in Kishtwar with a difference this time. Two posters carrying similar message urged the surrendered militants to join back and pay money for the weapons handed over to security agencies after surrender or face the consequences.
The poster also warned `unknown' persons to return the money received on behalf of the organization. This is the second time when they have been urged to pay the money. This time they have been given 15 days to clear the outstanding. Same message was conveyed through a poster on May 18 this year. "In case they fail to pay, we will disclose their names after the 15 day deadline", the p... | |
| | | | Ladakhis to intensify struggle for inclusion of Bhoti into 8th schedule | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 24: The Ladakhis have decided to intensify the struggle for inclusion of Bhoti language into 8th schedule of Indian constitution. According to sources, Ladakhis have decided to campaign in all those parts of India where Bhoti language is used by the people. The language is used in the Himalayan region and about 30 lakh people spread across the six States of India including Ladakh region and Paddar in J&K, Himalayan Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, West Bengal and Arunachal Pradesh.
Strongly advocating for inclusion of Bhoti language in the 8th schedule of Constitution the Ladakhis say Bhoti is linked to ancient culture of India and its revival is must for enrich... | |
| | | | Union Home Secy does not rule out more tunnels on IB, takes stock of security situation | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 24: Union Home Secretary RK Singh, who today spent over two hours at the Octroi outpost of BSF at Suchetgarg in RS Pura sub-sector near here, asked the forces to remain vigilant, while saying that the possibility of the presence of more tunnels along the International Border (IB) was not ruled out.
Singh, who arrived here in the morning to review the security situation after the detection of a tunnel on the IB at Chilyari in Samba sub-sector last month, drove to the Octroi outpost where he had a meeting with BSF IG Rajiv Krishna, DIG, JS Oberoi and field officers of BSF.
The BSF men gave the Union Home Secretary a detailed account of the prevailing situatio... | |
| | | | PYC protestors cane charged, detained in Srinagar… | | NC indifferent…., Congress too chooses to be 'mute mode' | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 24: The ongoing schedule of protests at the district headquarters by Pradesh Youth Congress leadership in support of the cause of empowerment to Panchayats took an unsavoury turn today when the protestors including senior functionaries led by president Mohammad Shahnawaz were cane charged by police and taken into custody in Srinagar. The Youth Congress leaders remained in Police lockup for few hours till Health Minister Sham Lal Sharma and some senior leaders of the party intervened, arrived at the Police station and got them released.
The entire sequence of events unfolds typical developments one gets to watch when any youth body agitates in support of dema... | |
| | | | Top brass of NC again opens ‘closed’ autonomy chapter | | | | ET Report
srinagar, Aug 24: Veteran National Conference leader and top rank Minister in present regime today reiterated that National Conference will never compromise on its key political agenda and it (NC) was committed to Autonomy of the State.
"We are committed to Autonomy of the State, for which a resolution has been passed by the State Assembly. No one can reject the resolution and we will never compromise on it", the said NC Minister told a local news agency here today.
Regarding differences between members of the two coalition parties over Justice Sagheer Working Group (WG) Recommendations, he said the Cabinet Sub Committee (CSC) studying the Justice Sagheer report is yet to submi... | |
| | | | In Delhi, NC commends Indian institutions | | Double-Speak | | | Rustam
Jammu, Aug 24: The NC leadership is highly questionable. It indulges in double-speak. It speaks one language in Srinagar and it speaks another language in Delhi. In Srinagar and elsewhere in the State, especially in the areas where the Muslims are quite numerous, it talks about autonomy; it condemns Indian laws and Indian institutions; it dismisses the Indian laws as anti-Kashmir and says that the fundamental cause responsible for the "alienation" of Kashmiri Muslims from the national mainstream is the extension of Central Laws and Central Institutions to the State; it says that there is but one way in which the Kashmiri Muslims could be conciliated and won over and that is by exclu... | |
| | | | Gilani hits nail on head, opposes community-centric line | | Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh | | | Neha
Jammu, Aug 24: There is some realization on the part of some supporters of Kashmiri separatists that the latter have singularly "failed to address" the issues facing the people of the State "in right perspective". One such supporter and sympathizer of Kashmiri separatists is the London-based Syed Nazir Gilani, general secretary, Jammu and Kashmir Council for Human Rights (JKCHR). "Both the mainstream and separatist leadership has failed to understand the Kashmir issue and the people of Kashmir," he on Thursday told reporters at a press conference in Srinagar. Gilani is not a Briton; he is a British national of Kashmir origin. He is an activist. He has organized discussions and debates... | |
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