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| Drabu nominated to Expert Group on minorities | | | |
New Delhi, August 27 – Dr Haseeb Drabu, Economic Advisor to Jammu & Kashmir Government and CEO of the Jammu & Kashmir Bank has been nominated by the Union Government as a member of the Expert Group on Diversity. The Group would recommend measures for ensuring institutional safeguards to the country's minorities in different spheres.
The Expert Group, with eminent personalities, as its members has been constituted by the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs as a follow-up to the Sachar Committee Report. The Group would recommend measures to promote diversity in religion, living, education, employment and housing for the minorities. It would also identify the areas and incentives to help t... | |
| | | | 2002 polls transformed JK's political scenario: Mehbooba | | 'Mainstream parties now a part of Kashmir solution' | | |
Baramulla, August 27 – Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President, Mehbooba Mufti has said the October 2002 elections laid a strong foundation for the positive transformation of the State's political scenario when PDP took the initiative of representing and voicing the just concerns and aspirations of the people, both in and outside the Government. "For the first time, during the past 60 years, the mainstream politicians and institutions underwent an image transformation and they are now perceived as a part of the Kashmir resolution process and not the ingredients of the problem," she said.
Addressing a day-long convention of the party workers at Nowpora in Sangrama constituency today, th... | |
| | | | Rehabilitation of misguided Kashmiri youth: Centre, State in a fix | | | |
Srinagar, August 27:
Grappling with the issue of rehabilitation of misguided Kashmiri youth in Jammu and Kashmir both the centre and the state govt seems to have been caught in a catch-22 situation desperately searching for a solution.
Taking a final decision with an aim to address concerns of large chunk of Kashmiri youth population still camping in training camps across Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir is becoming a tedious process as 2008 polls are nearing.
Official sources said today “ rough estimates suggested over 25,000 Kashmiri youths,most of them belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen outfit,were staying in several camps near Islamabad and Muzaffarabad and are tre... | |
| | | | Mangat’s hasty decision made hero out of Harshdev: Cong leaders | | | |
Jammu, August 27
Several Congress leaders and MLAs appear unhappy with the haste Mangat Ram Sharma, Health Minister, adopted in pushing a resolution in the Assembly that resulted in the suspension of Panthers Party leader, Harsh Dev Singh, from the House for the remaining period of the session.
Some Congress legislators today said that Mangat Ram Sharma’s sudden decision to secure suspension of Harsh Dev Singh from the House had not only infused life in the Panthers Party but made a hero of Harsh. They said that the Panthers Party got an issue to strike against the Congress in the Jammu region and it was confirmed by the way the Panthers Party could garner peoples’ support for its ralli... | |
| | | | My suspension was to suppress my voice: Harsh | | Had submitted a petition to the speaker seeking contempt proceedings against some ministersvv | | |
Jammu, August 27
While accusing the ruling Congress of muzzling the voice of the opposition, Panthers Party leader, Harsh Dev Singh today said, “My suspension from the Assembly was part of the plan to stifle my voice and prevent me from forcing the speaker to initiate contempt proceedings against ministers.”
He said that he had submitted a petition to the speaker listing reasons for initiating contempt proceedings against several ministers and when the Congress leaders felt they were unsafe they conspired to suspend “me from the House.” Explaining it, he said that had the speaker taken cognizance of “my petition some of the ministers could have even been arrested.”
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| | | | Solider dies in accidental explosion | | | |
Jammu, Aug 27 : A Havildar of Light Air Defence Regiment died in an accidental explosion at a forward army post in Rajouri sector, late on Sunday evening.
Identified as Havildar Bajinder Singh of Mahinder Garh, Rajasthan the solider died when a grenade exploded accidental at Nangi Tikri Post in Rajouri, last evening, Defence spokesman Col Gowsami told that.
He said that the court of inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the details of the incident.
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