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| Bunglings in sale, distribution of fertilizers in J&K: CAG | | Societies, dealers do not have valid licenses | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 6: Rebutting vehement claims of Agriculture Ministry of Jammu and Kashmir, Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has indicted cooperative marketing societies and private dealers of lifting and selling fertilizers across the state without valid licenses.
In another startling revelation, CAG has said that around 60 percent farmers of Jammu and Kashmir are not aware about maximum retail prices (MRP) of fertilizers they buy, while 65 per cent fork out more than the MRP and 59 percent face problems in getting their season's full requirement in time. Around 70 percent farmers do not get receipts for the purchase of fertilizers.
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| | | | Cong unlikely to allow Omar to continue after Dec 2011 | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 6: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may have given Chief Minister Omar Abdullah assurance of heading the state for six years but state congress is in no mood to allow National Conference (NC) to lead the coalition after December 2011.
Sources close to two senior congress leaders maintained that a strategy is being worked out to ensure exit of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah once the coalition completes three years. They added that modalities are being discussed at the highest level in the state congress to bring the two factions of congress together.
Sources said that barring Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, congress leadership at the centre especially UPA chair... | |
| | | | Govt must comfort, not confront its employees | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 6: The government employees' strike continued for the second day Saturday across the state as thousands of government employees stayed away from work adding to the already piling up mounds of pending files in various government offices.
Under the banner of the Joint Consultative Committee (JCC), the state government employees have succeeded in bringing the business of governance to a grinding halt across Jammu and Kashmir. Employees also held protests at all the district headquarters in the state. They have now threatened the third phase of their agitation which will definitely result in a non-negotiable confrontation between the striking employees and the ... | |
| | | | Perpetrator brought to justice in 5 months | | Egypt has lessons to teach | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 6: on August 3 when former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was brought by a helicopter to court for his `historic trial', the people in this neglected part of the world envied the people of Egypt. In less than three months, the perpetrator was brought to justice. Mubarak is facing charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him.
Egpyt has never tasted democracy. Mubarak ran the country for several decades. He crushed his opponents and enforced his writ brutally. Jammu Kashmir on the other hand opted for a democratic dispensation in 1947. Successive `democratic regimes' crushed dissent through `constitutiona... | |
| | | | Army, Police differ on number of ultras waiting on launching pads | | | | EARLY TIMES Report
JAMMU, Aug 6: Figures on the number of militants waiting on the launching pads across the LOC for infiltrating into Jammu and Kashmir keep on fluctuating. The figures vary from month to month from period to period and from person to person. Even the figures on number of militants operating in Jammu and Kashmir vary.
The police talk of 350 to 400 militants active in the state whereas the Army does not believe that the number is more than 250. How does the two agencies carry out the head count is a mytery?
Towards the end of May last the Corps Commander, Lt. Gen. S.A. Husnain, stated that there were 700 militants on the launching pads waiting for infiltrating into Jammu... | |
| | | | 'Stooges' of higher ups ruling roost in PHE Procurement section ......? | | Monoply in purchases, manupulation in postings alleged | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 6: PHE department and the ministry as a whole has the 'dubious distinction' of remaining in news, albeit for all wrong reasons. As if the public oriented issues like water crisis and its ill management during summer months were not enough to keep the department image in bad taste, it is somewhat 'hazy' functioning seen in some of its key branches which is adding 'fuel' on proverbial lines to this kind a tag in the overall system operational within the Department. What makes the scene look more 'ugly' are the allegations that the 'system and style of functioning ' is prevalent on account of complete 'connivance' of higher authorities, the minister's 'knowledge'... | |
| | | | Attitude of Karan Singh, BJP and Jammu-based NC leaders -- I | | Central University | | | Neha
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 6: Congress veteran and former Union Minister Dr Karan Singh, who had once suggested that the Central University should be established at Bhadrwah and had kept mum till the other day, has suddenly become active and appealed to the agitating student community to call of their strike because the over a month-old strike over the Central University issue has adversely impacted the educational institutions in Jammu, including the University of Jammu and several colleges, located in Jammu province.
Appealing to the determined and committed agitating student community, he yesterday said that "he is in touch with Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal"... | |
| | | | Congress negating the 1994 resolution on Jammu and Kashmir | | Negotiated Settlement | | | Rustam
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JAMMU, Aug 6: On August 3, Foreign Minister SM Krishna made a statement in the Lok Sabha on his talks with his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabani Khar. He informed the law-makers that he was quite satisfied with the outcome of the talks and that he and Khar had agreed to take forward the dialogue process to narrow down the differences between the two countries and prepare a ground leading to the resolution of all the outstanding issues, including the issue of Jammu and Kashmir. Besides, he told the Lok Sabha that India and Pakistan were for the "negotiated settlement" as far as Jammu and Kashmir was concerned.
Ironically, not a single law-maker raised an objecti... | |
| | | | Boy dies after school gate falls on him | | | | KATRA: A 4th class student was today killed at Latori in Reasi after the steel gate of the government primary school where he studied fell on him. Amit Singh (10), son of Shamsher Singh of Latori, was playing with the gate during recess hour at about 11.25 am when it fell on him and the brick pillar supporting it also broke, police sources said.
He was immediately rushed by some school teachers to hospital where he was pronounced brought by doctors. After post-mortem, the body was handed over to his family for last rites.
Amit's family has demanded registration of a case against the school management and the contractor who built the gate pillar. The gate fell because inferior quality mate... | |
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