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| Two Congress Ministers to withdraw signatures | | CSC report on Justice Sagheer WG recommendations on Autonomy | | | Saroj Razdan
Jammu, Aug 6: In a significant development that can have adverse implications on already strained relations between the two ruling coalition partners, the two Congress Ministers who had signed up the report prepared by the Cabinet Sub Committee on Justice Sagheer Commission working group recommendations on Autonomy, are withdrawing their signatures off the document. The two senior Cabinet Ministers of the Congress have spoken to Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather, the NC leader who is also chairman of the Sub committee to convene the meeting as early as possible in order to enable them to register their 'opposition' to the contents of the report.
"The two Ministers including Taj Mohi-ud-Din and Raman Bhalla are revisiting the contents of the report.... they are seriously considering to make the amends and put their resistance to any such recommendation that favours granting of Autonomy to the State....", said a highly placed source in the party. It was 'erroneously or in sheer ignorance signed up by one of the two Ministers , he said adding that the reason for anoth... | |
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| Central Congress team asks High Command to pull out its Ministers, suggests outside support | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 6: With Congress activists totally annoyed with functioning of coalition Government led by Omar Abdullah a Delhi based senior Party leader from the State has suggested the Party High Command to withdraw its Ministers from coalition and extend only outside support to NC led alliance to refurbish image of party in trouble-torn State.
The suggestion was made by the senior Congress leader and a former Union Minister after receiving a feedback from Congress activists from J&K to ascertain their views on the functioning of alliance in the State, the party sources said.
Sources said that the senior Congress leader who met the Party activists from all three region... | |
| | | | Pak continues ceasefire violations, two BSF jawans injured in Pak firing | | | | Sumit Sharma/Neeraj Sambyal
Jammu, Aug 6: A day after Pakistani Rangers opened "unprovoked firing" at two Indian border posts in Jammu and Kashmir's Arnia sector, the Pak troops yet again resorted to firing today late evening on International Border Pansar Manyari,Chadwal injuring two Border Security Force (BSF) jawans. Meanwhile, reports said Pak army has also violated ceasefire in Poonch district.
BSF officials giving information said that Pakistani troops late tonight opened heavy firing on Pansar Manyari border post, just 5 kilometer away from village Chadwal.
"The heavy firing from small arms continued for the first 15 minutes, became intermittent later and continued," an officia... | |
| | | | Agri Minister allows 17 corrupt officials to retire without penalization | | Accountability withers! | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Aug 6: Seventeen tainted officials of State Agriculture Production Department retired without being held accountable for the corruption cases pending against them.
Nineteen others who are still in service are attending their offices as a matter of routine. They have Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir backing them. It is his Ministry which is reluctant to take action against these 36 tainted officials of different departments, universities and corporations. He has been refusing to take action on the pretext that cases against these officials are at various stages of investigation.
The Minister has been further saying that once the investigations are complete,... | |
| | | | Finally, DyCM intervenes to ensure completion of Major Akash Singh Dwaar | | A tribute to son of soil | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 6: Finally, Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand seems to have received a wake-up call and is learnt to have directed the officials of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) to re-start the suspended work of the memorial named after martyr Major Akash Singh.
Highly placed sources in Government revealed that following the reports of certain "petty" politicians acting as stumbling blocks for setting up of a well deserved memorial in the name of Major Akash Singh, coming to light, Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand immediately directed Commissioner, Jammu Municipal Corporation, KL Khajuria to inquire the matter and ensure the completion of the said memorial as early as po... | |
| | | | Jamaat worker killed in Valley's first sectarian bloodshed | | NC goons attacked our men at Namaaz in a mosque: JI spokesman | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Aug 6: A 20-year-old student has died and three others sustained injuries in the Valley's first sectarian bloodshed that happened between the ruling National Conference (NC) and the pro-Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami workers in Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's Assembly constituency of Ganderbal today.
Informed sources told Early Times that Muslims belonging to conflicting schools of thought have been developing differences with each other over a mosque and volume of its public address system at Sindhbal village in Ganderbal for the last few months. The situation took an ugly turn today when the two groups clashed violently on occasion of the Zohar (afternoon) congregati... | |
| | | | 4 militants escape as Kishtwar police raises jurisdiction issues | | Delhi HC blast accused's associate killed at Dachhan | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
kishtwar, Aug 6: Delhi High Court blast accused's associate, Amir Kamal alias Akram was killed in an encounter with the police and 10 RR at Dachhan today.
Another associate Sajjad Hussain Mir alias Rizwan (Group commander) of Tachna Dachhan was apprehended alive after he (Sajjad ) escaped the police cordon along with four others including Shakir Hussain Sheikh alias Chota Hafiz, Raiz Ahmed and two unidentified militants.
Acting on a tip off about the arrival of a group of 7 HM militants at Pinjrari Dachhan, Doda Police and 10 RR (Doda based) under the supervision of DG Ashok Prasad , ADG K Rajindra Kumar, IGP Jammu Dilbagh Singh and DIG Doda-Kishtwar Range Gareeb Das... | |
| | | | PM package employees feel insecure after Jaish letter | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 6: With militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad giving a threatening to Kashmiri Pandit migrant employees putting up at Sheikhpora transit camp to leave the Valley within seven days the panic has gripped the Kashmiri Pandit employees appointed in Valley under Prime Minister's employment package for displaced youth. The threatening letter was sent to one of the inmates of transit camp on August 1 warning them to leave the Valley within week as they have spoiled the atmosphere in Kashmir and were trying to be a stumbling block to Islamization in Valley. Though the Government did not react to the letter and threat call, the panic has gripped all migrant employees servi... | |
| | | | NC's strongest man heckled at Kupwara | | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Aug 6: Senior National Conference leader and Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Ali Mohammad Sagar was reportedly heckled today by elected Panches and Sarpanches in North Kashmir's frontier district of Kupwara.
Pertinent to mention Sagar is believed to be the strongest NC leader in contemporary Kashmir. However, angry Panches and Sarpanches forced him to leave the podium as soon as he started his speech.
They accused the Government of failure to empower Panchayats. "The Panches and Sarpanches are still at the mercy of the bureaucrats", they said.
When the Minister said it was the commitment of the Government to strengthen public institut... | |
| | | | NC denounces Mir, separatists do agree with him | | Economic Independence | | | Neha
Jammu, Aug 6: On August 2, Democratic Party (Nationalist) president and Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir sprung a big surprise by holding Sheikh Abdullah responsible for creating mess in Kashmir and dismissing outrightly the demands like autonomy and self-rule. At the same time, he underlined the need to achieve economic independence. "Economic independence must take precedence over political independence. When we are economically dependent on someone else, we can't achieve anything. We have to become self-reliant," he had said. Actually, he had given an interview to a local news agency KNS.
The same day National Conference additional general secretary Mustafa Kamaal denounced ... | |
| | | | Maverick Jethmalani does it again | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 6: Ram Jethmalani, known for his maverick mannerism and without credible political grooming, makes a statement in line with the character: extreme position by both India and separatists for Kashmir solution should be abandoned.
Ram Jethmalani by making this statement has forgotten that he is BJP MP and owes his political standing to the party, which has till now not changed its stand that Kashmir is integral part of the country and has been vocal against separatism in the Kashmir.
Jethmalani has maverick record. He regularly posted 10 questions to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, he questioned the credibility of another former Prime Minister Chandershe... | |
| | | | Legislators need middlemen to approach Govt | | Theater of the absurd! | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 6: In a development that raises many brows MLC Ravinder Sharma urged the district administration to assess the losses in Rajouri and raise the issue with the concerned agencies to compensate the affected people.
As rightly pointed out by opposition repeatedly, the legislators have been rendered irrelevant by the present dispensation. The MLC could have raised the issue with the Government himself but he chose to appeal to the district administration. The MLC is as despondent as the ordinary people! Where should lesser mortals do? This is not the first time when sitting legislator has made such an appeal. Earlier, former Minister and sitting legislator also ... | |
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