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| Wajahat Habibullah's proposal of five regional assemblies is old wine in new bottle | | | |
JAMMU:
The presentation going to be made by Wajahat Habibullah, the Chief Information Officer, government of India and a former Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir, in the meeting of the working group on Jammu and Kashmir, on September 2 in New Delhi, proposing five regional assemblies in the state, one each for plains of Jammu region and for hilly areas of the region, one for Leh and other for Kargil, while the fifth for the whole of Kashmir valley, is in fact the repeat of the old game plan of Kashmiri politicians to divide Jammu region and Ladakh on communal lines, while keeping Kashmir valley as a single entity. Right from the day Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah took reins of power in his ... | |
| | | | Qureshi to be NCM chief | | | |
31 August New Delhi
Veteran politician and former Union minister from Jammu and Kashmir Mohammad Shafi Qureshi has been appointed as the chairman of the National Minorities Commission, official sources said.
Qureshi, 77, who had served as a minister in the Indira Gandhi government, is likely to take over on September 3 to become the first person from Jammu and Kashmir to occupy the post which fell vacant after Mohammed Hamid Ansari's election as Vice-President.
On being approached by the Centre, Qureshi gave his consent for appointment to the post recently.
An official announcement of Qureshi's announcement is likely in a day or two.
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| | | | J-K to consider alloting plots to legislators | | | |
Srinagar, Aug 31
Jammu and Kashmir government will consider to allot plots to legislators who do not have homes in Jammu or Srinagar.
This assurance was given by the state minister for health Pandit Mangat Ram Sharma in the Legislative Assembly (LA) after members, cutting across party lines, demanded that members from Jammu should be alloted plots in Srinagar and those from the valley be given plots in Jammu for construction of their houses.
The members, raising the issue during Zero-hour, said that single rooms allotted to the members in MLA hostel here or in Jammu were not enough for them.
Mr Sharma said he had disscssed this issue with the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad who said ... | |
| | | | Marshals in LA tear red aprons | | Were worn by PP members as a mark of protest | | |
Srinagar, Aug 31
On last day of summer session, the Legislative Assembly on Friday turned into a battle field with lawmakers assaulting marshals and threatening each other.
After the Zero Hour ended, Panthers Party (PP) MLAs, Balwant Singh Mankotia, Faqir Nath and Yashpal Kundal – who are on protest against suspension of their colleague Harshdev Singh – entered the House wearing red aprons. The Deputy Speaker Muhammad Akbar Lone, who was in the chair, asked the PP members to take off their aprons.
However, PP members resisted forcing Deputy Speaker to call the marshals, who tore apart the aprons worn by the PP members.
Opposition leader, Abdul Rahim Rather came in support of the PP... | |
| | | | Govt plans Rehbar-i-Khel as in Punjab | | High power Committee to address unemployment: Mangat | | |
Srinagar, August 31 – Minister for Health and Medical Education Mangat Ram Sharma while replying to a query of Dr. Manohar Lal Sharma during the Zero Hour in Legislative Assembly today said that government has constituted a high power committee to look into the issues of educated unemployed youth especially technocrats under various categories in the State and suggest measures to cope up this alarming problem.
Mr. Sharma said that some teams of officers have been deputed to other states to study and analyze the measures taken there and evolve a methodology for tackling the growing problem of unemployment in Jammu and Kashmir. He said the team deputed for Punjab has asked to study th... | |
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