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'Mainstream separatism' at its best during Assembly session MLA calls J&K 'disputed', PDP for probe in all 'killings' by SC judge 9/24/2010 12:14:33 PM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Sept 23: Forget stone pelters. A fairly good number of elected Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) are bracing up to raise separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani's 5-point charter assiduously in the forthcoming session of Legislature. Hurriyat (G) Chairman, Geelani has laid five conditions, including declaring J&K as a disputed territory and withdrawal of troops, for his engagement in any political process. A special session of the state legislature is being convened next week in the summer capital in the backdrop of worst ever street turbulence. For the first time, proceedings are likely to be held under curfew. The autumn session of Assembly, beginning on September 30th and scheduled to end on October 11th, has become a constitutional constraint as the gap between two sessions is supposed to be of less than six months in all circumstances. With four off days, the brief session would have just eight days of business---four reserved for government business. Assembly Secretariat has received a total of 429 questions, including ...   READ MORE

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All is not well with 'inner party mood' of PDP High Command promoting only 'corporate entities'…..? 9/24/2010 12:14:14 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Sept 23: PDP high command may well be celebrating what its supporters have been terming as party's success to maintain 'political edge' over the ruling rivals in projecting the picture of Kashmir before political elite of Delhi but its strategy has not augured well with its inner party 'frame'. All is certainly not well with the party in so far as the temper and mood of its internal hierarchy is concerned. Sources within the party said that senior leaders are not quite happy with the high command the way it has been projecting and promoting only a couple of people in its major decisions activities and sidelining the ones who are considered to be heavyweights and...   READ MORE   Present coalition to continue: Soz 9/24/2010 12:13:51 PM Jammu: JKPCC president & former Union Minister Saifuddin Soz while addressing a public meeting at Chenani has emphasized that the Congress party will continue to remain partner in the coalition NC. This he said in the sideline of the statement issued by him for the people of Jammu and Kashmir and rest of India that they must accept the verdict of Allahabad High Court in respect of Title Suit of Babri Mosque with due regards to the verdict of the Court and maintain peace and harmony, as members of Indian democracy. He said that Congress party would promote prospects of dialogue and discussion and would promote political consensus in Jammu and Kashmir State and would strive to strengthen ...   READ MORE   500 youth to be trained in outside ITIs : Chib 9/24/2010 12:13:35 PM New Delhi: Keeping in view the employment opportunities to the youth, the first batch of 500 students from the Jammu and Kashmir are likely to undergo technical training in different ITI's outside the state in October next year. This was disclosed by Minister for Medical and Technical Education and Youth Services and Sports, R.S. Chib after a meeting with the officials of ministry of Labour and Employment, under the chairmanship of Union Minister for Labour and Employment, Mallikarjun Kharge. The first batch will be inaugurated by the Union Minister, Kharge himself. Meanwhile, the proposal for opening 50 new ITI's and 142 Skill Development Centres under the PPP mode was also discusse...   READ MORE   Married to 'father-in-law' fraudulently, woman bears mental torture for 10 yrs 9/24/2010 12:13:22 PM RAJOURI: A woman, who got "fraudulently" married to the father of the youth with whom her marriage was fixed, has termed her nikah unislamic and demanded police intervention for justice. The marriage of Razia Begum, daughter of Mohammad Din of Atal, was fixed with Abdul Gani of Mangota, Thanamandi, 10 years back. She said after her nikah, she was surprised to find that she had been deceitfully married to Gani's father Khadim Hussain. As per the nikah agreement, her marriage was to be solemnised with Gani and not with the latter's father, Razia said. Speaking to media persons here today, she termed her marriage as illegal and unislamic. She said Gani left the village after her "marriag...   READ MORE   New Delhi refuses to release Rs 281 Cr Delayed Panchayat elections 9/24/2010 12:12:33 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sept 23: New Delhi has again refused to release Rs.281 crore grant recommended by twelfth finance commission for augmentation of consolidated funds and supplementing the resources of the Panchayats in Jammu and Kashmir. Sources said that Union ministry has refused to release Rs. 254 crore linking it with non-holding of elections to Panchayats. They added that centre has promised to release the grants as and when the Panchayats would become functional in Jammu and Kashmir. "State has promised to hold Panchayat elections by the end of this year and once they do so, grants for augmenting Panchayats would be released immediately," said an official...   READ MORE   2100 Airtel SIM cards seized, two held 9/24/2010 12:12:15 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Sept 23: Janipur police arrested two youth and recovered 2100 SIM cards of Airtel from their possession. Though the police is tight lipped over the matter, but highly placed sources said that a trap was laid by police on specific information that two persons are on way to Kishtwar with the consignment of 2100 SIM cards of a private telephony company from Janipur area. The arrested youth have been identified as Rajinder Gupta son of Raj Kumar Gupta resident of Pacca Danga and Sanjay Sapolia son of Pritam Ram resident of Bhaderwah at present Janipur. During their questioning, sources said, police found that duo arranged SIM cards through illegal means as the SI...   READ MORE   Meeting with APD in Jammu a stage managed show Authorities draw flak from various organizations for not allowing its members to meet delegation 9/24/2010 12:11:56 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sept 23: Not satisfied with the recent visit of All parties Parliamentary Delegation to the state, most of the political and social organizations of Jammu have termed the visit as an exercise in futility. The delegation which was on three days tour of the sate failed to meet the representatives of various organizations of the Jammu and displaced Kashmiri Pandits and when the leaders approached the authorities regarding the same they were told that their names were not cleared by the higher ups in the Government Though the J&K National Panthers Party (JKNPP) had already announced to boycott the delegation in protest against the failure of any tangible result of t...   READ MORE   J&K govt to convert Manda deer park into full-fledged Zoo 9/24/2010 12:11:36 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sept 23: Plans are afoot to convert Manda Deer Park at Jammu into a full-fledged zoo for conservation of wildlife through collaborative research aimed at attaining management skills for in-situ population and organizing programmes for protecting wild animals and their natural habitats. The Rs. 2.40 crore master plan which is yet to be approved by Central Zoo Authority of India (CZAI) envisages at giving a modern outlook to Manda deer park and expanding its catchment area from the present 60 hectares to around 120 hectares alongside making provisions for Broad taxonomical display of wild animal species of lower Western Himalaya and off-display rescue centres for L...   READ MORE   Sept 24,1931: Mirwaiz calls for Jehad In 15 minutes Hari Singh pacified `Holy Warriors' 9/24/2010 12:11:24 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sept 23: September 24 is an important date in the history of Jammu Kashmir. On this day in 1931, people came out in large numbers and assembled at Khanyar in Srinagar in response to a call given by Mirwaiz Yusuf Shah. The Maharaja had imposed restrictions but unlike the present day democratic rulers, he chose to face the leaders on that very day. He met the leaders for not more than fifteen minutes and the people dispersed. The July 13 incident which left around 22 persons dead outside Srinagar's Central Jail evoked severe reaction across the sub-continent. Processions were taken out against the Maharaja at Lahore, Delhi, Lucknow. In early September Maharaja ord...   READ MORE   SC stay on Ayodhya verdict notwithstanding, vigil enhanced in J&K 9/24/2010 12:11:00 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU/RAJOURI, Sept 23: Even as the apex court today ordered an interim stay till September 28 on the pronouncement of Ayodhya verdict by the Allahabad high court Friday, police said it would not lower the guard in the state. The high court was due to deliver its verdict on the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi title suit tomorrow at 3.30 pm. The Supreme Court stay till September 28 had brought a temporary relief to the central and the state governments. No violent reaction was reported from any part of the country after the SC order. SC was hearing a petition seeking postponement of the high court verdict. The petition would now be taken up for hearing by the SC September...   READ MORE   Jammu's historic verdict: People must quit the controversial NC, PDP 9/24/2010 12:10:45 PM RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sept 23: It was good that the all-party parliamentary delegation visited Jammu. It faced the wrath of the nationalist Jammu. Though our law-makers treated the people of Jammu province very shabbily, made the Jammu-based delegations wait for hours and hours together outside the Chief Minister's Jammu official residence and did not give them time to articulate themselves and what the people of Jammu province stand for, the latter did succeed in making it loud and clear that they represent the Indian nationalist constituency in the state and that they are the most neglected and oppressed lot. Though the all-party parliamentary delegation didn't meet many a de...   READ MORE   Abdul Rahim wrong, NC itself a party to the erosion of internal autonomy 9/24/2010 12:10:21 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Sept 23: It bears recalling that Sheikh Abdullah, who re-captured the office of Chief Minister in 1975 under the Indira Gandhi-Sheikh Abdullah accord despite the fact that his outfit (Plebiscite Front) didn't have a single member either in the Legislative Assembly or Legislative Council and after dissolving his Plebiscite Front), had constituted a three-member cabinet-sub committee in 1977 to look into the whole gamut of Central laws and suggest withdrawal of such laws as had eroded the state's internal autonomy it enjoyed under Article 370 and harmed the state. This committee had submitted two contradictory reports. One was from Deputy Chief Minister D. D. Thakur...   READ MORE

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