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Sir, do you want us to shut shop, Amar Singh Club members ask CM

9/25/2009 12:47:28 AM

Early Times Report JAMMU, SEP 24: Clubs are being restored the life they lost during insurgency in Kashmir, but Jammu’s only social hangout venue is still awaiting the Chief Minister’s attention. The Amar Singh Club –almost a second home to the social elite of the winter capital city –come across a plethora of problems every evening. But the common refrain stops at the same office where the Club members have no say –the Chief Minister’s office. The members are now asking the Chief Minister if he wants them to shut the Club. As already reported in this newspaper, the Club management is in a perpetual handicapped position for last nine months as it has not been able to elect a complete...

Telecom companies on ruse, PDD CE seeks detailed report

9/25/2009 12:46:55 AM

Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 24: From Prime Minister’s Task Force on Economic Reconstruction to Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather’s budget speech, everybody has shown a supporting concern for the private telecommunication companies operating in Jammu and Kashmir but these service providers have not left any opportunity to take ruin the public interests and deceive the government. When everyone rallying behind them and turning a blind eye to their parallel regimes of profit, then why not just join hands with them –this is exactly what the Power Development Department’s Inspection Division is seems to have done in Jammu. As per the power supply agreement between government and Teleco...

PM may come with good news on CU

9/25/2009 12:45:24 AM

EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Sept 24: Following pressure mounted on the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi by the ruling coalition leaders, including Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and PCC Chief Saif-ud-Din Soz the central Government is to announce its revised policy on the opening of the central university in Jammu and Kashmir. The centre had already allotted one central University for Jammu and Kashmir out of 14 it had approved for various states. But the very plan of the state Government to set up the Central University and the IIM in Kashmir triggered vehement protests in the Jammu region. Those demanding that the proposed central university be set up in ...

‘Pak to rake up Kashmir issue’

9/25/2009 12:44:58 AM

Agencies Islamabad: Pakistan will take up the "core issue" of Kashmir and differences over sharing of river waters during upcoming meetings with the Foreign Secretary and Foreign Minister of India, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Thursday. "As far as the core issue is concerned, it is Kashmir. There cannot be lasting peace in the region without resolving the Kashmir issue," Gilani told reporters in his hometown of Multan. Gilani was responding to a question about criticism from opposition parties that his government was afraid to raise the Kashmir issue with India. He said the "core issues for Pakistan are Kashmir and the (sharing of river) waters" and these would be taken up w...

Now log your complaints online, CM’s grievance cell is functional

9/25/2009 12:44:23 AM

Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 24: After an initial technical aberration, the ambitious project of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah seeking to take him closer to the people for redress of their grievances has started functioning and is being logged in. The multi-facility grievance redressal cell was launched by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on September 4 but it did not work as the officials had not properly briefed about pending works on portal and tell free number. This was reported by the Early Times in September 6 issue following which urgent measures seem to have been taken by the technical team to make the grievance cell more people friendly than what earlier it was envisaged for...

AMANDEEP MURDER CASE

Warrants against Nagar Singh, 2 FSL officials spill more beans

9/25/2009 12:43:39 AM

Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 24: On third day of marathon questioning session with suspended police officials and other witnesses, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing evidence tampering in Amandeep murder case, today achieved a significant breakthrough as a Forensic Science Laboratory expert is reported to have admitted being witness to fudging of the weapon of offence. Meanwhile, the SIT has issued warrants against leading businessman and builder Choudhary Nagar Singh, the father of accused Raja who has been arrested for broad-day light murder of Amandeep Singh, son of an ex-legislator. The SIT had earlier made repeated attempts to secure presence of Nagar Singh before it fo...

Gaddafi puts J&K under UN focus

ABID SHAH

9/25/2009 12:42:57 AM

New Delhi, Sept 24: The Libyan googly over Kashmir at the United Nations General Assembly may not cut ice with most member nations yet India cannot escape from the applause that this may kick off in the Valley as also across the borders. And as for an era that has progressed from yesteryears’ cold war to only cold peace, Muammar Gaddafi, is obviously a new player who has been trying to come to terms with changed geopolitical and diplomatic landscape. He does believe in front foot batting where attention went to him for his insistence to stay in a tent during his US visit, his unusually long speech at the General Assembly and his dubbing the UN Security Council as a ‘terrorist body’. Each ...