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CHANDIGARH, SEPTEMBER 28 – Chief Minister Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad at the conclave of Chief Ministers of northern India here today took up the matter with Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh for enhancing the Haj quota as a special case for Jammu and Kashmir state. He intimated the Prime Minister that a large number of people applied for performing Haj but due to limited quota most of the people could not be accommodated from the state.
The Chief Minister urged Dr. Manmohan Singh to take up the matter with the Government of Saudi Arabia for increasing the Haj quota so that all those who have applied for performing Haj from the state this year are accommodated.
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| | | | Speculation over President's line of action | | Kalam unlikely to accept Afzal's mercy petition | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 28: Kashmiri convict, Mohammed Afzal, sentenced to death for his role on Indian Parliament in 2001, has focused his eyes on the President, APJ Abdul Kalam, who is to decide on the former's reprieve petition. A Delhi court slapped death warrant on Afzal on Tuesday.
This was immediately followed by the outbreak of violent clashes in Srinagar, capital city of Kashmir, between the police and proAfzal demonstrators who took to the streets protesting the Deal court's death warrant. Afzal was convicted by a special anti-terror court in Delhi in 2002 for helping attackers carry out the strike on Parliament on December 13, 2001. Afzal has denied the charges and his ... | |
| | | | There are no resignations: Saran | | External Affairs Ministry hit by the Menon effect | | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 28: India's disgruntled diplomats are up in arms, spewing fire against the UPA government's move culminating in the elevation of a "junior" officer to the post of Foreign Secretary. And ever since Shiv Shankar Menon superceded 15 of diplomats of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to become India's next Foreign Secretary, the MEA seems to have been hit by the Menon effect.
Last some days witnessed unpleasant developments in Delhi's South Block: Disgruntled diplomats are breaking out across the MEA. Rajiv Sikri, batchmate of the outgoing Foreign Secretary, Shyam Saran, was the first to go. Saran will step down early next week after retiring from gove... | |
| | | | Pranab hopeful on permanent seat, Tharoor | | | |
New York, Sep 28 At the end of his weeklong visit to United
Nations and New York, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee expressed
optimism about India getting a permanent seat in an expanded UN
Security Council.
Mr Mukherjee is also hopeful that Shashi Tharoor, India's
candidate for the post of Secretary-General, will succeed Kofi Annam.
"It's high time for reforms at the United Nations, including the
Security Council," he told a news conference yesterday. "There is
consensus on UN reforms, but not on how to achieve the same. We are
confident that India will find a place among the permanent members."
The Security Council currently has five permanent members -- the
United St... | |
| | | | 25 houses gutted in Doda | | | |
Jammu, Sep 28 Twenty-five houses were completely gutted in an accidental fire in Doda district and property worth several lakhs have been destroyed, officials said today.
However, there is no loss of life or injury.
The fire started accidentaly from one house yesterday and spread to other houses in Nowgam village, officials said.
The fire continued till last night completely gutting 25 houses, they said.
Authorities are trying to assess the loss in the fire and also would be providing help to the affected families, they added.
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