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There is a complaint: CM’s grievance cell does not work Calls fall dead at toll free number, website yet to become functional 9/6/2009 4:15:54 AM ZAFAR CHOUDHARY Jammu, Sept 5: Until this month last year, the tech savvy Omar Abdullah was much closer to the netizens in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere and had grown a constituency of fans by reiterating through his blog that he is accessible to them –anytime, anywhere. That was the case when Omar would carry blackberry backed mobile gizmos in hands and there were no protocol hassles of having a personal cell-phone. (Though he has been spotted carrying a blackberry and another recently acquired tech-toy even after becoming Chief Minister but access, of course, has been to a limited circle) As long as he had control under his fingers the accessibility and two-way communication set a precedent of its own. Almost a year after signing off from his blog (due to indecent traffic) and eight months after becoming Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah took the second major technology propelled step get accessible to the people and stay connected with them but initiative seems to have failed before take off. Either the Chief Minister was not fully informed by his officials or there was a suf...   READ MORE

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Triple focus at Katra Vohra, Farooq, Omar do brainstorming 9/6/2009 4:15:17 AM Early Times Report Katra, Sept 5: The base township of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi shrine today had government’s focused attention for augmenting facilities in view of an ever increasing pilgrim influx as the Governor NN Vohra, Union Energy Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah gathered there with the top heavy bureaucracy for a brainstorming session. The idea behind the meeting was to mull measures for putting in place a matching infrastructure to cater the huge influx of pilgrims which is increasing by lakhs every year. Ideas were also discussed for attracting the pilgrims to nearby heritage areas of Reasi district. The Chief Executive Officer of the Mata Vaishno ...   READ MORE   Pak harps on Kashmir 9/6/2009 4:14:25 AM AGENCIES Islamabad, Sept 5: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has once again said that Islamabad would continue its support to the Kashmiri people and the government’s decision to give autonomy to Gilgit Baltistan does not mean that it has shelved the Kashmir issue. “We gave internal autonomy, sovereignty to Gilgit Baltistan which was a long standing demand of its people but this does not mean that we have forgotten the Kashmir issue. We will continue to give moral and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri people,” Gilani said. The prime minister said the government had not altered its stance on the Kashmir issue by awarding autonomy to the Northern Areas. He said Kashmir was...   READ MORE   Police ‘solves’ Kupwara girl’s murder as per public sentiment Cellphone messages ignored, all evidences directed to soldier’s head 9/6/2009 4:13:53 AM AHMED ALI FAYYAZ SRINAGAR, Sep 5: With all and sundry---from the separatist High Court Bar Association to Omar Abdullah’s National Conference-led coalition government---remaining either sentimentally or expediently pitted against the four Police personnel in the Shopian rape-cum-murder case in the last over three months, Police in Kupwara district have finally solved the matter of the murder of a 17-year old girl student strictly according to the public sentiment. Amina Masoodi daughter of late Ghulam Ahmed Masoodi of Muqam Dolipora, Trehgam, had died in mysterious circumstances during the night intervening July 8th and 9th this year when her family members and neighbours had alleged that...   READ MORE   Poor spending of PMRP funds: Was it due to Azad’s mistrust? 9/6/2009 4:12:55 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 5: Towards the end of recently concluded assembly session when Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his party as well as Cabinet colleague Abdul Rahim Rather made a startling revelation that Rs 24,000 Crore of Prime Minister’s Rs 30,000 Crore Reconstruction Plan were still unspent, there was a point both missed to make and the members in the House failed to take note of. The Prime Minister’s Reconstruction Plan was unveiled in November 2004 –towards the fag end of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s government in which Congress was a partner in the ruling coalition. That for immediate two and half years before Omar’s government took over it was the Congress in full control...   READ MORE   Self rule is peace hope for South Asia: Mufti 9/6/2009 4:12:13 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 5: Claiming that his party has a vision and programme not only for peace in Jammu and Kashmir but also for stability in the South Asian region, the former Chief Minister and the Peoples Democratic Party president Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today asked his party workers to educate masses on the self rule formula. Mufti said that document of self-rule prepared by his party is the only viable solution to address both internal and external dimensions of the vexed Kashmir problem. “PDP has pioneered a political and economic agenda for establishing sustainable peace in the sub-continent in general and Jammu and Kashmir in particular”, the former Chief Minister told ...   READ MORE   Address of the town’s elite, Amar Singh Club falls victim to red-tape 9/6/2009 4:11:48 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 5: The City of Temples, fast on the wheels of urbanization has very little spaces for socialising. It sounds ludicrous but fashionably true that the only evening address for the town’s social elite –the Amar Singh Club –has fallen a victim to the official red-tapism. By virtue of its constitution, the incumbent Chief Minister happens to be the President of the Amar Singh Club. This position of the Chief Minister is not just ceremonial but has much to with management of the Club. The Club’s management is comprised of 15 members (11 elected and 4 nominated) who together constitute the collegium for electing the Secretary. Secretary is the de-facto head of t...   READ MORE   JMC harassing us: allege Corporators 9/5/2009 3:10:05 AM SUMIT SHARMA Jammu, Sept 4: The Corporators and Engineers were today seen dagger drawn against each other as pandemonium prevailed over 50th meeting of the Jammu Municipal Corporation. Engineers have gone on strike alleging misbehaviour with them by a Corporator. However, many of the Corporators accused the Engineers of causing a hue and cry to deviate attention from the alleged misappropriation of Rs 2.9 lakhs at behest of a Minister. Corporators asked the Mayor Kavinder Gupta to initiate action against erring Engineers. Today’s meeting was in continuation with the previous one but the Commissioner Mubarak Singh away. The Joint Commissioner assisted the Mayor and the Deputy but the...   READ MORE   Mubarak Mandi may soon look like Victoria Downtown 9/5/2009 3:09:51 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 4: If the plans conceived by Tourism Department see the proverbial day of light, the rich heritage of the Dogras is all set for a world class appearance to match historic buildings of Victoria Downtown or closer home Colonial era’s majestic structures of Kolkatta. The state tourism department has planned to restore the lost glory to priceless structures like Mubarak Mandi by undertaking a massive illumination drive. These architectural delights were till now resigned to darkness in spite of being as much a part of the city's heritage as the Victoria Memorial is to London. The department has decided to light up these buildings and include them as landmarks i...   READ MORE   Baglihar Engineer drowns, four students washed away Woman dead, 28 rescued from flashfloods 9/5/2009 3:09:24 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 4: On a day of gory tragedies across the region, a senior Engineer and Consultant at Baglihar project was drowned and in the unintended consequences of efforts to fish his body out claimed lives of at least four students in the downstream of Chenab River along Ramban. While two minor children (both brothers) are reported to have drowned in a pond in Akhnoor, a woman was washed away even as 28 others were rescued in flashfloods that rocked the Ujh river along a Kathua village. In yet another tragic incident, an official of the Subordinate Services Recruitment Board (SSRB) was knocked to death by an over-speeding vehicle at Panama Chowk area of the Capita...   READ MORE   Flight norms often violated in J&K 9/5/2009 3:08:53 AM SANT KUMAR SHARMA JAMMU, September 4: The tragic death of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S R Reddy in a helicopter crash has brought flight safety of aircraft used by VIPs into sharp focus. Several state governments own aircraft these days but some of them routinely violate standard procedures, according to sources. These violations mainly happen because the VIPs insist on flying at short notice or in less than ideal weather. In the former case, the staff do not get adequate time to check the aircraft rigorously. Of course, the perils of flying in less than ideal weather are too well known yet it is sometimes resorted to. Fortunately, rarely, the sources added. The staff engaged in th...   READ MORE   654 security Coys in J&K 9/5/2009 3:08:38 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sep 4: As many as 654 companies of the central Paramilitary Forces, besides Jammu and Kashmir police and Army have been deployed in the state for counter-insurgency operations and other security related arrangements. However, 35 companies of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) have been withdrawn from different parts of the state after August 15, official sources said here today. However, no withdrawal was made from north Kashmir, including Baramulla. They said 519 companies of CRPF had been deployed in Jammu and Kashmir for counter insurgency operation, protection of vital installations and VIPs. Of them, about 400 companies are in the Kashmir valley, the m...   READ MORE   Infiltration up: Army chief 9/5/2009 3:08:14 AM AGENCIES New Delhi, Sep 4: Indian Army chief General Deepak Kapoor Friday said that cross border infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir has been registering an upward trend with attempts being made to “push in” from Pakistan as many terrorists as possible before the winter. As another fierce battle raged on between security forces and a group of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants in the state’s Reasi district, he said that the attempts are being made to disrupt peace in the Kashmir Valley.” Let me put it this way that this period is critical as we have a peaceful valley… Attempts will be made from across the border to try and disrupt that and push in as many infiltrators as possible before...   READ MORE   Lakhs bid adieu to YSR 9/5/2009 3:07:55 AM Agencies Hyderabad, Sept 4: Lakhs of people today bid a tearful farewell to charismatic Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, who was killed in a helicopter crash, as his body was interred in his family's expansive estate here after a state funeral. The last rites were performed in this rural town in Pulivendla constituency after a galaxy of national leaders including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Leader of the Opposition L K Advani joined a sea of humanity that had come all parts of the state to bid adieu to him in Hyderabad. 60-year-old Reddy's son Jaganmohan (36), the cynosure of all eyes against the backdrop of a succession race f...   READ MORE

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