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| NC's tribute of silence to its founder Sheikh Abdullah! | | Leaving all the space to PDP and separatists, J&K's largest political party has now reconciled to oblivion | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Sept 7: They call their organisation as Jammu and Kashmir's largest political party even after reducing its base in Legislative Assembly from 58 seats in 1996 to 29 in 2008. They claim other distinctions: Being the only political outfit that has base and representation in all the three regions of the State; having maximum number of its representatives, among all State parties, in Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and the State's own Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council. They also claim that maximum of the Panches and Sarpanches elected in 2011 Panchayat elections are affiliated to their party. But, conversely, leaders of the ruling National Conference (NC) are not going to hold any congregation to remember the party's founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah on his 30th death anniversary tomorrow.
In fact, the process of forgetting Sher-e-Kashmir began a few years back when Government of Jammu and Kashmir withdrew gazetted holiday over 25 years after Sheikh's death in 1982. It was followed by cancellation of the remembrance ceremony at Sheikh's mausoleum at Hazratb... | |
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| SC defers hearing in Shri Amarnath pilgrim deaths case | | J&K Govt files interim report | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Sept 7: The Supreme Court has deferred hearing on deaths of pilgrims who fell sick on way to holy shrine Amarnath in Kashmir. Now the case has been listed for hearing on September 17.
According to Sunil Fernandez, the standing counsel for Jammu and Kashmir Government in Supreme Court, the bench of the apex court that was scheduled to hear the matter on Monday was not available.
"Now the case will be heard on September 17th by a bench comprising Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice Swatanter Kumar," he said.
Meanwhile, the State Government has filed its interim report on the subject as was sought by the apex court after it took suo moto cognizance of mounting... | |
| | | | Is Jammu apathetic towards its landmarks? | | Replica of Bahu Fort loosing sheen | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 7: Jammu, the city of valiant Dogras who are known for their compassion and empathy have strangely been indifferent to the landmarks that are reminiscent of its glorious past. From historical monuments to the memorials of its heroes, all have faced apathy of the administration, Government and more worryingly that of the common people of the city. From Darbargarh to the memorial of KL Sehgal, several such landmarks have been examples of popular neglect.
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| | | | IT sleuths scrutinizes records of two reputed jewellery stores | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 7: Income Tax (IT) sleuths today carried out surprised visit to two reputed outlets of two popular jewellery showrooms in Jammu city here.
As per sources, the IT sleuths headed IT Inspector Muni Chandram visited the above mentioned showrooms. As per sources, IT sleuths at around 2 p.m. started scrutiny of records in showrooms of Rakesh Jewellers and Shankar Shah Jewellers located in Jain Bazar, Lakhdata Bazar, Gandhi Nagar as well. The teams reportedly seized the records of showrooms for scrutiny of their records, to assess the proper payment of tax by the showroom owners.
"As per preliminary reports it has been found that the said showroom owners have ev... | |
| | | | Startling discrepancies surface in Cooperative Societies come to light | | Minister fails to hold elections, JCCB license under jeopardy | | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu, Sept 7: Startling discrepancies in Cooperative Societies came to fore in a reply to an RTI application. The lacunae indicated even the failure of concerned Minister to take action to plug in the loopholes within the said sector.
The concerned department while replying to RTI application indicated autocratic rule of concerned Minister as after taking reins of cooperative sector including JAKFED, Cooperative School besides other institution has utterly failed to hold elections which resulted in failure of restoration of democratic setup causes deterioration of work in such cooperative units.
Meanwhile, highly placed sources within the concerned department maintained t... | |
| | | | Post rain affect: Locals in Kangar fear their houses may collapse due to erosion | | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Sept 7: The rains, that lashed the region early this week, brought with them miseries for the residents of Kangar in Bhalwal block, where several stretches of the stone-made protection wall (danga) raised by the streetside in ward No 1 of the village either developed cracks, or were damaged fully.
In the immediate vicinity of this stone wall, about 4 ft in height, are the outer walls of several houses, kachcha and pucca. It prevents erosion of land during rains and provides strength to these residential structures.
Villagers fear that if immediate steps were not taken to either repair, or reconstruct the damaged portions, another spell of rain would fully wash away ... | |
| | | | Punish killers of Hindus in J&K also: PK | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 7: Expressing its total faith in the judicial system of the country which is more deep rooted after seeing the Naroda Patia case verdict on Aug.29, by a designated special court in Ahmedabad in the Gujarat communal violence of 2002 following burning alive of 60 innocent Hindu pilgrims at Godhra Panun Kahsmir demanded such type of action in case of massacres of innocent people in J&K during 23 year long turmoil.... | |
| | | | To conciliate Geelani, Senior Cong leader toes his line | | No Place For Non-State Subjects In JK | | | Neha
JAMMU, Sept 7: This is the Congress. It considers the Muslims of Kashmir a race apart and bars other Indians to work, settle and acquire immovable property in Kashmir, saying it will go with pro-Pakistan Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani and others of his ilk and not allow any non-Kashmiri to live as Indian in this part of the country.
"We will not allow anyone to alter the demography of the State," says a senior Congress leader to conciliate Geelani and others in Kashmir who are opposed to India; who are opposed to the Indian political system, whatever it is; who are opposed to everything Indian; who are opposed to the Amarnath Yatra; who are for a short duration of the Amarnath Yatra; who s... | |
| | | | Govt starts disbanding VDCs | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 7: The State Government has started the process of disbanding Village Defence Committees, which had played an important and significant part in fighting terrorism, especially in terrorists infested districts of Jammu region.
A senior police official said that process of 'rationalising' of VDCs has been started on the directions of influential Valley based politicians.
The police holds the view that VDCs have served their utility and that incidents of terrorism have come down, their role should also be reviewed. The 'rationalisation' process also involves analyzing the need to hold guns and the state of weapon given to them.
The VDCs were created in th... | |
| | | | Why not any agitation on condition of Jammu roads….? | | BJP State unit keen on support for coalgate issue | | | ET Report
JAMMU, Sept 7: State unit of BJP is behaving in a typical national party mode with its leadership and key functionaries interested and enthusiastic only in raising the issues at the national level, no matter there are scores of burning issues back home, most of these just outside their own headquarter compound. One wonders why they choose to sideline and ignore these issues and are zealous only in big political issues which its Central leadership is raking up, this time coalgate being the hot one which has stirred political corridors in New Delhi.
Jammu is faced with a hell of problems on account of which the miseries of people have increased manifold, particularly over the l... | |
| | | | `From 5707 hectares saffron fields have shrunk to 3010 hectares' | | Cement dust kills Kashmir's golden crop | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 7: Kashmir's ‘golden crop’ (Saffron) desperately needs a fresh lease of life. More than a dozen cement factories and illegal constructions have wreaked havoc with the fields that produce the crop.
As many as 300 villages in and around Pampore cultivate the ‘golden crop’. But the saffron fields that won the State handsome revenue are fast shrinking. The growers ascribe reasons to massive road widening and the number of cement factories that have come up in the area.
Illegal constructions on saffron fields have also affected the crop adversely. A grower, Gulzar Ahmad said, "If steps are not taken, like paddy fields, saffron fields will also disappear.''
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| | | | Helpless PM fending for himself | | Washington Post On Manmohan Singh | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Sept 7: It was the September 5 issue of the leading US-based international daily Washington Post that carried a story on its front page on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. It was not an ordinary story; it was, in fact, a blistering attack on him and the Government that he had been leading. Its very title suggested that Manmohan Singh was an utter failure. The title was "India's 'silent' Prime Minister becomes a tragic figure". The sub-title of the story was "Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's second term in office has been damaged by corruption scandals and policy paralysis". The title and sub-title of the story left none in any doubt that in the United States, our Prime Mi... | |
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