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| Opposition fury to dominate 10 day tentative calender | | Autumn session of Assembly from Sept last week | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 23: Even as the situation in Kashmir is showing no signs of complete normalcy, the Autumn session of Legislative Assembly is being convened in last week of September or first week of October in Srinagar. The notification of the session will be issued shortly.
Sources said though priority of the Omar Abdullah led coalition government in J&K at present is to control situation and restore normal life in Valley crippled for over two months now, but it cannot afford to delay convening of the session within stipulated six months time, a constitutional requirement. Sources said Law and Parliamentary ministry discussed the matter with Assembly Speaker about this mandatory step following which the government is contemplating to convene the session either from September last week or October first week.
As per the constitutional requirement the government is bound to convene the Legislative session any date before October 4. The session, sources confirmed will not last more than 10 days. Since the government is well aware about prevalent situation in Kashmir V... | |
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| Govt orders CBI probe in Jammu impersonation | | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Aug 23: Amid protests in Jammu against the involvement of two senior leaders of the Congress and National Conference, including a Cabinet Minister, in a matter of impersonation, in the entrance examination of a private medical college, Government today decided to assign the investigation to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Informed sources told Early Times that immediately after returning from Ajmer Sharief, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah held a meeting with his ministerial colleagues and senior government functionaries over the matter of some impostors having been allegedly hired by certain parents, including two ruling coalition politic... | |
| | | | Ganging up of Saxena, Dulat, Rajeshwar, Sood, Jha & Dua a dangerous development | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 23: Issue is not whether or not Omar Abdullah quits government and paves way for Farooq Abdullah or Abdul Rahim Rather or Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. The issue is: what do these Kashmir and security experts want? These experts belong to the category of those think-tanks who have no regard whatever for the Indian Constitution and who can go to any extent to ensure the negation of the Indian Constitution and pamper those in Kashmir who have been working relentlessly to force New Delhi to allow the extremists to decide the political future of Jammu and Kashmir on the basis of that two-nation theory under which British India was divided into Indian State and Pa... | |
| | | | Time for Jammu Muslims to excommunicate ‘mischief-monger’ | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 23: People of Jammu province are peace-loving and law-abiding. They, irrespective of their political affiliation and religious denomination, have always worked for communal harmony in the region. They are known for their love and affection for each other. The Muslims of Jammu province, like the Hindus of this province, have been mal-treated and discriminated against by the successive Kashmiri-dominated and Valley-centric successive governments in the state. Hence, the story of their woes is the same.
In fact, the Jammu Muslims have suffered more at the hands of the Kashmiri Muslim leadership, which has all along taken the Jammu Muslims for a ride and use... | |
| | | | 'Beta ye kya, cheating bhi nahi aati’ | | Advisor's advice to his son! | | | ET Report
Jammu, Aug 23: Muna Bhai used his cell phone to pass the examination. He did not dare to carry material to the examination hall. But the kin of Chief Minister's Advisor carried as many as twenty-eight paper slips to the examination hall to pass his law examination unlawfully. The cheat was arrested by a defiant Jammu University administration and a strong case has been made against him.
The Advisor known for getting things done from the back door would have never imagined that his writ could be challenged by an educational institution. While Gul used his political position to save his son, the defiant university administration refused to succumb much to the Advisor's disappointm... | |
| | | | "Go India Go", India will not go | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 23: The whole of the nation in general and the people of Jammu and Ladakh and non-Muslim minorities in the state, plus the Jammu-based former and serving bureaucrats, traders and their organizations, Bar Association Jammu (BAJ) and all the Jammu-based student organizations in particular, have to take a serious note of the ongoing "Go India Go" movement in Kashmir. They have not only to see through the nefarious game-plan of the Kashmiri separatists and ardent believers in the permitive and intolerant concept of "Nizam-e-Mustafa", but have also to see through the dubious game-plan of the Kashmir-based traders' organizations and former and serving bureaucrats bu... | |
| | | | Delay in convening Legislature session can be constitutional violation: Harsh | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu. Aug 23If the session of the state legislature was not convened next one month it would be a major violation of the state constitution. This was stated by the working chairman of the Panthers Party, Harsh Dev Singh, today. He said that under the state constitution it was mandatory on the part of the Government to hold the session of the state legislature within six months of the previous session.... | |
| | | | President donates Rs 1 lakh from salary for Leh flood victims relief | | | | AGENCIES
NEW DELHI,Aug 23: President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has contributed rupees 1 lakh from her salary to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund so as it could be utilised for the rehabilitation of the poor and needy people affected by the recent cloudburst and mudslides in Leh and its nearby areas in the border State of Jammu and Kashmir.
This has been stated in a statement issued by Rashtrapati Bhavan here today. Earlier, the President had made a specific mention of the natural calamity in her address to the nation on August 14, 2010, the eve of the 63rd Independence Day.... | |
| | | | Amid shutdown, one more succumbs to injuries | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR: While Kashmir valley observed yet another shutdown over the separatist hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani's call, one of the civilian protestors succumbed to injuries at a hospital today.
Reports available from different sources said that businesses and traffic remained shut and attendance in government offices was thin as the Valley observed total shutdown over Hurriyat (G) Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani's call today. Some of the educational institutions, however, functioned in defiance of the call for shutdown. Sources said that declared and undeclared curfew also remained in force in a part of the capital city besides a couple of major townships like Sopore.
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