Two
MoS’ to share one Department for
first time
Mula Ram gets RDD, Jugal
R&B;
Jora I&C, Charak HE, Babu Power
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 2: Chief Minister
Ghulam Nabi Azad today allocated
portfolios to four newly inducted
Ministers, two of Cabinet rank and two
Ministers of State, who were sworn-in
yesterday and, in the process, changed
portfolios of Congress Ministers of
Cabinet rank including Gulchain Singh
Charak, Jugal Kishore, Nawang Rigzin Jora
and Haji Nissar Ali....more
World's largest company
to set up wallet unit in Kashmir
Excelsior
Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Jan 2: Union
Minister of State for Commerce Jairam
Ramesh today stressed the need for
permanent marketing centre for Kashmiri
handicrafts in the capital. He said the
Central Government has identified 20
kanals of land for developing a marketing
and exhibition centre of Kashmir
handicraft.....more
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Last
budget session of current
Assembly
all set to be stormy
By Sanjeev
Pargal
JAMMU,
Jan 2: Last
budget session of current
Assembly, beginning
January 7 with joint
address by Governor Lt
Gen (Retd) S K Sinha to
both Houses of the
Legislature, is expected
to be stormy as compared
to all five previous
budget sessions with main
Opposition party,
National Conference,
having a strength of 26
MLAs, in full election
mood planning to target
the coalition with all
its might......more
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Minimum temperature
dips to minus 7.4
Coldest night in
two decades
SRINAGAR, Jan 2: People in
Kashmir valley woke up to the
coldest morning of the season in
more than two decades with the
minimum temperature dipping to
minus 7.4 degree celsius......more
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14 new colleges
to be fully functional by Aug
By Mohinder Verma
JAMMU, Jan 2: For
thousands of students, getting
higher education in the crammed
rooms would be a thing of past as
14 new degree colleges in the
State will become fully
functional by August this year......more
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Petrol prices to
go up by Rs 4
NEW DELHI, Jan 2: Government
is considering an increase of Rs
4 and 2 a litre in petrol and
diesel prices respectively to
moderate the impact of high
international crude oil prices on
state-run oil firms. .....more
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India watching
Pak developments: Antony
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM,
Jan 2: India was keenly
watching the developments in
Pakistan in the aftermath of
Benazir Bhutto’s
assassination with concern and
hope that normalcy is restored in
that country at the earliest,
Defence Minister A K Antony said
today.....more
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Scotland
Yard to assist Bhutto
probe
ISLAMABAD,
Jan 2: After
flip-flops on what and
who killed Benazir
Bhutto, Pakistan
President Pervez
Musharraf tonight said
Britain’s elite
Scotland yard will assist
in the investigations
into her assassination. ...more
3
injured in Bandipore
blast
Excelsior
Correspondent
SRINAGAR,
Jan 2: Three
persons, including a BSF
soldier, sustained
injuries when suspected
militants threw a hand
grenade at Bandipore in
north Kashmir today....more
Drass,
Kargil people shiver
KARGIL,
Jan 2: People
in Drass, the second
coldest place in the
world after Siberia, are
facing bitting cold after
the maximum fell to minus
two degree celsius and
minimum minus 16.5
degrees......more
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