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JKNPP, BJP, NC
stage walkout from assembly
Jammu : Miffed over the
responses given by the Health minister
over the setting up of delimitation
commission, Jammu and Kashmir National
Panthers Party (JKNPP) and BJP today
staged a walkout from the assembly....more
Pandemonium in
Legislative Council
Jammu : Pandemonium
broke in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative
Council today as opposition members and
the ruling coalition engaged in verbal
duels during the discussion on
Rehbar-e-Janglat (REJ) scheme for
unemployed forest graduates in the state.....more
Highway
reopens partially after two days closure
SRINAGAR, Jan Traffic on the
300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu National
Highway resumed this afternoon partially
after remaining suspended since yesterday
due to landslides and heavy snowfall.
About 500 vehicles, carrying passengers
and essential commodities which were
stranded on the highway since yesterday,
were allowed to proceed towards their
respective destinations this afternoon, a
traffic police official said here. ......more
"Why no action against
political corruption"?
Rather
flays Govt move to appoint political
chairmen to Corporations
Excelsior
Correspondent
 JAMMU,
Jan 8: Leader of Opposition Abdul
Rahim Rather today took strong exception
to Congress-PDP coalition
Government’s move to nominate
chairmen and vice chairmen to
Corporations and Boards to give status of
Ministers to political activists of both
parties through back-door, thus,
rendering irrelevant the restriction on
maximum strength of Ministry imposed
through a legislation....more
Cong-PDP MLAs echo
Opposition sentiments
*NPP-BJP
walk-out on PHE wages
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 8: Several
members of ruling Congress-PDP coalition
from Jammu region today echoed the
sentiments of Opposition members
including Panthers Party and BJP seeking
increase in wages of PHE workers, engaged
under Community Participation programme,
from Rs 500 to Rs 2100 at par with the
workers engaged in Kashmir valley. The
issue generated heat in the Assembly
during Zero Hour leading to walk-out by
all five MLAs of Panthers Party and BJP.....more
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