C M Y K Saturday 18 28 March 2015 KASHMIR Srinagar today : Sunny Mediterranean diet has low carbon footprint: Study Maximum : 17o SunSEt today : 6:45 PM o Minmum : 5 SunriSE 8 humidity : 65% tommrow: 6:32 aM 07 JAMAD UL Sani | 1436 Hijri | Vol: 18 | Issue: 68 | Pages : 08 | Price: `3 www.kashmirobserver.net twitter.com/kashmirobserver facebook.com/kashmirobserver WISDOM Dispensing With The smallest minority on 90:10 Funding Pattern earth is the individual. Those who deny Will Have Serious individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of Implications for JK: Mufti minorities. support will seriously hamper ..........Ayn Rand demands “Minimum the implementation of these guaranteed schemes in a state like ours," said the Chief Minister. devolution” to States Mufti was speaking in NITI at niti ayog Meet Ayog here today during the meet- ing of the Sub-Group of 10 Chief NEW DELHI: The Chief Minister Ministers, a think-tank constitut- PDP-BJP Panel Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today ed for rationalization of Central- stated that dispensing with the ly-sponsored Schemes. Holds Meet 90:10 funding pattern for Central- Minister for Finance, Dr. Has- ly-sponsored Schemes (CSSs) for eeb. A. Drabu, Principal Secretary, SRINAGAR: The first meeting of PDP Special Category states will have Planning & Development, B. R. and BJP government’s Coordination serious implications for J&K which Sharma and Principal Resident Committee is scheduled to be held is strategically located and has Commissioner, J&K, L. D. Jha also in Jammu later this evening. seen a difficult period since 1947. participated. Sources said the meeting would be He said states like J&K and the The meeting, which was held at the official residence of Chief North East, which have huge lo- chaired by the Chief Minister of Minister Mufti Mohamamd Sayeed cational disadvantages coupled Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh at 8 pm. “The meeting will be presid- with challenging security scenar- Chauhan, was also attended by ed over by the BJP leader and Deputy io, will be severely handicapped the Chief Ministers of Rajasthan, CM Dr Nirmal Singh and attended Observing nature from balcony made with exquisite Kashmiri design at Badamwari gives a differet feel- Pix courtesy Muhammad Aslam if the 90:10 funding pattern is Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and by all the members of the newly done away with. "We have seen Nagaland, besides the Lt. Governor formed Coordination Committee.” a turnaround for the better in of Andaman & Nicobar Islands. A member of CC told KNS that in the these states now. The recommen- While suggesting cutting first meeting issues in common min- dations to change funding pat- down CSSs to 17 Mega Schemes imum programme would PAGE 6 GoI’s refusal to transfer power projects to JK tern and de-link some Centrally- only from the present 66, the sponsored schemes from Union Chief Minister said PAGE 6 183 JK youth join army Ruckus in Assembly, SRINAGAR: One hundred eighty three youth from the J&K were in- ducted into the Indian Army on Fri- day at J&K Light Infantry Regimen- tal Centre in Srinagar. Singing their Legislator Injured Regimental Song, the young soldiers took the oath to devote their lives to JAMMU: Pandemonium marred protect India from all odds. These the proceedings of legislative as- Young Soldiers called themselves sembly on Friday as opposition Will go beyond Uri and Dulhasti: Mehbooba singularly privileged to join this il- members gathered near the speak- lustrious regiment which is the only er's podium amid slogan shouting SRINAGAR: PDP Friday said it will will go beyond the demand of Uri one in the entire Indian Army to have and noise against governments al- not confine its approach to the re- and Dulhasti’s return. BJp favours return been raised by the brave PAGE 6 leged failure to bring states back turn of Uri-I and Dulhasti power She maintained that the party power projects from NHPC. projects from NHPC but explore all will rectify the “wrongs commit- of power projects Reports said stormy scenes were options to make J&K rich in power ted by the National Conference in SRINAGAR: The deputy chief minister Sistani calls witnessed in both the houses of resources. the past and gave away the proj- Nirmal Singh Friday said the govern- Legislative Assembly with the oppo- The PDP president Mehbooba ects of the state against petty po- ment is committed in bringing back for unity sition parties National Conference Mufti said that besides exploring litical gains.” the power projects from NHPC to Medical ‘Negligence’ Claims BAGHDAD: Iraq's most revered cleric and Congress cornering government the modalities of returning Uri-I “We have the tenure of six state as mentioned in CMP between on Friday called for unity among the over its ‘failure’ in bringing back the and Dulhasti to Jammu and Kash- years and we want to assure that the PDP and BJP. 3 Lives in Baramulla country's forces battling the ISIS after power projects from NHPC and NC mir, the party is striving to revise all the biggest problem faced by the Dr Singh while talking to report- most of the Shia militias pulled out of legislator Abdul Majeed Bhat was royalties and would ensure that the people of the state is of power and ers outside the Legislative Assembly Authorities say both residents of Rafiabad died at the offensive in the militant-held city injured during a scuffle with the state get its due share. “We have same will be addressed during termed the uproar by the NC and Con- the district hospital after being al- of Tikrit in protest over US airstrikes marshals during the protest. put forward our point and pitched the present dispensation. Every- gress as an attempt to gain ‘cheap pub- elderly people had legedly administered expired dex- there. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's The house was adjourned after for one of six ultra mega thermal thing is in black and white. There licity’. He said that he has already held natural deaths trose by the paramedics on Thurs- appeal came a day after the militias, former chief minister Omar Abdul- projects at Madhya Pradesh,” Me- is nothing hidden from the people some talks with the Union power min- day, witnesses said. Many patients which had been instrumental so far lah led the protesting members hbooba said, adding that the PDP of the state,” Mehbooba PAGE 6 ister over the return of the PAGE 6 BARAMULLA: Three people, two also experienced shivering after in the sucesses, announced their boy- who came in the well. PAGE 6 of them women, died at the district they were administered dextrose by cott of the Tikrit offensive. hospital in Baramulla due to the the medicos in the ward No 1 of the The U.S. got involved in the operation alleged negligence of the doctors hospital, they said. and started providing PAGE 6 sparking off strong protests by the The deaths due to alleged negligence 2014 Floods attendants on Friday. triggered protests by the attendants and Why india Sumander Faqeer, 70, of Boniyar, the locals outside the hospital. Cop Goes Missing Bakhti Begum, 65, Hajra Begum, 70, Shouting slogans against PAGE 6 From Ganderbal Admires SC Seeks Status Report from JK Govt SRINAGAR: A Head Constable of the SRINAGAR: A division bench of the ‘Kashmir first, Kashmiri first’ Jammu and Kashmir Police has gone Atal Bihari? Supreme Court headed by Justice missing from central Kashmir’s Gan- NEW DELHI:- One of India’s most Madan B. Lokur and Justice U.U. Lalit Hurriyat (M) Raises New Slogan derbal district, reports said on Friday. charismatic leaders, Atal Bihari Friday directed the Advocate-General According to a police officials, Mo- Vajpayee, who was awarded the of J&K Government to provide status SRINAGAR: Pitching for inclusion of main stake holders while as India hammad Shafi Parray (belt no. 02/ Bharat Ratna today, is lauded as a report to the court regarding the dis- people of Kashmir in Indo-Pak talks, and Pakistan come second. We are BD) of Wussun Ganderbal went miss- statesman politician whose accept- tribution of relief to the flood victims Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman not the cannon fodder that could ing since today morning. He had not ability across the board broke barri- in J&K, reports said. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Friday said be intimated about their fate while returned till last reports came in. ers pitchforking the Bharatiya Janata Supreme Court was hearing a writ his amalgam will start a Valley wide India and Pakistan sit and talk,” the Parray, according to the officials, is on Party (BJP) to centrestage of politics petition filed by J&K National Panthers campaign named ‘Kashmir first, Huriyat (M) chairman said. the rolls of District Budgam and has been in the late 90s. Party and others for the distribution of Kashmiri first’. He maintained that the bilateral absent from duty for the last PAGE 6 It was Vajpayee’s sway that equitable relief in cash and kind to the “We have neither given the right talks over Kashmir have so far failed brought new allies to BJP, then con- victims of floods and rain in Jammu to India, nor to Pakistan for speak- yield any results with the Kashmir is- sidered a virtual untouchable in and Kashmir in September, 2014. ing on behalf of us,” Mirwaiz said sue hanging since decades. “We will H1N1: 482 Test view of its rightist leanings, espe- Supreme Court granted four amid slogans while addressing present our case ourselves as there is cially after demolition of Babri Mas- weeks to the Jammu and Kashmir Friday congregation at Jamia Mas- no one who knows better than us the Positive in 2015 jid, in 1998.