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ETT scam: Court directions put Cong leaders in a dock 1/17/2023 10:52:40 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 17: Worries ahead for two Congress leaders after directions of the Special Judge Anticorruption Court Jammu, Tahir Khurshid Raina to reopen the infamous Elementary Teacher Training (ETT) institutes scam. Pinpointing huge lapses in the investigation conducted by the Crime Branch of Jammu and Kashmir Police in the scam, Anti-Corruption Court directed a further probe into this high-profile case involving successive education ministers and higher-ups of the education department. Important to mention here that in 2015 the Crime Branch Kashmir had arrested former chairman BOSE Chairman, Sheikh Bashir Ahmad for his alleged involvement in the scam. Dar was said to be a "mastermind" in the allotment of the ETT colleges in 2003 without adhering to any rules, regulations, and norms. He was arrested when he was trying to flee to Srinagar from Jammu. The said officer was close to two former senior Congress leaders who were Education Ministers in the previous coalition regimes in J&K. Interestingly, ETT colleges had been allotted merely on applications wit...   READ MORE

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2 LeT terrorists killed in Budgam encounter 1/17/2023 10:52:30 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Jan 17: Security forces shot dead two local militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba(LeT) in a brief encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district on Tuesday morning, police said. The duo had escaped from an encounter site at Rudbugh Budgam on Sunday. Police said the encounter took place at a joint checkpoint which was established near Court crossing Budgam. "Acting on specific input regarding movement of terrorists a joint Naka of Police and Army (62RR) was established.... During area domination, the joint party signalled a suspected vehicle (sumo) to stop however, the terrorists onboard jumped from the vehicle and started firing indiscriminately on the joint pa...   READ MORE   Northern Command techno commanders seminar charts roadmap of Infusion of latest 'Atmanirbhar' technologies 1/17/2023 10:52:22 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 17: A two day Northern Command Techno Commanders Seminar 2023 culminated on Tuesday at Military Station Nagrota here. The event was inaugurated by Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi, Army Commander Northern Command. 21st Century is an era of unprecedented change in global economic, politico-diplomatic, military doctrines with rapid induction of new technology changing the nature of threats to Nation and Armed Forces. Indian Army has embarked itself on a path of Capability Development and Force modernisation by leveraging new technologies and encouraging innovations through indigenisation and Atmanirbharta. A two day seminar was planned in conjunction with academia ...   READ MORE   Court directs further investigation in misappropriation of cement and steel 1/17/2023 10:51:54 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 17: Additional Sessions Judge Anti-Corruption Kathua, Kamlesh Pandit today directed the Anti Corruption Bureau Jammu to further investigate a case related to misappropriation for cement and steel. The court directed the ACB to further investigate the case registered under FIR 20/2012 of ACB Jammu U/Ss 5(1) (c)(d) r/w section 5(2) of J&K Prevention of Corruption Act and u/s 467,468,471,120-B and 201 of RPC in which ACB booked then BDO and Store Keeper for misappropriation for cement and steel. Additional Sessions Judge Kathua after hearing both the sides observed that in this case, the allegations against the main accused a storekeeper that he committed t...   READ MORE   BSF Ex-DG Pankaj Kumar Singh appointed deputy NSA 1/17/2023 10:51:43 PM Agencies NEW DELHI, Jan 17: Retired director general of the Border Security Force (BSF) Pankaj Kumar Singh was on Monday appointed as deputy national security adviser. According to an official order, Singh, a 1988-batch IPS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, has been appointed on a re-employment contract for a period of two years. Singh retired as BSF chief on December 31, 2022 When Singh took charge of the BSF on August 31, 2021, he had created history of a son and a father holding the top post of a paramilitary force during their services. His father and retired IPS officer of the 1959-batch, Prakash Singh, had also headed the BSF from June, 1993 to January, 1994. Prakash Singh is co...   READ MORE

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