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Vakil urges CM to proceed against corrupt Ministers ‘Govt should terminate all advocates appointed on basis of political affiliation’ 5/19/2010 12:12:08 AM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz SRINAGAR, May 18: Congress party’s MLC and former Minister Abdul Gani Vakil today complained that a number of the coalition government’s Ministers were neck deep in corruption. While urging Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to ‘rise above the conventional vote bank politics’, Vakil demanded constitution of ‘an independent and credible commission’ which would force the ‘corrupt Ministers and legislators’ to disclose source of their income as quite a number of them, according to him, had acquired thousands of Kanals of prime land and raised palatial bungalows overnight in Srinagar, Jammu and New Delhi. In Take One Television’s current affairs programme ‘Face To Face With Ahmed Ali Fayyaz’, MLC Abdul Gani Vakil expressed full faith in Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s campaign to eradicate corruption but, at the same time, he asserted that it would all prove to be an exercise in futility until the ‘dynamic head of the government’ rose above the (inhibitions of) conventional vote bank politics. “Chief Minister will have to begin from the top. He will have to take dras...   READ MORE

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Unemployed youth feel betrayed as authorities engage teachers as enumerators 5/19/2010 12:11:22 AM MISHU GUPTA EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 18: Unemployed educated youth in Jammu and Kashmir who have been awaiting for some odd assignments once again felt betrayed as the state government instead of engaging them for Census 2010 has taken the services of teachers and other government officials. The contention behind this feeling of betrayal is that government are already are being paid salaries and will be paid extra for this out of job duty. 'The Census Department should have engaged the unemployed educated youth in this exercise so that they would get at least a month's honorarium while the teachers and employees of other departments could be used at their routine services," a gro...   READ MORE   Manmohan to resume mission Kashmir with more zest 5/19/2010 12:11:07 AM ABID SHAH EARLY TIMES REPORT NEW DELHI, May 18: Top level efforts to take on board all stake holders vis-à-vis the vexed issue of Jammu and Kashmir have been intensified amid reports that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may visit the border State in about a month's time which can also be as early as on June 7. According to reports People's Democratic Party leader Mufti Mohammed Sayeed called on Manmohan Singh here today and sought amnesty for those from the Valley who were being detained for political reasons. Several peace gestures are supposed to have been discussed. And some of them have been becoming visible as well. A two-member team of Amnesty International has been allowed in the...   READ MORE   Raj Bhawan too has turned Kashmir-centric? 5/19/2010 12:10:53 AM ET REPORT JAMMU, May 18: The Union Public Service Commission declared the result of Indian Administrative Service examination in the first week of May. As per the available information, not less than seven boys from Jammu and Kashmir cleared this prestigious and highly difficult examination. Three of the boys who cleared the IAS examination belong to Jammu and all of them belong to not-so-economically well off families. They belong to the lower middle class families. It was their hard work and single-minded devotion that saw them through. One of the boys from Kashmir Dr Shah Faisal even topped the list and it happened for the first time. He, too, belongs to rural Kashmir. Ever since the...   READ MORE   BJP's nationalism sham, may compromise on J&K 5/19/2010 12:10:20 AM RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 18: On the contrary, BJP national spokesperson Tarun Vijay, who visited Srinagar for the first time for party work on May 4, talked of "New Kashmir". His "New Kashmir" formulation, though vague to an extent, did convey the impression that the BJP has been thinking in terms of according a very special status to this part of the country - status the NC or similar other Kashmir-based outfits want on the score of religion. That the BJP has planned to compromise on J&K became quite clear when the then BJP national general secretary did not contest even once those who were demanding for J&K autonomy and self-rule and also directly and indirectly pleading ...   READ MORE   Projecting J&K's "all is well image" outside State all set to host mega event for Legislative dignitaries' of India 5/19/2010 12:09:57 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 18: In what can be seen as one more step towards enhancing the 'positive' and 'normal' image about J&K, the NC led coalition government is all set to host a 'mega' event, first of its kind in the history of state which will see convergence of country's top dignitaries of Legislature, including Parliament and from all other states. The four day event, for apparent reasons to be hosted in Srinagar in June will have convergence of around 400 delegates from outside the state. After successfully holding some national level events in the past which saw huge participation of country's top politicians, bureaucrats, corporate tycoons and even country's cream of j...   READ MORE   Dalai Lama to visit Paddar on June 5, 6 5/19/2010 12:07:54 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 18: On the invitation of Himalayan Cultural Society (HCS), Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has consented to visit the remote Paddar area of the hilly Kishtwar district on June 5. He would stay at Paddar for two days and return to Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh on May 6, official sources said, adding that he had accepted the HCS invitation. This would be Dalai Lama's first visit to any militancy-infested part of the state and second to Jammu. Nearly a decade ago, he had visited here on the Jammu University invitation. Sources said even as no Buddhist had been killed in Kishtwar in two decades of militancy, police had made adequate arrangements t...   READ MORE   Dalai Lama to visit Paddar on June 5, 6 5/19/2010 12:07:44 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 18: On the invitation of Himalayan Cultural Society (HCS), Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has consented to visit the remote Paddar area of the hilly Kishtwar district on June 5. He would stay at Paddar for two days and return to Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh on May 6, official sources said, adding that he had accepted the HCS invitation. This would be Dalai Lama's first visit to any militancy-infested part of the state and second to Jammu. Nearly a decade ago, he had visited here on the Jammu University invitation. Sources said even as no Buddhist had been killed in Kishtwar in two decades of militancy, police had made adequate arrangements t...   READ MORE   Road to famous Mansar lake dotted with "pitfalls" all over 5/19/2010 12:07:18 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 18: The 25-km tarmac road linking Samba to the famous tourist spot of Mansar lake is dotted with pits which make the journey pathetic and exhausting. The drive is not smooth. Half an hour journey takes an hour and a half as pits and "pitfalls", which have come up on almost every part of the road, act as unapparent sources of trouble or danger. Another road, that connects city's peripheral Sidhra area with Mansar, is also in a bad shape ahead of Sruinsar lake, which falls on the way. So, both the roads act as a spoiler for the tourist spot. Some pits are so deep that it looks very risky while negotiating them.The ethusiasm of tourists, or school children...   READ MORE   BSF to procure new devices to check infiltration 5/19/2010 12:07:05 AM Early Times Report JAMMU: Already equipped with night vision devices (NVDs) and other sophisticated weapons, BSF is all set to procure new equipment that can give out alerts about terrorists from Pakistan sneaking into Jammu and Kashmir. The BSF is opting for Battle Surveillance Radar Equipment, which can alert the force about any movement well in advance, according to official sources. It was being imported, the sources added. The BSF in Jammu and Kashmir is responsible for guarding the 198-km international border from Paharpur in Kathua to Chicken Neck in Jammu. In the past two months, the International Border (IB) has witnessed more than a dozen infiltration bids and ceasefire...   READ MORE   Two brothers electrocuted as HT line snaps 5/19/2010 12:06:40 AM Early Times Report DODA: Two brothers were electrocuted after a live 11 KV high-tension (HT) line snapped off and fell on a .44KV (440 volts) low-tension (LT) line at Dansal near Assar in Doda in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. The HT line snapped off at about 2.30 am. Police said the line landed on a LT wire which then fell to the ground as a result of which there was a big-bang and the line erupted into flames. The alarmed residents immediately came out in the open as the 11,000 volts of power had damaged electronic gadgets in their houses.A portion of the house of Piar Singh caught fire. Reacting to the dangerous situation, Piar's sons -- Surjit Singh (35) and Ram Kumar Singh (29) -...   READ MORE   Police personnel get medals for "promoting" burgalries 5/19/2010 12:06:18 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, May 18: A day after they were felicitated for keeping crime under control and preventing thefts, burglars broke into a house at Chhani Himmat in broad day light today and decamped with cash and gold jewellery. Medals were distributed among police officers in a function held at Sainik Colony police post Monday in recognition of their "valuable" services for keeping crime in control and preventing burglaries. However, a day after this low-profile, but impressive function, police were caught napping when burglars broke into the house of Gurcharan Singh at Bhalla Enclave of Chhani Himmat and decamped with Rs 1.5 lakh in cash and 45 tolas of gold jewellery. The gr...   READ MORE   Two more held in JK bank dacoity 5/19/2010 12:05:34 AM Early Times Report Jammu, May 18 At the instance of Hizbul Mujahid-din ( HM) Financial advisor Zahur Ahmed who was cooling his feet at JIC Jammu, crime branch of the state police today arrested two more accused in the July 2009 Kishtwar Bank Dacoity. An amount of Rs 1.2 crore was looted from the Kishtwar branch of Jk bank on July 7 2009 night last year.Zahur was the main accused. He was arrested by police from Gujjar Nagar over a fortnight ago. His sustained interrogation led CB sludge to the arrest of two more accused in the bank dacoity from Kishtwar today. They were identified as Colonel Zubeer and Mohd Ahmed Rather. Both were alleged to be HM symapthisers.Their sustained interroga...   READ MORE

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