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Cabinet orders massive reshuffle in Police, civil administration 6/1/2010 12:56:08 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, May 31: Much speculated and much awaited massive reshuffle, ending months of uncertainty in different ranks of the establishment, finally materialized today when the state Cabinet considered and accorded sanction to transfer and appointment of as many as 90 senior officials in Police and civil administration. Several Heads of Departments, including the high profile Director of Information Kh Farooq Reenzu and Director of Rural Development Kashmir Mrs Dilshad Khan, are among 34 officers of the rank of Secretary in the Government, Special Secretary and Additional Secretary to Government who have been shifted to new places of postings. Hour-long Cabinet meeting that started off at 1600 hours was chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. All the 17 Cabinet Ministers participated in the meeting. According to a press release, issued here this evening, Director of Information Khwaja Farooq Reenzu has been transferred and appointed as Director of Local Bodies, Kashmir, in place of Mohammad Abbas Dar, who has been appointed as Registrar Cooperative Societies...   READ MORE

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2 IGs, 7 DIGs, 47 SPs touched in Police shake-up 6/1/2010 12:55:40 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, May 31: While promoting four DIGs to the rank of IGP, Cabinet today accorded sanction to a major shake-up in Police Department. DIGs, namely Hemant Kumar Lohia, Rashmi Ranjan Swain, Arun Kumar Chowdhary and Pankaj Saxena, have been promoted to the rank of IGP in the wake of their clearance by DPC last month. According to press release issued here this evening, IGP Traffic, Mohammad Amin Shah, has been transferred and appointed as MD Police Housing Corporation in place of Ravinder Kotwal who has been transferred and posted as IGP Railway, J&K. DIG Central Kashmir, H K Lohia, on his promotion has been appointed as the new IGP Traffic in place of Mohamma...   READ MORE   Jazia on Amarnath pilgrims:Is J&K a secular polity? 5/31/2010 11:54:54 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 31: Not just this, most of the respondents, including those who will leave Jammu for Yatra on the first day, accused both the State Raj Bhawan and the State Government of adopting a biased attitude towards the Amarnath Yatra. One of them even went to the extent of saying that "the proponents of Islam have thus imposed religious tax on the Hindu Yatris, whereas they spend millions of rupees on Muslims on things relating to Haj and Urs. On the one hand, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah does away with the tax on houseboat owners and hoteliers in Kashmir with one stroke of pen and, on the other hand, he and the State Raj Bhawan imposed Jazia on Hindus; they will have...   READ MORE   Omar's fake principal secretary held 5/31/2010 11:53:19 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT RAJOURI, May 31: Fake appointment letters of lab assistants and peons in education department, duly approved and signed by chief minister Omar Abdullah, were today recovered from a confidence trickster posing as principal secretary to CM. He had been selling the fake appointment letters to the educated unemployed youth and was active in Rajouri, Poonch, Reasi and Kathua districts for the past five years, police sources said. He charged over Rs 1 lakh per appointment order, the sources added. Identified as Shafiq Ahmad, son of Mir Mohammad, he hailed from Atti in Rajouri. Evading arrest for the past five years, he was today held by a police team headed by DSP Liaqat ...   READ MORE   PoK commanders ask JK ultras to do something big 5/31/2010 11:52:51 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 31: Finding it hard to push ultras into J&K to keep the hitherto waning militancy alive, the PoK-based commanders have asked the militants in the state to do something big. "No one should talk of peace in J&K and it was possible only if you make fresh strikes at police and army installations, besides crowded places," their PoK handlers had told them on wireless sets, according to police sources. ''Militants across the Line of Control (LoC) have been given clear instructions to sneak into this side and execute some big strike in the country,'' the sources added. As per the wireless intercepts, with the strengthened security apparatus and strategy of elimina...   READ MORE   J&K symbol of secular India and, hence, on-negotiable 5/31/2010 11:52:42 PM RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 31: Many of our so-called secular and liberal intellectuals and "legal" luminaries urge New Delhi to come forward and break the 63-year-old impasse over Jammu and Kashmir in order to avert the impending "dangerous confrontation" between the nuclear India and Pakistan. A few of them even equate this part of Jammu and Kashmir with the Aaland Islands (transferred to Finland by Sweden in 1922) and South Tyrol (transferred to Italy by Austria in 1919) and suggest that India should follow the path of Sweden and Austria and surrender her sovereign rights over this part of Jammu and Kashmir to Pakistan. The crux of their whole formulation is that such an appro...   READ MORE   Unanimity still eludes on return of Kashmiri Pandits 5/31/2010 11:52:21 PM ASHWANI EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 31: The Kashmiri Pandits are at the cross roads of history as there is no unanimity among the community on the return and rehabilitation formula floated by the Government for the displaced people from Valley. While a sizeable section of unemployed displaced youth including males and females have filed up their forms for 3000 Government jobs announced under PM's package for the displaced youth, the apprehensions are growing about their safety and security after they join the Government services in different parts of Kashmir under the prevailing circumstances. The majority of KP organizations including three factions of Panun Kashmir, Jammu & Kashmir ...   READ MORE   9 civilians, 5 army officers, 32 Cops die in 5 months 5/31/2010 11:52:06 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 31: The state witnessed killing of one hundred and sixty eight persons during the past five months. The deceased include twenty-nine civilians, one hundred and seven militants, five army officers and thirty-two police and para-military personnel. A local news agency while giving details said the year started with violent demonstrations at Sopore and Baramulla. Twenty persons including some police men sustained injuries in these clashes. On January 2, militants fired at CRPF personnel at Soura causing injury to two of them. A police man, Mahesh Lal died in a massive explosion in JIC Baramulla. The fidayeen engaged the troops for more than two days in a...   READ MORE   'No Smoke' up in smoke; menace continues unabated, health threat looms large 5/31/2010 11:51:50 PM MISHU GUPTA EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 31: The whole world today observed 'World No Tobacco Day' with thrust everywhere on awareness about the ill effects of the menace. But the day people here in Jammu city was observed in breach of the spirit as people were seen smoking cigarettes and 'beedies' at all public places in utter disregard of the ban that has been imposed by the government. This day is specifically observed to end the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and its negative health effects. The objective is to reduce the death rates caused due to tobacco related health problems. This only reflects that ban on smoking in public places is not yet strictly enforced in Jammu a...   READ MORE   HM kills commander, surrenders 5/31/2010 11:51:16 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, May 31: A youth, who only last week joined Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) ranks, today shot dead his commander, who was in the list of most wanted militants, in Krandi Dhar forests of Doda and later surrendered before security forces. Police sources said Abdul Latief went missing under mysterious circumstances from his home at Krandi Dhar in Doda 10 days back. A missing report in this regard was lodged by his parents with the concerned police station, the sources added. However, the wireless intercepts later suggested that he had joined HM ranks. Sources said over some issue, he had a scuffle with HM commander Bashir Ahmad alias Chota Bashir in the morning in Krandi ...   READ MORE   Explosives recovered from LoC 5/31/2010 11:50:51 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU,May 31: Two under barrel grenade launchers (UBGLs) and some other explosive items were recovered by security forces from near the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch today. The explosives were found lying in a militant hideout near the LoC at Kath Panjal in Poonch, police sources said. The recovery included two UBGLs, 104 AK rounds, 185 pika rounds, two fuses and two handgrenades. The hideout was later destroyed, the sources added. ...   READ MORE   Youth killed after unknown vehicle hits him 5/31/2010 11:50:21 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU: A 30-year-old youth was killed on being hit by an unknown vehicle on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway at Udhampur, about 70 km from here, in the wee hours of today. He was identified as Kuldeep Kumar, son of Krishan Lal of Traad.Police sources said he was spotted lying in a pool of blood on the road by some passersby, who then contacted police.Cops rushed to the spot and evacuated him to the Udhampur district hospital where before breathing his last he told police that he was hit by some speeding vehicle. Police had registered a case in this connection. Earlier reports alleged he was murdered by some unknown persons. ...   READ MORE   No increase of troops in Kashmir: Antony 5/31/2010 11:49:56 PM AGENCIES PUNE, May 31: Defence minister AK Antony today said the government had no plans to increase deployment of armed forces in Kashmir. "Government had a policy of zero tolerance on the issue of human rights violation in the state and there would be no cover-ups to shield the guilty," he told mediapersons on the sidelines of the NDA passing out parade. Government had no plans to deploy more armed forces in Kashmir, he added. Replying to questions on the North-East, Antony said infrastructure in the region was being strengthened with more roads coming up in the region. The infrastructure aspect of the Eastern sector was neglected in the past and the mistakes made earlier would be cor...   READ MORE

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