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| Omar Govt has one rule for Shafi Uri’s son, another for 600,000 unemployed youth | | Laharwal-Runiyal duo taints Chief Minister’s claim of ‘cleanest ever Government’ | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jun 16: While denying a job to hundreds of graduates and post-graduates in different professional streams---Medicine, Engineering, Forestry, Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Mass Communications included---Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s bureaucracy has begun to rehabilitate kith and kin of the ruling coalition politicians through backdoor. Latest beneficiaries of the largesse, being extended surreptitiously, include senior National Conference (NC) leader and Rajya Sabha member Mohammad Shafi Uri’s 12th pass son, Owais Shafi, who has been appointed as ‘Editor’ in a regular pay scale in the J&K State Sports Council (JKSSC) . Entire process, from creation of post to relaxation of rules to the issuance of appointment order, has taken place for the blue-eyed boy in three hours on April 29th, 2010.
Secretary of JKSSC, Shameem Ahmed Laharwal, and Secretary to Government Technical Education, Youth Services and Sports, Bashir Ahmed Runiyal, have clandestinely conducted entire exercise on the last day of Durbar in the winter capital, obviously in an attempt to keep... | |
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| NC weakening Congress even in Jammu | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 16: On Monday, the Union Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office and AICC general secretary (in-charge of J&K Congress affairs), Prithvi Raj Chavan, along with JKPCC chief Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz, addressed a public rally at Poonch. Addressing the rally, he made two significant suggestions. One, everyone in the state Congress must “rise above the petty interests and work collectively for the unity of the party.” His suggestion was coupled with an unambiguous warning: “Indiscipline will not be tolerated and those promoting it will have to pay a heavy price”.
Obviously, he was referring to the conspiratorial activities being indulged ... | |
| | | | CJM issues production warrants against main accused | | Chopra Murder case | | |
Jammu, JUNE-16 (JNF):- The police today sought production warrants against the main accused in much hyped murder case of Chopra family from Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Jammu. The accused, Sangram Singhwas declared a proclaimed absconder and was recently arrested along with another accused.
The CJM, P Bourney after hearing the Chief Procesuting Officer, Pawan Khaujuria and the investigating officer issued the production warrants. The warrants were forwarded to CJM Guna where the accused were arrested
In the much publicized Chopra Family Murder case, the Special Investigating Team after more than three years investigation presented the challan on November 10, 2009.
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| | | | Dixon Plan: Moves appear afoot to divide Jammu on communal lines | | | |
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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 16: The outcome of the March 1990 Colombo meeting between the Indian and Pakistani Foreign Ministers; the May 2, 2009 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s revelations regarding the agreement he had reached with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf; the statements made by Pervez Musharraf himself in 2007 and thereafter in this regard; the April 24, 2010 revelations made by former Pakistan Foreign Minister Kasuri; and what the Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and the well-known India-basher and the India-based spokesperson of Islamabad and Kashmiri separatists A. G. Noorani said umpteen times during the past more than two years clearly establish t... | |
| | | | ‘Omar sabotaged Mufti’s Mughal Road Show’ | | PDP Karwaan likely to run on this historic road by month end | | | Early Times Report
Rajouri, June 16
Though Peoples Democratic Party Chief Patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed is scheduled to tread historic Mughal Road by the end of this month, PDP today blamed Chief Minister Omar Abdullah of sabotaging earlier visit of Mufti by organizing road show in “frustration” when Pir Gali was covered with snow.
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed along with his legislators and senior party leaders is expected to visit Rajouri Poonch via this road by the end of June this year. Local PDP leaders have already been conveyed about this march.
Sources told Early Times that PDP Patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has planned to run “PDP Karwan” on Mughal Road in the last week of June and he... | |
| | | | Poonch girls’ school runs in Shesh Mahal Fort | | >> Damaged in 2005 earthquake, the fort building housing girls’ school is not safe place for students | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
RAJOURI, June 16: It may sound bizarre, but it is true. At a time when the state government takes pride for upgrading schools across the state, a higher secondary school at the district headquarters Poonch is being run from a historical monument.
The Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Poonch, runs from a historical monument “Shesh Mahal. Established in the 1980, the school has got its name from the famous fort of Shesh Mahal.
The school was once the palace of Dogra kings who ruled the state till India secured Independence from the British in August 1947. Later, former Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah handed over the fort to t... | |
| | | | 4 para-medicos suspended, 1 arrested for corruption | | >> Negligent public servants to face punishment: Chib | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 16: Minister for Medical Education, R. S. Chib, today made a surprise visit to Government Medical College, Jammu to take stock of healthcare facilities being available for the patients.
During the inspection, the Minister ordered suspension of three staff members for their absence from duty, besides getting one Record Technician arrested for indulging in corrupt practices.
The arrested para-medico was a Medical Record Technician, Narotam Sharma, who was found indulging in corrupt practices. The Minister asked the Medical Superintendent to lodge an FIR against the official so that others would learn a lesson from his punishment and perform their duties wit... | |
| | | | Fight against stone pelting | | Embolden police by a special law like AFSPA! | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, June 16: The ancient and historic stones of Kashmir have played a significant role in framing and at times changing the political discourse of the state. The history of stone pelting has been well documented since July 13, 1931. The practice was abandoned for two decades when bullets oozed out from automatic guns. The trend was revived last year and since then the authorities are trying their render this `trusted weapon’ blunt.
Early this year, the Chief Minister consulted the British experts for advice. British trainers, it is believed, gave some `valuable tips’ to the local police. The primitive Kashmiri stones were never too important to evoke a Vil... | |
| | | | Mubarak Gul is a liar: DM | | | | Srinagar , June 16: Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief, Aasiya Andrabi has lashed out at Chief Minister’s political advisor, Mubarak Gul for his shameful statement on a victim of CRPF atrocity.
Gul issued a statement yesterday saying the condition of Muhammad Rafiq Bangroo, who was beaten to pulp by CRPF men in down town city three days back.
Aasiya, according to a statement issued late this evening, visited the SMHS hospital only to find Bangroo in critical condition. “He is on ventilator and blood still oozes out from his nose and eyes”, she said.
Quoting doctors, Aasiya said such a person in such a condition has been brought to the hospital for the first time in the past two decades.
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| | | | Hindus from J&K again approaching GOI to open Sharda Shrine for pilgrims | | | |
Jammu, June 16: Various Hindu bodies from J&K have again decided to approach the Union Government to take up the issue regarding opening of world famous shrine of goddess Sharda for Hindu pilgrims with Pakistan authorities.
These Hindu bodies have already sent the memorandums to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and External Affairs Minister S.M.Krishna.
Taking serious exception to stoic silence maintained by the Union Government over the issue, the Hindu Organisations in their memorandum have urged the Government to take up the issue on the basis of priority with the Pakistani Government in view of the religious significance of the shrine which is the p... | |
| | | | Don't expect results overnight: Farooq on Indo-Pak talks | | | |
NEW DELHI, June 16:
As India and Pakistan prepare for next week's talks, union minister and former J&K chief minister Farooq Abdullah today said one should not expect results "overnight".
He also said the relation between the countries had seen a lot of ups and downs. It was an ongoing process to have better relations with the neighbour and talks will help to normalise ties, he said.
It would take time as government had already made it clear that a lot had happened between India and Pakistan, he said, adding, "Don't expect rapid results to come overnight.
The process was, however, on for creating better relations with Pakistan, he said.
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| | | | 1.35 lakh register for Amarnath Yatra | | | |
JAMMU, June 16:
Registration of pilgrims for the annual Amamrnath yatra has gone up to 1.35 lakh. "Over 1.35 lakh pilgrims have been registered for the pilgrimage to the cave shrine of Lord Shiva in south Kashmir Himalayas till today," official sources said.
While 85,000 pilgrims have registered through various J&K Bank registration counters, over 50,000 have registered on-line.Giving the break up, officials said nearly 75,000 pilgrims have
registered for their yatra on Pahalgam-Amarnath route, while over 60,000 have registered for Baltal-Amarnath route till now. The registration began at 121 branches of J&K Bank which is nodal
agency for registration of pilgrims across the country... | |
| | | | Militant hideout busted in Poonch | | | |
JAMMU, June 16:
Arms and ammunition were recovered from a militant hideout busted by security forces in Gajna Pahari forests of Gursai in Mendhar, Poonch, today.
Police sources said troops of 38 Rashtriya Rifles and police came across a militant hideout while making searches in Gajna Pahari forests.
Search of the hideout led jawans to the recovery of one AK-56 rifle, its 20 rounds, one magazine, one wireless set, one battery, a kerosene oil stove, two ground sheets, two Pak-made water bottles
and a bag of medicines, the sources added.
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| | | | Kishanganga power project heads for arbitration | | | |
ABID SHAH
NEW DELHI, June 16: After Pakistan’s move to initiated arbitration proceedings on Kishanganga hydro-electric project in Jammu and Kashmir by appointing two arbitrators, India has today conveyed to Pakistan the names of its two arbitrators for a seven-member court of arbitration to be set up under the Indus Water Treaty 1960.
Disclosing this, the spokesman of External Affairs Ministry Vishnu Prakash said here today that on May 18 Pakistan instituted arbitration proceedings on the Kishenganga hydel project as per the terms of paragraph 2 (b) and paragraph 6 of Annexure G to the Indus Waters Treaty; and appointed Bruno Simma, Judge of the International Court of Justice and ... | |
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