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Mushtaq Uri being pushed as Chairman J&K Bank, Basharat Dhar as VC Farooq asserts in fresh political appointments 8/31/2010 12:15:09 AM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Aug 30: National Conference-led coalition government has decided to recommend a former Executive Director, Mushtaq Uri, as the next Chairman of Jammu & Kashmir Bank Ltd within days of Haseeb Drabu's unceremonious dismissal. Commissioner-Secretary of Power Development Department (PDD), Basharat Ahmed Dhar, is being appointed as Vice Chancellor of Islamic University of Science & Technology (IUST), Awantipore, in place of Prof Sidiq Wahid whose three-year term has expired in September 2008. Highly placed authoritative sources revealed to Early Times that Mushtaq Ahmed alias Mushtaq Uri, who retired two years ago as Executive Director, was the NC patriarch Dr Farooq Abdullah's choice, understandably influenced by his old trusted colleagues---Rajya Sabha Member, Mohammad Shafi Uri, and Minister of Finance, Abdul Rahim Rather. Reversing the earlier suggestion of the Board of Directors to constitute a search committee, interim Chairman and Commissioner-Secretary Finance, Sudhan-shu Pandey, straightaway proposed a panel of three names in toda...   READ MORE

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DD Director treats RTI applications with contempt Applicants bribed to silence; Jammu lawyer moving CIC 8/31/2010 12:14:43 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Aug 30: Director of Doordarshan Kendra (DDK) Srinagar, Dr Rafeeq Masoodi, has introduced an imaginative mechanism to subvert the process of seeking information under Right To Information (RTI) Act. None of the applicants till date has been provided any information whenever anybody made an attempt to know how DDK Srinagar had been spending its annual budget of around Rs 15 Crore. Insiders insist that almost all the applicants have been obliged with allotment of programmes so as to prevent them from approaching the higher authorities. Prominent advocate of Jammu & Kashmir High Court, Sheikh Shakil Ahmed, is till date the first and the last applicant who has deci...   READ MORE   Sadhotra reacts to Sharma's remark, says Omar to stay on post for full term 'Rotational' Chief Ministership issue 8/30/2010 11:55:42 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Aug 30: The observations made by veteran Congressman Pandit Mangat Ram Sharma over what he said the need for 'rotational' chief ministership in J&K state , it appears has stirred some political reaction, albeit in subtle tone from the ruling ally National Conference. These observations have been made by a seasoned politician, also former Deputy Deputy Chief Minister of the state, and therefore cannot be taken as casual or remarks in lighter vein. These were indeed loaded with political message and connotations apparently reflecting a soft talk in some quarters of Congress about the possibility of change of guard in the coalition. However, Ajay Sadhotra, also...   READ MORE   ‘If Eid falls on Friday, ruler loses his throne’ Will NC led Govt survive? 8/30/2010 11:55:17 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 30: If Eid falls on Friday, the ruler loses his throne. This is what Kashmiri women firmly believe. All rulers in Kashmir, they say with authority, have lost their respective governments when Hilaal-e-Eid (crescent) was spotted on Thursday. September 10 is a Friday and 30th day of Ramadhan. Like other months of Islamic calendar, Ramadhan can have either 30 or 29 days depending upon the appearance of crescent. If crescent is spotted on September 9, Eid shall be celebrated on Friday. It will not be a good omen for National Conference led coalition rule, women believe. Omar Abdullah is in the eye of the storm. Since January 31, violent demonstrations across ...   READ MORE   Some of Valley papers also join tirade against Pandits, Jagmohan term movement secular 8/30/2010 11:54:57 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 30: Giving a new turn to the so called Kashmir movement the separatists and anti-nationals call the minority Pandits who were hounded out from the Valley by the terrorists and fundamentalist elements on the behest of Pakistan and its Inter Service Intelligence in 1989-90 as the worst enemies of the ongoing struggle. According to sources the media in Kashmir has also joined the anti KP tirade launched by the separatists against the minority Pandits whom they term as the agents of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on whose directives the Pandits in different parts of India and abroad tried to give the communal colour to present movement launched by separatists ...   READ MORE   Bullet hits youth, clashes, firing at Anantnag, Pulwama 8/30/2010 11:54:41 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Srinagar, Aug 30: After a relatively peaceful situation yesterday, violent clashes again broke out in several parts of Kashmir valley leaving at least dozens youth injured. The violent incidents erupted in South Kashmir's Pulwama and Anantnag districts after the police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel clashed with a group of protesters Sources said troopers opened fire after protesters threw stones on their vehicles. A few cops also sustained injuries during the clashes. The death toll in the present Kashmir unrest mounted to 65 with a 12-year old minor, Irshad Ahmed Parray son of Muhammad Ashraf Parray of old Eidgah Anantnag killed at Cheeni Chowk ...   READ MORE   'Pak officials boosting training camps' Militants in camps are aware about 8/30/2010 11:54:22 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT RAJOURI, Aug 30: Following revelation of Pakistan framed new outfit for keeping the bloodshed in Jammu & Kashmir on, militant who surrendered on last Saturday after crossing Line of Control in Poonch along with wife and three children has told investigating officers that some Pakistan officials used to visit their camp during his training days. The surrendered militant also seemed well aware about the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's surrender policy saying that maximum of militants in the camps and outside camps are ready to return back to their homes and get benefit under the government's policy. As the surrender militant has been sent for 7 days police remand by Chief ...   READ MORE   Soz's intervention works Flights to operate from Awantipora 8/30/2010 11:53:46 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT New Delhi, Aug 30: Political interventions in certain matters invariably work. And in this particular matter it did rather quickly. After all it is the one pertaining to no less important and sensitive a place than Kashmir. Barely a few hours after the president of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee, Professor Saifuddin Soz said that Srinagar Airport won't close, the Union Civil Aviation Ministry said the flights to Kashmir valley would continue uninterrupted from September 1 to 12 and for that purpose Awantipora Airport would be used. The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by the secretary Civil Aviation with all concerned agencies and airlines, here th...   READ MORE   RS Pura border crosser, his relative, Pak associate held in Delhi with heroin International drug smuggling racket 8/30/2010 11:53:24 PM BHARAT BHUSHAN EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 30: In an international drug smuggling ring spanning Afghanistan, Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir, two RS Pura youth, including a murder accused, and a Pak national were held in New Delhi Sunday evening along with five kilograms of heroin worth Rs 25 cr in the international market. While the Pakistani was identified as Mohammad Ramzan (43) of Lahore, the others were identified as Jyoti Sharma (45), son of Dineshwar Sharma of Mokhia in R S Pura, and his brother-in-law Naresh Kumar (26). "With their arrest, we have unearthed an international drug racket," Delhi police special cell DCP Shibesh Singh told The Early Times over phone. He said Jyoti...   READ MORE   Omar must tell truth to his co-religionists in Kashmir 8/30/2010 11:52:59 PM RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 30: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will, it seems, not learn any lesson from the mistakes he has committed during all these 18 months of his (mis)rule. It was expected that the disturbing developments which unfolded in Kashmir after June 20 would make him a wise man and that he would avoid making controversial and unsettling comments. But it has not happened. He continues to be a rabble-rouser; he continues to indulge in what may be termed as politics of worst kind of communalism. Instead of telling the truth to his co-religionists in Kashmir about Jammu and Kashmir, he continues to feed them with wrong information, thus directly and indirectly promoting...   READ MORE   Role of CRPF: Special Secretary Bansal hits nail on the head 8/30/2010 11:52:38 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 30: Whenever any Delhi-based political leader or high-ranking official visits Kashmir, he makes some controversial statements about Kashmir, about the Army presence in the Valley, about the role of the CRPF and about the efficacy or otherwise of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), thus making the prevailing confusion worse confounded. Such statements, instead of helping New Delhi in Kashmir, make its task more difficult. There are people in the state, particularly in Jammu, who are not pleased with such visits because they believe that the visiting political leaders and officials only outrage the nationalist sentiment by virtually identifying themselves w...   READ MORE   Farooq Abdullah offers Rs 50 lakhs from MPLAD fund for relief in Leh 8/30/2010 11:51:37 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 30: Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah has recommend the release of Rs 50 lakhs from his MPLAD fund for the relief work in flood hit Leh region of Jammu and Kashmir. This is the maximum permissible amount that an MP can give from his local area development fund for relief in case of a natural disaster. Each MP is allocated Rs 2 crore a year in his MPLAD fund which is mainly spent by the legislators for the development work in their constituency. Abdullah is MP from Srinagar and has earlier been Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. A Government statement issued here today on his behalf said that the Union Minister asked the J&K Gover...   READ MORE   UBGL launcher, grenades recovered in Reasi 8/30/2010 11:49:56 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 30: A UBGL launcher and grenades were recovered by security forces from a militant hideout in Nakka forests of Gulabgarh in Reasi Sunday evening. Police sources said jawans of RR, 126 Bn of CRPF and police were carrying out searches in the Nakka forests when they came across a militant hideout. Its search led them to the recovery of one UBGL launcher, six UBGL grenades, one AK magazine, eight Ak rounds and a combat dress. The hideout was later smashed by the jawans, the sources added....   READ MORE   Two detained under PSA 8/30/2010 11:49:21 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 30: Two notorious criminals were detained under public safety act (PSA) in Udhampur today for their involvement in various anti-social activities. Police sources identified them as Rahul Paba, son of Prakash Paba of Chabutra Bazar, Udhampur, and Des Raj alias Labbu, son of Prakash Bhagat of Bashti, Chenani. Against Paba, several cases of extortion and use of illegal arms were registered at Udhampur and Rehmbal police stations. He had also escaped from police custody on more than one occasion, the sources added. He was also suspected to be indulging in the smuggling of narcotics, sources said and added he was detained under PSA for two years. Labbu was, howe...   READ MORE   Now Farooq blames 'neighbour' for trouble in J&K 8/30/2010 11:49:00 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Kolkata, Aug 30: True to his blow hot , blow cool style of making statements, former Chief Minister , Dr Farooq Abdullah who has been spitting venom against rival PDP and separatist camp for instigating innocent youth of Kashmir into protests, attributes the unrest to Pakistan as well. Reiterating that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India, former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah today squarely blamed a neighbouring country for fomenting trouble in the frontier state. Taking up the issue of the trouble-torn state on his own after participating in a seminar on "Opportunities and Scope of Renewable Energy in India", the Union minister for new and renewable energy ...   READ MORE

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