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| I raised JK Bank profit by 2300%, Drabu only 25%: Khan | | 'Haseeb Drabu is distorting facts and figures, telling lies to media' | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Sept 4: Former Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank Ltd (JKB), Mohammad Yousaf Khan, today said that the recently dismissed chief executive of the bank, Haseeb Drabu, was doling out lies to highlight his performance in the last five years. He disputed most of the figures released, of late, to extol Drabu and claimed that JKB had witnessed 800% to 2300% growth in all the key portfolios in 1996-2004 period and a paltry 25% to 100% during Drabu's period as Chairman from 2005 to 2010.
Addressing a crowded news conference here today, Khan said that his sentiments had been hurt by Drabu. "It is said that the tenure of Dr Haseeb Drabu has witnesse... | |
| | | | Azad harmed country, Jammu more as compared to any Kashmiri CM | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 4: Everyone in Jammu province hailed the appointment of Ghulam Nabi Azad as Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir in November 2005. The reason: It was for the first time after 1947 that they got a Chief Minister from their own province. They had adopted Azad as their leader, notwithstanding the fact that he was also ethnically Kashmiri. His forefathers migrated to the Doda area about a century ago. The people of Jammu were happy because they were of the view that Azad would end discriminatory policies and do justice to them and provide a genuinely secular and democratic government.
Did Azad come up to the expectations of the people Jammu and the country as a w... | |
| | | | 16-yr-old molested by cop in Udhampur | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 4: A police Havaldar allegedly molested a 16-year-old girl at Bilan Baan in Udhampur Friday evening.Police sources said an 11th class student, who was returning home after taking a tuition class, was stopped and allegedly molested by a police Havaldar when she was passing through a dark lane at Bilan Baan last evening.
The accused was identified as Havaldar Sham Lal, who at present was posted at Udhampur police station.
Sources said after the girl reached home, she narrated the incident to her parents, who then lodged a complaint against the accused at Udhampur police station. Sources said though the havaldar was booked under FIR No 212/2010 and section 354... | |
| | | | Geelani's challenge to Abdullahs | | ‘Let them walk from Lal Chowk to Regal cinema’ | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 4: Hurriyat chairman, Syed Ali Geelani's challenge to Dr Farooq to address a rally in Lal Chowk generated interesting discussion across Kashmir Saturday. While some quarters have criticized Geelani for being "rude" others have welcomed the statement. According to them this was the best way to ascertain the representative character of the people of Kashmir.
New Delhi has been asking the Kashmiri leadership to prove their representative character. The JKLF chairman, Malik Muhammad Yasin at one point of time formed his own election commission with renowned human rights defender Tapan Bose and Sidiq Wahid as its members. However, the idea could not take off ... | |
| | | | Farooq ridicules Geelani's challenge, says he has no credentials | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 4: A day after hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani challenged Union Minister and former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah daring him to walk freely in Lal Chowk area ,Dr Abdullah chose to hit back at the octogenarian leader by questioning his credentials.
"Who is Syed Ali Shah Geelani? What is his stature in front of Farooq Abdullah and why should I accept his challenge", Dr Abdullah said when asked whether he is going to accept his challenge.
Dr Abdullah was interacting with the press reporters in Science college cricket ground after laying foundation stone of changing room for sports persons in the cricket ground.
Lashing out at the sep... | |
| | | | Land mafia enjoying immunity from law enforcing agencies | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 4: Enjoying the full backing of the officials , the land mafia in the J&K state has given its deep routes now. With also men and muscle power at their command the land mafia is on a sphere of not only encroaching the Nazool, Government and forest land but also the land belonging to the religious institutions like temples, ashrams, societies and that of common man in the state.
With the prices of land increasing over last one decade, the land mafia in the state have also spread its tentacles and started grabbing the land not only in cities and towns but also in rural belt. As per reports thousands kanals of such land in J&K is under the forcible occupation of... | |
| | | | Jammu and Kashmir Congress in self-destruction mode | | NC MAN YOUTH CONGRESS PRESIDENT | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 4: Resentment is brewing among the Jammu-based youth Congress leaders and workers. What has angered them all the more was the "mind-boggling" decision of the Congress high command to impose on them a Kashmir-based NC worker Shoib Lone. Shoaib Lone was appointed president of the youth wing of the Congress party in Jammu and Kashmir only recently.
Sources close to the Jammu-based senior youth Congress leaders have revealed that they and the youth Congress workers are unhappy with the Congress high command for three main reasons. One is that the "core constituency of the Congress is Jammu, and not Kashmir, and, hence, by appointing a Kashmir-based non-Congress ... | |
| | | | Separatists too under pressure for holding talks with Delhi | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 4: It took about four years for the Government of India to complete the process of dialogue which enabled late Sheikh Abdullah to regain power, after a gap of 22 years in 1975. And those who now believe that clinching the issue with Sheikh Abdullah in 1974 was an easy affair are wrong. And if the separatists have begun vehemently pleading for the resumption of the dialogue for the settlement of the Kashmir issue and for resolving prolonged spell of unreast and violence, which has so far claimed the lives of 65 people, it may not be a seven-day affair even if Delhi agreed to hold talks.
Delhi is under pressure to consider opening the channels of dialogue wi... | |
| | | | Jammu city has become unmanageable, divide it into two tehsils | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 4: The winter capital of the State, Jammu, is a huge city. It is developing at a very rapid pace because it is hub of the economic activities, as also because its location is highly strategic. It is the nerve-centre of the state. The city of Jammu is huge both in terms of its geographical area and population. It is the biggest city in the state, after the summer capital, Srinagar. Nearly 10 million tourists, including pilgrimage tourists, visit this city every year. The population of Jammu city, which is also known as the city of refugees, today should be no less than 15 lakh.
Sadly, Jammu city is a single-tehsil city. The result is that the peopl... | |
| | | | Two held with heroin at Gandhi Nagar | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sep 4: Two Kashmir-based narcotic smugglers were today arrested by police from the posh Gandhi Nagar area here along with one kilogram of heroin worth Rs one cr in the international market.
The accused were identified as Majeed Ahmed Shah, son of Ghulam Ahmed Shah, and Mushtaq Ahmed, son of Mohd Rizwin Khan, both residents of Awantipura, Srinagar.
SP (south) Rajashwer Singh said acting on a tip-off, police laid a special checking point outside the Gandhi Nagar hospital and intercepted a car (HR23/0036).
The checking of the car led police to the recovery of one kilogram heroin worth Rs one cr in the international market, he added.
He said the consignment was t... | |
| | | | Two women among 3 held for assaulting SI | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sep 4: Two women and a man were arrested for assaulting a Sub-Inspector (SI) who headed a police team which raided their rented house at Sainik Colony here today.
The raid was conducted after police were tipped off by locals that some unlawful activity was being run in the house.
Police sources said when cops led by Sainik Colony police post incharge, SI Satinder Pal Singh entered house No 193 in Sector G of the locality at about 12.30 pm, Sudesh Kumari, wife of Karan Singh, and Renu Bala, wife of Sunny, both residents of Himachal Pradesh, attacked them.
The SI was wounded and his mobile broken, the sources added.
Both the women and a man were arrested for as... | |
| | | | Man hit, killed by bus at Bari Brahmana | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sep 4: An unidentified man was hit and killed by a Haryana Roadways bus at Bari Brahmana, about 15 km from here on the Jammu-Samba road, this morning. Police sources said a Haryana Roadways bus (HR67/9478), which was on its way from Delhi to Katra, hit a man at Bari Brahmana at about 6.30 am. The man was killed on the spot, the sources added. The body had been kept in the mortuary of Government Medical College hospital for identification.
The bus driver was arrested and booked under relevant sections of law. He was identified as Rotesh, son of Rann Singh, of Tejpura in Panipat, Haryana.... | |
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