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Central University Jammu; Rehabilitation center of retired, influential, well-connected ones 3/29/2014 11:19:14 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi JAMMU, Mar 29: Despite a shrewd and seemingly upright man at the top, Central University (CU) Jammu has been turned into rehabilitation center of retired but influential officials and professors of Jammu University. And if a recently retired employee of Jammu University is to be believed, those manning top positions in the Central University are obliging their close friends and ex-colleagues. The man whose name has been making headlines since the last more than four years for all the wrong reasons, Dr. P.S. Pathania is being rewarded with one after the other prestigious postings. Ask for the reasons and you are told that the more media makes Pathania famous, more is the responsibility bestowed on him. An official in the CU even said "It hardly makes any difference how many inquiries are going against you or whether you have been indicated by some probe committee or not, what matters is here is how well-connected and deep-rooted you are." Such is the need of Pathania in CU that after having served as OSD in the Central University, he has now been bestowed with...   READ MORE

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As governance takes backstage, Inf deptt news files 'shrink' in content Prime files reflect deterioration in selection of news 3/29/2014 11:19:05 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 29: Call it bankruptcy of content or insignificant events making prime news stuff by state's prestigious and elephant sized Information Department, the news desks in almost all newspapers are facing a tough time to shift the news matter these days, most of which is not worth use for inside pages as well. The standard of the news stuff provided by the Information Department in sets has deteriorated considerably, all thanks to governance by NC led coalition Government which has taken a back seat on account of pre occupation of entire Government with the Election process. While the news sets provided by the Information Department have seen shrinking of any news ...   READ MORE   Farooq accuses Vajpayee for not restoring Autonomy 3/29/2014 11:18:54 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 29: National Conference which enjoyed power by joining the BJP led NDA Government has now blamed the former Prime Minister for rejecting autonomy report passed by the State assembly. The then NDA Government especially Vajpayee and the former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani had summarily rejected the report. Even though Dr Farooq and his son continued to be part of the Vajpayee Government after the report was rejected, more than a decade later, Farooq had now said BJP is anti-Kashmir and keen to abrogate Art 370. Dr Farooq is either living in political delusion or believes that voters are still naive to believe him. It's an established historical fact th...   READ MORE   Itoo video coercing old man to support NC goes viral on net 3/29/2014 11:18:47 PM Early Times Report ANANTNAG, Mar 29: Much to the embarrassment of National Conference, a video has appeared on the social networking site Facebook in which Minister for Social Welfare, Sakina Itoo, along with her party workers can been seen compelling an old man to oath and support her during coming elections. The lone woman Minister in Jammu and Kashmir and her workers are seen forcing the old man to take oath and swear by Allah and the Prophet (pbuh) and promise that he will support National Conference. "Recite Kalima Toiba and take holy Quran in your hands, swear that you will support Sakina Itoo," one of the workers not in picture directs the old man which he repeatedly refuses. T...   READ MORE   Militants target police, army in South, North Kashmir; Cop injured, IED defused Stone pelter attacks police party in Baramulla, injures 2 cops 3/29/2014 11:18:39 PM Jehangir Rashid SRINAGAR, Mar 29: Barely 24 hours after carrying out attacks in Kathua district militants carried out separate attacks in South and North Kashmir leading to injuries to a police cop. At the same time an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was defused in the Bemina area of summer capital early in the morning. Reports said that a police cop got injured after militants attacked a police party in the Kakapora area of South Kashmir's Pulwama district. The police cop was part of the heavy deployment of police that was posted in the area since People’s Democratic Party (PDP) President, Mehbooba Mufti was in the town addressing election rallies. The incident occurred at around 5 ...   READ MORE   NC, Pakistan on the same page Bating for Pakistan 3/29/2014 11:18:08 PM Neha JAMMU, Mar 29: Two days after Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said that Jammu and Kashmir was not an internal issue of India, that Kashmir is one of the oldest issues on the United Nations Security Council agenda and that India must start dialogue with Pakistan to resolve Jammu and Kashmir, NC president and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah expressed almost similar views and said that if peace was to return to the state on a permanent basis, India and Pakistan have to talk to each other. He made common cause with Pakistan a day after Pakistan-sponsored terrorists struck at Dayalachak in the Hiranagar area - terror strike that left one innocent civilian dead and three ot...   READ MORE   JK lies in SC, conceals facts in affidavit Rajni Sehgal's suspension 3/29/2014 11:18:29 PM Asif Iqbal Naik JAMMU, Mar 29: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has lied in the Supreme Court and concealed material facts in its affidavit on suspension of former Kotbhalwal jail superintendent, Rajni Sehgal. Rajni has been placed under suspension and allegedly harassed by the authorities following assault on a Pakistani prisoner, Sanaullah Ranjay last year which subsequently proved fatal. As per the details available with Early Times, the incumbent jail superintendent Dinesh Sharma who on behalf of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir presented an affidavit before Supreme Court of India in a case titled Bhim Singh versus Union of India concealing the facts with regard to the incident tha...   READ MORE   HC frowns adhocism 'plague' in Health department 3/29/2014 11:17:54 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Mar 29: Expressing serious concern over non-compliance of its order regarding filling of posts at higher-level through regular promotions, a special Division Bench frowned at J&K Health and Family Welfare Department for continuing with adhocism. "Perusal of the statement of facts and affidavits when read together with the statements already filed would indicate that no significant steps have been taken by the respondents towards implementation of order 01-01-2013," the Division Bench comprising of Justice Hasnain Massodi and Justice Janak Raj Kotwal said. Repeated requests, reminders and directions to respondents to implement order dated 01-01-2013 in lette...   READ MORE   In Jammu, fight is between integrationists, fake secularists General election 3/29/2014 11:17:46 PM Rustam JAMMU, Mar 29: The battle lines in Jammu province are clearly drawn. The main political players in the region are four - the BJP, Congress, NC and JKNPP. The Congress and the NC are on the one side, and the BJP and the JKNPP on the other, notwithstanding the fact that these two organizations are fighting against each other as well as against the Congress-NC combine. The Congress and the NC are coalition partners. The Congress is contesting the Lok Sabha election in Jammu and the NC in Kashmir. Ever since the Election Commission of India announced the election schedule, the Congress and the NC have been carrying on a relentless campaign against their political rivals in their desper...   READ MORE   Modi's commitment to safeguard Kashmiriyat provokes Pakistan to seek US mediation for settling issue 3/29/2014 11:14:12 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 29 : Islamabad says that when it is election time in India Pakistan becomes an issue.But when it is election time in Pakistan India does not become any issue.Yes, Islamabad is not wrong because during pre-poll campaign political leaders in Pakistan do not talk about India but never fail to rake up the Kashmir issue. This is being done to use the Kashmir card for wooing voters on one hand and on the other Islamabad is trying to convince the voters in Pakistan that Kashmir is an international and not internal affair of India. And whenever political leaders or Government functionaries rake up the Kashmir issue they start doing so with emphasis on internationa...   READ MORE   State Govt needs to groom youth talent 3/29/2014 11:14:06 PM Shakeel A Khan SRINAGAR, Mar 29: At a time when the civil services have assumed centre stage with respect to career option for the youth across the state, the government has done nothing to groom the talent of the youth. The government has failed to provide facilities to the youth to explore their talent. The other states of the country are much ahead of our state in this regard. When it comes to talent the youth of the state are at par with the youth of other states. The only difference is that they are taken care of while as here they are ignored. As far as competing in the national level exams like those conducted by the UPSC are concerned, the youth of the state have proved their met...   READ MORE   Kathua attack: 'Inquiry going on, report to be submitted within weeks time' 3/29/2014 11:18:15 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 29: Police and Army have independently started investigation into the twin attacks on the Jammu-Pathankote highway carried out by suspected militants on Friday that left six persons dead including a soldier and two civilians. Minister of State for Home Sajad Kitchloo said it was a gruesome attack while the Government has started an inquiry to probe the matter. "An investigating team has been set up and it has been directed to submit its findings within a week's time," Kitchloo said. Inspector General of Police Jammu, Rajesh Kumar told that we have received some arms and ammunition from the slain militants and investigation is going on to ascertain their id...   READ MORE

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