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| JU VC being remote controlled by his Special Secretary? | | Maiden year in office | | | Abodh Sharma
Jammu, Jan 14: With just a few days left for the Vice Chancellor Prof. Mohan Pal Singh Ishar to complete his maiden year in the office, University fraternity has been astounded by the space and authority usu-rped by the special secretary Jai Kumar in the university administration. Jai Kumar who was brought into the Vice Chancellor's secretariat as an OSD managed to legitimize his posting in the highest corridor of power in the JU by getting himself regularized as Special secretary to the Vice Chancellor.
Highly placed sources in the JU disclose that in less than a year, Jai Kumar did not only manage his projection to the centre stage, but got all his adversaries eliminated in a clinical manner. He was instrumental in getting the former special secretary to VC Neeraj Sharma out of the VC's secretariat and posted as OSD in the finance department from where he was later demoted as Dy Registrar. Though Neeraj Sharma got a stay from the Court against the order, Jai Kumar also got Sanjeev Mahajan, the Joint Registrar and another of his adversaries fixed when he got him rul... | |
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| Cong presents report on 'provisions' of 73rd amendment | | Coordination Committee meeting: First step towards BDC polls | | | SAROJ RAZDAN
Jammu, Jan 14: In what can be seen as the major step towards holding of Block Development Council Polls in the J&K state, Congress today presented the report prepared by its internal committee on the provisions of the 73rd constitutional amendment that party is seeking to be incorporated in the J&K Panchayati Raj Act in order to give more powers to members and functional autonomy to the institution. The draft copy of the report containing recommendations was presented by the J&K PCC chief Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz in the Alliance Coordination Co-mmittee meeting held here today. Block Development Committee polls were deferred few months back as Congress put its foot down and asserte... | |
| | | | Dichotomy, thy name is NC | | Kamaal ka Kamaal | | | Bashir Assad
Jammu, Jan 14: While launching a scathing attack on New Delhi, Additional General secretary National Conference Dr. Mustafa Kamaal Monday, advised it (Delhi) to shun the rigidity and stop beating about the bush.
Talking to Early Times, Dr. Kamaal said, "it is New Delhi's intransigency that has landed Jammu and Kashmir from one crisis to another mostly of political nature and the last one was armed insurgency." Kam-aal said that the conditional instrument of accession of late Maharaja Hari Singh has to be restored in its original form. The firebrand NC leader said that late Shiekh Mahammad Abdullah cannot be made a scapegoat for the blunders of New Delhi as some vested intere... | |
| | | | Over 50 Panchayat members resign in two days | | | | early times report
Srinagar, Jan 14: More than 30 panchayat members in Baramulla district of north Jammu and Kashmir resigned today, citing "threats to their lives".
On Sunday, a day after a woman sarpanch was shot and critically injured by militants, 22 Panchayat members had publically announced their resignation due to security reasons.
"We are resigning and we are requesting Jihadi groups that we are homeless. We are apologising to those groups...May be, we have done some injustice with the people," said Bilal Ahmad, a panchayat member. On Saturday evening, Zoona Begum, a woman panchayat member, was shot in the neck and head by suspected militants inside her house at Hardshiva Sopor... | |
| | | | RTI activist moves SHRC against CIC | | | | early times report
Jammu, Jan 14: A complaint has been filed in the Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission against G.R.Sufi, the State Chief Information Commissioner on the allegations that he has humiliated , harassed and violated human right of the complainant.
A complaint dated 14/01/2013 has been filed with the SHRC through its secretary by one Deepak Sharma of Jammu. In the complaint, the complain-ant has alleged that G.R Sufi not only violated the fundamental rights of the complainant, but he has also threatened the victim to implicate him in a false case. It is also submitted in the prayer that CIC has restricted the entry of the complainant in the State Information Comm... | |
| | | | Impersonation case keeps Saroori out of Cabinet | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 14: The impersonation case of daughter in the entrance test for the MBBS seat is still haunting the Congress MLA Ghulam Muhammad Saroori, who has not been considered for a berth in the cabinet which is to be expanded/reshuffled on Tuesday.
Saroori has not been accommodated in the list by the Congress party for the cabinet expansion and have preferred MLA Doda Abdul Majeed Wani over him. Beside Wani, MLA Dooru Ghulam Ahmed Mir and MLA Banihal Viqaar Rasool are expected to make it to the cabinet.
Sources told Early Times that Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) President Saifuddin Soz has handed over the list of three people from Congress to Chief Minister Omar... | |
| | | | Chakra Hawaldar dismissed from service, Jail Supdt, deputy among 3 penalized | | Kathua jail escape case | | | SUMIT SHARMA
Jammu, Jan 14: Four persons including Jail Superintendent, his deputy and a constable all posted in district jail Kathua were penalized while service of Chakra Hawaldar was terminated. The crackdown on them was ordered by government following submission of inquiry report. Additional Director General of Prisons Naveen Aggarwal confirming the reports said Chakra Hawaldar Ganesh Dass was dismissed from his service for his role in taking the under trail out of the jail premises in an unauthorized manner and giving him a chance to escape from the jail.
He further said that rest of the three jail cops including Jail Superintendent Bhadur Singh Jasrotia, Assistant Jail Superint... | |
| | | | Why are SIC, SAC defunct ? | | | | Early Times report
Srinagar, Jan 14: Corruption has gained alarming proportions in Jammu Kashmir and there is no punitive, remedial or reformative action available in the system. The frustrated youth in the state seem to have no role models in society and totally feel bewildered.
Unfortunately, the State Information Commission (SIC) and the State Accountability Commi-ssion (SAC) have let down the people. The government has not shown any intent to come down on corruption even in cases clearly established. The SIC and the SAC seem to be toothless tigers as both the commissions have their own internal and well as external problems. The SIC was Constituted by the present NC lead Government ... | |
| | | | Pakistani brutality: BJP urges UPA Govt to imitate US | | Bringing perpetrators to justice | | | Neha
JAMMU, Jan 14: The attitude of the BJP, which, according to many keen Pakistan-watchers and strategic affairs experts, committed a grave blunder in 2003 by extending a hand of friendship to Pakistan and started "peace process" with hostile and utterly undependable Pakistan, has, it seems, undergone a change in the wake of what Pakistan did in the Mendhar sector on January 8. It has come forward and promised unflinching support to the Congress-led UPA Government provided it is willing to isolate and act against Pakistan and take all steps which force Islamabad to handover to New Delhi the perpetrators of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks as well as perpetrators of 8/1 Mendhar attack.
The BJ... | |
| | | | GMC inquiry reports: To reveal or to conceal? | | | | early time report
Jammu, Jan 14: Many an inquiries ordered into various complaints in the Government Medical College Hospital from time have been forgotten and forgone, denying justice to the complainants and sweeping the wrongs under the carpet.
"Following the anger of kin of one deceased Balwant Sharma on September 2, 2012, the hospital authorities ordered fact finding report and assured them that report would be tabled within two days and guilty would be fixed. but 133 days later, the fact fining inquiry report over the death of deceased Balwant Sharma is still awaited" sources said. Though, same day two more inquiries were ordered including the death of Balwant Sharma and theft case ... | |
| | | | With 'cards closed', all set for cabinet expansion today | | | | early times report
Jammu, Jan 14: Even as speculations are rife about the names of new ministers to be inducted or dropped in the reshuffle\expansion of state cabinet scheduled tomorrow, both the alliance partners NC and Congress have kept cards closed to their chest, pushing all in a guessing game. While the council of sitting ministers belonging to NC submitted their resignation to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today, Congress ministers have not done so far nor were they asked by the leadership to do so. All is, however, set for the major political exercise in the coalition, with oath ceremony scheduled at Raj Bhawan at 4PM.
It was a day filled with speculations in all political circl... | |
| | | | NC ministers, political advisors, all resign; Omar to unveil new cabinet today | | Speculations rife of old guards being replaced | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Jan 14: National Conference (NC) ministers, political advisors alongwith heads of various corporations today formally submitted resignations to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah paving way for inductions of fresh faces and possibly, retention of some from outgoing cabinet.
Omar had hosted a dinner for the sitting ministers and other national conference leaders holding prominent positions in the state government at his residence this evening. Ministers rushed to CM's official residence in the winter capital with resignations folded in there pockets. They handed over the same to Omar Abdullah with the later preferring not to give even a hint about who was being dropped ... | |
| | | | Baig equates NC to Ravana | | Looks for Rama, Hanuman to vanquish it | | | early times report
Jammu, Jan 14: Equating National Conference (NC) to demon king , Ravana, former Deputy Chief Minister, Muzaffar Husain Baig wondered if there was a Rama and Hanuman to vanquish it. "Like Ravana, NC has seven heads and we are forced to hold this view because of NC ideologue, Sheikh Nazir's recent statement wherein he accused Jawahar Lal Nehru of backing out on his promise of plebiscite", he said.
Flanked by senior and teusted ministers of Omar Abdullah, Nazir urged New Delhi to hold plebiscite as promised. Admitting their right to express their views, Baig asked them if they were entitled to seek benefit of constitution of India while repudiating the same constitution... | |
| | | | Regressive forces support, oppose the Maharaja simultaneously | | WP refugee issue, Bloody agitation threatened -- II | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Jan 14: Bulk of Kashmiri leadership as well as the so-called civil society groups in Kashmir have consistently supported the State Subject Definition of 1927 and opposed those who stood for citizenship rights for the refugees from West Pakistan. The reasons behind their support for Maharaja Hari Singh during whose regime State Subject rules were framed and implemented are quite understandable and it is hardly necessary to catalogue here all of them. Suffice it to say that sectarian and essentially separatist Kashmiri leadership and the self-styled civil society groups in the Valley use and exploit these archaic rules to keep the state aloof from the mainstream politics, perpe... | |
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