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Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 27: The Congress is unlikely to help in compiling and submitting report to be prepared by the sub-committee on creation of new administrative units. The Congress has also decided that it will not accept the recommendations of Mushtaq Ganai report in toto on new administrative units, as leaked reports in the media had suggested it to be discriminatory with Jammu and Ladakh regions.
"We are still in deliberations on the final shape of the report. Things can't be done with sword of deadline hanging over. It's a complicated issue with huge political connotations . It's very unlikely that report would be submitted by Jan 31," said a Congress leader, wishing not ... | |
| | | | As CM takes matter to Delhi, Congress puts NC in 'catch -22 situation' | | Political row over new admn units | | | Adopt 73rd amendment, party will 'sort out' this issue
ET Report
Jammu, Jan 27: As the squabble between two ruling allies National Conference and Congress over creation of new administrative units has reached a point where it cannot be pushed under the carpet, the clamour is echoed in political corridors of Delhi. After fresh spat and skirmishes reflected in the tone of statements of two parties Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has finally chipped in only to take this matter to 'Delhi Durbar' (of Congress). Omar is learnt to have 'urged' the Congress high command to intervene and sort it out before the threads of ties get weakened further forcing allies to drift apart. Congress too has played... | |
| | | | J&K High Court may get first woman judge this year | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 27: For the first time since it was created as High Court of Judicature in 1928, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court is likely to get its first woman judge later this year.
Jammu-based Deputy Advocate General Neeru Goswami, who is the Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami's wife, has been recommended for her appointment as a judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court by the collegium on last Thursday. The collegium, comprising Chief Minister M.M. Kumar and the two senior most judges, Justice Virender Singh and Justice Mohammad Yaqoob Mir, has unanimously recommended a panel of the four names to fill up equal number of the vacancies of judges in the High Court.
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| | | | DB terms petition of SOS International frivolous | | PIL against 7 BJP MLAs dismissed | | | Self styled RTI activist fined
Rs 10,000
Abodh Sharma
JAMMU, Jan 27: Division Bench of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court comprising Chief justice MM Kumar and Justice Hasnain Massodi has dismissed a petition filed by SOS International against MLAs of the State BJP alleging that they had violated the oath administered to them and had indulged in corrupt practices while cross voting during the elections to the Upper House of the State Legislature. While dismissing the petition, the court also saddled a fine of Rs. 10,000 on the petitioners, Chairman Rajiv Chuni and Secretary Dr. Gurmeet Singh for filing frivolous piece of litigation.
The SOS International, an NGO had filed a petition aga... | |
| | | | Transfer of 160 DySPs tear apart DGP's directives, JKP's policy on Transfer, Postings | | Yeh Apun Ki Choice Ka Mamla Hai……. ! | | | Sumit Sharma
JAMMU, Jan 27: With the transfers of 160 Deputy Superintendents of Police (DySPs), Jammu and Kashmir Police Force which is already struggling to clear its image, has to drag its feet in controversy as Police's own guidelines, norms of transfer policy and Police Chief's initiative to streamline transfer policy of cops received thaw.
The transfers were made by Director General of Police Ashok Prasad, on Republic Day, keeping in view 2014 Lok Sabha elections in the state. The recent transfers have worked as salt on the wounds of those who were looking for their turn to be posted at the deserving chair at the behest of those who are always enjoying lucrative postings, as per DGP'... | |
| | | | Families of detained drivers threaten hunger strike | | LOC Trade Row | | | Peace Bus suspended for second week
Javaid Naikoo
SRINAGAR, Jan 27: With breakthrough eluding negotiations over LoC trade imbroglio, families of detained truck drivers of Kashmir have threatened hunger strike if their loved ones were not reunited with their families soon. According to the details received , families of detained truck drivers along with office bearers of Truck unions of Kashmir today protested in Uri and demanded immediate intervention of State Government in LOC trade row and release detained truck drivers who are in custody of Pakistan for last 11 days. Protesting families of detained truck drivers who reached Uri this morning while threatening to go on hunger strike if S... | |
| | | | Congress unlikely to consider PK's stand on cross LoC trade | | Seizure of narcotics | | | Neha
JAMMU, Jan 27: The other day, the premier organization of internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus, Panun Kashmir (PK), urged the Congress-led UPA Government to rethink and recast its foreign policy vis-a-vis Pakistan as well as Jammu and Kashmir "before it is too late". What made the PK leaders like Ajay Chrungoo to doubt the intentions of Islamabad and urge the UPA Government to review its policy towards Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir was the very recent seizure of huge quantities of narcotics from a truck commissioned to carry trade items from PoJK to India across the Line of Control (LoC).
The PK leaders were right when they said that the "seizure of narcotics has raised serious ques... | |
| | | | `Blood of Pandits is as red as blood of Muslims' | | Geelani in witness box | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 27: Hurriyat (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani is in the witness box. The Kashmiri Pandit Sangarash Samithi (KPSS), an organisation of Kashmiri Pandits who stayed back in the Valley despite odds has accused him of playing with the sentiments of the community.
Geelani urged the people of Handwara to observe strike on January 25 to commemorate the anniversary of Handwara massacre. The massacre took place in 1998 and left scores of persons dead. He again urged the people of Kupwara to observe shut down on the 20th anniversary of Kupwara massacre that left 27 people dead. However, Geelani failed to issue a similar call to commemorate the Wandhama massacre anniver... | |
| | | | Delay in strengthening Panchayats: Governor's Address is an eye-opener for Omar Govt | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 27: Address of Governor N N Vohra on the eve of the 65th Republic Day is an eye-opener for National Conference led coalition regime which has failed to strengthen Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI) in the State and has been adopting delay tactics in holding elections of the civic bodies.
Political pundits are of the opinion that Governor has expressed his anguish against failure of the Government to strengthen local self Government in veiled and sophisticated manner.
In the year 2011, State Government during the Governor Address in the beginning of budget session had promised to conduct urban local bodies elections but after passing of nearly three years no st... | |
| | | | CAPD department likely to engage 14,000 youth on paltry wages | | Coalition Govt's blackmail of state's youth unabated | | | Akshay Azad
JAMMU, Jan 27: At a time when New Recruitment Policy of the coalition Government has changed the lives of state's youth for the worse and those engaged as daily wagers are struggling for their regularization despite putting in long years, Consumers Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) department is likely to engage 14,000 more on consolidated wages.
Sources informed Early Times that CAPD department had mooted a proposal to open around 7,000 Fair Price Shops (FPS) across state and to man these Fair Price Shops (FPS), has proposed to engage two persons per shop.
"The proposal was sent to Planning and Development Department (P&DD) by the CAPD department some days back, which w... | |
| | | | Minority Sikhs' scathing attack on NC-Cong Govt | | Mass Contact Programme | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Jan 27: All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee (APSCC) headed by Jagmohan Singh Raina is up against the NC-Congress coalition Government and if the Saturday statement of the chairman of the APSCC was any indication, then it can be said that the confrontation between the Sikhs and the Government is inevitable. On Saturday, Raina stated that the Sikh community was unhappy with the State Government as it had neglected the minority community and that it was "now in constant touch with members of other communities so that a joint strategy is evolved to fight for their rights".
The entire community in the state will be brought under a single umbrella so that the demands were put ... | |
| | | | KPSS takes on CM on Wandhama massacre | | Contests findings of various agencies | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 27: Responding to the Chief Minister's tweet on Wandhama massacre, the Kashmiri Pandit Sangarash Samithi (KPSS) has said the Chief Minister should have gone through the records before reacting on the social media.
The KPSS while giving details of the massacre that took place on January 25, 1998 contested the information furnished by various agencies.
The KPSS said: "Police closed the case related to massacre of Pandits at Wandhama with the conclusion that the gun men behind the massacre are untraced."
The police, KPSS added, had recovered a letter in which an unknown militant organization, Intikaam-ul-Muslimoon, had claimed responsibility for killing of ... | |
| | | | Personal file of Dy Registrar SKUAST missing | | SIC seeks status report from Registrar | | | Et Report
Jammu, Jan 27 : The State Information Commission (SIC) Jammu has directed the Registrar of Sher i Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences Jammu (SKUAST) to file a status report about the inquiry being conducted in connection with the allegedly missing personal file of Deputy Registrar (Secrecy ) Sanjay Sharma. SIC had ordered for the said inquiry some months back when the SKUAST (J) authorities had informed the Commission during a case hearing that personal file of the Deputy Registrar went missing . Copy of the file was sought under State RTI Act by an RTI applicant and when it wasn't provided the applicant had approached the SIC and the SIC had ordered for the inquiry .
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| | | | Seats meant for civilians occupied by army personnel | | REPUBLIC DAY CELEBRATIONS' | | | SANDEEP BHAT
Jammu, Jan 27: The mismanagement on the part of Civil Administration came to surface when invitees failed to get seats in the Moulana Azad Stadium here on the Republic Day function. As soon as the civilian entered in the stadium, they were shocked to see the seats meant for them were occupied by the defense personnel, officers and their families. "To my surprise when I approached to take my seat in Northern pavilion 1, few army personnel stopped me.
I was told that the seats were reserved for army personnel. Moreover the half southern pavilion was occupied by the army personnel," said a senior citizen. He said such chaos was seen in the stadium for the first time. "It ha... | |
| | | | Mysterious death of Doda engineering student | | Team of J&K Police to join probe in Hoshiarpur | | |
Asif Iqbal Naik
Jammu, Jan 27: The government of Jammu and Kashmir has finally decided to make a formal request to Punjab government to constitute a Special Investigating Team (SIT) to probe into the mysterious death of Doda Engineering student Mehraj Khalid Mintoo son of Raiz Ahmed Mintoo, student of B.Tech (Final) at Rayat Bhara Institute of Engineering & Technology, Hoshiarpur during the intervening night of 18/19th of January 2014. As per the details available with "Early Times" the government wide letter No. PS/HMOS/Home/072 dated 27-01-2014 issued from the personal section of Minister of State for Home Sajjad Ahmed Kichloo directing Principal Secretary to government Home Departme... | |
| | | | Jhangir Chowk-Rambagh flyover-ERA shows way | | | | Mustansir
Srinagar, Jan 27 : Notwithstanding the complete lack of transparency and accountability in governance and lack of will to work, a handful of engineers involved in construction of Jhangir Chowk-Rambagh flyover in Srinagar have upheld the maxim `where there is a will, there is a way.' It is for the first time in the history of Kashmir that even the heaviest snowfall and freezing temperatures could not stop the work on the flyover being constructed from Jahangir Chowk to Rambagh in
Srinagar. The executing agency- Economic Reconstruction Agency- is working overnight to complete the construction of the much talked about flyover in the stipulated time period. This refers to the on-... | |
| | | | Transfer industry thrives in Education Deptt | | Peripheral schools chronically short of teaching staff as blue eyed crowd city schools | | |
Ajay Sharma
Katra, Jan 27: While the Government schools in the cities and towns have been crowded by the kith and kin of the bureaucrats and politicians, the schools in the peripheries are suffering due to pressing shortage of staff and the academics of poor students are suffering.
Over 30 percent posts in Lowher Hathal zone of district Rajouri are vacant since last many months, but concerned authorities have turned a blind eye towards this grave issue. Sources informed Early Times that there were 300 posts of teachers, masters and Rehbar-E-Talim teachers in Lowher Hahal zone of tehsil Sunderbani of district Rajouri. "Out of these 300 posts, 98 are vacant for the last many months, b... | |
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