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2 IGs, 2 DIGs, 6 SSPs being promoted to higher ranks Ram Lubhaya, Gopal Reddy, HK Lohia, Pankaj Saxena tipped for elevation 1/4/2010 11:37:43 PM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz SRINAGAR, Jan 4: New Year is carrying a bonanza of rank promotion for a number of senior and middle rung officers in Jammu & Kashmir Police as two Inspectors General of Police, two Deputy Inspectors General of Police and half-a-dozen Senior Superintendents of Police are likely to be elevated to higher ranks. Cabinet is expected to take a decision in its meeting on Thursday next even as the elevation is yet to be cleared by respective Departmental Promotion Committees (DPCs) in favour of the senior Police officers. With a number of positions falling vacant due to retirement of incumbents and central deputations, state government is likely to promote a number of top and middle ranking Police officials, albeit in their own pay and grade. Those tipped to be elevated to the rank of Additional DGP include IGP Security Ram Lubhaya and IGP Home Guard, Civil Defence and Railways Gopal Reddy, both regular recruits of 1985. Sources said that both of them were due to get rank promotion against substantive posts of ADGs by the end of current year but, in keeping with a much ...   READ MORE

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Omar’s woes mountunder coalition weight 1/4/2010 11:26:00 PM ABID SHAH NEW DELHI, JAN 4: Despite the other day’s denial by a Jammu and Kashmir Government spokesman of a report that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah may recast his team of ministers to pave the way for new blood or a younger lot and to relieve certain old party hats to look after organisational business, the scope for such a move is not without basis. This is mainly because of the goings on in the Congress. The party is a partner in the coalition led by Omar. Congress is also poised to reduce the age of its key players because of the young age of the party scion Rahul Gandhi. He had recently sent a Central party team to Srinagar and Jammu on a talent hunt mission so as to revamp the or...   READ MORE   `Resignation’ highest point of Omar’s year in office 1/4/2010 11:24:35 PM SANT KUMAR SHARMA Jammu, Jan 4: The Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, has completed one year in office. What distinguishes his tenure from that of the worthies who adorned the hot seat earlier? Is it time to ask whether he has done better than Ghulam Nabi Azad, his immediate predecessor? The single most important event that is fresh in people’s minds regarding Omar’s one year in office is, unfortunately, his conditional ``resignation’’ in July 2009. Of course, he managed to take the high moral ground when allegations were hurled against him. But the manner in which he conducted himself at that juncture allowed his detractors, within and outside, to accuse him of being mercurial, impulsive ...   READ MORE   AMANDEEP MURDER CASE SIT presents supplement charge-sheet; warrants against absconding accountant 1/4/2010 11:24:13 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 4: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing evidence destruction in Amandeep murder case today presented supplement charge-sheet in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate which was further committed to the Court of Principal Sessions Judge Jammu for its disposal The charge-sheet was presented before the Court by Mubassir Latifi SP in-charge SIT and Chief Prosecuting Officer Pawan Khajuria against the accused Choudhary Nagar Singh, Choudhary Jagar Singh and Choudhary Rakesh Singh sons of Kola Ram and one accused namely Ashok Kumar Accountant of Choudhary Nagar Singh who is stated to be absconding and statement of searching officer has been recorded and ...   READ MORE   Minibus falls into Chenab; two killed 1/4/2010 11:15:03 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Jan 04: As a thick blanket of fog covered the region this morning, making visibility poor, a minibus skidded off the road at Thanpal in Reasi and plunged into river Chenab, resulting in the instant death of two persons, including a woman, and injuries to 13 others, including a nine-month-old girl child. The ill-fated minibus (3155/JK02H), which was on its way to Narlu, left the Reasi bus stand at about 7.30 am when the roads were foggy. Police sources said due to poor visibility caused by thick fog, minibus driver misjudged a sharp curve at Thanpal near Arnas as a result of which the vehicle straightway fell into Chenab at about 8.40 am. Some roadside shopke...   READ MORE   Police prosecution wing becomes rehabilitation center for blue eyed boys 1/4/2010 11:14:37 PM Early Times report Jammu, Jan 4: Unrest is prevailing in the prosecution wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police as extensions of the retiring officers and recall of retired officers almost seems becoming an order rather than exception. Marring promotional prospects of various officers, two new extensions are on cards while decks are being cleared for appointing a retired prosecution officer as Advisor to the Director General of Police, Kuldeep Khoda. It has been reliably learnt that a proposal has been mooted to Government on false and fictitious recommendations for grant of extension to some officials who are already under extension of services since past two years and bringing back some ret...   READ MORE   4 held for selling Govt cement in open market 1/4/2010 11:14:06 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 4: Kanachak police has busted nexus between government employees and private cement dealers here today by arresting three persons and seizing a truck laden with government cement bags which was being unloading in a private cement shop. Police source informed that among three arrested persons, one is assistant field inspector of Soil Conservation Department who was instrumental in selling the government cement to the private dealer. Police has also got more clues on his disclosure and more arrests and recoveries are likely, he maintained. Kanachak police led by SHO Jaipal Sharma under the supervision of Additional SP Rural Mohan Lal and SDPO Domana Divaka...   READ MORE   Sectarian tension erupts in Pattan 1/4/2010 11:13:42 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Jan 4: Mysterious disappearance of two hoardings of the Shia spiritual leader late Ayatollah Khomeini and a Kashmiri militant, have resulted in eruption of sectarian tension in a cluster of about a dozen villages in Pattan area of Baramulla district. Informed sources told Early Times that residents of the predominantly Shia populated Hagarpora village had installed a hoarding of the godfather of the Iranian revolution Ayatollah Khomeini at a marketplace over 20 years ago. Later, in early 1990s, residents of some Mohallas of Hagarpora and Kongamdara installed a hoarding of a local militant, namely Nazir Ahmed, at the same place. Both disappeared by night in ...   READ MORE   CRPF officers seek police protection 1/4/2010 11:13:23 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Jan 4: An awkward situation for Jammu and Kashmir police has arisen with CRPF officers posted in the valley seeking police protection. The CRPF officials in the valley have been demanding that its personnel should be guarded by the local police while they shop for essential items and a proper security check of the area be done by them ahead of visit of any senior official of the para-military force, official sources said. The demand comes against the backdrop of an incident in which four CRPF personnel were gunned down on December 30 by terrorists while watching a cricket match, nine kilometres from Sopore town in North Kashmir. However, the CRPF spokesperso...   READ MORE   JU teacher burns himself to death 1/4/2010 11:12:59 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, JAN 04: An ad hoc lecturer in Statistics Department of Jammu University (JU) committed suicide by burning himself to death at his residence at Muthi, about 7 km from here on Akhnoor road, early Monday morning.The incident left his colleagues in JU shocked as he had never behaved like an abnormal person at the campus. Bankim Chandra Shastri (30), who was stated to be insomniac by his family members, had done his Ph.D. in Statistics from the Ujjain University in Madhya Pradesh. He had an excellent academic record. Quoting family members, police sources said Bankim was in depression for the past over two months and also suffered from insomnia. Only yesterday, h...   READ MORE   Vaishno Devi pilgrim dies of cardiac arrest 1/4/2010 11:12:26 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Jan 04: Due to extensive cold, a Vaishno Devi pilgrim today died of cardiac arrest while he was on way to the cave shrine of the goddess in the Trikuta Hills.Police sources said Ashwani Kumar (41) of Amritsar, Punjab, was on his way to the holy cave shrine when he developed pain in his chest at Ban Ganga.He was shifted by police to the Katra hospital where he later died. Quoting doctors, sources said he had died of cardiac arrest. The body was later handed over to his family members, who were accompanying him, for last rites. Meanwhile, a woman pilgrim was last night hit by a landslide, triggered by heavy rains in Trikuta Hills, as a result of which she was...   READ MORE   Highway opens for traffic, stranded vehicles cleared 1/4/2010 11:12:01 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Jan 4: With slight improvement in weather conditions and clearance of accumulated snow from stretch between Banihal and Qazigund, the 300-km-long Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was opened for vehicular traffic here this afternoon. Sources informed that all the stranded vehicles including passenger and commercial have been cleared and in case the weather conditions improve further, it would be opened for “two-way” traffic tomorrow. “Nearly 500 light motor vehicles, 800 trucks and 200 passenger vehicles, which were stranded on National Highway since yesterday, were allowed to move after the clearance of accumulated snow by Border Roads Organisation (BRO), r...   READ MORE   First infiltration bid of Yr-2010 foiled 1/4/2010 11:11:42 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Jan 04: First infiltration bid of the New Year-2010 was successfully foiled by BSF troops in Ramgarh sub-sector of Samba late Sunday night. Police sources said when the whole border-belt was covered with thick fog, a BSF patrol noticed some suspicious movement through search lights near Narania outpost along the International Border (IB) in Ramgarh after midnight. The jawans alerted nearby BSF nakas and patrols, waiting for the images to come closer as the visibility was very poor due to fog. Sources said it was at about 1 am when the troops opened fire in the direction of the suspicious movement. A total of 50 rounds were fired by the troops, the sources ...   READ MORE   Soz cuts new roles for office bearers 1/4/2010 11:11:19 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Jan 4: To rejuvenate the party activities ahead of forthcoming assembly elections, the Pradesh Congress Committee President Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz has allocated new assignments to the organizational officer bearers. According to a PCC order, Senior Vice President Mangat Ram Sharma will be political advisor to Soz while Dharmpal Sharma will assist Soz in policy matters and will also be in charge of the party head quarters at Jammu. He will be assisted and Spokespersons of the party Ravinder Sharma and Amolakh Singh. While Amrit Malhotra will assist and advice the president on media and community affairs. He will also look after party affairs in Jammu District ...   READ MORE   Lashkar told to strike and Hizb activists asked to claim responsibility 1/4/2010 11:10:40 PM Early Times Report Jammu,January 4 :- Instructions to the activists of Lashkar-i-Toiba."Let you operate and strike in Jammu and Kahmir." Instructions to the activists of Hizbul Mujahideen. "While the Lashkar activists will strike you claim responsibility for each strike."These are instructions,according to official sources,from the ISI to the militants operating in Jammu and Kashmir. The sources,basing their information on reports received from across the LOC,said that these instructions have been given to convey to the world that the subversive activities were being carried out by Kashmiri youths as they owe their loyalty to Hizbul Mujahideen outfit.Hizb has the majority of loc...   READ MORE   IPTK urges CM to facilitate independent Shopian probe Seeks access to documents, evidence 1/4/2010 11:10:20 PM Early Times report Jammu, Jan 4: The International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice (IPTK) has sought Chief Minister’s permission to inquire into the death of Asiya Jan and Neelofar Jan of Shopian in May 2009. The IPTK was launched in April 2008 in Srinagar by the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) to undertake an in-depth study of militarization and its impact on human rights and to `unveil and uphold the truth’.. It has four conveners. Prominent among them are Dr Angana Chatterjee Professor, Anthropology, California Institute of Integral Studies Gautaum Navlakha a Delhi based activist and Advocate Parvez Imroz who also heads the JKCCS),an amalgam of tw...   READ MORE

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