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JU's program on Public Policy Making raises many an eyebrows Ambitious HoD aiming entry into corridors of power? 10/1/2012 12:44:20 AM Abodh Sharma The decision of the university of Jammu to start a PG program in Public Policy Making has raised many an eyebrows inside and outside the campus. While questions are being raised on the timing and the hush- hush manner in which the program was started, the decision is also being seen as yet another attempt by the recently appointed head of the department Economics Prof. Dipankar Sen Gupta who has been known for making attempts to break into the inner power circles of the state. The very timing of the initiation of the program is being questioned given the fact that the sanction was accorded to it after the culmination of the entire admission process of the university which was undertaken as a mass exercise in the form of JUCET conducted in all the districts of the province. This implies that many a students who would have been genuinely interested in the program had already opted for other available courses in JU and other universities. "The decision is ill timed as the JU appeal committee has given its final verdict and all the seats in all the academic depart...   READ MORE

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Interrogation of suspected ISI agent Mehraj’s confessional statement sent to GoI 10/1/2012 12:43:50 AM Asif Iqbal Naik Kishtwar September 30:- The Jammu Kashmir Police has sent suspected ISI agent, Mehraj-ud-Din alias Javed’s confessional statement to the union Home Ministry and External Affairs Ministry. The decision has been taken to enable the GoI to take up the matter with the government of Nepal. “The statement will further help GoI in proving how Nepal is being used by the Pakistan spy agency ISI and the underworld, sources in the police department said. According to the sources, the government of India has already taken up the matter with the government of Nepal. Sources said the Nepal government has assured help to the Indian authorities to probe the allegations leveled by...   READ MORE   Empowering Panchayats NC murdering democracy using Article 370 10/1/2012 12:44:49 AM MINCING NO WORDS NEHA JAMMU, Sep 30: Elected panches and sarpanches are up in arms against Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his government. They are dismissing them as anti-democratic and anti-people an accusing them of misusing Article 370 of the Indian Constitution to murder democracy in the state and render institutions at the grassroots level ineffective and unreal. They have pinned their faith in the Congress party, notwithstanding the fact that two Congress ministers and a few other MLAs had opposed their long-pending demand seeking transfer of block-level powers to the elected panchayats, and urged the Congress and other like-minded parties to support the People’s Democratic Part...   READ MORE   CBI ruling gives leeway to Mir for Cabinet entry 10/1/2012 12:43:12 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 30: The ruling by CBI court acquitting former minister and MLA Ghulam Ahmad Mir couldn’t have come at much better time. The Congress is in a state of flux, relations between National Conference and Congress are strained and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and party wants to make inroads and build party in the Valley. Mir along with another former minister Raman Matto and senior IAS officer Iqbal Khandey was acquitted by the CBI court in the infamous Srinagar sex scandal. Mir along with two cabinet minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed and Taj Mohi-ud-din are three elected MLAs of the Cong from the entire Kashmir valley. Peerzada has ...   READ MORE   Taking People For Granted BJP: Message for Jammu from Suraj Kund 10/1/2012 12:45:20 AM STARK REALITY RUSTAM JAMMU, Sep 30: The BJP held three-day (Sep 26-28) meeting at Suraj Kund, near Delhi. It adopted a number of resolutions. It adopted a resolution on the economic health of the country and economic policies followed by the Congress-dictated UPA Government at the centre. It also adopted a comprehensive political resolution. The resolutions on the country’s economic health and political situation were highly critical of the Congress and the UPA Government. The BJP held both of them responsible for the bad economic and political situation and expressed the view that the continuation of the present dispensation for some more time would be fatal for the country. So much ...   READ MORE   Hakim Yasin, Tarigami address common rally……..! First step towards formation of Third Front…..? 10/1/2012 12:40:29 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 30: In what can be seen as the first practical step towards formation of the Third Front in present political arena of state, PDF chairman Hakim Mohammad Yasin and CPM legislator MY Tarigami shared the same political platform on Saturday to address the masses of one particular area in district Budgam. It was for the first the two Kashmir based leaders, no matter from the two contrasting ideologies addressed from a same rally. The rally cum one day convention was basically organized by the president of PDF, Hakim Mohammad Yasin . The talk about formation of Third Front in the political spectrum of J&K in the present coalition regime has been gaining mome...   READ MORE

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