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J&K likely to get new Chief Secretary soon, Goswami top contender 10/9/2011 11:46:46 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi JAMMU, Oct 9: Jammu and Kashmir government is under intense pressure to search for an appropriate replacement of Chief Secretary Madhav Lal. So who will replace Madhav Lal? Obviously, no one can be sure till the orders actually come out. Early Times has learnt from credible government sources that change is imminent and the process would be completed by the end of November 2011. They said that at number 1, the perennially popular name from the "Kashmiri son-of-the-soil" point of view is that of Iqbal Khandey. A 1978 batch direct recruit IAS, Iqbal is not the senior most officer after Madhav Lal, in fact he comes at number 4. However, there is no Kashmiri Muslim IAS officer above him or till 5 steps below him. Sources disclosed that if the government goes by the Indian scheme of things of finding only Muslims to head the administration, police or the judiciary in J&K, claim of Iqbal would be very strong. These sources said that the only problem is openly declared proximity with the principal opposition party. They maintain that if he ever becomes the Chief Sec...   READ MORE

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JU again to get JNU Don as its Vice-Chancellor? Credibility At Stake 10/9/2011 11:46:09 PM Neha JAMMU, Oct 9: State Governor Narinder Nath Vohra, who also happens to be the Chancellor of Jammu University, has constituted a search committee to recommend a panel of three academics out of which one would be appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University. The new incumbent is likely to join the University in a couple of months, most probably in the second week of December, when the present incumbent Varun Sahni completes his what the bulk of teachers, students and non-teachers calls an "unsuccessful tenure" of three years. Sahni would be the first Vice-Chancellor in years who would be shown the door the day he completes three years in office "spending most of his time in", informed sou...   READ MORE   Servant goes missing with 2 sons of Raghunath Bazar businessman; kidnapping suspected 10/9/2011 11:45:41 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 9: Two minor sons of a Raghunath Bazar businessman today went missing under mysterious circumstances along with their Nepali servant from their residence at Nanak Nagar here. Though police suspected that it could be a case of kidnapping, family had not received any call for ransom till late tonight. Kartik Sharma (13) and Dhruv Sharma (11), sons of Jitender Sharma, left home in sector 6 of Nanak Nagar for their plot, about 100 yards from their residence, at about 7 am. Their servant Dheeraj Joshi, son of Ganesh Joshi of Nepal, was accompanying them. The family came to know at about 9.30 am that none of them had reached the plot. They then searched for the...   READ MORE   Jammu leaders silent over vital issues Fearing withdrawal of PSOs.......? 10/9/2011 11:45:17 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 9: Personal Security Officers (PSOs) have become powerful weapon in the hands of state government and given it unbridled powers to bargain anything under the open sky with the leaders of different classes in Jammu region. For these leaders who are seen protesting, addressing press conferences and burning effigies as a mater of routine, PSOs are a status symbol. They describe their worth and importance in the government circles. The PSOs give these local leaders, most of whom have spent a good part of their life protesting in their localities, trouble-free access to corridors of power. The PSOs ensure that their movement is not restricted even during worst of...   READ MORE   Party not power hungry, will gain it through votes 'Cong cannot ask Omar, Farooq to step down…….' PDP's fresh salvo against Omar: Judicial probe only to buy time 10/9/2011 11:44:31 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 9: Even as things have yet to emerge clear on what kind of inquiry the government will finally put in place to probe the death of its worker allegedly in custody, opposition PDP's tirade against the Chief Minister continues unabated with their apprehensions and fears over the intentions of the government. PDP, for the reasons they have been divulging from day one, is not only apprehensive of the probability of probe getting influenced if CM and his father remain on chair, but also feel that NC led government sticks to this stand on judicial probe as it would enable them to buy more time they are 'desperately' looking forward to. Notwithstanding its rel...   READ MORE   If Omar forgot, what were his advisors doing? Rishi political payoff 10/9/2011 11:43:32 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 9: State Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has made a startling revelation which generally went unnoticed. Defending himself on the NDTV, Omar Abdullah admitted one of the key eye witnesses, Abdul Salaam Rishi had told him of the Rs.34 lacs he had paid to Haji Yousuf for getting Rishi an MLCs seat. Omar Abdullah told NDTV that Rishi had told him about the money transaction two months back, but the whole issue had slipped off the Chief Minister's mind! How can a serious allegation like this slip off the mind of a Chief Minister who otherwise has ample time to post his views on the twitter site almost on a regular basis? What is more essential than the matter slip...   READ MORE   ‘CM seems unaware of principles of natural justice' Nobody shall be a judge in his own cause 10/9/2011 11:43:06 PM ET Report JAMMU, Oct 9: Ever since the alleged custodial death of National Conference worker, Syed Yusuf in Crime Branch custody, the Chief Minister has been talking of a judicial commission. Omar has also expressed willingness to face the commission. The judicial commission, Omar must know, cannot punish anybody. It can only recommend measures. The recommendations of a commission are not mandatory. The government may or may not accept them. The government of the state for the time being is run by Omar Abdullah. If the commission finds Omar involved in Yusuf's killing, what shall he do? Obviously he will reject the recommendations and thereby cause `miscarriage' of justice. This is why j...   READ MORE   "Yours faithfully, Sir. No need to worry as Yousaf died of cardiac arrest; had no external injury marks" 10/9/2011 11:42:42 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 9: By saying that Mohammad Yousaf had on September 30 last died of cardiac arrest and he had no external injury marks, DGP Kuldeep Khoda Saturday provided chief minister Omar Abdullah a welcome breather. His statement comes a day after Omar asked a national TV news channel interviewer if he had anything concrete to substantiate his claim that NC worker Yousaf had died of police torture. Khoda was prompt to announce Saturday that the deceased had no external injury marks on his body. Quoting an interim post-mortem report, he also said Yousaf had died of cardiac arrest. Ever since Yousaf's death due to alleged police torture at his residence, Omar has been u...   READ MORE   Tainted Congress ministers supporting Omar 'by design' NC worker's murder controversy 10/9/2011 11:42:21 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 9: Despite being embroiled in yet again an avoidable serious controversy, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has nothing to worry since Congress ministers who are facing several cases of corruption have pledged support to him. They have come in open to defence of the Chief Minister and while doing so, left even the close confidents of Omar behind. Law minister Ali Mohammed Sagar and Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather are yet to make resounding public statements over the alleged custodial death of NC worker Syed Mohammed Yousuf Shah at the private residence of Chief Minister but tainted congress ministers are seemingly in a race to outdo each other in giving clean ...   READ MORE   Controversial Noorani questions Abdullahs' intentions Yousuf's Death 10/9/2011 11:40:52 PM Rustam JAMMU, Oct 9: Lawyer and commentator AG Nootani, who has written extensively on Jammu and Kashmir and has all along advocated for the state a solution outside the political and constitutional organization of India on the ground that it is a Muslim-majority state, has taken on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and NC president and union Minister for Renewable energy Farooq Abdullah and dismissed with contempt their suggestion that they want the mysterious death of NC worker Syed Mohammad Yousuf to be probed by a judicial commission. Noorani is known India-baiter and pro-Pakistan and pro-Kashmiri separatists. He is also known for his full support to the former Pakistani President General ...   READ MORE   The rich Babus who rule us, reveal their assets, but others hide their details Property details of IAS officers 10/9/2011 11:39:46 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 9: The bureaucracy in India and in Jammu and Kashmir has always been viewed with suspicious eye by the public as their assets always remain secret. But after the directions by the Central Government, the senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers have been forced to divulge their assets. Most of the officials in Jammu and Kashmir had recently given account of their movable and immovable assents and have thrown many surprising facts about the wealth of our bureaucrats who run the administration of the state. Though many of the IAS officers have given their income details, but some of them have not given actual assets they have, for which the Departm...   READ MORE   NIA team to verify facts in Dhaka, B'desh Govt. assures full support Delhi blast probe. 10/9/2011 11:25:50 PM Asif Iqbal Naik Kishtwar, Oct 9 : National Investigation Agency (NIA) has reportedly rushed to Bangl adeshi capital Dhaka to verify the facts disclosed by arrested Medico student Dr. Wasim Akram Malik during his interrogation before NIA. According to reports, 6 member NIA team reach Dhaka after Bangladeshi Government assured the Government of India for its full support into the ongoing probe in September 7,2011 Delhi High Court blast in which 15 peoples got killed and as many as 80 others got injured. The NIA team during its stay in Dhaka will correlate some sensational disclosers made by Dr. Wasim won ground level. The sources said that with the help of Government of Bangladesh, NIA wil...   READ MORE

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