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Ex 'Babus' eyeing vacant PSC posts; politically blessed likely to make it 10/17/2011 12:03:19 AM Syed Junaid Hashmi JAMMU, Oct 16: Retired and retiring bureaucrats alongwith politically well-connected IPS officers have begun lobbying for membership of high profile Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKSPC). Sources said that three retiring IAS officers have already made their ambitions known to their colleagues and close friends. Two IPS officers, of whom one has retired and other is to retire in the coming months, are also in the fray. Sources disclosed that despite being regarded upright and honest, these five officers are making knee-deep efforts to get themselves placed as members of JKPSC. Despite Chief Minster Omar Abdullah's repeated pronouncements of no political interference in the selections of members for JKPSC, sources said that 'recommendatory notes' of top Congress and National Conference (NC) leaders would be ultimate deciding factor. Referring to a particular member of PSC, a top congress leader accepted that the member was sworn in after personally pursued his case. "He met me at the airport. I was boarding a fight while he was returning from ...   READ MORE

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Efforts underway to protect 2 IAS officers CVC, SVO files of 2 Commissioner-Secretaries tossed to Law Department 10/17/2011 12:02:34 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Oct 16: Efforts are currently underway at Civil Secretariat to protect two senior IAS officers, both holding the rank of Commissioner-Secretary, from punitive actions of Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) and J&K State Vigilance Organization. In what is widely perceived to be a rescue operation, state bureaucracy has begun to toss files of two senior IAS officers from one department to another with the objective of blocking the CVC andSVO action against them. Top ranking sources in Law Department disclosed to Early Times that the Government had sought its views with regard to the controversy arising over the date of birth of a Commissioner-Secretary who has ...   READ MORE   Protecting Omar over Yousuf death to cost Congress heavily Kamaal's appointment not received well in Cong leadership 10/17/2011 12:01:48 AM KUNAL SHRIVATSA JAMMU, Oct 16: The controversy surrounding the 'custodial death' of Haji Yousuf and wide spread resentment against Omar Abdullah led National Conference-Congress coalition government over the issue has started to take a toll on ties between the two alliance partners. Ever since the 'mysterious' death of Yousuf, the rank and file in Pradesh Congress is in a state of uneasiness as they are finding it quite difficult to defend Omar Abdullah. If party insiders are to be believed the State Congress leadership is trying to wriggle free from National Conference's embrace, however, the stance of party high command in giving yet another reprieve to Omar Abdullah, this time over Ha...   READ MORE   BJP seems to have been exposed for its double standards on cash for vote scam 10/17/2011 12:01:07 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 16: The BJP seems to have been exposed for its double standards on corruption issue. While the former Deputy Prime Minister and BJP Parliamentary Board Chairman L K Advani is on nationwide yatra against the corruption the party's J&K unit is maintaining a stoic silence on the issue and seems to be hand in glove with ruling party on cash for vote scam which rocked the state recently. The total silence maintained by the Party on the mysterious death of Mohammed Yousf Shah a NC activist has raised many questions on BJP's stand viz a viz corruption. The credibility of the BJP which claims to be a party with difference is bound to be affected with such double s...   READ MORE   Does JKLF chairman wear NC knickers? Malik talks, Anna acts' 10/16/2011 11:59:58 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 16: The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman, Yasin Malik's statement about noted social worker Anna Hazare has been taken with a pinch of salt outside Kashmir. Responding to Anna's statement in which he said Jammu Kashmir was an integral part of India and ruled out a plebiscite in Jammu Kashmir, Malik said Anna was wearing RSS knickers. "He is still wearing the RSS knickers (shorts) under the Khadi of Gandhi," Malik said in astatement."JK is not an integral part of any country. Calling himself as the image of Gandhi, Anna has now virtually become Nathu Ram Godsay. He is throwing dust into the eyes of world," Malik added. The high drama started a f...   READ MORE   Delhi police refuses to take JK police help Ambala explosive catch case 10/16/2011 11:59:19 PM SUMIT SHARMA Jammu, Oct 16: In what can be construed as ignominy or a label of inefficiency of the police of terror torn J&K state, Delhi police has refused to take the assistance of JKP in probing the case of RDX explosive seized from a car outside the Ambala Cantonment Railway station a few days back. Sources said that a police team was dispatched to Delhi to offer help in probing the explosive catch incident but the same was refused by Delhi police. The police team was dispatched on the directions of Director General of Police (DGP) Kuldip Khoda after Union Home department sought explanation that how a vehicle carrying RDX managed to escape from the state after splashing mud in the e...   READ MORE   Probe into Parneet's death at PTA at snail's pace; trainee SIs yet to be grilled 10/16/2011 11:58:40 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 16: JAMMU, Oct 16: Police investigation into the trainee SI Parneet Kour's mysterious death at police training academy (PTA), Udhampur, on August 21 last has been moving at snail's pace. She was found hanging from the ceiling fan hook of her room at PTA in the wee hours of August 21. However, even after nearly two months of the shocking incident, police have yet to question some trainee SIs. "We have got the post-mortem report and its says Praneet died of hanging," SSP (Udhampur) Shakeel Beigh said. The probe infact became slow after the post-mortem report was made available to police. The police focus was now on other aspects of the case to carry forward th...   READ MORE   Criticism of Omar by Azad at this juncture meaningful Is NC On Its Way Out? 10/16/2011 11:57:50 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 16: None in the state had expected that Union Health Minister and former J&K Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad would expose Omar Abdullah-led coalition government and denounce its utter failure to complete the developmental works he had started in the Doda area to develop it and bring it at par with the developed areas of Kashmir Valley, but it has happened. It happened only yesterday. Azad was so upset, disgusted and disappointed that he lambasted the Omar Abdullah government, dubbed it as inefficient and accused it of not completing the projects he had started more than three years ago - works which, according to him, needed just three to four months for their...   READ MORE   Wajahat wants Delhi to empower JK Assembly to determine quantum of autonomy Constitutional Authority Subverting Constitution 10/16/2011 11:57:11 PM RUSTAM JAMMU, Oct 16: As mentioned yesterday, the intentions of Wajahat Habibullah, Chairman of National Minorities Commission, are not nobel. His whole approach towards Jammu and Kashmir is communal. He is a protagonist of Greater Kashmir and he wants Kashmir and a particular section of Kashmiri population to enjoy an autonomous status and dominate and exploit people of the state's two other regions, Jammu and Ladkh, overlooking the fact that the people of these two regions have nothing in common with those in Kashmir demanding autonomy, self-rule, independence, Pakistan, joint-control and so on. He, like the Kashmiri leadership, considers the people of Kashmir a race apart, a distinct na...   READ MORE   Biased Delhi according a preferential treatment to Kashmir Discriminating Between Lakes -- I 10/16/2011 11:34:24 PM NEHA JAMMU, Oct 16: Will Jammu province ever attract New Delhi's attention? Will New Delhi ever treat Jammu province equally with Kashmir? What wrong has the people of Jammu province committed for which they are being consistently ignored, overlooked and despised? Does not Jammu contribute more than 70 per cent revenue to the state exchequer every year? Has the New Delhi's generous policy towards Kashmir produced the desired results and succeeded in integrating it politically and constitutionally into India in the real sense of the term? Jammu province, it appears, will never attract the biased New Delhi's attention. Nor will Jammu province be treated equally with Kashmir. The only fault ...   READ MORE

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