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| Abdullahs: A family living below poverty line | | Mehbooba says, Farooq is a political misfortune for J&K | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 29: As the major political parties in Jammu and Kashmir, the ruling coalition allies Peoples Democratic Party and the Congress and the main opposition National Conference choose to fight their battles through the media instead of public institutions, in a latest salvo Mehbooba Mufti has described her bete noire Dr Farooq Abdullah as a 'misfortune' and the Sheikh clan as a family living 'below poverty line' eager to find a job.
In a hard hitting rebut to Dr Abdullah's verbal aggression against the Peoples Democratic Party, Mehbooba Mufti today said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir have already dumped Dr Farooq Abdullah as a "political misfortune once f... | |
| | | | J&K Bank to assume global outlook | | Riding on interest income, Q3 net up 30% | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 29
Two months after obtaining an approval from the Reserve Bank of India for setting up a stock brokering subsidiary, the Jammu and Kashmir Bank Ltd has launched a search for a foreign partner to expans its operations to South East Asia and Central Asia.
Country's first state owned bank with more than 500 branches the Jammu and Kashmir Bank Ltd which has recently become US Dollar One Billion company has announced financial results for the second quarter, reporting higher net profit on the back of significant rise in interest income on loans and advances and other income.
The J&K Bank is now scouting for a foreign partner to pick up 49 percent in its... | |
| | | | Moves afoot to bring Congress, BJP closer | | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Oct 29
Multi pronged moves are afoot to persuade BJP to bailout Congress led UPA government, in the event of left parties pulling the rug under its feet, as a result of the UPA government going ahead with Indo-US nuclear deal, which has been kept at hold for the time being. At the US official level both the BJP and the left parties are sought to be convinced of the desirability of finalizing the deal and not delaying it beyond this year end. The US representatives who called on the opposition leader L K Adwani a well as West Bengal Chief Minister Budhdev Bhatacharya to convenience them that the deal is in the interest of India.
The pro US and pr... | |
| | | | Cases registered against former DSP, 6 policemen | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 29
A former Deputy Superintendent of police was among seven policemen against whom two cases of missing records of land grabbing in the state were registered on Monday, official sources said.
The state crime branch registered the cases against former DSP, P N Tickoo and six others in connection with missing records of two cases pertaining to land grabbing in 1991 and 1992, they said.
The cases were registered after DSP Mushtaq Ahmed reported that two important case records are missing from the official cupboards, they said.
Ahmed said that officers, who handled the case, failed to give a satisfactory response of the missing records, according to offi... | |
| | | | NCP’s Jammu bandh on Nov 5 | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 29
Demanding funds, status and staff strength at the civil secretariat for Jammu at par with Kashmir region, the NCP today gave a call for Jammu bandh on November five, the day when the state administration shifts its work to the winter capital.
"We have announced total bandh on November 5. The bandh call has been given in support of grant of equality on all fronts to Jammu region on par with Kashmir," NCP state general secretary Randeep Singh Parihar told reporters here.
Flaying the government for its alleged step-motherly attitude towards Jammu region, he said that equal funds, share of revenues, schemes and strength of staff in civil secretariat and ... | |
| | | | JK Bank scouts for foreign partner in broking unit | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 29
Jammu & Kashmir Bank is scouting for a foreign partner to pick up 49 per cent in its planned stock broking subsidiary, a top official said on Monday.
"We are looking for a partner with competence in research and who has good operations in South East Asia or Central Asia," Chairman, Haseeb A. Drabu told a wire agency in Mumbai adding the bank would hold 51 per cent in the venture. In August, the bank received the Reserve Bank of India's approval to set up a stock broking subsidiary.
It also plans to come out with its $100 million issue of global depositary receipts by mid-December, he said. "We will complete the process of appointing investment banke... | |
| | | | Fake policemen rob couples en route Surinsar | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 29
A Jammu and Kashmir Police person is one among a gang of five who are targeting visitors, mostly couples or pairs-in-love on way to Surinsar and forcing them to part away with their valuable belongings or pay the gang heftily to let them go free.
According to the reliable sources, the gangsters posing as police party lay a ‘fake’ naka on the road leading to Surinsar – a picnic spot and blackmail the pairs-in-love on way to the spot forcing them to either pay heavily as bribe or part away with their mobile phones, jewelry and other valuables to be set free.
Sources revealed that while one among the five is a policeman who evades his duty and instead he... | |
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