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| Omar in London | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 11: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah along with two Ministers and officers is currently in London promoting Jammu and Kashmir as tourist destination.
Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Department has put a stall at the ongoing London Travel Mart which was inaugurated on Monday by Tourism Minister Nawang Rigzin Jora. Internationally reputed travel organizations are participating in the event organized by Pacific Asia Travel Writers Association (PATWA) in London.
According to an official spokesman, the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah also visited the stall of J&K State in London exhibition, aimed to attract tourists to Jammu and Kashmir State and erase the impression which has been created world over that valley of Kashmir is not safe for the tourists of the world.
The Chief Minister while addressing the seminar said that world should again look towards the J&K State particularly the valley of Kashmir as their favourite tourist destination like they considered it in the past. He said that the pages of history are full of description, how travelers, intellectuals, wri... | |
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| Release relief arrears of Jammu migrants in 3 months: HC to Govt | | | | ZAFAR CHOUDHARY
Jammu, Nov 11: In a major development and bit of embarrassment for the state government, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has asked the authorities to pay relief arrears to the Jammu region based migrants within in next three months and trace out the missing migrant families within 45 days. The decision has come as big relief for a 1000 odd migrants drawn from different parts of Jammu region and a significant success in the legal battle waged by Panthers Party leader Bhim Singh.
A bench of Chief Justice Berin Ghosh and Justice Sunil Hali passed these orders in an appeal filed by Panthers Party leader Bhim Singh for relief to the migrants of Jammu region. This has been prol... | |
| | | | A yesteryears’ votary of hot pursuits, Farooq becoming conduit of dialogue | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 11 :-National Conference President and Union Minister for Renewable Energy, Dr Farooq Abdullah, seems to have experienced a major transformation in his outlook and ideas. Till 2000 he was a staunch opponent of any talks with Pakistan and with the Kashmiri separatists. At that stage his stand was that Delhi should not talk to Islamabad till Pakistan stopped exporting terrorism to India, especially to Jammu and Kashmir. He favoured that talks should be held only after Delhi felt satisfied that Pakistan had taken in hand adequate measures for dismantling the terror infrastructure that existed across the border.
He would go a step further. He is on record to ... | |
| | | | Rahul’s talent big hit in J&K, Attracts NC MLA among 550 youths | | | | Early Times,
NEW DELHI, NOV 11: Congress general-secretary Mr Rahul Gandhi’s move to take the youth from the Kashmir Valley as well as Jammu on board through his talent search programme may take a few more days to select new stewards for Youth Congress in the State. The incumbents selected through a well laid down process will be entrusted to build the organisational edifice for Youth Congress in the State.
The idea behind the move is to provide a platform to a whole generation against indifference to public life, disgruntlement, and unnecessarily or otherwise brooding over things or state of affairs in what is thought to be a troubled State at the borders of the country with a violent hi... | |
| | | | Accountability, vigilance laws being amended | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 11: Even as the state government could not find a suitable head for the transparency watchdog Accountability Commission process is on to amend the accountability and vigilance laws to make system more effective.
These amendments are being made upon recommendations of the Administrative Reforms Commission in its report on ethics in governance. A Cabinet subcommittee headed by Law Minister Ali Mohammad Sagar has almost finalized amendments in both laws and the draft will be presented in next meeting of the cabinet for approval.
The cabinet sub-committee constituted to deliberate on the report of second Administrative Reforms Commission, today met under the ch... | |
| | | | PDD short of 5 CEs,100 other Engineers | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 11: Afflicted with power woes of different kinds, the state power development department is facing many hardships in rendering quality services to the consumers.
As per official records posts of at least five Chief engineers, more than half a dozen superintending engineers, over two dozen Executive engineers and at least 100 Assistant executive engineers are lying vacant and junior officers are manning these posts to carry out daily routine work.
Highly placed departmental sources on Wednesday claimed that the department is facing many hardships in rendering quality services to the consumers.
On one hand no fresh allocation in this financial year has been r... | |
| | | | Order on tainted cops’ bail plea reserved for Nov 23 | | AMANDEEP MURDER CASE | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 11: Special Judge Anticorruption Jammu JR Kotwal today reserved order on bail applications filed by former SSP Jammu S Manohar Singh, then SHO Gandhi Nagar Sultan Mirza and then IO Sub-Inspector Satnam Singh lodged in the Central Jail. Court, after considering the bail applications and the arguments of counsel for the applicants, reserved the order on bail application for November 23, 2009.
In the meanwhile, Principal Sessions Judge Jammu BL Bhat, while disposing off an application filed by Jatinder Singh alias Raja son of Choudhary Nagar Singh praying for his shifting from District Jail Jammu to Central Jail Kot Balwal Jammu, ordered that the applicant be sh... | |
| | | | Masoodi to take oath as Additional Judge tomorrow | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 11: Hasnain Masoodi, presently Principal District and Sessions Judge Srinagar, will take oath as Additional Judge of the State High Court on November 13, 2009 at High Court complex in Jammu.
President of India Pratibha Devisingh Patil has appointed Hasnain Masoodi as Additional Judge of J&K High Court for which the warrant of elevation was received here today.
Born on January 2, 1954 at Khrew in Pulwama district, Hasnain Masoodi did his LL.B from Kashmir University and joined the Bar and practiced as an Advocate from April 22, 1977 to April 1980. He was appointed as Munsiff on November 10, 1982 and promoted as Sub-Judge on January 3, 1987 thereafter Masoodi ... | |
| | | | Body of missing IAF official found | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 11 : With the recovery of one more body out of four IAF officials, who got killed in an air crash on October 30, the number of bodies found till today has gone up to three even as search goes on for the fourth one, official sources said.
''The joint search party of Army, Police and the Navy yesterday recovered the decomposed body of an IAF official identified as Sergeant Deepak,'' official sources said, adding that the fate of one more official still remained unknown.
Four IAF officials believed to have died when an Air Force MI 17 chopper carrying them, including two pilots, crashed after getting entangled in a cable of a bridge of Baglihar hydro-electric ... | |
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