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40 days after its orders were mocked, Govt mulling action against top officer 11/12/2009 11:56:49 PM ZAFAR CHOUDHARY EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Nov 12: Waiting for over 40 days to see implementation of its orders and after suffering a smear campaign doubting intents and motives, the government is planning disciplinary action against a top officer of Forest Department. One of the top three senior most officers of the Indian Forest Services of Jammu and Kashmir cadre, Irshad Ahmed Khan, the then Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, was transferred and posted as Chief Wildlife Warden on October 1. It was a Cabinet decision which effected transfers and postings of 28 top to middle officers on Forest department including the posting of eminent forester Jagdish Kishwan as new Principal Chief Conservator of Forests. Much to the displeasure of the government Khan refused to join at the place of his new posting citing reasons of grade and seniority. By that time he had been the PCCF for more than three years and the government was not any more inclined to keep him at the same post till he retires. Then began a smear campaign against the government and the Forest department. ...   READ MORE

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Speaker takes note of ET reports asks CS to get unauthorized kilns in Budgam shut 11/12/2009 11:56:06 PM AHMED ALI FAYYAZ EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Nov 12: Taking suo moto cognizance of Early Times campaign against ecological vandalism in Kashmir valley, Speaker of Legislative Assembly, Mohammad Akbar Lone, has asked Chief Secretary, S S Kapur, to close down all unauthorized brick kilns in Budgam district. He has made it clear on the head of the administration and state bureaucracy that a “nexus between the departments and the brick kiln owners” was not acceptable in a civilized society. In an environmental series in its issues dated October 8th, 9th and 13th, Early Times had reported in detail how as many as 155 brick kilns had been set up in Budgam district in brazen violation of ov...   READ MORE   India bars China travel on stapled visas 11/12/2009 11:55:15 PM ABID SHAH NEW DELHI, NOV 12: The impossibility for the residents of Jammu and Kashmir to visit Beijing or other Chinese cities turned out to be complete today. The External Affairs Ministry issued a public advisory here this evening to all citizens against travelling to China in case the visa issued by Chinese Embassy and its two Consulates in India was not affixed on their passport and instead the Chinese mission issued this on a separate sheet of paper. For past over a month or even since before that but not always, this has exactly been the case vis-à-vis Indian citizen from Jammu and Kashmir seeking Chinese visa. Earlier, China followed a similar practise for visa applican...   READ MORE   Record At Trikuta Hills Sagar of Meerut 7417620th pilgrim of 2009at Vaishno Devi shrine; highest mark 11/12/2009 11:54:44 PM Early Times Report Katra, Nov 12: History was today created at the darbar of Mata Vaishno Devi with the annual pilgrimage crossing the highest ever mark to set a new record. First time since the formation of Shri Mata Vishno Devi Shrine Board in 1986, the annual pilgrimage today crossed highest mark surpassing the earlier record set in the year 2007 when 7417619 pilgrims had visited the most revered shrine in Trikuta hills. “Sagar Choudhary of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, along with family, was today a special guest with us when he became the 7417620th pilgrim of the current year”, said Dr Mandeep K Bhandari, the Additional Chief Executive Officer of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board....   READ MORE   Only 5 from PoK in LoC bus 11/12/2009 11:53:32 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Nov 12: Only five guests arrived here from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) while 11 Kashmiri residents crossed into the other side in the Karvan-e-Aman bus operating from Srinagar to Muzaffarabad. However, 56 people also returned to their homes on both sides of the Line of Control (LOC) after meeting their relatives. Official sources said that five new guests from PoK arrived in Srinagar today to meet their relatives. Seven residents of this side, who had crossed over to PoK during previous trips, also returned to their homes. They said 11 Kashmiri residents travelled to PoK to meet their relatives there. As many as 49 residents of PoK, who wer...   READ MORE   Center approves Rs 9000 Crore highway road projects for J&K 11/12/2009 11:53:12 PM ET DESK Jammu, Nov 12: Jammu and Kashmir got a big push towards infrastructure development with the Government today announcing approval of six Highway projects for the border State envisaging an expenditure of Rs 9,377.89 crore. Of the total eight projects worth Rs 10,883.89 crore cleared by a meeting of Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC), one each of the remaining two projects are to come up in Karnataka and Haryana. ''The 28th PPPAC meeting, chaired by Finance Secretary (Ashok Chawla) met on October 16, 2009, and granted approval to eight projects of Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways. These projects are in three States,'' an official statement said. ...   READ MORE   Police foil SRTC employees’ march to secretariat, 20 injured, 30 arrested 11/12/2009 11:52:56 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 12: Scores of striking SRTC employees received critical injuries in Jammu on Thursday as police burst tear gas shells and resorted to lathi charge in a bid to prevent them from coming closer to the civil secretariat complex. The SRTC employees reached Shalimar chowk in large numbers as per their schedule programme and started shouting slogans in support of their demands. The SRTC employees had announced protest march towards the civil secretariat at the end of the three day ultimatum to the state government to address their demands. However,the peaceful demonstration by the SRTC employees took an ugly turn when few agitated SRTC employees...   READ MORE   Army short of 11238 officers 11/12/2009 11:52:34 PM AGENCIES New Delhi, Nov 12 : The Indian Army is grappling with an acute shortage of officers. Despite the recession, it has been unable to attract more talent and contain their outflow. In 2008, the army was able to take in 1,500 officers - but over 1,800 left the force. The army now faces a shortage of 11,238 officers. "It is a very peculiar situation. Despite the recession and relaxation of our requirements the number of officers leaving the army is more than the number of officers we have managed to take in," a senior officer familiar with the situation told a news agency "What adds to the worry is that the negative inflow has been witnessed despite an economic slump," he ...   READ MORE   AMANDEEP MURDER CASE HC refuses to quash proclamation order of CJM against Nago brothers 11/12/2009 11:52:18 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 12: Giving credence to the Special Investigation Team probing the sensational Amandeep murder case, the state High Court today dismissed the petition filed by alleged key conspirators, the Chowdhary trio –Nagar, Ujjagar and Rakesh Singh –seeking quashment of proclamation orders of Chief Judicial Magistrate. Justice JP Singh, after hearing senior Advocate Mohammad Aslam Goni with Advocate Ahtsham Bhat, appearing for Chowdhary brothers and senior Advocate Sunil Sethi with advocate Ravi appearing for the State, dismissed the petition with the observation that no case for entertaining this petition has been made out. Satisfied with the material placed on ...   READ MORE   Leh highway reopens for one-way traffic 11/12/2009 11:51:27 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Nov 12 : One-way traffic was resumed today on the 434-km-long Srinagar-Leh national highway, which was closed on November 9 due to heavy snowfall at different places. Official sources told that the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), responsible for the maintenance of the life line to Ladakh region, had cleared the snow on the highway. However, the road was slippery due to frozen surface following minus temperature during the night. Only Leh to Srinagar traffic would be allowed, they said, adding vehicles would be allowed to cross the troubled spot on the highway in the afternoon when frozen surface melts. No vehicle from Srinagar would be permitted toda...   READ MORE

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