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Image rebuilding exercise or what? CM's empty coffers dish out lakhs for cultural show in Delhi 11/17/2011 11:46:10 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi JAMMU, Nov 17: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has no money for unemployed but his office is spending more than Rs. 50 lakhs on a cultural festival being organized at New Delhi to purportedly showcase 'artistic magnificence of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh regions.' Interestingly, empty coffers forced the young Chief Minister's administrative machinery to devise 'stipendiary mode of employment' but the same set of officers reportedly advised the tech-savvy Omar Abdullah to hold mega cultural festival at India International Centre (IIC) New Delhi for three days from December 2 to December 4. Sources said that the 'festival have been outsourced to a local non-governmental organization, based in Jammu." They added that Chief Minister's office is directly coordinating the entire festival while Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages (JKAACL) has been romped in to ensure that other NGOs do not cry hoarse over the preference being given to one particular NGO whose founder's political connections are well known to one and all. Besides, sources disclosed that...   READ MORE

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Why selective application of new recruitment policy? 11/17/2011 11:45:48 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 17: State Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has again asserted that the new recruitment policy would continue. The CM said he would rather advocate a recruitment policy whereby four persons would be appointed on stipend and not a policy wherein just one person would be appointed on full pay. The State high court has already stayed the new recruitment policy but the latest assertion by the CM indicates his determination to have the new recruitment policy on the rails. It is obvious that the state government has financial constraints, but the decision to appoint candidates on permanent posts with temporary wages is really unheard of. There is a growing unrest among ...   READ MORE   'Rotational CM imperative for equitable development of all regions' 11/17/2011 11:45:36 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 17: As there were voices from within the have pitched issue of 'rotational chief minister' time and again, the All J&K Movement for Peace & Justice today advocated the same and appealed the Congress high command to consider the issue seriously for the development of the three regions of the state and to end the voices of regional discrimination as well. In a press statement issued today, Kuldeep Kumar Rao an active member of All J&K Movement for Peace & Justice (AJKMPJ) has urged the Congress high command at the centre to consider seriously some points regarding the J&K state politics. Underlining the need for due initiatives to end the alleged discriminatio...   READ MORE   Rs 10 crore Heroin catch Another trans-border narco smuggler held, case registered at PS Akhnoor 11/17/2011 11:45:22 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 17: Sleuths of Special Operation Group (SOG) achieved success when they arrested another trans-border narcotic smuggler in late hours raids conducted in Akhnoor area. A case FIR no 259/2011 u/s 8/22/23 NDPS Act has been registered against them. Police said that the arrested has been identified as Rajinder Kumar son of Shankar Dass of Choki Chora,Akhnoor. Police said that on Wednesday night Special Operations Group Jammu team along with Akhnoor Police on inputs laid a naka at Daskal on Jammu Poonch Highway and arrested one narcotic smuggler identified as Ved Prakash alias Veda son of Gian Chand of Lajjo Chak, Hiranagar. Police team recovered ten kilograms of...   READ MORE   Omar's crusade against AFSPA: Gains & Losses 11/17/2011 11:45:01 PM Rustam JAMMU, Nov 17: Ever since his appointment as Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah had been seeking withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from the state. However, it was on October 21 that he gave a radical orientation to his crusade against the AFSPA. He declared that he would withdraw the law from certain select areas before Durbar move. It then appeared that he had taken all the stakeholders, including the Army, on board. It was a wrong assessment. He had not taken anyone into confidence, not even his coalition partner. The November 9 meeting of the Unified Headquarters (UHQ) cleared all the cobweb of confusion and established that Omar Abdullah had not taken anybody ...   READ MORE   Besides Ambaran, people want excavation of Buddhist sites of Kutbal, Lalitpora 11/17/2011 11:44:48 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 17: With Dalai Lama giving confirmation to Buddhist monastery the Government should have no hitch in developing the Ambaran as a tourist resort of the state. The people of state in general and Jammu region especially of Akhnoor tehsil in particular will welcome the steps taken by the Government in this regard. But in view of the Government's deliberate efforts not to give any publicity to already discovered Buddhist monasteries in Kashmir Valley the people have many apprehensions about the Government's intensions regarding developing the Buddhist monastery of Akhnoor. Expressing their apprehensions about the Government's sincerity the people want to know abo...   READ MORE   Change rapidly passing across the country Bad Time For Congress 11/17/2011 11:44:35 PM Neha JAMMU, Nov 17: The Congress would lose the next general elections across the country. It may not win even hundred Lok Sabha seats. AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi is unlikely to click. He has no control over his tongue. He courts controversy whenever he opens his mouth. AICC president Sonia Gandhi is not keeping well and, hence, she would not be able to play any role. She is unlikely to campaign in the coming assembly elections. The Prime Minister has failed to deliver and maintain price situation at a reasonable level. He is not asserting. He seldom interacts with media persons and whenever he meets them he says he could not live up to the people's expectations because of compuls...   READ MORE   Govt issues red alert over Facebook mischief in Valley Demonstrators blame authorities for being 'permissive' to blasphemous pages 11/17/2011 11:44:06 PM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz SRINAGAR, Nov 17: Sensing serious threat to over year-long tranquility, authorities have issued red alert against any attempts to create communal unrest in Kashmir Valley. This time around an outrageously blasphemous Facebook page, coupled with some recent religious conversions, is leading to a palpable mass mobilization in the heavily Muslim-dominated population. Low intensity demonstrations at several places today alerted the authorities who are now frantically trying to track down the administrators of the controversial page on the world's largest social networking domain. Shops remained shut in protest at Chadoura in Budgam district for some time, thin groups of demon...   READ MORE   Army averts tragedy, defuses IED 11/17/2011 11:43:35 PM Srinagar: Bomb Disposal Squad of Army Thursday averted a major tragedy when they defused an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by the roadside at Lassipora in Kupwara district. A police spokesperson said a patrol party of the army detected a five-kilogram IED placed in a pressure cooker alongside the Kupwara-Sogam road in north Kashmir. "Army's alert patrol party detected the IED and it was defused by bomb disposal squad who destroyed the device at a nearby field," he added. ...   READ MORE   HM commander killed in encounter 11/17/2011 11:43:20 PM Srinagar: A Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander was killed in an encounter with Army and SOG in Shopian district on Thursday. Police said a joint party of 44-RR, CRPF and SOG launched a cordon and search operation in Shalidora village of Shopian last night. Superintendent of Police Shopian Mumtaz Ahmad told KNS that militants present in the area opened fire on the search party in the wee hours which was retaliated. "In the encounter, one commander of Hizbul Mujahideen Muneer Ahmad Kalas was killed. One AK-47 rifle and a magazine were recovered from the encounter site," he said. "Muneer was active in the area since last one year and was involved in several militancy related incidents," he added....   READ MORE   SHO, ASP Rajouri shielding accused, alleges Ex NC leader's daughter 11/17/2011 11:43:08 PM JAMMU: Zeenat Begum, mother of three children and daughter of ex District President (Udhampur) National Conference Abdul Gani Sheikh toady leveled serious allegations against Additional Superintendent of Police Shabir Choudhary saying they are shielding his husband. Speaking to media persons here this evening, dejected and depressed Zeenat showing marks of injuries on her body to media persons alleged that she was continuously harassed by her husband Bader Hussain of Gujjar Mandi Rajouri. "The things worsened since the Badar had developed illicit relations with other woman, she alleged, adding when she objected she was assaulted by her husband. To my surprise she said, "when I went to lo...   READ MORE

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