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Coalition's 'Deewali-Eid gift' to unemployed youth is patently absurd, whimsical and nonsense Ministers, who raised their own salaries from Rs 40,000 to Rs 90,000 in 2011, have no moral ground to slash salaries of inferior services by 75% 11/9/2011 12:27:32 AM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz SRINAGAR, Nov 8: They call it a 'revolutionary reform' and claim that it has been done under pressure from the central Planning Commission but leaders of the ruling National Conference (NC) have little hesitation to admit privately that the coalition government's new recruitment policy could prove to be the proverbial last nail in its coffin. "We are in shackles. Our lips are tight. But we are pretty aware that this nonsense recruitment policy is diagonally opposite to our Vision Document as well as NC's Election Manifesto of 2008", observed a senior functionary of the ruling party whose inputs had enriched the promises made to the electorate three years ago. Failure to provide jobs to the unemployed youth was indisputably NC's strongest criticism to Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's PDP-Congress regime in 2002-2005. More than anything else, NC accordingly made employment as its biggest election plank in 2008. In its first year, the coalition floated the much-hyped SKEWPY which is miserably still a non-starter. Even the MOU between Department of Labour & Employment and Jamm...   READ MORE

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'Let AFSPA wait; get freeze over mobile connections lifted' 11/9/2011 12:26:24 AM Syed Junaid Hashmi JAMMU, Nov 8: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah may have failed to get Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) revoked from 'some districts within next few days', questions are now being asked whether he would able to convince Union Home Secretary to lift ban over pre-paid SMSs besides doing away with bar on number of SMSs that can be sent from a post-paid connection in a day. Observers define this as test of Omar's administrative capabilities and assert that revocation of AFSPA involves five different institutions viz. State government, central government, Union Home Ministry, Union Defence Ministry and Army. In comparison to this, observers maintain that a merely four line...   READ MORE   Ministers in Omar's Council indulging in 'loot game'….! With no accountability who will address corruption…? 11/9/2011 12:25:45 AM Brazen allegations conveyed to AICC Secretary: Embezzlement in multiples of 400 to 500 crores are being committed by ministers including those of Congress under Omar led regime Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 8: Durbaar opens in the winter capital tomorrow under a grim political scenario when NC led coalition is facing a host of serious issues, rampant corruption being the grave one, for which Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, his own party NC and his council of ministers are under attack from all quarters. Successive events in the past have only bared the allegations coming from opposition and other quarters.With senior leaders from even Congress raising the matter of rampant corruption and...   READ MORE   Autocrats in JKCA throw constitution to winds Cricket or Racket 11/9/2011 12:25:06 AM JAMMU: It is said that sanctity of every system or you may call it in every organisation, association or even institution is directly proportional to the preserving of its constitution. Or, in other words, running any organisation without following its constitution is simply to flog a dead horse rather to blow a death-knell to that organisation. Same is the case with the elitist cricketing body of the state, the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA), which runs its affairs unconstitutionally, rather throwing its constitution to winds, to leave the entire cricket community in the lurch, courtesy-a few in-genuine members, who are hell-bent upon to hijack the association, forcing them t...   READ MORE   'Back door appointments, embezzlement in Culture Academy' Whistle blower knocks court's door for pension withheld by JU 11/9/2011 12:24:37 AM Sumit Sharma JAMMU, Nov 8: In what could be described as 'official witch hunting', a Right To Information (RTI) activist's pensionary benefits have been with held by his employer for daring to spill the beans of alleged back door appointments and embezzlement in J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages. The RTI activist Anil Saraf of Upper Bazar near Gadadhar Mandir, Jammu retired from Institute of Music and Fine Arts (IMFA), Jammu, under the aegis of Culture Academy, on June 30, 2009 as instructor, however after his superannuation the Institute was taken over by Jammu University (JU). In the meantime Saraf lodged a complaint on the basis of information collected under RTI to the Chief...   READ MORE   Abdullahs to campaign for ‘Secular’ Congress! Wooing UP Minorities 11/9/2011 12:24:06 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 8: The latest news about Chief Minister and his father remind one of the old Kashmiri adage. "When Lassa's house was burning, he was fighting flames in his neighbor's house." Jammu Kashmir is plagued with a host of problems ranging from rampant corruption to underdevelopment but the Abdullahs intend to campaign for the Congress in forthcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. The Abdullahs have problems at the personal front as well. If Supreme Court allows the petition filed by Panthers Party founder, Professor Bhim Singh seeking registration of a criminal case against Omar for his alleged involvement in Haji Yusuf's case, Omar may have to quit e...   READ MORE   A week after SVO raid at his residence, ex-TSO commits suicide 11/9/2011 12:23:41 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 8: Over a week after state vigilance organisation (SVO) carried out a raid at his residence in ward No 8 of Vijaypur, Samba, for his alleged involvement in the misappropriation of foodgrains, ex-tehsil supply officer (TSO) Jagdish Singh today ended his life by consuming poison. Police sources said Jagdish, who was feeling dejected after the SVO raid and had been under depression, allegedly consumed poison at his residence in the afternoon. He was soon evacuated by his family to the GMC hospital where he breathed his last in the evening. His condition continued to be critical in the hospital and he could not recover, the sources added. In an alleged case of ...   READ MORE   Activities in Congress camp keep Omar on tenterhooks Crucial 57 days 11/9/2011 12:23:18 AM Rustam JAMMU, Nov 8: The votaries of rotational chief minister have intensified their "behind-the-scene" activities to prepare ground for ensuring replacement of the NC rule with the Congress rule in the first week of January 2012. They have been, according to insiders, "meeting almost everyday and working out a strategy that could clinch the issue in favour of the Congress". They are also "reviewing the situation on a daily basis". They are so determined to achieve their objective. Some of the top-ranking Congress leaders are also "lobbying" in New Delhi to ensure the end of Omar Abdullah's rule. They know that there are "certain elements" in the AICC as well as 10 Janpath, the official ...   READ MORE   JKNPP moves High Court, demands permanent secretariat for Jammu No Logic Behind Durbar Move -- I I 11/9/2011 12:22:08 AM Neha JAMMU, Nov 8: The JKNPP president, Balwant Singh Mankotia, the petitioner, has advanced in his Public Interest Litigation (PIL) several arguments on the basis of which he wishes the Jammu & Kashmir High Court to pass an order discontinuing the nearly 140-year-old practice of Durbar move between Jammu and Kashmir. A reference to some of them would be in order. Firstly, it was for the "convenience" of the people of Kashmir Valley,Ladakh, Gilgit and Baltistan that Maharaja Ranbir Singh started in 1872 the practice of Durbar move from Jammu, his capital, to Srinagar and vice-versa. This decision of the Dogra Maharaja was in the interest of people of the two provinces and it had been...   READ MORE

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