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| Rosy SKEWPY carries thorns, thistles for professional grads | | ‘It happens whenever bureaucrats are given the role of policy-makers’ | | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Dec 13: NC-led coalition government’s decision of assigning the role of policy-makers to serving as well as retired bureaucrats in the crucial matter of addressing the problem of unemployment in Jammu & Kashmir has turned out to be a blunder. It needs just half-an-hour to realise that so-called Sher-e-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for the Youth (SKEWPY) contains nothing for 15,000-odd unemployed youth having graduation and post-graduation in medical, veterinary, agriculture and forestry sciences besides engineering and technology.
Perhaps the best thing in the entire bureaucratic exercise is that it has been officially called neither a package no... | |
| | | | Hours after Pillai’s visit | | BSF foils infiltration bid in Ramgarh area | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 13: The Border Security Force today foiled an infiltration bid by suspected militants along Indo-Pak border in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir. The incident comes barely hours after Union Home Secretary GK Pillai visited the nearby areas along International Border.
A group of suspected militants were seen moving near the International Border (IB) in Ballard border out post (BoP) area in Ramgarh sub-sector, 50 kms from here, around 1.30 am, police said. There was firing from the Pakistan side hours after the Home Secretary's visit to the international border.
As the BSF patrol party picked up the movement, they started firing at them, police said, ad... | |
| | | | J&K reports first swine flu death | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Dec 13: The preparedness of Jammu and Kashmir’s Health department came in for question today when state reported its first swine flu death. The victim was being treated in the Intensive Care Unit of the Soura hospital instead of the designated hospital of the town.
A 21-year-old woman succumbed to swine flu here, becoming the first victim of the H1N1 virus in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said Sunday.
Muskan from Tullamulla, near here, was admitted to the Soura medical institute Dec 1 after she developed acute respiratory distress.
Doctors at the institute admitted her to the intensive care unit (ICU) and her samples were sent to Delhi for examinati... | |
| | | | Pre-paid cell ban to continue | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 13: The home ministry has turned down the Jammu and Kashmir government's plea to lift the ban on the prepaid mobile phone connections in the state, saying the restriction was a "security requirement".
Home Secretary G.K. Pillai, who concluded his two-day-visit of Jammu and Kashmir Saturday, made it plain to state government officials that prepaid mobile services cannot be restored in Jammu and Kashmir at the moment, official sources said.
He also advised the officials to stop raising the issue as it was causing "an unnecessary controversy and helping the separatists".
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had requested Home Minister P. Chidambaram during a meetin... | |
| | | | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 13: Two CRPF personnel allegedly committed suicide inside their camps, while a BSF jawan died of heart attack at a forward post in Kashmir valley on Sunday, a police spokesman said.
Ganesh Shankar, a constable of 157th battalion CRPF, allegedly shot himself to death with his service rifle inside Battalion Headquarters at Batmaloo area of Central Srinagar, the spokesman said.
Another CRPF personnel identified as Omprakash, working as a washerman with 158th battalion, allegedly hanged himself inside his barrack at Vicharnag on the outskirts of the city, he said.
Jeth Ram, a head constable of 141st battalion BSF, suffered a massive heart attack while on ... | |
| | | | CBI to submit its already leaked probe report in High Court today | | | |
ET REPORT/AGENCIES
Jammu, Dec 13: In the drop scene of controversial Shopian double rape and murder case, the Central Bureau of Investigations is all set to file its already leaked report before the Jammu and Kashmir High Court in Srinagar tomorrow. A leading national news channel has already reported on the CBI findings and concluded that two Shopian girls died of drowning and they were not raped. The report has been strongly contended by those who have been watching the incident since it occurred.
The CBI, which had been given a two-month time by a division bench of the high court on October 13 to finish the probe into the alleged rape cum murder case, was expected to submit the sta... | |
| | | | Clarify quiet dialogue: BJP | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 13: Member of Parliament and Bhartiya Janta Party deputy leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Surinder Singh Ahluwalia today asked the Central Government to come out with a blue print on ‘Quiet Diplomacy’ initiated over proposed dialogue on the Kashmir issue.
''We never opposed dialogue process initiated to resolve Kashmir imbroglio by the Centre, but the Government should maintain transparency on the basics on which it has mooted the diplomacy,'' Mr Ahluwalia said while addressing a gathering here this afternoon.
Expressing his apprehension over ‘the system of silent talks’ kept in hiding, Mr Ahluwalia said ''Whenever Congress has tried any adventure on... | |
| | | | A lonely Kashmiri Pandit on bizarre peace process | | | |
ABID SHAH
NEW DELHI, DEC 13: Pandit Bhushan Bazaz is one among those few persons from the Kashmir Valley who supports resolution of the vexed issue of Kashmir by India and Pakistan as per the wishes of majority Muslim population of Jammu and Kashmir that cuts across the borders of the two countries.
He believes that this can revive the best ethos of the land allowing both Muslims and Hindus to coexist in peace and harmony despite their terms being vitiated by the demands of politics and rivalry between India and Pakistan and their supporters in the Valley.
Thus, Bazaz issued a statement here today that has been immediately picked up by one of the news agencies of Pakistan while bac... | |
| | | | Decade later, J&K’s gateway still stinks, | | | |
MUNISH GUPTA
Jammu, Dec 13: The Government's dream project of beautification of the only entry point into the state at Lakhanpur is yet to be completed. The project was conceived a decade ago but till date there has been no marked progress in its completion. If not anybody else the Finance Minister, Abdul Rahim Rather, has initiated a move for beautification and upgradation of the modern toll plaza by allocating Rs.10 crores in the current budget proposals.
Though over four months have passed there is no sign of activity pertaining to the upgradation of the toll plaza. Lakhanpur continues to be as good or bad as the Inter-state Bus terminal (ISBT) in New Delhi. Over 100 feet wide ro... | |
| | | | A lonely Kashmiri Pandit on bizarre peace process | | | |
ABID SHAH
NEW DELHI, DEC 13: Pandit Bhushan Bazaz is one among those few persons from the Kashmir Valley who supports resolution of the vexed issue of Kashmir by India and Pakistan as per the wishes of majority Muslim population of Jammu and Kashmir that cuts across the borders of the two countries.
He believes that this can revive the best ethos of the land allowing both Muslims and Hindus to coexist in peace and harmony despite their terms being vitiated by the demands of politics and rivalry between India and Pakistan and their supporters in the Valley.
Thus, Bazaz issued a statement here today that has been immediately picked up by one of the news agencies of Pakistan while bac... | |
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