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| Has DC Rajouri Ghulam Ahmed changed DOB to overstay in service? | | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
jammu, Dec 16: If appointment records of Animal and Sheep Husbandry department are to be relied upon, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Rajouri Khawaja Ghulam Ahmed should have retired in March 2010.
However, this is not the case. Khawaja is still serving and if not inducted into the IAS, he would retire in March 2014 i.e. almost four years later than the purported actual date of his retirement. A senior officer who retired from finance department claimed to have dispatched a letter to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah apart from sending copies of same to State Vigilance Commissioner (SVC), Commissioner/Secretary GAD and IGP (Crime and Railways) informing them about the alleged wrong doing of Khawaja.
The complainant has appended copies of first appointment of Khawaja Ghulam Ahmed as 'Flock Supervisor' in Sheep Husbandry Department alongwith tentative seniority list of flock supervisors for District Poonch for the year 1972 besides attaching a photo copy of seniority list of KAS officers issued by General Administration Department (GAD) in the year 2005 when Ghulam Ahmed K... | |
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| NC-Cong coordination committee meet put off | | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Dec 16: Meeting of the high powered coordination committee of National Conference (NC)-Congress coalition government has been postponed and would be now be held either on Monday or Tuesday.
Highly placed sources said that meeting was postponed owing to non-availability of some members of this high powered committee. They said that most members who expressed unwillingness belonged to National Conference (NC). "The meeting had been called on a short-notice. Agenda was extensive and hence, it was decided to postpone the same," said one of the members of the high powered committee.
It has been reliably learnt that the meet was put off more because of non-availabilit... | |
| | | | AFSPA: Antony says threat to J&K can't be ignored | | | | Early Times Report
New Delhi, Dec 16: Against the backdrop of demands for revoking AFSPA from parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Defence Minister AK Antony on Friday said though violence levels have come down, cross-border infiltration attempts were still on in the state and the "threat" there can't be ignored.
"Even though violence level has reduced substantially, attempts at infiltration are still persisting... We can't ignore the threat," he told reporters at the 40th Vijay Diwas (Victory Day) of Bangladesh Liberation War.
The Minister was asked to comment on the demands for revoking of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from some parts of the state in view of a recent terror... | |
| | | | Cabinet nod to administrative reshuffle: transfers, postings effected | | Khanday is Pr Secy Finance, Sudhanshu goes to Power, Basharat gets MD PDC post, Sarita is new VC JDA | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Dec 16: In the bureaucratic reshuffle which the Omar Abdullah led cabinet today effected senior most bureaucrat of the state Iqbal Khanday has been transferred and posted as Principal Secretary Finance Department.
Sudhanshu Pandey who held this post for over two years has been sent to Power Department replacing one more senior officer Basharat Ahmed Dar whereas Dar has been transferred and posted as Managing Director J&K State Power Development Corporation (PDC). For Khanday, the new posting is being viewed as something due and deserving, he being the second in the line of administrative hierarchy after Chief Secretary in terms of seniority. Khanday remained as ... | |
| | | | Geelani dares Abdullahs yet again | | ‘If army is withdrawn Govt will go into hiding' | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Dec 16: "Allow me to hold a rally in Lal Chowk and will show you whose writ runs in Kashmir." This is how Hurriyat (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani responded to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's statement wherein he had urged the separatists to refrain from hooliganism and fight politically."
Lal Chowk, pertinent to mention, remains out of bounds for the separatists since 2008. Geelani also continues to be under perpetual `house arrest' since last year's agitation. "If armed forces are withdrawn all of them (pro-Indian lobby) will go into hiding", he said in a hard hitting statement.
Geelani's supporters have welcomed the challenge. They are confident that nobody ... | |
| | | | Enquiry commissions have proved futile exercise: Khalida | | Farooq, Omar must come clean on corruption charges: ANC | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
jammu, Dec 16: Sher-e-Kashmir's daughter and Awami national Conference (ANC) Chief, Khalida Shah has said that Dr Farooq and his son, Omar Abdullah must come clean on corruption charges levelled against them after National Conference (NC) worker Haji Yusuf's death in Crime Branch custody.
Khalida said she did not know Yusuf. "However, his mysterious death needs to be thoroughly probed", she said.
"I have no concern with what deceased Hajji Mohammad Yousf used to do, but whatever he (Hajji Yousf) was---- He is indeed a human being ---- if any person went to Chief Minister's residence or any other place and later died, no matter what are the reasons behind his death; tha... | |
| | | | Tourists stay away from Mansar lake as entire road stretch dotted with "death traps" | | | | Bharat Bhushan
samba (jammu), Dec 16: The famous Mansar lake, which attracts tourists every year from different parts of the country, sans visitors nowadays. Reason: Road to it is dotted with death traps in the form of pits that have come all over.
Tourists feel that by attempting to travel on the 25-km Samba-Mansar tramac road, they would be putting their lives in danger. Also, they do not want to make their journey pathetic and exhausting by travelling on the dilapidated road.
The lake, which is on the national and the state tourist maps, is situated in the midst of lusting greeneries of Shivaliks. It is visited by thousands of domestic and outside tourists every year.
It is popular a... | |
| | | | People forget KC as Jethmalani goes ‘missing’ | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 16: BJP leader and head of the Kashmir Committee (KC), Ram Jethmalani, seems to have taken his hands off Kashmir. The noted lawyer who wanted to open new channels of dialogue to work out solutions is virtually `missing' for the past seven months. Apolitical activist has plans to pay a handsome consideration for information about his whereabouts.
He headed a delegation to Pakistan in April to bridge the gap between Islamabad and New Delhi. But in the process he has lost contact with the Kashmiris whom he wanted to meet to bring them `close to Delhi'.
Madhu Keshwar, who is convener of the Kashmir Committee even criticised New Delhi's nominated interlo... | |
| | | | Will Soz's intervention work? | | Lawyers' Strike | | | Neha
jammu, Dec 16: JKPCC president Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz has done exceedingly well to take cognizance of the ongoing over two-week-long lawyers' strike in Jammu and ask Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to "reconsider transfer of registration of documents from judiciary to the revenue department". Prof Soz on Wednesday reportedly told the Chief Minister that "in his opinion" the transfer of registration powers to the revenue department would "create lot of confusion and pressure at lower level of revenue department" and that the "registration of documents should rest at various levels of judicial system". Besides, he has suggested that the "revenue minister should be consulted on the issue as t... | |
| | | | Contribution of Jammu to national integration | | Fighting Ideological War | | | Rustam
jammu, Dec 16: It would not be an exaggeration to say that Kashmir rules over the state politically and Jammu ideologically, notwithstanding the controversial and uninspiring role of most of the Jammu-based leaders, most of whom work as Kashmiri agents for personal power and profit. The Jammu people's contribution to the state's integration into the national mainstream is splendid and spectacular. The Hindus of Jammu province constitute a minority social group in the state, but have been fighting an ideological war.
Some of the most outstanding contributions of the otherwise ignored people of Jammu include (i) dismissal and arrest of Wazir-e-Azam Sheikh Abdullah in 1953; (ii) aboli... | |
| | | | | | | CB books notorious land grabber | | | | jammu: Crime Branch, Jammu today has registered a case against Ravinder Gupta @ Gola Shah and two others for allegedly hatching a criminal conspiracy and cheated the innocent complainants in a land sale deal by manipulating revenue records. A case against FIR No. 19/2011 u/s 420, 467, 468, 471 & 120-B RPC stands registered against them.
According to the Crime Branch spokesperson the organizations registered a Case FIR No. 19/2011 u/s 420, 467, 468, 471 & 120-B RPC against the accused persons Ravinder Gupta @ Gola Shah son of Suraj Parkash Jandyal resident of Jammu, Joginder Singh son of Ram Saran resident of Sunjwan, Jammu and Late Chet Singh son of Bhag Singh resident of Sunjwan, Jammu wh... | |
| | | | Rival Hurriyat factions clash in Sopore, Kangris hurled at each other | | | |
srinagar: Supporters of rival factions of Hurriyat Conference on Friday clashed at Sopore town in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, pelting stones and hurling 'kangris' at each other, official sources said.
The supporters of the two factions clashed as Chairman of the moderate faction, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, finished his address to a public meeting at Tarzoo in the town, 55 km from here, they said.
Mirwaiz's supporters raised slogans in his favour which irked the followers of hardline Hurriyat Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who hails from the apple town.
Initially, the rival factions engaged in sloganeering but the situation turned ugly as they hurled kangris (traditional fire p... | |
| | | | Valley freezes at minus 3.8 | | | |
srinagar: Parts of the world famous Dal Lake were frozen near banks as people in the summer capital, Srinagar, woke up to a coldest morning of the winter so far after the minimum dipped to minus 3.8 degrees this morning, four degree below normal.
The nights will remain coldest while the maximum will be above normal in the Kashmir valley due to open sky in the absence of Western Disturbances (WD), originating in the Arabian sea and entering the region through Afghanistan and Pakistan.
A Met department spokesman said there would be no major change in the weather during the next 24 hours. The weather will remain dry but cold due to icy cold winds, he said, adding that the day temperature w... | |
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