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| Rajouri turns coalition capital: CM, 11 Ministers tour in three weeks | | District administration on protocol duty, only 14% work executed till October end | | |
ZAFAR CHOUDHARY
Jammu, Dec 18: The Government, through an order of the General Administration Department on personal instructions of Chief Minister, has advised the Divisional Commissioners of Jammu and Kashmir to spend half of the month outside their headquarters and half in their offices for a balance between file work and field work monitoring.
Not far away from the capital cities and divisional headquarters, the Deputy Commissioner of Rajouri JP Singh and the SSP Shafqat Wattali have rarely been able to attended their offices over past one month. It does not mean that they were over exerting on the field work monitoring at the cost of file work. In fact, these two top officers of the district administration along with many others are mostly on the protocol duty of Ministers as Rajouri appears to have been turned into a ‘capital’ of coalition Ministers.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has recently taken a pragmatic step asking the Divisional Commissioners and Zonal Inspectors General of Jammu and Kashmir Divisions not to take an extra trouble of protocol by seeing him o... | |
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| CBI report on Shopian is a fraud, DM is lying on troops reduction: Mirwaiz | | CBI report on Shopian is a fraud, DM is lying on troops reduction: Mirwaiz | | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Dec 18: With almost entire separatist as well as mainstream opposition joining hands to discredit CBI’s findings and chargesheet on Shopian and nobody in the two ruling coalition parties---National Conference and Congress---providing any background music to Home Minister P Chidambram, Chairman of a faction of pro-Azadi Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, today dismissed the central agency’s exercise as a sham. The cleric-politician, who looked receptive to the Centre’s suggestion of secret dialogue until yesterday, has also told his Friday congregation audience that Defence Minister A K Antony’s claim of troops reduction in the Valley was patently f... | |
| | | | CM's incognito drive was more a "joy" drive! | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 18: Known for making off-the-cuff tongue-in-cheek remarks, Farooq Abdullah, as chief minister, walked through the congested markets of the winter capital city and relished dry fruit at Raghunath Bazar. Son, Omar Abdullah, now chief minister, last night chose to drive in disguise as he didn't want to be recognised at police checking
points which, as per his version, were under his "scanner". Apart from checking alertness of cops at nakas, he also wanted to have first hand information about traffic cops to find out if they worked properly to regulate vehicular traffic, according to official sources.
If that be the reason, the question is why he chose the... | |
| | | | 30,000 Troops Withdrawn from J&K | | Antony rules out AFSPA rollback, for now | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
New Delhi, Dec 18: With the situation "improving" in Jammu and Kashmir, the Government today said it has withdrawn two Army divisions, comprising 30,000 men, from the state but made it clear that the operation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) there could not be revoked at present.
However, it favoured "detailed discussion" to bring about some modifications in the controversial Act.
"Indian Army, by their own initiatives, have withdrawn two divisions (30,000) from J-K. Last year, they withdrew one, and this year the second division was withdrawn. They have been withdrawn because the situation has improved," Defence Minister A K Antony told re... | |
| | | | BSF, Pak Rangers hold flag meeting | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu Dec 18: In the backdrop of ceasefire violations by Pakistan, BSF held a flag meeting with Pakistani rangers and raised the issue of various infiltration attempts and cross border firing along the international border in the last six months.
The meeting was held along the Indo-Pak border at Octroi border outpost, 40 kms from here, last evening.
At the meeting, the BSF side was represented by DIG Vasudev of Indreswar Nagar sector and DIG J P Sangwan, while Brigadier Masood, Lt Commandant Abdul Khalid, Major Karim, Major Sayeed and Intelligence officer Zulfikar represented Pak Rangers.
Besides the issue of cross-border firing along the border in Jammu, Sam... | |
| | | | SAC chief case: | | DB exempts CS | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec18: The State Chief Secretary has been exempted from appearing in person in the matter of appointment of Chairperson of State Accountability Commission. Modifying the earlier order of the Single Judge of December 11 directing Chief Secretary to appear in person to explain his position in response to the petition seeking appointment of Chairperson SAC, the Division Bench in an LPA filed by the state of Jammu and Kashmir, directed CS to file supplementary affidavit to explain the earlier compliance report.
The Bench comprising Justice JP Singh and Justice Mohammed Yaqoob Mir, after hearing Advocate General MI Qadiri appearing for the State and Advocate Aseem... | |
| | | | India for equitable climate pact in 2010: PM tells Copenhagen | | | |
Copenhagen: India on Friday acknowledged that it expected no concrete outcome from the Copenhagen Climate Conference and called for a collective and global effort to come out with a plan in the year 2010.
Addressing the conference, PM Manmohan Singh reiterated India’s position on any kind of deal that may emerge from negotiations. He said India stood for the principle of equity and respective capability.
He emphasised that a vast majority of countries did not support any dilution on the pacts agreed upon in Rio and in Kyoto. “To settle for something less would be settling for diminished expectations and actions which will be a wrong message coming out of this conference.”
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| | | | Missing from Mahore,man killed in Kashmir | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 18: A Mahore youth, who was reported missing in police records for the past over seven years, had actually turned out to be a top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant. The matter came to light yesterday when the identity of the militant killed by troops on Wednesday last in a gunbattle at Lalpora, Kupwara, was established.
Police sources said Ghulam Hussain had gone missing from his residence at Chhajroo in Mahore on January 13, 2002. Since then no one in Mahore had heard about him. The Mahore-based troops, or police also did not have any idea about him. A missing report was lodged by his father with Mahore Police Station. Sources said after he died in an encou... | |
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