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| Echoes of Andhra episode in the Valley | | | |
ABID SHAH
NEW DELHI, DEC 27 – President Pratibha Patil has, indeed, accepted today the resignation of Andhra Pradesh Governor Narain Datt Tiwari in the wake of outrage following a TV sting operation exposing worst kind of lust, though grounds of failing health have been cited by the Governor for stepping down.
Sadly unlike this, similar cases involving the higher ups in public life elsewhere in the country, or outside the confines of Andhra Pradesh, may not necessarily meet a similar end.
And in case a punishment comes at all this may take as long as 19 years and may turn out to be as mild as six months in jail as has been the case with the former DGP of Haryana SPS Rathore for molesting a poor girl and a tennis player called Ruchika Grihotra who later committed suicide.
What is even more appalling is that punishment in such cases is what is mostly talked about without bringing in focus to the abysmal low that public life and its practitioners or public servants may have hit.
The audio CDs exposing a Samajwadi Party leader’s risqué telephonic talks a ... | |
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| Moharram processions continue in Valley despite tension in Srinagar | | TV camera crews injured in clash after Kangri attack on procession at Maisuma | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Dec 27: Nearly two dozen persons, including six photojournalists and head of a Police Station, today sustained injuries in ding dong clashes between stone pelting groups and Police when an unidentified person lobbed a fire container (Kangri) on a Moharram procession at Maisuma in the capital city. Scores of Tazia and Alam processions were taken out today on occasion of 9th of Moharram in Shia-dominated localities all over Kashmir valley where the month’s largest event, Ashoora, is being celebrated with solemnity on Monday to remember Prophet Mohammad’s grandson, Hazrat Imam Hussain, and 71 of his companions martyred at Karbala in Iraq over 1400 years ago.
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| | | | Amandeep Murder Case | | Court permits Mirza to attend his brother's funeral | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 27: Inspector Sultan Mirza, lodged in Kot-Bhalwal jail along with SSP Manohar Singh for their alleged role in the fudging of weapon of offence in Amandeep Murder Case, was today given two days permission by the court to attend the funeral of his younger brother.
Sultan's younger brother --Zameel Mirza -- died at his District Police Lines (DPL) Quarter No 33-D all of a sudden Saturday night. He was preparing for KAS exams. As their parents live in their ancestral house at Neti in Rajouri, Zameel's body was taken by the family members to Neti this morning.
When Sultan was told about his younger brother's death this morning, he approached the court through his ... | |
| | | | Homeland can be carved out | | No power on Earth can divide India: Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, DEC 27
Conveying a word of caution to anti-national forces who with their nefarious designs are trying hard to breach the sovereignty of the nation, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan said that no power on earth can divide India further more as long as the nationalist forces are united and safeguarding the interests of the country.
Shiv Raj was addressing a gathering at a function organised by Panun Kashmir in connection with the annual Home Land Day.
He said India is a big and ancient country having vast and rich cultural heritage which can not be ruined by those who are hell bent upon creating another division of this great nation.
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| | | | Jammu to observe bandh against Justice Sageer WG report today | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 27 : Justice Sageer-headed Fifth Working Group’s (WG) recommendations on State-Centre relationship seems to be snowballing into a major controversy in this militancy-torn state with some major political parties flexing muscles to oppose the report.
Several political and social parties, particularly from Jammu region and the Ladakh area, have expressed concern over the recommendations of Justice Sageer report, which was submitted to the state government on Wednesday.
Taking a lead, Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) has called for Jammu bandh tomorrow to protest the ‘’anti-people’’ recommendations of the Fifth WG Committee constituted by Prime ... | |
| | | | Two women murdered in Doda for resisting a sex maniac's advances | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 27:
In the first such incident of its kind in the area, a 60-year-old woman and her daughter-in-law were murdered by a youth in the forests of Doda district after they resisted his alleged moves to outrage their modesty.
The double-murder, which sparked off strong protest in the area, took place in Kothi Puneja forests of Thathri in Bhaderwah tehsil of Doda this afternoon.
Police sources said Gomti Devi (60) and Reeta Devi (25), both residents of remote Kothi Puneja village in Thathri, left home for the forests in the morning to collect wirefood.
Rohit Sharma, a local youth who works as a servant of a village landlord, had also gone to the same forests ... | |
| | | | JK has Sapphire worth Rs 1 billion in its bosom | | | |
Sikander Khan
Jammu, Dec 27: Besides being an all season tourist destination, Jammu Kashmir has tremendous mineral reserves in its bosom. The state’s Sapphire outshines even diamond and is considered the best in the world. But notwithstanding its massive reserves, the state tragically is not even in a position to give salary to its employees and every time the government has to approach New Delhi with a begging bowl.
On May 19, 2004, when a single Sapphire from the state was sold for $1.50 M at Geneva, all those who believed the state could not survive without financial help from New Delhi were forced to eat a humble pie. The Sapphire was smuggled out of the state via Jaipur-Mumbai... | |
| | | | Soz accorded rousing reception at Jammu | | Cong calls for debate over WG recommendations | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 26
Calling for a debate over Working Group (WG) recommendations suggested by its chairman, Justice (retd) Sagheer Ahmed, Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) chief, Saif-ud-Din Soz today reiterated that his party would facilitate dialogue with other parties and groups on Centre-State relations’ report.
He also asserted that the Congress Party has no difficulty in discussing the documents of both National Conference’s autonomy and Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Self-rule.
Talking to the media persons at the sidelines of a function organised by the PCC to accord a rousing reception to him on his return from Hajj, Soz said, “My ... | |
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