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| Hurriyat leader Fazal Haq almost dead in attack | | Al-Nasireen’s loud and clear warning to actors of ‘quiet diplomacy’ | | |
AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
SRINAGAR, Dec 4: Senior separatist leader and a member of the Executive Committee of Hurriyat Conference (Mirwaiz faction), Fazal Haq Qureshi, today became the first casualty of the cacophony of ‘quiet diplomacy’ and secret dialogue between the Kashmiri secessionists and Government of India when a guman in ambush pumped pistol shots into his head while returning to home after performing the evening prayers at a mosque in Soura outskirts of this capital city. Doctors at Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura passed the nearly dead Qureshi through a surgical procedure but maintained that he was “very unlikely to recover”. Hurriyat has pointed fi... | |
| | | | Incident worrying for Home Ministry | | | |
ABID SHAH
NEW DELHI, DEC 4: Today’s incident of shooting at Srinagar is bound to give headache to the Union Home Ministry. Throughout the evening there was no reaction from the Ministry about the incident in which a senior Hurriyat leader was shot at and critically wounded in the summer Capital of Jammu and Kashmir. Yet indications are that the security net around separatist brigade would tighten in the days to come.
It seems that the task of issuing initial response to the attack on Fazal Haque Qureshi has been left by the Central Government to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. He has indicated that the peace nicks in Hurriyat bandwagon face real threat of life.
Strangely, this is ofte... | |
| | | | Race picks up for SMVDU top post | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 4: It’s been three months since the Governor, N N Vohra had given his nod to a five-member selection committee to choose the successor of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU) Vice Chancellor Prof N K Bansal, who completed his term last month, but till date the suspense continues over the matter and the University is waiting to get its new boss.
According to highly placed sources in the Governor House, the selection committee recently submitted the panel of short-listed candidates to the Governor, who is the Chancellor of the University. A total of five persons have been recommended by the selection committee of which, His Excellency would finalize the... | |
| | | | Senior IAS officers denied their due | | | |
SANT KUMAR SHARMA
Jammu, December 4:
The state government has failed to give the chief secretary’s grade to several IAS officers despite at least four vacancies. The IAS officers become entitled to this grade, with a basic of Rs 80,000, after completing 30 years of service.
Presently, there are only three officers in J&K who are placed in this grade, the Chief Secretary, Mr S S Kapur, and Mr S S Sahni, the Resident Commissioner of J&K operating out of 5 Prithviraj Road, Delhi, and the Financial Commissioner (Home), Mr Samuel Verghese.
Mr Sahni is the seniormost IAS officer in the state and Mr Kapur had superseded him last year.
Several IAS officers of J&K cadre, who have already c... | |
| | | | Azad hints at liberalising standards for opening new Medical Colleges | | | |
New Delhi: The government on Friday said it was working closely with the Medical Council of India and has liberalised norms for opening new colleges to produce more doctors to meet shortage of medical staff in primary health centres.
"For opening of new medical colleges, land requirements have been rationalised. In respect of North-East and hill states, the bed strength in the teaching hospitals has been liberalised among other steps," Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said in Lok Sabha during the Question Hour.
Eight new AIIMS-like hospitals, which would also have medical colleges, would be opened in next two years, he said.
In next three-four years, due to these initiatives, thousa... | |
| | | | Nago, brothers sent to 11 judicial custody | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 04- After completion of their 15 days police remand, the Nagar brothers were today granted judicial remand for a period of 11 days for destruction of evidence in the much publicized murder case of Amandeep Singh .
Special Municipal Magistrate Jammu SS Bali today granted judicial remand for a period of 11 days to Choudhary Jagar Singh, Choudhary Nagar Singh and Rakesh Kumar. The accused persons have been produced in tight security in the Court by the Incharge SIT SP Mubaisr Latifi for remanding them to judicial custody for a period of 15 days. However, the Court after perusing the application filed by the SIT as well as case dairy granted 11days judicial rema... | |
| | | | CAPD’s kerosene regulation | | Official prise Rs 10, not available even for 20 | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, DEC 4: Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) department has decided to reduce the number Kerosene oil depots as according to the ministry considerable reduction in consumption was recorded. Result of which one thousand liters were surrendered during the month of October onwards, even after about 1111 kerosene licenses were cancelled three years ago.
The question, however, remains: have the numbers of consumers reduced or the people have turned so rich in Jammu that they don’t need kerosene any more to use? If the population reduced in Jammu only or does the income increased for the people of Jammu and not for the people in Kashmir and Ladakh? However... | |
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