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Angry students boycott classes on day 2 Farooq arrives at scene to pacify students 12/7/2007 11:00:37 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Dec7 Various students’ unions continued their protest against the Jammu University authorities who allegedly instead of taking action against the security arrangement suspended two students who were protesting against laxity of authorities in controlling outsiders who had entered into the campus and manhandled some students earlier. The agitated students demanded cancellation of FIR lodged against NSUI General Secretary Varinder Singh Chib and sought that University authority should reinstate him immediately. The students threaten to further intensify the stir in case the demands were not met. According to a JU official, the University authorities had made the arrangements of the security in the Campus. The agitated students tried to rush into the administration block but they were stopped there by the huge security personnel deployed there. The protestors also blocked the main gate of the University and the road for more than an hour. Later the police had to use minor cane charge to disperse the agitated students. In the late evening a group of...   READ MORE

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Arrested SPO found innocent 12/7/2007 10:52:13 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Dec 7 The Special Police Officer, (SPO), who picked from Chandak area of Poonch district with a grenade near the MP Omar Abdullah’s function during interrogation was found innocent and later released. According to sources, yesterday police arrested a SPO namely Mohd Yunis and recovered a grenade from his possession at an election rally which was being addressed to by the National Conference President Omar Abdullah. Sources said after his arrest, he was taken to police station for interrogation and during the interrogation it was found that he was attached with the army and was not aware about the function and was on his way to the house with grenade. Source...   READ MORE   ‘New jingle’ in political circles: ‘Youth Policies’ 12/7/2007 10:51:33 PM Sanjay Khajuria Jammu | Dec 7 Gone are the days when the political parties come with slogans like Garibi hatao. The obsession for the traditional and hackneyed slogans seemed to have vanished from state politics in Jammu and Kashmir as the political parties are coining new slogan the ‘youth policies’ for the coming electioneering phase in state due in 2008. It was the Polls 2002 –when PDP came riding over the ‘Healing Touch and Dialogue with Pakistan’; BJP stuck to traditional stand discrimination with Jammu, Jammu State Morcha (JSM) a new kid on the block coined ‘trifurcation’ while National Conference glued itself to the Regional Autonomy issue with Congress battled the polls with it...   READ MORE   SAC recommends dismissal of two PDD engineers for negligence of duty 12/7/2007 10:50:51 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu |Dec 7 : The state Accountability commission has recommended dismissal of two engineers on charge of their negligence which resulted in the electrocution of two casual workers,Malkiyat Singh and Anayat Ullah,in Bhaderwah on October 4,2005. In a complaint filed against the negligence of Idrees Khan,a Junior Engineer and Farid Ahmed Tak,AEE in PDD,who were absent when a major fault developed in Bhaderwah city’s Gawari receiving station.In the complaint it was stated that the two casual labourers were asked to climb the electric pole for effecting repair.Both the labourers were electrocuted in the absence of precautions taken by the two engineers who were suppos...   READ MORE   G M Shah's disclosure gives lie to Geelani's claims Reverting to pre 1953 status 12/7/2007 10:49:40 PM Early Times Special Correspondent Jammu | Dec 7 The controversial former J&K Chief Minister, who headed a government of NC defectors for a short period, has given lie to Tehrike Hurriyat leader Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani, who claimed that Sheikh Abdullah missed the opportunity to get passed a resolution in the J&K state assembly calling for restoration of pre 1953 status, despite the fact that the National Conference commanded absolute majority in the state assembly and that Sheikh Abdullah had rejected a proposal in this regard made by Sayeed Geelani and Abdul Gani Lone. G M Shah who was then a minister in Sheikh Abdullah led NC government in the state and was the closest confident of the S...   READ MORE

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