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| CM's Kashmiri Advisor gets Dogri serial for his son | | DD Kashir: Fighting Pak propaganda or generating heartburn in Jammu? | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Dec 8: He contested elections on National Conference (NC) ticket in 2005 and represented Srinagar downtown area of Islamyarbal in Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) till February 2010. He was regularly paid honorarium as a public representative. But, that was not enough for Mubarak Gul's son, Younis Gul, who fraudulently projected himself as a "private producer" and appeared in the government competition, like his father, in 2007-09, when he was NC's elected corporator in Srinagar. By virtue of being son of the Advisor to J&K Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, Younis Gul has now got DD Kashir's Rs 24 Lakh project "Allhar Golli Vir Sepoy"---an 8-episode drama serial, not in Kashmiri but in Dogri language. Gul's business firm Himalayan Communications has just begun shooting of this Dogri fiction at different locations in Jammu.
Once instrumentalists in Nawab Bazar's Shah Dramatic Club, Mubarak Gul and Ali Mohammad Chralu (now Sagar) had begun their political career together when they floated NC's youth wing, J&K Youth Federation, (later named as J&K Youth Nat... | |
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| Kissan Movement protest govt attitude towards Early Times | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Kathua, Dec 8: Resentment is brewing up among the people against government attitude towards the media, especially print.
The Kissan Movement, Wing-Nature Mankind Friendly Global Movement, today held a protest rally against the government for curbing the freedom of press, in Kathua.
The convenor of the Kisaan Movement Hurmat Singh regretted over the undemocratic approach of the Omar government towards media and in particular towards English daily Early Times for stopping all government advertisements.
''Inspite being a English daily, the Early Times newspaper has carved a niche among the people and farmers in particular for coming out with bold and informative news''... | |
| | | | J&K again chooses to silence voice of dissent | | Gag on media | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 8: Habitual of living in a brutalized democracy, Jammu and Kashmir government has seemingly chosen to silence voice of dissent by using both administrative and political means.
A word has gone across almost in all the relevant quarters that either you are with the government or against it but you have no middle path to choose. From police to Jammu and Kashmir State Information Department, all are leaving no stone unturned in applying this mantra in whatever quarter it is required.
Harass and intimidate whosoever speaks or writes about the lacunas in the working of the state administration. If the recent incidents are any indication, those pointing towards wr... | |
| | | | Captain, militant killed in Sopore gunbattle | | 25 missing youth suspected to have joined Lashkar | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 8: In two days of a fierce rocket attack on the residence of Superintendent of Police, Police and Army have killed a Pakistani militant of Lashkar-e-Toiba in Sopore but not before a Captain of Rashtriya Rifles lost his life in the operation.
Informed sources in North Kashmir told Early Times that Sopore Police and troops of Rashtriya Rifles swooped on Model Town 'B' outskirts in Sopore when they received specific information regarding the presence of two militants at a house late last night. The holed up militants opened indiscriminate gunfire on the troops. Captain Abhimanyu of RR 22 Bn, who was leading the troops, sustained critical injuries. He was resc... | |
| | | | Omar breaks silence over Sham's remarks, assures action | | | | KUNAL SHRIVATSA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 8: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah finally broke his silence over the controversial statement of his cabinet minister Sham Lal Sharma, who said that the state should be trifurcated for all round development of Jammu and Ladakh regions which he alleged are continuously being discriminated over the last more than 60 years.
Clearing coalition government's stand on Minister for Health Sham Lal's controversial statement, Omar Abdullah here today said that whatever has to be done will be done but only after scrutinizing Minister's remarks by the 'appropriate quarters'.
Though Omar did not elaborate much on the 'appropriate quarters', the Chief Minist... | |
| | | | Sham continues to rake up the discrimination issue | | Jammu Cause -- I | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 8: In December 2008, it was Sham Lal Sharma, presently Health Minister in the Omar Abdullah-led coalition government, who had taken the plunge and went to the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti (SAYSS)'s headquarters, Geeta Bhawan, Jammu, to make common cause with it and extend unstinted support to those spearheading the land-restoration movement. He did it on August 1. He took the lead and other Congress leaders, including RS Chib, presently Medical Education Minister, Raman Bhalla, presently Revenue Minister, Yogesh Sawhney, former minister, and a host of other Congress leaders followed in his footsteps and upped their ante against those opposing t... | |
| | | | 7 months after AI's Kashmir visit | | ‘They forgot to release report on PSA’ | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 8: The Amnesty International (AI) has delayed release of its report on use and abuse of Public Safety Act (PSA) in Jammu Kashmir for unknown reasons. The report was expected after three months of AI's Kashmir visit which started on May 17 this year.
A two member team of the Amnesty International arrived in the summer capital on May 17 to take stock of the human rights situation in Kashmir. The team comprised of two Indian born London based Indians who represent the Indian team in the south Asian chapter of the organization
Immediately after their arrival in Srinagar, the team members Ramesh Gopal Krishnan and Bikramjeet Batra called on separatists and civil ... | |
| | | | Swami Raj's flawed solution to the Jammu problem | | State Finance Commission | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 8: State Finance Commission's member and Congress leader, Swami Raj Sharma, has done exceptionally well to catalogue the reasons behind the neglect of Jammu region. But the solution he has suggested to surmount the problem of discrimination with Jammu province is highly flawed. It is not workable because it doesn't provide for a definite political institution invested with the required legislative powers. He has opined that the constitution of "Regional Autonomous Planning and Development Board" for Jammu province alone could "address regional aspirations." It seems he is living in a world of the past. He has completely overlooked the fact that regional ... | |
| | | | Mustafa to Geelani: Who were those million mourners in Sheikh Abdullah's funeral? | | 'History will decide who was the hero and who was the villain' | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
ET REPORT
SRINAGAR, Dec 8: War of words between the Hurriyat hawk, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, and the National Conference founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah's descendants has refused to die down. Sheikh's son, Dr Mustafa Kamal, today surfaced with a counter-offensive on Geelani and asserted that the man known as Sher-e-Kashmir for 50 years had lived and died as a hero for millions of the Kashmiris. In his statement on Monday, Geelani had berated Sheikh Abdullah, his dynasty and political party as "traitors and backstabbers of the Kashmiris".
Two-times Minister and currently NC's MLA from Hazratbal, Dr Mustaf Kamal claimed in his statement that his father and the NC founder She... | |
| | | | Old man's murder solved; wife, two paramours held | | | |
JAMMU: Police today worked out the conspiracy aspect and solved the murder of an old man at Chaprian near Sabjian in Mandi, Poonch, by arresting his wife and her two paramours, including a moulvi.
All the accused were cooling their feet in the Mandi police station lock up. They were identified as Zanib Bee alias Munni and her paramours -- tailor Mohammad Ashraf Bhatt, son of Jamal Din, and moulvi Noordin Sheikh, son of Abdullah, both residents of Chaprian.
Police sources said Sultan Mohammad, son of Wazir Mohammad of Chaprian, lodged a report with Sabjian police post Monday last that someone had murdered his uncle Amir Din (65), son of Lal Din, Sunday night.
Acting on the report, poli... | |
| | | | Sikkim minister visits Vaishno Devi shrine | | | | JAMMU: Sikkim housing minister Till Gorag paid obeisance at the holy cave shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi this morning. Accompanied by family members, she reached Katra, the base camp of the shrine, last night.
Official sources said she and her family members had darshans of the goddess this morning. She later returned to Jammu for her onward journey to Sikkim, the sources added.... | |
| | | | Body recovered in Akhnoor | | | | JAMMU: The body of an unidentified 70-year-old old man was found lying under mysterious circumstances by the roadside near a government high school at Devipur in Akhnoor today.
Police sources said the body, which bore external injury marks, was found lying by the roadside near Devipur government high school by some pedestrians in the morning.
It had been kept in the mortuary of sub-district hospital, Akhnoor, for identification. Police had registered a case in this connection.... | |
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