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| PDP 'divided' on contender from Jammu, nod to Nayeem from Valley | | LC polls: Congress tightlipped, 2 names decided for NC | | | ET Report
Jammu, Feb 11: With issuance of formal notification for polls on 8 seats of Legislative Council, the ball has been set rolling for political parties to decide on the candidates for each seat, though contest or polling looks unlikely as per the electoral college arrangement and the number of votes required for victory on each seat. While ruling allies Congress and National Conference are tightlipped both on their strategy for the polls as also for their candidates , PDP has almost finalized the names for two seats one each from Kashmir and Jammu province, on which its victory is certain. Coalition partners would finalize the things in the coordination committee to be convened a... | |
| | | | Massive protests erupt in Valley, death toll reaches three | | Geelani extends shutdown call till Friday | | | Mustansir
srinagar, Feb 11: The situation in Kashmir valley took an ugly turn today when the body of yet another youth was fished from river Jhelum near Wangipora village in Sumbal who was allegedly drowned in police chase yesterday and was missing since last evening. When the word about the deceased youth identified as Zubair Ahmad being retrieved from river spread, people in hundreds took to the streets shouting anti-establishment slogans. The angry protesters took the body in their possession and marched towards Sumbal hospital for performing autostopy test of the deceased. On way to Sumbal hospital from Batwin village the protesters were confronted by the Tehsildar Sumbal who was tryi... | |
| | | | Violence mars protests at several places, bid to burn Omar's effigy foiled | | Curfew continues for third consecutive day | | |
Saahil Suhail
anantnag, Feb 11: On the third consecutive day curfew was clamped strictly at most places across Valley, though high intensity protests were witnessed in reaction to the execution of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
Hundreds of people from Nowgam Verinag and adjacent villages today marched towards Verinag main chowk and held strong protest demonstrations. They tried to burn 'effigy' of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. However, police foiled their attempt and resulted clashes with deployed security forces, eye witness told this reporter, adding two persons were detained by the police during clashes.
They said that police raided various houses and arrested dozens of young... | |
| | | | Blue eyed defy transfer policy in Jammu, Rajouri, Udhampur | | Nepotism galore in PHE department | | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu, Feb 11: Nepotism and favouritism has become the order of the day in the Public Health Engineering department in Jammu as many blue eyed have glued on to their positions much beyond the tenures fixed for Government employees in the transfer policy of the Government.
The fact has been brought to the fore by an RTI query. The admittance of violation of transfer policy by PHE in twin hilly districts came after ET exposed the same by PHE City Division No. 1 Jammu, a couple of weeks ago in which ET reported with evidence that out of 179 officers/officials posted in this particular division, chosen few had managed same postings for the last 10 years and had been enjoying... | |
| | | | Omar bid to calm -down people anger | | Will he manage to escape political heat? | | |
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Feb 11: In his interview with New Delhi based English TV Channel, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tried to clam-down the growing anger among the people of Kashmir which is presently on high note in view of hanging of parliament attack convict
Mohammad Afzal Guru. Omar in his interview with the TV channel put onus on the central government by asking the question to UPA government to prove his point before the people of Jammu and Kashmir that the hanging of Guru is not a politically motivated. Omar in this interview also tried to distance himself from the hanging of Guru by conveying a massage to the people that he and his government was not ... | |
| | | | Farooq contradicts Omar, says hanging as per procedure | | Gandhi, Beant cases are different: Shinde | | |
Early Times Report
NEW DELHI, Feb 11: It seems former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah and his son have agreed to disagree with each other on issues concerning the State. Omar in an interview with a news channel on Sunday urged the Government of India to prove that Guru hanging was not selective. He also urged New Delhi to apply the same yardstick to Rajiv Gandhi and Beant Singh killers.
However, Dr Farooq Abdullah while addressing media persons at New Delhi today said the Guru was hanged as per procedure.
"Afzal Guru's mercy petition was put before President. He rejected it. The matter is over," Abdullah told reporters here.
Farooq said he was pained like all Kashmiris to know th... | |
| | | | `Omar should have pulled out after Guru hanging' | | Playing champion of Kashmiri sentiment? | | | ET Report
Jammu, Feb 11: The Chief Minister in an attempt to save his chair by sounding sympathetic to hanged Afzal Guru has triggered another controversy. The BJP has criticized his interview to a private news channel in which he questioned the wisdom of judiciary. He even called upon executive and judiciary to prove that the hanging was not selective.
Chief Minister knew the hanging was about to come. He had though expressed his reservations but for playing a champion of 'Kashmiri' sentiment, he should have categorically stated to the UPA that he would pull out of the Government if it happened.
It could have sent the message that Omar was really serious and sincere to the cause. He ... | |
| | | | Yechury defends Guru's hanging, Tarigami opposes it | | Divided Left | | | Rustam
Jammu, Feb 11: The National Conference (NC), which is heading the J&K Government, is not the only political party whose senior leaders are expressing diametrically opposite views on the hanging of Parliament terror attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru. (While NC vice-president and J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has been admitting that he was taken into confidence by the Union Government before executing Guru and strengthening the security grid to control the emerging situation in the Kashmir valley, his uncle and NC additional general secretary Mustafa Kamaal has been attacking India, the Congress, Army, majority community and virtually inciting the Muslims of Kashmir to rise in rev... | |
| | | | Yasin Malik joins 26/11 conspirator Hafiz Saeed in Pak | | Protest against Guru's hanging | | | Early Times Report
New Delhi, Feb 11: Even as Kashmiri separatist leaders have claimed repeatedly that they have no links with the Pakistan-based terror outfits, Headlines Today has found some damning evidence of their relation with some top terrorists.
Headlines Today accessed photographs of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik sharing the dais with the founder of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed, the key conspirator of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
To add insult to injury, the two leaders came together for a prayer meeting held in Pakistan on Sunday to pay tribute to Parliament attack conspirator Afzal Guru, who was hanged in Delhi's Tihar Central Jail on... | |
| | | | Silence of local Congress leadership intriguing, questionable | | Hanging of Guru & vote-bank politics | | | Neha
Jammu, Feb 11: Hanging of Mohammad Afzal Guru, convict in the Parliament terrorist attack case, in Tihar Jail in Delhi on February 9 in a secret operation evoked spontaneous response from the Kashmir-based separatist outfits as well as many political parties, including some so-called mainstream parties like the NC, PDP, CPI-M and the PDF. The separatist outfits, without any exception, condemned both the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre and the NC-led coalition Government in the State and threatened retaliation, besides a shutdown and protest demonstrations. The PDP also reacted and attacked both the NC and the Congress. The PDP -apart from attacking the NC - also accused Cong... | |
| | | | Ideological dichotomy leaves NC's Jammu leadership dumb | | Afzal Guru's hanging | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 11: The Jammu unit of National Conference (NC) is not commenting on Afzal Guru's hanging and seems to have toed the line of its working president Omar Abdullah, who criticised Central Government on the issue.
NC leaders of Jammu have preferred to stay quiet and not issue any statement that could bring any dichotomy within the party to the fore.
In Jammu, NC leaders present themselves as nationalists but whenever they face a situation where ideologically they differ from party leadership and can't express their sentiments, they strategically prefer to remain silent.
On Sunday, when the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah attacked Central Government on hanging Af... | |
| | | | Under design Pak plays down Guru's hanging | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 11: For the second time, during the last three months, Islamabad and the print and electronic media in Pakistan have played down execution of the Parliament attack convict, Mohd Afzal Guru in Delhi on Saturday. The establishment in Islamabad and the print and electronic media in Pakistan had avoided giving any hype to the execution of a Pak national, Ajmal Kasab, in Delhi on November 21, on charge of his involvement in the deadly terrorist strike in Mumbai in 2008 in which about 166 people were killed.
It seems that official and non-official agencies in Pakistan preferred to play down the two events to avoid attracting bigger criticism from India and other... | |
| | | | Guru's execution: Omar in trouble for right stand on national issue | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 11: Notwithstanding some radical change in his attitude towards the UPA Government following the negative response the Afzal Guru's February 8 hanging in high security Tihar Jail evoked from Kashmiri separatists and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah continues to discharge his responsibilities in a manner he was requited as the executive head of the State, as also as Home Minister. He is doing a right thing by taking all possible steps to maintain law and order in the Kashmir valley. Yesterday, he slammed the hanging of Guru as well as the UPA Government and tried to convince the people of Kashmir that he was in... | |
| | | | 60 B'desh prisoners repatriated from Jammu jails | | Get training in Kashmiri embroidery | | | Sumit Sharma
JAMMU, Feb 11: 60 Bangladeshi Prisoners have been dispatched from different Jammu jails to West Bengal for their repatriation. They were boarded in Sialdha Express on Monday evening from Jammu and would reach in Kolkata on Wednesday evening where they will be handed over to BSF troops and with the help of Bangladesh High Commission Access they will proceed for their further journey to their respective home towns in Bangladesh.
ADG Prisoners Navin Aggarwal when contacted confirmed the reports and said that the prisoners were repatriated after legal formalities, he said adding that out of 60 prisoners 42 were released from Central jail,Kotbhalwal,17 from district jail A... | |
| | | | Kuldeep Khoda appointed First CVC of J&K | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 11: Jammu and Kashmir got its first Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) as the former DGP Kuldeep Khoda was today appointed to the coveted post by the state Governor N N Vohra.
"First CVC (Kuldeep Khoda) has been appointed by the Governor N N Vohra today," Secretary-commissioner General Administration Department (GAD), Mustaq Ahmed said.
The notification has been issued today by the state government in this regard, he said.
"Senior retired IAS officer Ashok Jerath was also appointed as Vigilance Commissioner by the Governor today", he said.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has signed his file last week followed by the Governor a few days back.
Khoda, an IP... | |
| | | | Another JU girl student molested, assaulted in Campus | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 11: In a bizarre incident three outsiders entered into the Jammu University Campus and molested and also roughed up a post graduate student in presence of other students here today.
As per sources, the victim girl student Shruti Sharma (name withheld) was on her way to Bio Chemistry Department to attend class at around 3:30 pm when she was held up by three miscreants who started molesting her. When she resisted to their attempt, the accused slapped her. The incident has shocked the higher ups in Jammu University authorities. Meanwhile based on the complaint of the victim Gandhi Nagar Police registered a case u/s 341,323 and 354 RPC against FIR NO 32/20... | |
| | | | KPs warn state, Central Govts of serious consequences | | Deteriorating condition of Pandit | | |
early times report
JAMMU, Feb 11: Kashmiri Pandits warned the State as well as Central governments of serious consequences in case any thing happens to chairman All Parties Migrant Coordination Committee (APMCC), Vinod Pandit who is sitting on fast unto death for last 13 days at Porbandar (Gujarat) in support of demands of Kashmiri Pandits.
In a hard hitting statement leaders of various KP organizations including ASKPC chief H L Chatta, KPC president Kundan Kashmiri, Migrant Youth Forum chairman, Sanjay Koul and its general secretary, Talashi, Ajay Bhat of migrant relief holders today warned the Government of serious consequences in case any wrong happened to fasting APMCC leader d... | |
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