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Cong set to get back Edu portfolio: Chib may get as addl charge till reshuffle Ministers, leaders asked to keep up 'show' of unity 2/15/2012 12:08:42 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Feb 14: In a significant development post Peerzada Sayeed 's resignation , Congress is all set to get back the vital portfolio of Education that was retained by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah three days back soon after he divested the former of this charge. Minister of Higher Medical Education RS Chib is likely to be given this portfolio as additional charge temporarily till a formal reshuffle and overdue exercise of expansion is effected . NC shall retain one more important portfolio of R&B for now as a heavyweight of Congress in New Delhi is eyeing for this to be given to GM Saroori to whom it was allotted at the time of formation of cabinet . Sources said that Congress High command has given a nod for the portfolio of Education to be given to Mr Chib temporarily till reshuffle that will see complete revamping of the portfolios and some even new faces from within both Congress as well as NC. The reshuffle and expansion is learnt to have been planned now by middle of March. Sources said even though the party leadership has been asserting on getting back ...   READ MORE

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Soz arriving to convene Legislative Party meeting 2/15/2012 12:08:12 AM Early Times Report J&K PCC president Saif-u-Din Soz is arriving in the winter capital again to convene a meeting of the Legislative Party for forthcoming Assembly session beginning next week from Feb 23. Sources said Prof Soz will convene the Legislative Party meeting in which the legislators of own party from both the Houses would attend besides the two independent allies of GH Mir and Hakim Mohammad Yasin. The meeting apart from discussing the party strategy to be adopted during the Budget session shall also give some forma guidelines on the floor management for ensuing poll for the post of Chairman of Legislative Council scheduled on Feb 24. The chairman is all set to be elected from t...   READ MORE   New twist to Bedi Commission probe Reshi smells foul, says never asked to depose - - Bhat awaits return of political pay-off, avoids service 2/15/2012 12:07:47 AM Bashir Assad SRINAGAR, Feb 14: Sayed Muhammad Yusuf death row Tuesday took a new twist when prime witness in the case Ab, Salam Reshi denied having received any information about deposing before the Justice (Rtd) Bedi Commission probing the mysterious death case. Pertinently, Justice Bedi Commission Monday issued order saying that Mohammad Yousuf Bhat and Abdul Salam Reshi, the two senior NC workers who are key witnesses to the incident being probed were served notices by the Commission but the notice server has reported that both of them are not traceable and their present addresses are unknown. "The process server has also submitted a report that Mohammad Yousuf Bhat was not traceable...   READ MORE   Government sacks 13 officers/officials 2/15/2012 12:07:04 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Feb 14: Government has issued orders for prematurely retiring thirteen Government employees from Service on the basis of the recommendations given by the high level committee chaired by the Chief Secretary. The meeting decided to sack 13 middle and low rung officials on charges of corruption. The government took the decision on the basis of recommendations of a panel which probed charges of corruption against the officials following complaints against them. The committee has been set up to review the cases of corrupt and inefficient officials at their own level and also to speed up the departmental inquiries. An official spokesman has informed that the standing ...   READ MORE   SHRC asks Govt to pay Rs 2 lakh as compensation to victim District Police Line Rape case 2/15/2012 12:06:50 AM Sumit Sharma JAMMU, Feb 14: State Human Right Commission (SHRC) has recommended Jammu and Kashmir state government to pay Rs 2 lakh to the victim girl who was kidnapped and raped by a Jammu and Kashmir Police constable and his two associates at Gulshan Ground in the year 2008. SHRC took initiative following a complaint was registered with National Human Right Commission by relatives of the victim namely Suhas Chakma of Janak Puri, West Delhi who in his complaint alleged that one of their relative 17 years old girl was kidnapped by cop identified as Shabir Ahmed, who later took her in District Police Line, Gulshan Ground where with his two other associates gang raped her. He also mentione...   READ MORE   Aggrieved family still awaits probe findings Kashmir's first custody killing 2/15/2012 12:05:52 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Feb 14: On February 15, 1975, a youth succumbed to custodial torture. This incidentally was the first reported custody killing of Kashmir. A probe was ordered but thirty-seven years down the line, the aggrieved family still awaits the findings of the probe. Hectic political activity was going on in February 1975. The Plebiscite Front ratified the Indra-Abdullah accord and Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah assumed office of the Chief Minister with Congress support. The 22-year-old `political wilderness' of the leaders ended. At some places people registered protest. A young man, Ghulam Muhammad Bulla of Sopore also registered protest in the main chowk of the town. He ...   READ MORE   Jammu in advantageous position, Congress playing dubious role Fractured Kashmir -- II 2/15/2012 12:05:23 AM Neha JAMMU, Feb 14: As mentioned, Kashmir produced a fractured mandate in 2002 and 2008 and with this the balance of power came in the hands of the people Jammu province, notwithstanding the fact that this province has for most of the time produced a fractured mandate. The balance of power came in the hands of the people of Jammu in the sense that it was the Congress, which has captured 15 and 13 seats in 2002 and 208, respectively, in this province, became part of the government: It shared power with the PDP between 2002 and June 2007 and it has been sharing power since 2009, with NC, which has just 28 members in the assembly, leading the coalition government. So, neither the PDP was in a...   READ MORE   Kashmiri IAS aspirant's brutal killing shakes Uri Lucknow Police files FIR, post mortem confirms murder 2/15/2012 12:04:57 AM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz SRINAGAR, Feb 14: Ruling National Conference's Lok Sabha member from North Kashmir, Sharief-ud-din Shariq, seems to be programmed to raise hue and cry over the killing of only those of his voters who die at the hands of Police and security forces. Same party's Rajya Sabha member, Mohammad Shafi Uri, who served several times as MLA of Uri and a Minister in J&K, appears to be more concerned on political news than the crime done to the Kashmiris outside. Sitting MLA from Uri and Congress' Minister of Irrigation, Taj Mohi-ud-din, is apparently preoccupied with dousing the in-house flames of his party that were fast leaping onto him, Peerzada Sayeed and some other of his Cabine...   READ MORE   Cong, PM with communal and defiant Law Minister? Wooing Muslim Voters 2/15/2012 12:04:22 AM Rustam JAMMU, Feb 14: The Election Commission of India (ECI) is feeling outraged and moving heaven and earth to make the Congress-led UPA Government initiate action against the "defiant" Law Minister Salman Khurshid. Khurshid had challenged the authority of the ECI and stated and restated that he would go on advocating religion-based quota for Muslims even if the ECI "hangs him". The ECI has even approached the President of India and urged her to intervene so that the credibility of this constitutional institution is not dented. The ECI sought the President's intervention two days ago. The President acted swiftly and sent the complaint of the ECI to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) asking...   READ MORE

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