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| Azad picks academic line on corruption | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 16
After all the fuss of allegations and counter-allegations, the war against corruption and the talk of transparency today saw an academic approach.
The public men consequence, top anti-corruption crusaders and the officials associated with the anti-corruption bodies participated in a daylong deliberations organized by the Indian Institute of Public Administration in collaboration with the State Vigilance Organisation.
Instead of sharing statistics, as he would do at any public occasion, the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who delivered the valedictory address, too oriented his speech in an academic tone.
He said that the responsible governance is an ... | |
| | | | Meanwhile, Ajit Kumar appears in court | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 16
Sacked by Mufti regime on charges of corruption and reinstated by Azad government, the top IAS officer today appeared in the court of special anti-corruption judge in the jute mat scam.
Interestingly, Ajit Kumar appeared before the court only a month after he retired from the government service.
Earlier, the Vigilance Organisation presented challan in the jute mat scam in January this year, after ten years of prolonged investigations. Ajit Kumar along with Janak Singh then Financial Advisor, Ghulam Rasool Vakil alias Lassa Vakil and Abdul Rehman Bhat proprietor of Commercial Corporation Ltd Srinagar supplier jute matting are facing trial in the public... | |
| | | | Baig’s absence shelves cabinet decisions | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 16
In absence of the Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig, the meeting of state cabinet held here today skipped many important and long pending decisions.
Sources said that the Deputy Chief Minister Baig, who represents the Peoples Democratic Party, could not make it to the cabinet meeting therefore many sensitive issues which could have attracted reservations were put off till next meeting. No next date for the meeting has been fixed yet.
It is reliably learnt that besides other issues, the cabinet meeting had listed on agenda postings to important positions in administration and police which have been lying vacant for many months. These includ... | |
| | | | Farooq acting as a jilted lover | | His accusations against centre, Mufti for J&K's ills are only half true | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Feb 16
Behaving like a jilted lover whose love overtures and advances are turned down by the beloved and who in frustration goes all out of the way to defame his sought of darling and hurls choicest abuses on her, assassinating her character as well as the character of the successful lover, the former J&K Chief Minister and NC patron Dr. Farooq Abdullah, whose overtures of re-conciliation with the Central ruling party and NC's tie up the Congress are aborted, has in a single breath laid the responsibility of all ills of the state today on the shoulders of the Central ruling dispensations as well as his rival Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.
While Farooq Ab... | |
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