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| Youth looted by two cheats near Ware House | | | | JAMMU: A youth was robbed of his cash and belongings in an inter-state bus, that had come from New Delhi, here Tuesday night.
Ganesh Dubey, who worked with a private company in Delhi, boarded a bus for Jammu from the union capital Tuesday morning, police sources said.
Two youth, who boarded the bus on the way, befriended him, providing him with eatables just to win his confidence. Sources said reaching Jammu in the evening, they gave him eatables, which contained some intoxicants.
Sources said when Ganesh fell unconscious after consuming the eatables, they decamped with his cash and belongings. He was found lying unconscious in the bus by the driver and the conductor when they par... | |
| | | | Cop arrested for raping woman | | | |
JAMMU: A Government Railway Police (GRP) follower was today arrested by police for allegedly outraging the modesty of a woman at railway station here Tuesday night.
Police sources said GRP follower Shakeel Ahmad Bhatti spotted one Meena Rani of Hoshiarpur, Punjab, all alone at the railway station Tuesday night.
He allegedly approached her and offered her night accomodation in the "safe" GRP lines quarters, the sources added.Sources said Shakeel took the woman to the GRP lines where he allegedly outraged her modesty.The girl lodged a complaint with the railway station police station Wednesday morning.
Acting on the complaint, police arrested Shakeel under FIR No 6 of 2010 and booked ... | |
| | | | Women's Bill in LS before Mar 16: Govt | | | | NEW DELHI: The government intends to push through the women's reservation bill in the Lok Sabha before the house adjourns on March 16 for a three-week break, parliamentary affairs minister P K Bansal said here on Wednesday.
Setting to rest speculation about the fate of the contentious bill that gives 33 percent representation to women in the Lok Sabha and state legislatures and was passed by the Rajya Sabha Tuesday, Bansal said the bill would be passed in the lower house before March 16.
"That's our intention," Bansal told.
He also said that the government would consider revoking the suspension of the seven Rajya Sabha MPs if they expressed their regrets to Chairman Hamid Ansari.
"I... | |
| | | | Is fruit season in Kashmir a boon for narco-smugglers? | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Mar 10: Fruit season in Kashmir is proving to be a great boon for narco-smugglers. In the past over a month or so, several attempts to clandestinely take contrabands in fruit-laden trucks from Kashmir to other parts of the country were foiled by the law enforcing agencies.
The arrested smugglers, who were from Punjab and Kashmir, disclosed to police that the charas, heroin, cocaine and other drugs, seized from them, were meant for lucrative markets in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. Over two quintals of charas and 5,000 kilograms of poppy straw, besides marijuana and cocaine, were recovered from the trucks since Febarary last. These contrabands were found... | |
| | | | Moves once again afoot to humiliate Daughters of J&K | | (Disqualification BILL - II) | | |
RUSTAM
EARLYTIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 10: The response of the Kashmiri rulers and their subordinates to the passionate appeals made by National Commission for Women (NWC) Chairperson, Dr. Mohini Giri, and women's groups was highly biased towards the daughters of J&K. These groups had also appealed to all those who represented the J&K government in the UNICEF seminar on "gender discrimination in Kashmir" at Srinagar in the nineties of the last century that Part-III of the Constitution be suitably amended in order to bring about parity between men and women.
The only silver-lining was that some vague assurances were given by certain officials that they would persuade the powers-that-be i... | |
| | | | Girl among three arrested in sex MMS scam | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 10: In probably the first case of its kind in the winter capital city, a girl and her two "lovers" were arrested by the Bus Stand police for trapping a youth in a porno-Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS).
Police sources said Shazia, who hailed from Janipura, called up Naresh Sharma of Trikuta Nagar Tuesday evening, expressing her desire to meet him.
Naresh agreed and the duo drove towards the Ware House-based RTO office complex which often remained deserted after the office was closed in the evening.
Sources said as Naresh spotted another car following them, he sped away, leaving the girl behind.
The girl again called her up after some time and expressed h... | |
| | | | 'Controversy' in Cardiology Deptt makes patients suffer | | ‘Erring doc will tender apology’ | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 10: At a time when the crucial Cardiac Centre of Government Medical College Jammu is coming up in terms of availability of treatment for heart ailments here and reducing the dependence of patients on hospitals outside the state, a controversy that has enveloped the Department of late is depriving the poor patients of the facilities they require in time.
According to sources, the routine functioning of the Department has been affected as no surgeries related to heart ailments have taken place, not even normal treatment has been prescribed to patients coming from far and wide during the past few days. This is so because a senior doctor Dr Susheel Sharma, con... | |
| | | | PR Disqualification Bill: BAJ strike today | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 10: The issue of Jammu and Kashmir Permanent Resident (Disqualification) Bill seems to be heading for another major controversy in the State with Bar Association Jammu deciding to launch a crusade against the government's purported move to strip women of permanent resident-ship if they marry a man from outside the state.
Describing the Bill as "anti-Jammu" and "anti-women," all lawyers under the banner of Bar Association Jammu (BAJ) has decided to suspend their work in all courts including High Court tomorrow.
"This is quite arbitrary a move that bars the women of state to have a marriageable access outside the state while the entire country is celeb... | |
| | | | NC-Congress alliance can muster 2/3 majority for adoption in LA | | Women’s Reservation Bill | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 10: After the women's Reservation Bill, that has been passed by the Rajya Sabha, is adopted by the Lok Sabha it has to be sent to 28 state Assemblies for approval. For the adoption of the Bill half of the State Assemblies have to endorse it. As far as the state of Jammu and Kashmir is concerned the Bill, after its adoption by the two Houses of Parliament and receipt of the President of India's assent, it can be applicable to all the states except the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Under the constitutional provision any central piece of legislation gets applicable in the state of Jammu and Kashmir only after the Bill or the central Law is endorsed by the ... | |
| | | | Strikes cost J&K Rs 550 cr this year | | | |
ET REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 10: Besides bearing the brunt of militancy and frequent protest strikes for over two decades, Jammu and Kashmir economy is facing a new enemy within-its striking government employees.
Government employees in the state too have frequently on strike every now and then over the past several years.
The state-which faces huge fiscal deficit and completely dependent on the Centre's grants-loses between Rs 40-50 crore per day due to strikes of employees. "We have 4.5 lakh government employees in the state and the wage bill per annum comes to around Rs 6,500 crore. Due to employees' strikes, around Rs 50 crore is incurred as losses per day to the state exchequer," sa... | |
| | | | Day 2: Strike cripples work in govt offices | | EJAC's sponsored strike begins today | | |
ARTEEV SHARMA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 10: Routine working in all government offices and Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) remained paralyzed across the State as the employees' strike entered its second consecutive day today.
Barring emergency services, employees of almost all departments, PSUs and Corporations stayed away from their respective duties insisting the administration to implement the already agreed demands. However, the Civil Secretariat employees did not participate in the strike and attended their offices as usual.
Joint Consultative Committee (JCC), an amalgam of all several employees association along with a faction of Employees Joint Action Committee has called ... | |
| | | | Wrap up meeting of officials with PC today | | ANNUAL PLAN SIZE | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 10: The Secretaries of nearly all the departments of the J&K government had a marathon round of meetings with the authorities in Planning COmmission during which they presented their cases well in terms of requirement of funds for expenditures on various fronts. The wrap up meeting is however scheduled for tomorrow which will pave way for a final meeting between the CHief Minister Omar Abdullah and Finance Minister AR Rather with the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission for finalisation of the plan size for J&K state.
Sources said the meeting today augured well in so far as the presentation of the senior officers, primarily the Secretaries made a stro... | |
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