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Cabinet to appoint new Secretaries for Health, Cooperative Pir, Hamid among 9 IAS officers, 37 KAS officers retiring in 2012 3/16/2012 12:23:54 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 15: Even as the issue of raising the retirement age of the state government employees from 58 to 59/60 years is unlikely to come up for discussion in absence of the Cabinet Sub Committee report, Cabinet is expected to sanction appointment of new administrative Secretaries in the departments of Health & Medical Education and Cooperative in the forenoon on Friday. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is scheduled to preside over a Cabinet meeting that would begin at Civil Secretariat at 10.00 a.m on Friday. According to knowledgable sources, Cabinet would discuss and take decision over certain administrative matters. However, the much speculated issue of the enhancement of the retirement age of the state government employees from 58 to 59 or 60 years was not expected to come up for consideration as the Cabinet Sub Committee has not yet submitted its report to the Government. Sources said that Cabinet was likely to consider a proposal of minor reshuffle at the level of administrative Secretaries. Commissioner Commercial Taxes, Gazzanfar Hussain, is likely to b...   READ MORE

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PDP has not breached privilege of House: Mehbooba `NC intimidating opposition' 3/16/2012 12:23:21 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 15: Denying that PeoplesDemocratic Party (PDP) had breached privilege of Legislative Assembly, MahboobaMufti, who heads the party accused the National Conference, was intimidating theopposition to muzzle its voice. The PDP president today informed theLegislative Assembly secretariat that she and her party MLAs had never tried tobreach the privilege of the House as alleged in a notice issued to them. She said, "The complaint asserts that wepresented certain documents in the House on 12.03.2012. Your records will showthat none of us presented any documents in the House as alleged. We havedocuments in our possession that prima facie indicate that seriousirre...   READ MORE   'NC damaged democratic institutions' 3/16/2012 12:22:57 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 15: Launching a severe attack on the NationalConference, the PDP chief, Mahbooba Mufti today accused it of causing incalculabledamage to the democratic institutions in the state through fraud andundemocratic methods. They have been treating the state as theirpersonal property for the past many decades. "It is not through rigged theelections alone that they subverted democracy but even now when NC is no morein a dominant position in the House they are trying to undermine peoples'rights through subterfuge, bribery, and muscle and lung power. But PDP is areality it can no longer wish away", she said. She pointed out that the ruling coalitionhad blocked discu...   READ MORE   Rajouri again placed under curfew after police-public clash Cops among several injured; army deployment demanded 3/16/2012 12:22:41 AM Early Times Report RAJOURI, Mar 15: The Rajouri town, which had almost become normal with the lifting of day curfew by the administration Wednesday, was today again placed under curfew following a clash between police and minority community people, who were demanding immediate arrest of the miscreants who had last week attacked Bhairav procession twice in the town. Though the day curfew was yesterday lifted in the town, section 144 was imposed. When some minority community members, including women, today tried to take out a procession near tehsil office in violation of section 144, police stopped them from moving ahead. This resulted in heated exchanges between the two sides. The ...   READ MORE   BJP, JKNPP stage walkout over police action in Rajouri 3/16/2012 12:22:14 AM JAMMU : The Opposition BJP and JKNPP today staged a walkout in the Assembly protesting against the alleged police crackdown on protesters in Rajouri. They also demanded release of those arrested in connection with the violence in the town. Jugal Kishore of BJP drew the attention of the House towards the cane-charge and tear gas shelling by the police on 300-odd people belonging to minority community protesting the arrest of 17 members in Rajouri today. He claimed that even women were not spared by policemen, who resorted to violent means to curb the protest. Kishore and other BJP members sought a reply from the government on the issue. JKNPP members Harshdev Singh and Balwant Singh M...   READ MORE   Govt failed to handle Rajouri crisis Balwant reiterates reorganization of J&K, demandsseparate CM 3/16/2012 12:21:37 AM Samba, Mar 15: Reiterating the re-organization of Jammu and Kashmir to end the alleged discrimination with Jammuregion, Balwant Singh Mankotia state president, MLA demanded separate chiefminister for Jammu. Accusing state govt for not handling thesituation in Rajouri crisis, Mankotia condemn use of police force againstpeaceful demonstration today. Addressing a mass public rally at Vijaypur organized by RajeshPadgotra, Balwant Singh Mankotia who was chief guest demanded separate chiefminister Jammuregion. Justifying his words he said the discrimination with Jammu region would only be checked, Mankotiasaid that this is possible only after having re organization of the J&Kstate. He said that...   READ MORE   Flyover yet a 'dream reality,' as red tapism may delay project 3/16/2012 12:21:08 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 15: After unprecedented delays and bureaucratic hurdles, the processof constructing the flyover in Jammu to end the long traffic jams has finallybegun but it still is being looked as a 'dream reality.' Official sources said that with government giving greensignal to start work on them, administration has started the groundwork. It is pertinent to mention here that the flyovers are to beconstructed from Kanjuwani to Marble market, Satwari to Bikram Chowk and BCroad to Amphalla and road widening is also been approved for other roads in thecity. However, sources said that slow planning may mar theseprojects as officials have failed to provide detailed report t...   READ MORE   Opposition divided- Budget session slowly turning lacklustre 3/16/2012 12:20:50 AM Bashir Assad Jammu, Mar 15; The ensuing budget session of J & K legislative assembly, which commenced in a charged atmosphere with the opposition parties which include Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), National Panthers Party (NPP), Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), CPI(M), and PDF carrying a brief full of issues sufficient enough to corner the ruling Nation Conference-Congress coalition government, is turning lacklustre and the press gallery which would remain packed earlier is slowly emptying as the stuff for news and news-makers getting exhausted for varying reasons. As a matter of fact each assembly session has its significance in a number of ways and even some sessions are historically si...   READ MORE   Decisions of Congress high command being questioned Retaining Control Over Jammu 3/16/2012 12:19:57 AM Neha JAMMU, Mar 15: Congressmen in different parts of the country have started challenging the authority and questioning the decisions of the Congress high command (read AICC president Sonia Gandhi and her son and AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi). It happened on March 12 in Jammu and Udhampur. In Jammu and Udhampur, supporters of Congress leaders Mangat Ram Sharma and Bhupinder Singh Pathania protested against the decision of the high command to give mandate to former minister Jugal Kishore Sharma for the lone vacant seat in the Legislative Council. They also raised slogans against the JKPCC leadership and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. That Jugal Kishore would return to the...   READ MORE   National capital or hub of break-India activities "Azadi" For Kashmir 3/16/2012 12:19:34 AM Rustam JAMMU, Mar 15: Pro-separatists have ganged up and intensified anti-India activities with a view to putting pressure on New Delhi so that it grants "Azadi" to Kashmir. The worst aspect of the whole situation is that even those holding constitutional positions have joined the break-India crusade. The case in point is the unstinted support extended to Kashmiri separatists by none other than National Minority Commission Chairman Wajahat Habibullah, a retired IAS officer of Jammu and Kashmir cadre. It happened only this Monday in New Delhi. On Monday, the well-known pro-separatist journalist Seema Mustafa, who runs the Centre for Policy Analysis (CPA), organized a convention on "Democ...   READ MORE   The "flying"Omar is unaware of rail passengers' woes 3/16/2012 12:19:12 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 15: Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah,has welcomed the fare hike,which he has described as modest,proposed by the Minister for Railways,Dinesh Trivedi, in his budget which he presented in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Explaining the reason for his support to the Railways budget proposal Omar has stated that modest hike in rail fare was genuine if passengers received better facilities and amenities during their travel.If one goes by the railway budget proposals the hike may be modest in the eyes of Omar Abdullah but it is not so as far as passengers are concerned. If the Parliament accepts Trivedi's proposals passengers travelling between Delhi and Mumbai have to...   READ MORE   J&K bank terms DSP's statement as false, irresponsible 3/16/2012 12:18:58 AM Early Times Report Kishtwar, Mar 15: The officials of Jammu and Kashmir bank have condemned the statement issued by DSP (hqrs) Abrar Chowdhary to the press in which he claimed that Rs 40 lakh had been fraudulently withdrawn from the bank accounts of customers by its employees. The DSP had also claimed that police had conducted a raid in Kishtwar branch of the bank, sealed a portion of it and seized bank record. Addressing a press conference here today, bank's cluster head for Kishtwar, Mohammad Maqbool Lone said the DSP's statement was not true. He said it was not police, which had detected the Rs 40 lakh fraud in the bank, as had been claimed by the DSP, but it was the bank whic...   READ MORE   Two CRPF jawans injured in Srinagar grenade explosion 3/16/2012 12:18:44 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Mar 15: Two central reserve police force (CRPF) troopers were injured in a separatist grenade attack in summer capital Srinagar Thursday evening. A senior police officer said, "Militants hurled a powerful hand grenade at a CRPF camp in Karan Nagar area of the city today evening. "The grenade exploded outside the CRPF camp injuring a head constable and a constable of the CRPF. "They were shifted to the nearby S.M.H.S. hospital where attending doctors said both of them are out of danger". A CRPF inspector told reporters that the grenade was lobbed at a CRPF vehicle carrying food for the jawans in the Karan Nagar area of Srinagar. Tension gripped the busy Ka...   READ MORE

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