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| Speaker orders probe into facts carried by Early Times v | | CS to hold inquiry into Transport officials' induction into KAS | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
JAMMU, Mar 16: Speaker of Legislative Assembly, Mohammad Akbar Lone, today directed Chief Secretary to conduct a detailed inquiry into the facts carried by Early Times regarding mysterious disappearance of the official records of 50,000 driving licenses in Doda-Udhampur besides the accused ARTO's induction into Kashmir Administrative Service (KAS) in April 2010.
During Zero House, PDP's MLA from Bandipore, Nizam-ud-din Bhat, sought Speaker's attention towards today's banner lead in Early Times regarding the fraudulent appointment of one Bhumesh Shrama as Junior Assistant in state Transport Department and subsequently his fraudulent induction into KAS. Without being specific, Bhat pointed out that a newspaper had contested Minister incharge Transport Qamar Ali Akhoon's statement given in Assembly regarding an official's induction into KAS. He wanted to read out two particular paragraphs of the news story.
Speaker did not allow Bhat to read out the text and instead began complaining that some newspapers had carried "manipulated" news stories in the last few days. H... | |
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| J&K 'alarmingly corrupt’: TI | | PDS, Power, PHE 'meritorious' | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Mar 16: After dropping a bombshell in the year 2005 by ranking Jammu and Kashmir as country's second most corrupt state, Transparency International (TI) has dubbed the state as 'alarmingly corrupt' and concluded that levels of corruption have increased despite state's disappointing ranking.
The survey conducted in the year 2008 with special focus on BPL households, mostly in rural India has placed Jammu and Kashmir at number 3 with Assam at the top followed by Bihar among the alarmingly corrupt states. Further, the corruption is alarming in Public Distribution System (PDS), Electricity and water supply.
Designed and conducted by Centre for Media Studies (CM... | |
| | | | People used as pawns on NC-PDP tussle chessboard | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 16: The opposition PDP has accused the state Government of adopting discriminatory attitude towards those constituencies where people elected the non-National Conference candidates to the Assembly in the distribution of funds for development activities and other additionalities. This accusation was levelled against the ruling National Conference by the leader of the opposition in the Assembly, Mehbooba Mufti, on the floor of the House during the question hour.
In fact since Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, holds the portfolio of planning he was supposed to answer Mehbooba's question and supplementaries. Instead of doing it Omar preferred to leave the House to d... | |
| | | | Why not consult Kashmiri children as well? | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 16: Men and women of Kashmir have suffered during the past two decades. And so have the children. New Delhi's nominated interlocutors on Jammu Kashmir have met men and women. The children have shown greater maturity than elders at times. They, therefore, deserve to be consulted before the interim report is submitted.
Valley's leading psychiatrist, Dr Mushtaq Margoob in an interview published in a local daily said the children of sufferers undergo hormonal changes. "In some cases, the child assumes role of the head of the family and this wreaks havoc with his psychology and physiology. He grows abnormally", he said.
Terming such abnormal growth as `pre-matur... | |
| | | | Prof Chaman Lal, Tarigami raise issue in Assembly | | Govt committed to absorb agriculture technocrats: Mir | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Mar 16: Reiterating the State Government's commitment to absorb the agitating Agriculture Technocrats in government service, the Minister of Agriculture Ghulam Hassan Mir today said on the floor of the House that a process is on to meet their demand and they would be accommodated in the department accordingly.
The Minister said this while responding to the discussion on the grants of Agriculture department in the State Legislative Assembly this afternoon,
"We have formulated a policy for the absorption of agriculture technocrats… .. The policy document was sent to planning department and later to finance department which is going through it…. As and when they gi... | |
| | | | New bridge on Tawi, four tunnels to come up during 4-laning of hilly Sidhra-Udhampur NH | | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Mar 16: A new bridge on Tawi river and at least four tunnels would come up during four-laning of the hilly Sidhra-Udhampur stretch of national highway.
The 65 km road stretch would be constructed at a cost of Rs 1,800 cr by Mumbai-based AFCONS Infrastructure -- the infrastructure arm of Shapoorji Pallonji group -- which last year bagged the Kolkata Metro Railway contract for a critical metro stretch that included three underground stations and India's first underwater train tunnel under Hoogly river.
A senior AFCONS functionary said as part of the conversion of the existing double-lane road to four-lane expressway, a new bridge would be constructed at Sidhra... | |
| | | | Jammu illiterate: JU a white elephant | | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Mar 16: The issue of appointment of Vice-Chancellor of the Central University of Jammu again rocked the Assembly yesterday. The BJP, the Panthers Party and the Jammu State Morcha MLAs raked up the issue and demanded the appointment of a local academician as Vice-Chancellor of the sanctioned Central University, which is still to be set up. (The Central University of Kashmir became functional some two years ago.) They accused the State Government of not taking interest in the matter, thus playing with the career of the Jammu youth and discriminating with Jammu. Unable to evoke a favourable response from the government, they staged a walkout to register their unhappiness over th... | |
| | | | Congress losing ground by not supporting BJP, JKNPP & JSM | | JAMMU: A fit case for delimitation -- II | | | Neha
JAMMU, Mar 16: A scrutiny of the census figures reveals that the population difference between Kashmir and Jammu was never so huge. In 1961, the population of Kashmir was eighteen lakh and that of Jammu sixteen lakh - difference two lakh. In 1971, the population of Kashmir was 24,35,701 and that of Jammu 20,75,640 - difference 3,60,661. In 1981, the population of Kashmir was 31,34,904 and that of Jammu 27,18,113 - difference 4,16,791. In 1991, the state was excluded from the census exercise. But, according to the Department of Economics and Statistics, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, the population of Kashmir in 1991 was 40,10,202 and that of Jammu 35,37,957 - difference 4,72,245.
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| | | | Oppon unable to perform healthy role in, outside House | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, March 16 : The political equations have divided the opposition in such a way in the state that it is unable to perform its healthy role in and outside the state. The main opposition PDP which was expected to perform a healthy role in the state as party has taken some relevant issues concerning the people of the state since its formation in 2000 is also unable to deliver like a responsible opposition in the state legislature.... | |
| | | | Woman found murdered inside Guest House at Katra | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
katra, March 16 : A woman was found murdered in a Guest House room in the main bazar here this morning.
Police sources said two women in their forties checked in room No110 of Palasar Guest House Monday last at about 10 am.After some time, the guest house staff found the room locked fromoutside. They thought the women had gone for the darshans of Mata Vaishnodevi.
However, when they did not return even after two days, the staff today approached police and brought the matter to their notice. Acting on the complaint, cops reached the guest house.Sources said when they broke the lock and opened the door, they found the body of a woman lying on the bed. Her throat had been... | |
| | | | Army lost 313 men since 2009, says Antony | | | | AGENCIES
new delhi: The Indian Army has lost 313 men since 2009 in operations across the country, Defence Minister A.K. Antony told the Rajya Sabha Wednesday.
Replying to written questions from members, Antony said the army lost 114 men in 2009, 187 men in 2010 and 12 in 2011 till March 8.
From Rajasthan, eight personnel were killed in 2009 and 15 in 2010. All these casualties were reported from Jammu and Kashmir, he said.
The navy lost one of its personnel during operations in 2009, but saw no casualties in 2010. The air force saw no casualties at all in the last two years, he added.
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