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| Muslim run NGO cleaning Devika, sacred Hindu river in Udhampur | | Jammu's unique communal harmony message! | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Mar 18: An Udhampur based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) 'Jiyo aur Jeene Do' has taken up the task of restoring pristine glory of holy river Devika. What makes this cleaning operation special is that the member of the NGO who has been leading the operation is by faith a Muslim. Tariq Shah, an employee does not waste his leisure time but utilizes it in cleaning Devika, known in the ancient Hindu scripts as the elder sister of Ganga. He returns from his office at around 4.30 pm and within half an hour leaves to carry on the cleaning operation in the sacred river.
Though he accepts that it is humanly impossible to clean the river for their NGO which has no sour... | |
| | | | Law makers, Security Forces top defaulters' list | | Outstanding electric tariff | | | Bashir Assad
JAMMU, Mar 18: Legislators in Jammu and Kashmir owe Rs. 35, 78, 948 to the Power Development Department which is outstanding against them as power tariff while as the outstanding against Army/Paramilitary forces is of the order of Rs 6518.143 lacs. The law makers and law enforcing agencies in Jammu and Kashmir are the big defaulters while as the industrialists which owe Rs. 39, 96, 24,209 to PDD are the biggest defaulters and if the power tariff is recovered from any one it is the poor consumer who uses the power for domestic purposes.
In a written reply to a question raised in the House by MLA Darhal, Choudhary Zulfkar Ali, the Government has stated that the arrears of Big ... | |
| | | | Upholds HC order on DC Srinagar | | SC dismisses JK's SLP | | |
ET Plus Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 18: The Supreme Court today dismissed SLP of Jammu Kashmir challenging High Court direction of transferring Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar for his alleged involvement in Gulmarg Land Scam.
Upholding the High Court order, a special bench of the SC comprising of Justice R.M. Lodha, Justice J. Chelameswar and Justice Madan B. Lokur dismissed the Special Leave Petition (SLP) preferred by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir. As soon as SLP came up for hearing before the Supreme Court today, senior advocate Gorav Pachananda appearing for the State of Jammu and Kashmir submitted that the judgment of the J&K High Court has already been implemented as the State Cabin... | |
| | | | Cops register case, lawyers to suspend work today as well..! | | Stand-off continues | | |
ET Plus Report
JAMMU, Mar 18: The stand-off between lawyers' community and Jammu and Kashmir Police continued as the latter on late Saturday evening registered a case against couple of lawyers, who were accused of chain snatching, stopping and attacking a police officer while on duty in uniform.
Following registration of case on Saturday later evening, the lawyers' community today suspended routine work in the Court against the action of Jammu police. Furthermore, the Bar Association, Jammu, is learnt to have decided to suspend work in Court for the second consecutive day, tomorrow.
Reliable sources told Early Times Plus, that the police sub inspector pressed for registration of FIR ag... | |
| | | | T&D Losses in J&K: figures show no visible improvement | | Contrary to its commitment, Govt manages marginal reduction | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Mar 18: Notwithstanding a series of measures taken to reduce Transmission and Distribution (T&D) losses, the Government efforts have so far yielded negligible results in stemming the rot as the annual T&D losses have remained over 60 percent for the last two years.
In a reply to MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia's question in State Legislative Assembly here today, the Government said, "For the year 2010-11, the State recorded T&D losses of 62.12 percent while T&D losses for the year 2011-12 stood at 61.61," adding that during the current financial year, T&D losses have further shown reducing trends and are presently below the 60 percent mark (ending January, 2013).
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| | | | Ignoring aspirations of Jammu & Ladakh | | Search for a settlement | | | Neha
JAMMU, Mar 18: One can understand the reasons behind the insistence of the Valley leadership on Kashmir and a particular community-centric "settlement of the Kashmir issue", but one fails to understand why some "opinion leaders" vouch for a "settlement" that ignores the people of Jammu province and Ladakh region and other religious and ethnic minorities, including the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus. Only the other day, a lead editorial "Kashmir's unsettled business" in a leading national daily suggested that the Kashmiri Muslims are the sole factor in the State's political situation and sought to create an impression that Jammu and Kashmir is an unsettled issue and opined that c... | |
| | | | Omar demeans media | | 'Go to those who speak outside House…' | | |
ET Plus Report
Jammu, Mar 18: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, a day after being accused by the PDP of lowering the dignity of the House, reduced the dignity of Media by indirectly hinting that it's the media which is projecting the opposition party.
Omar on Monday he first refused to speak to media but he went by just saying " You talk to the people who speak outside the House." He said this when he came out of the house after attending the oath taking ceremony of the newly elected members of the
Legislative Council. The Media Persons who were not allowed to cover the oath ceremony of the newly elected MLCs waited eagerly for the Chief Minister to react on the present situation ... | |
| | | | Doodh Pathree a virgin tourist destination in Budgam | | | | ET Plus Report
BUDGAM, Mar 18: Doodh Pathree is one of the virgin tourist destinations located in Central Kashmir's Budgam district. Doodh Pathree means (Doodh: Milk, Pathree: land). It is called land of milk because there are milky clean water streams flowing in the south of Doodh Pathree and this small Nullah is known locally as Shalee Ganga . As we know that tourists from different States visit Kashmir in large numbers but they hardly visited this place as there was no road connectivity in the area until few years back but now it has been thrown open for the public and road also has been constructed which would be blacktopped and fully completed this year. The Government led by Mu... | |
| | | | Securing unarmed CRPF personnel | | Kashmir situation & SOP | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Mar 18: The prevailing situation in Kashmir is extraordinary. This has become evident from the March 13 Bemina (Srinagar) terrorist attack on the CRPF camp culminating in the brutal killing of 5 CRPF jawans -- who were unarmed --- and which also left 11 others, including 3 civilians, injured. There are reports that the Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir (POJK)- based rabidly anti-India terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)/Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), at the behest of frustrated and desperate Pakistan, will conduct more such terror operations in different parts of India, including Jammu and Kashmir, and soft target... | |
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