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Suspended CMO’s clinic sealed by Pulwama Auqaf, Police Place of doctor’s rape on woman identified as religious property 3/22/2010 11:54:53 PM AHMED ALI FAYYAZ SRINAGAR, Mar 22: Auqaf Committee of Pulwama township in South Kashmir today sealed the building which had been allegedly used by a doctor to commit rape on a woman. However, Police swiftly swung into action and put its own seal on the room that used to be the suspended Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Ghulam Sofi’s clinic until recently. Informed sources in south Kashmir told Early Times that after two days of investigation, Pulwama Police succeeded in identifying the place where the suspended CMO Dr Ghulam Qadir Sofi had allegedly committed rape on a woman that had been recorded by unidentified persons on a mobile phone and later circulated in the Valley. Sources said that Police conducted inspection of at least three particular spots, including CMO’s office and District Hospital of Pulwama, but ultimately Dr Sofi’s clinic, situated on the first floor of a building owned by the local Auqaf, at Rajpora Chowk in the township matched with the video clip that has been seized by Police. Even before Police would take further action, members of the local...   READ MORE

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Entire opposition stages walkout against job policy 3/22/2010 11:54:24 PM ARTEEV SHARMA EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 22: Describing Sher-e-Kashmir employment policy announced by the government as "cruel joke" and "big fraud" with lakhs of unemployed youth in the State, the entire Opposition today showed unanimity and staged a walkout from the Lower House of the State Legislature here. For the first time since commencement of current budget session, the vociferous Opposition parties including Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) and Jammu State Morcha (JSM) jointly cornered the ruling coalition over, what they alleged, "lopsided" policy and charged it with gathering "publicit...   READ MORE   Terminate CMO Pulwama: MLA 3/22/2010 11:54:05 PM ET REPORT JAMMU, Mar 22: MLA Langate, Engineer Abdul Rashid today demanded termination of Ghulam Mohammad Sofi, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Pulwama after he was caught on video while raping a woman in his office chamber. Soon after the question hour in the Legislative Assembly, the MLA said that the government has only suspended the CMO Pulwama who is already facing the charges of fudging evidence in the infamous Shopian case. "Several cases have already been registered against the CMO and the government has just suspended him. The Government should immediately terminate the CMO as he was being blackmailed by some persons having the video clipping of the incident," he said. ...   READ MORE   Harsh questions absence of CM, his deputy from LA 3/22/2010 11:53:50 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 22: Leader of Panthers Legislature Party, Harsh Dev Singh today raised the issue of long absence of Chief Minister and his deputy from the house while commenting on the authenticity of the statement made by junior ministers in the House on policy matters. During the question hour when Minister of State for Urban Development, Nasir Aslam Wani was giving out a reply in response to a question of PDP MLA, Rafi Ahmed, the JKNPP MLA got up from his seat and sought intervention of the Speaker in the matter. Singh, while reading a famous couplet, "Kharbooje Ko Dekh Kar………." said just like CM these days even Deputy Chief Minister is staying out of the hous...   READ MORE   Absentee employee spotted in LA, suspended 3/22/2010 11:53:32 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 22: The State Government today placed under suspension one of local bodies employees who was attending the proceedings of State Legislative Assembly during the second sitting here. Spotting a government employee identified as Ghulam Nabi Lone, a local body employee while attending proceedings from Speaker's gallery, the Speaker Mohammed Akbar Lone sought answer from the government as to how a government servant attending the proceedings. Acting on the directions of the Speaker, Minister for Forest Mian Altaf on the behalf of government, informed the speaker that Ghulam Nabi Lone is a head assistant in Rafiabad and had left the station without se...   READ MORE   Dogra academicians second to none, CU must be headed by a Dogra 3/22/2010 11:53:18 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 22: However, in fairness to Vice-Chancellor Varun Sawhney it can be said that he, unlike Amitabh Mattoo, has not indulged in activities which have the potential of spoiling the Indian pitch in Jammu and Kashmir. He has never hobnobbed with those who have been working for the Kashmir secession from India. His conduct on this count is indeed appreciable. He is not a mercenary. Nor has he ever indicated his support for what his predecessor had been doing. In fact, he is spending most of his time in straightening certain things which were mismanaged by Amitabh Matttoo during his 6-year-long tenure as Vice-Chancellor of Jammu University. As for Amitabh...   READ MORE   Valley floats on gas, Jammu has oil 3/22/2010 11:52:42 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 22: Kashmir floats on gas! This observation has been made by a renowned geologist of the state whose works on gas in Kashmir have been accepted by the American Association of Petroleum geologists in Vol 52/4, April 1968. The geologist's (Haji AM Butt) observation finds weight in Kulhana's Chronicle of Kings where he refers to "self created fire" coming from earth at Shyam, 85 Kms southwest of Nichama Handwara. Another reference comes from Abu Fazal's Ain-e-Akbari which states that in sub-division of Kamraj fire came out from fissures in earth and bowls of rice placed on it got cooked. Presence of oil at several places in Jammu region has not been r...   READ MORE   Bill on district jobs may be deferred 3/22/2010 11:52:22 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 22: The Jammu and Kashmir government may defer the introduction of a bill banning inter-district recruitment in the state legislative assembly as a cabinet meeting to sort out the issue between the National Conference and the Congress was not held Monday evening. The bill bars applicants from seeking jobs in districts other than their own. The meeting was to "draw up a mutually acceptable path" on the issue, as Congress, a major partner in the ruling coalition, had voiced its unhappiness over National Conference Minister Ali Mohammad Sagar's announcement to table the legislation in the assembly Monday. "The meeting has been deferred," a minister told...   READ MORE   Police await sanction under Sec 6 AFSPA Zahid Farooq case 3/22/2010 11:51:24 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 22: The police are waiting for New Delhi's nod for producing a charge sheet against BSF commandant RK Bardi accused of ordering killing of a Nishat youth on February 5. The police told the officiating Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Srinagar that they were waiting for two forensic reports and Union Home Ministry's nod for producing the charge sheet against the accused commandant and Constable Lakhwinder Singh. The counsel for the slain youth, Zahid Farooq's parents, GN Shaheen sought immediate filing of charge sheet against the accused. However, SDPO, Nehru Park, Muzaffar Shah told the court that the police were awaiting two forensic reports whic...   READ MORE   Inter-District Recruitment: Congress creating difficulties after difficulties for itself 3/22/2010 11:51:02 PM RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 22: The Congress is harming its interests in Jammu province with each passing day. Sometimes it is walking into the PDP trap and sometimes the NC's, wittingly or unwittingly. It walked into the PDP trap and surprised and angered everyone in Jammu on March 8, when it allowed it to introduce anti-women disqualification bill in the legislative council, which was accepted without any discussion whatsoever. Ever since then, the Congress leaders have been trying their level best to come clean, but with no result. As if it was enough to damage the cause of the party in the Jammu province, which houses all the Scheduled Caste communities, members o...   READ MORE   Congress to face litmus test on Delimitation Bill 3/22/2010 11:50:47 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 22: After having bungled on the Permanent Resident(Disqualification) Bill,that has been introduced in the Legislative Council,the state unit of the Congress has to face another litmus test when a bill,seeking amendment to the state constitution so that the ban on establishement of a delimitation commission was lifted,came up for introduction and discussion in the Legislative Assembly. The Panthers Party working chairman,Harsh Dev Singh,has moved the Bill and he hoped that it will come up fo introduction after the discussion on the grants of various Government departments ended.No doubt the Congress feels let down by the Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah,...   READ MORE   Mosque badly damaged in fire 3/22/2010 11:50:30 PM Early Times report JAMMU: A mosque was badly damaged in a devastating fire at Pochal in Kishtwar in the wee hours of Monday morning. The fire, which emanated from a corner at about 3 am, soon engulfed the whole of the religious place, police sources said. The flames were first spotted by some people living in the close vicinity of the mosque. After they raised alarm, villagers gathered outside the burning structure. After someone informed police and fire brigade, at least three fire tenders were pressed into service. By the time the flames were controlled from spreading further, the mosque had suffered huge damages, the sources added. Sources said though the exact cause of fire...   READ MORE   KAS candidates boycot agri paper 3/22/2010 11:50:06 PM Early Times Report JAMMU: KAS candidates, taking agriculture paper at the MAM College examination centre here, today boycotted their paper, alleging that it was out of syllabus. Trouble started soon after the question papers were distributed among the candidates. Whispering was followed by protest when some of them got up on their desks and started making noise. They were soon joined by others and all decided to boycot the paper. They later met public service commission (PSC) chairman and brought the matter to his notice. They appealed to the chairman to do justice in the case by reconducting the agriculture paper. Taking cognizance of the nuisance created by the candidat...   READ MORE   Power disruption in LA 3/22/2010 11:49:20 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, March 22: A few seconds of power disruption today interrupted the proceedings for a while in the ongoing budget session in State Legislative Assembly here. The power supply went off at around 9:43 a.m and resumed in few seconds when the inverters were switched on. On a lighter note, the JKNPP MLA Harsh Dev Singh said, ''Speaker Sahib Yeh Power Department Bhi Apke Haath Mein Nahi Hai.'' As soon as the main power supply was restored, the BJP and Panthers Party legislators shouted, 'yeh Lo Phir Gayee'....   READ MORE

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