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NC's favourite NHPC facing 584 litigations, 4 criminal liabilities 3/26/2011 12:21:28 AM Syed Junaid Hashmi JAMMU, Mar 25: National Hydroelectric Project Corporation (NHRC) which has been major stake in Jammu and Kashmir's Hydroelectricity generations has 584 litigations including four criminal liabilities, with financial implication of Rs 5.9 million pending in various courts across the country. Official documents, copies of which are with Early Times affirm that NHPC is involved in four criminal liabilities, with the financial implication of Rs 5.9 million. They unveil that there are nine environmental litigations against the company in relation to its completed and ongoing projects, the financial liability of which is not quantified. There are 81 arbitration proceedings pending against NHPC. There are 146 civil cases filed against NHPC and 9 civil cases filed against NHDC by various entities including construction contractors, and the aggregate value of the claims amounts to Rs 698 million, plus interest. There are around 416 land-related litigations against NHPC, the aggregate value of which is Rs 10.25 billion Documents reveal that even labour-related legal pro...   READ MORE

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AI member takes Geelani for a ride! 3/26/2011 12:21:09 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 25: The Hurriyat chairman, Syed Ali Geelani today had a `joyride' when Amnesty International (AI) member, Bikramjeet Batra took him out. The whiff of `fresh air' must have done wonders to Geelani's psychology. But it conveyed a wrong (political) message. If a leader like Geelani needs AI support for breaking the police barrier, how can he deliver at the `larger front'? Geelani has been under house arrest since last year's agitation. The police have not allowed him to offer congregational prayers on Fridays since last year. During the past nine months he has gone out just twice. Recently he was in New Delhi to address the India today Conclave and earlier he...   READ MORE   SP sent to 4 days police remand, his bank account spills beans Arrested PSO paraded; Rs. 15 lakh, revolver recovered 3/26/2011 12:20:07 AM Sumit Sharma JAMMU, Mar 25: A day after the arrest of former Superintendent Central Jail Kot Bhalwal Mirza Salim Ahmed Beg, police today nabbed his then Personal Security Officer (PSO) with a revolver and Rs 15 lakh contract money (Supari) from city of temples here. Court today sent Beg to four days police remand. He was arrested yesterday for facilitating contractor Nagar Singh alias Nago to establish contacts with Supari killer gangs from Central Jail to get witnesses in Amandeep murder case eliminated. Police today arrested his PSO with a revolver and Rs 15 lakh. However, arrest of his PSO (jail cop), presently posted at Civil Secretariat and recovery of two revolvers, was reported b...   READ MORE   Congress party over in Jammu and Kashmir? 3/26/2011 12:18:11 AM Neha JAMMU, Mar 25: The budget session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislature commenced on February 28. Ever since then, all the ministers and legislators hailing from Kashmir and all the legislators hailing from Jammu, barring those belonging to the Congress party, including those enjoying the status of minister, have been clashing in the House. They have been taking on each other on developmental issues as well as ideological issues. In fact, the past 26 days or so have witnessed these ministers and legislators taking on each other and trying their level best to identify themselves with the constituencies they represent, as also to make their stand public on the floor of the Legislative A...   READ MORE   Pandits ridicule Malik's call for restoration of composite culture 3/26/2011 12:17:50 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 25: Kashmiri Pandits have expressed their surprise over the statement of JKLF supremo Yasin Malik who has decided to organise a meeting of prominent citizens in last week of next month to facilitate the return of displaced Kashmiri Pandits to Valley. Malik whose JKLF was brain behind the migration of Pandits from Valley after its activists indulged in selective killings of minority Hindus in Kashmir soon after the militancy started in the year 1989 and 90. Ridiculing the statement of Malik various KP leaders in Delhi and Jammu have questioned the authenticity of what JKLF supremo said. They said how Malik is talking about the restoration of lost confidence ...   READ MORE   Manmohan's cricket diplomacy, invites Pak Prez, PM to Mohali 3/26/2011 12:17:24 AM NEW DELHI: Launching cricket diplomacy to give a fresh impetus to bilateral ties, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today invited Pakistan President and Prime Minister to watch the Indo-Pak cricket encounter in Mohali on March 30 when he will also be present. In an identical letters to President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, he said he proposed to watch the Indo-Pak World Cup semi-final and "it gives me a great pleasure" to invite them to watch the match. "There is huge excitement over the match and we are all looking forward to a great game of cricket that will be a victory for sport. "It gives me great pleasure to invite you to visit Mohali and join me and the mill...   READ MORE   Friendship with Pakistan just not possible 3/26/2011 12:17:02 AM Rustam JAMMU, Mar 25: The Pakistani response to the goodwill gestures shown by Atal Behari Vajpayee was no different. Similar has been the response of Islamabad to Manmohan Singh's unilateral goodwill gestures. Message from Islamabad is loud and clear: Endorse two-nation theory, quit Kashmir and give absolute power to Pakistan to establish full control over the state waters. India will never accept it. The fact of the matter is that had Jawaharlal Nehru rejected the advice of Lord Mountbatten, the free India's nominated Governor-General with no plenipotentiary powers, and not taken at his behest the issue of Pakistani aggression on Indian territory in Jammu and Kashmir to what Sardar ...   READ MORE   India, Pak to Set Up Second International Gate 3/26/2011 12:16:34 AM ATTARI (AMRITSAR): With a view to improving movement of people and goods across the international border, India and Pakistan today discussed issues relating to border infrastructure in a meeting on the Indian side of the Indo-Pak border at Attari, here today. Pakistan delegation was led by Shabbir Ahmad, Joint Secretary to the Ministry of Interior, while the Indian side was headed by Sada Kant, Joint Secretary (Border Management), Ministry of Home Affairs. According to Deputy Commissioner Amritsar Kahan Singh Pannu who attended the meeting, the interaction was held in a cordial and constructive atmosphere. The two sides discussed issues relating to the development of the infrastructure, ...   READ MORE   JK loses Rs 8650 Cr as Punjab plays truant 3/26/2011 12:15:42 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 25: The government on Friday said that the State has suffered losses to the tune of Rs 8650 crore on account of failure to implement bilateral agreement between Punjab and JK over Thein Dam Hydroelectric project in the state. In a written reply to the question of PDP MLA, AR Veeri in Legislative Assembly, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, said that J&K has suffered Rs 8650 crore losses due to non-implementation of bilateral agreement between J&K and Punjab drawn in January 1979 over Thein Dam project in Kathua district of the state. Giving breakup, he said that the state exchequer incurred loss of Rs 2350 crore on account of due share of 20 per cent of power ge...   READ MORE   11 hurt in bus accident 3/26/2011 12:15:06 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 25 : Atleast 11 persons were today wounded after a bus in which they were travelling overturned at Sagar in Mendhar area of Poonch. Police sources said with 40 passengers on board, the bus (JK02D-5057) was on its way to Sagar from Mendhar. Soon after it left the Mendhar bus stand, driver Tanveer Ahmed lost control over it as a result of which it turned turtle in the middle of the road, leaving at least 11 passengers wounded, two of them critically. The injured were hospitalised. Eight of them were identified as Muzaffar Hussain, Nasreen Kousar, Sabina Bi, Hamida Begam, Raseema Akhtar, Mohammed Asaq, Ghulam Ahmed and Sikander Hayat. Police had registered a ...   READ MORE   Mirza, Baba sent to 4-day police remand 3/26/2011 12:14:30 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 25: Jail superintendent Mirza Salim Beigh and the alleged supari killer Sunny Baba were today sent to four days police remand.Sources said Mirza was remanded by court to police custody for four days for his sustained interrogation.He was arrested yesterday from railway station here. He was alleged to have arranged meetings of Nago with alleged supari killers over phone from inside the jail when he was superintendent of Kot-Bhalwal jail. He was transferred to the Udhampur district jail some time back.Meanwhile, Baba, who was arrested by police from Jhajjar Kotli on March 15 last, was produced before CJM, Jammu, M S Parihar who sent him to four days police rema...   READ MORE

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