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| HC quashes termination order, directs DG Prisons to reinstate petitioner | | | | Jammu, March 26
Justice JP Singh of J&K High Court Jammu wing in a significant judgment has quashed the order passed by Director General Prisons and Fire Services J&K on November 7, 2002, with the directions to reinstate the petitioner in service.
This significant judgment has been passed in a writ petition filed by Sanjeev Kumar who was discharged from the service vide DG Prisons order and challenged the same on the ground that the petitioner was appointed as Warder in the prison department on June 22, 1996. During the course of his service he sought change of his cadre from warder to junior assistant. Non-consideration of his request was given by the authorities the petitioner claim... | |
| | | | NC gearing up for Omar Rally on March 29,ready to corner Cong-Pdp coalition | | | |
Jammu, March 26
Brushing aside allegations of involvement of NC Legislator from Mendhar behind recent episode of communal tension in Mendhar town in Poonch district, Provincial president of National conference Ajay Sadhotra on Monday termed these as false and baseless maintaining that party had directed district President Poonch to submit a detailed report after assessing the ground situation.
“We are committed to uphold secularism at all costs and none of our workers or party leaders were involved in flaring up communal tension in Mendhar”,Sadhotra told reporters here on Monday.
“All these reports are based on set of allegations leveled by a political party and are n... | |
| | | | Cabinet Meeting: Cong-Pdp faces another litmus test on March 29 | | | | Jammu, March 26
Fate of Cong-PDP coalition which continues to hang in balance would really be known only on March 29 during crucial cabinet meeting as presence or absence of PDP ministers would determine whether or not conflict has been resolved amicably between the two partners or not.
As per the political grapevine, if the four PDP ministers attend the cabinet meeting it will indicate that the differences between the two have been sorted out. Since February 28 the PDP ministers boycotted three consecutive cabinet meetings in protest against Chief Minister’s refusal even to acknowledge the letter from the PDP legislature party leader,Mr Abdul Aziz Zargar, in which he had requested ... | |
| | | | EU Kashmir report leaves Pakistan disappointed | | | | NEW DELHI, MAR 26
Parliament's much-discussed Kashmir report is in news, agaion. The 28 amendments made to the report by European Parliament’s Baroness Emma Nicholson have failed to meet Pakistan’s expectations, especially on the plebiscite issue.
The report is to be put to vote in May when Pakistan hopes it can generate enough support to get the desired results. Pakistan’s lobbying efforts have been coordinated with help from Kashmiri groups by its UK High Commissioner, Maleeha Lodhi.
Last week, the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee adopted with “minor changes” the report incorporating the recommendation that conditions for a plebiscite had not been met and there... | |
| | | | 83 crossed LOC via Chakan-de -bagh | | | | Chakan-de -bagh (Poonch), Mar 26
At least eighty three persons crossed over either side from the line of actual control through Chakien-de -bagh (Poonch) here today.
Official sources told News Agency of Kashmir that eighty three people crossed over Chakien-de- Bagh from either side of the LOC this afternoon.
Sources said that fifty nine persons who crossed to this side include twenty fresh visitors from PoK, while the remaining thirty nine were those who had gone to meet their relatives across. The returnees include two Sikhs Sawaran Singh and Jasbir Singh father and son of ward No. 3 Sumbal camp Jammu who had gone to meet their Muslim relatives living in Jehlum area of Muzaffarabad. ... | |
| | | | ReT teachers threaten to resume agitation | | | | Jammu Mar 26
Rahbar-e-Taleem teachers have threatened to resume their agitation in case government fails to keep its promise of fulfilling their demands including the enhancement of salaries and reduction in the qualifying service for regularization.
The Rahbar-e-Taleem Teachers forum called off their strike last month after chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad gave them assurance that their demands would be conceded.
As per a press statement issued here today, the All Jammu and Kashmir Rahbar-e-Taleem teachers/ EVs Forum at a meeting has decided to resume their strike if Government did not keep the promises it made with them last month after which they called off their strike.
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| | | | Sonia’s bid fails: Azad skips dinner | | | | Srinagar, Mar 26
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad skipped the dinner organized by United Front Chairperson Sonia Gandhi reportedly in a bid to provide PDP’s patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and him an opportunity to sort out their differences over the issue of the withdrawal of troops.
Sources informed that Azad who spend his whole day in Srinagar where he inspected arrangements for Eid Milad congregation returned to Jammu late afternoon. “After he returned, he directly went to his official residence and remained there for the rest of the day” sources from CM Secretariat told News Agency of Kashmir. However, exact reasons behind his missing out the dinner were not immediately known.
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