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| On Samiti petition, CJ calls case record from Srinagar | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 06-Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court Justice Barin Gosh today issued notice and called the record of SPW 1562/08 filed by Shalindra, the then Additional Superintendent of Police and Ors from Srinagar Wing to Jammu and ordered that no further steps shall be taken in the writ petition until further orders.
These directions were passed in an application filed by Convener Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangarsh Samiti Jammu Lila Kiran Sharma seeking transfer of the petition from Srinagar High Court to Jammu High Court in which the High Court Srinagar Wing restrained the Justice OP Sharma Commission from finalizing the enquiry report in Kuldeep Kumar’s suicide case. In the transfer application it has been submitted that during the land row agitation started by Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangarsh Samiti, the police has committed atrocities on the innocent protesters and desecrated the body of martyr Kuldeep Verma, the police tried to lift body in the night and burn the same by desecrating the body causing disrespect to the body of Martyr Kuldeep Verma, hurting ... | |
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| CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM | | J&K takes first step towards Kyoto protocol | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, March 6: As carbon trading takes the world market with a boom and India aspires to become a global leader in clean development mechanism, Jammu and Kashmir is certainly not far behind in joining the race.
It was decided in July 2009 that Jammu and Kashmir will raise money from hydropower projects through carbon trading in the international market. The then government had asked the Corporation to approach the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for assistance in exploiting hydropower potential in the region.
However, not much headway could be made in moving in this direction till the State’s Forest Research Institute made recent beginning towards the Clean Developm... | |
| | | | Delimitation, 7 other Bills fall in Assembly | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, March 6: Even as the government made seven private members’ bills to fall, the state legislative assembly on Friday rejected the bill to increase the number of seats through a fresh delimitation.
The constitutional amendment bill which was introduced by the Jammu and Kashmir Panthers Party (JKPP) legislator, Harsh Dev Singh, in the assembly on Friday was rejected by a voice vote.
Earlier speaking in favour of the bill, Harsh Dev said that the bill needs to be cleared by the assembly in view of the widespread demand for constitution of delimitation commission to re-draw the boundaries of assembly constituencies.
He sought an increase in the number of asse... | |
| | | | Uproar in assembly on unemployment | | | |
Munish Gupta
Jammu, March 6: The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly today witnessed uproar as the opposition members criticized the government for not having any policy to meet the rising unemployment problem in the state.
Replying to a question by JKNPP member Balwant Singh Mankotia during zero hour as to whether the government had promised to provide one job to at least one member of each family in the state, Minister for Industries and Commerce Surjit Singh Slathia answering on behalf of minister for labour and employment said no such promise was made.
Reacting to the reply from the government given by the Minister for Industries, Commerce, Labour and Employment Surjit Singh Sl... | |
| | | | Ambani sees Kashmir resolution through dialogue | | | |
Mumbai, Mar 6: An eternal optimist, leading Indian businessman, Anil Ambani, heading the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group (ADAG), today expressed confidence that solution could emerge to the vexed Kashmir row only through a negotiated settlement.
Speaking at the International Bar Association's Business Law Conference on ''India as an emerging Economic Giant'' here, Mr Ambani said, ''I still believe only through dialogue and discussions a solution can be found.'' He was responding to questions on the issue by a delegate to the conference.
Stating that efforts had been made in the past through the Shimla Pact as also visit of former Prime Minsiter Atal Bihari Vajpayee to Pakistan, he said th... | |
| | | | The Driver who saved Lankan team, had his brother killed in Kashmir | | | |
ET DESK
WITH AGENCY INPUTS
Jammu, March 6: Mehar Mohammed Khalil, the driver of the Sri Lankan team bus whose quick thinking took the players to safety, had a brother who was killed fighting for a jihadi militant group in Kashmir in 1995.
Shakil, Khalil’s younger brother, was gunned down by Indian security forces in August of that year.
A picture of Shakil — a Kalashnikov rifle slung over his shoulder, a camouflage cap on his head and a radio in one hand — adorns the small house in Lahore’s congested Yateem Khana area where the 38-year-old Khalil lives with his family, parents, two brothers and their families.
Printed in Urdu across the photograph are the words “Mujahid martyre... | |
| | | | IAS, KAS officers, others booked for ‘selling’ Gulmarh estate | | | |
Early Times Report
In first major case of public accountability, the State Vigilance has registered a case against a top IAS officer and half a dozen other officers, all of them presently holding key positions in administration, for illegally transferring a part of Gulmarg estates (identified for creation of hutments) to the private parties in clear violation of laid rules and with apparent motives of drawing or awarding pecuniary benefits among various officials and parties involved in the deal. What Vigilance Organisation has described as a ‘criminal conspiracy’, the officials had started this process of illegal land allotment earlier last year under the much touted Roshni scheme and f... | |
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