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Arun Kumar sent to Special Tribunal, Angurana is Resident Commissioner, Mehboob Iqbal gets PHE Renzu given full charge of inf, five DCs shifted Major reshuffle in administrative ranks 3/9/2011 12:27:04 AM Early Times Report Jammu, March 8: Even as the coalition government is pre occupied with the ongoing budget session, it effected a major reshuffle in the administration transferring more than two dozens senior officers including some Deputy Commissioners and bureaucrats of the rank of Commissioner Secretaries . Decisions with regard to transfer of the officers were taken in the cabinet meeting held early this morning in the Secretariat. The cabinet which met here under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah primarily gave nod to the transfers and postings of as many as 22 senior administrative officers, a step which sources attribute as something in routine, in majority of the cases upon completion of the tenure at a particular place of posting. At the higher level, the cabinet gave nod to the posting of Mehboob Iqbal, IAS who was awaiting orders of adjustment in the General Administration Department as Commissioner Secretary to Government, PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control Department. Ashok Kumar Angurana, IAS, who was holding this post of Principal Secretary to...   READ MORE

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Nod to two bills, creation of 103 posts of physiotherapists , 88 posts for Home guards 3/9/2011 12:23:04 AM Early Times Report Jammu, March 8: Apart from major reshuffle in the administrative ranks, the cabinet also gave nod to two important bills which will be placed before the legislature during the current session. It includes Stamp duty and registration amendment bill about which the Finance Minister A R Rather made a mention in the budget speech which is primarily aimed at system of stamp duty rates for sale and purchase of the immovable properties. The need for bringing about this amendment bill has been necessitated as the government has believes 50% reduction in the rates of the stamp duty ordered by the government has not produced the desired result. Cabinet today gave nod to this bil...   READ MORE   Car lifter held, 8 stolen vehicles recovered 3/9/2011 12:22:33 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 08: A youth, who was Monday night apprehended by people at Gole Market, Gandhi Nagar, while trying to steal a car, later led police to the recovery of eight cars stolen by him and his accomplices from different city areas. Police sources said Nikhil, son of Tilak Raj of Narwal Pain, Satwari, was last night caught by some people at Gole Market while he was trying to steal a car parked in the market. The people gave him a severe beating and later handed him over to Gandhi Nagar police. His sustained interrogation led police to the recovery of eight cars stolen by him and his accomplices from different localities of the city. The recovered vehicles bore regi...   READ MORE   Youth attempts to rape girl, held 3/9/2011 12:22:08 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 08: A youth was today arrested by police after a girl complained against him that he had allegedly tried to outrage her modesty.Police sources said Pooja (21), daughter of Swaran Singh, today approached Pir Mitha police station with an alleged complain against Surinder Kumar, son of Khem Raj of Prem Nagar, that he had attempted to rape her. In her complaint, she also alleged that the accused had torn her clothes, the sources added. Acting on the complaint, a police party headed by Pir Mitha police station SHO, Inspector Sajjad arrested the accused and booked him under sections 376, 511, 342 and 323 of RPC. ...   READ MORE   Food minister faces ire of BJP, Panthers Party legislators Migrants given ration from Jammu share, alleges Jammu opposition 3/9/2011 12:21:21 AM KUNAL SHRIVATSA EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 8: In the series of walkouts by the opposition in State Legislative Assembly ever since the commencement of the ongoing Budget Session on February 28, the House today witnessed one more walkout before the BJP and PP legislators today raised noise over the issu eof alleged distribution of ration to migrants from th egeneral quota meant for people of Jammu. The trouble erupted during Question Hour when the senior BJP leader Ashok Khajuria did not agree with the reply of Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Qamar Ali Akhoon’s during the question hour and alleged ration quota meant for Jammu to migrants putting up in t...   READ MORE   Baig says budget full of loopholes, rubbishes figures as unreal, imaginative 3/9/2011 12:19:55 AM KUNAL SHRIVATSA EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 8: A day after presentation of Budget by the Finance Minister AR Rather it was the turn of his predecessor Muzaffar Hussain Baig to analyse it critically while dissecting the components of the budget in a detailed manner. Taking a dig at the National Conference led coalition government in general and Finance Minister A R Rather in particular, the senior Peoples’ Democratic Party leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig termed the state Budget based on hypothetical figures which are far from reality and do not reflect the real picture of the state economy. Launching a scathing attack on Finance Minister, Ba...   READ MORE   Woman harassed for dowry, approaches women cell 3/9/2011 12:19:33 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 08: A woman, who was allegedly harassed by her husband and his family for dowry, has lodged a complaint against them with women police cell.Megha Kakkar, daughter of Vijay Kakkar of New Plots, was married to Rahul Sharma of Delhi in 2007. Police sources said Megha, who had returned to her parents' house here, today lodged a complaint with the women police cell, Canal Road, against Rahul and his family, alleging that she was being harassed by them for dowry.Police had registered a case in this connection. ...   READ MORE   House burgled at Pounichak 3/9/2011 12:18:26 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 08: Burglars broke into a house at Manorama Vihar in Pounichak Monday night and decamped with cash and gold jewellery worth lakhs.Police sources said Bhushan Lal Koul, son of Sarvanand Koul of Manorama Vihar, Monday evening went to attend a marriage function in his relative's house. However, when he returned late at night, he found that burglars had stolen cash, ATM card, SIM cards and gold jewellery worth lakhs from his house. Police had registered a case in this connection. ...   READ MORE   Militants blow up railway track near Srinagar 3/9/2011 12:17:34 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Mar 8: A portion of railway track was damaged in a mine blast at Wanabal on the city outskirts late last night.However, the traffic was resumed after the track was repaired at 0900 hrs. Official sources said today militants detonated a mine on the railway track at Wanaba, Nowgam, on the city outskirts. A portion of the track was damaged in the blast, they said adding window panes of neighbouring houses were shattered due to the impact of the blast, sound of which was heard in the entire uptown. The railway staff repaired the damaged portion and rail traffic was restored at 0900 hrs this morning. No militant outfit has claimed responsibility of the blast...   READ MORE   A `Half-widow’ who does not know about Womens’ Day 3/9/2011 12:15:58 AM Early times Report Jammu, Mar 8: On International Womens’ Day, a `half widow’ from Kupwara is more concerned about her daughter’s future than over all welfare of the women. She does not know what this special day is all about. “He is alive and has to come back for his daughter.” This is what a sobbing `Half-widow’ could manage when asked about her disappeared husband. Naseema has no idea about her age. She does not know when her husband disappeared. “I am illiterate and cannot remember dates”, she said. However, she knows the year when her husband, Saeed Anwar went missing. “It was 2000. My husband, a painter by profession would also earned a few bucks from an auto richshaw which ...   READ MORE   Division of Jammu on religious lines will result into a holocaust Governor’s Address 3/9/2011 12:15:42 AM STARK REALITY RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 8: There are potent reasons to believe that a move is afoot to divide Jammu province on religious lines to facilitate the implementation of the Dixon Plan/Musharraf formula and establish Greater Kashmir comprising Kashmir province and Muslim-majority areas of Jammu province and Ladakh region. That serious efforts are on to divide Jammu province became quite evident when State Governor N N Vohra in his Address to the joint session of the State Legislature on February 28 made a statement that his “Government remains committed to securing the equitable development of all the three regions and sub-regions of the State.” Finance Minister A...   READ MORE   Exercise on health promotion for people of J&K Budget proposals _________________ 3/9/2011 12:15:08 AM (Behind the veil) Early Times Report Jammu,March 8:-The annual budget proposals presented in the state Assembly by the Finance Minister on Monday can easily be called an exercise on promoting peoples'health.And cigarrete,tobacco smokers need not blame,rather curse,Abdul Rahim Rather,if he has proposed hike in VAT and toll tax on cigarettes,cigars,smoking pipes respectively.If Rather has proposed increase in VAT and toll tax one should blame Governo,N.N.Vohra. It is Vohra who had planted in Rather's mind the idea of increasing tax structure on cigarettes and tobacco.Vohra had called for it in a statement made by him a few days before the presentation of the...   READ MORE   Why only house committee for health department? Why not for all departments? Discrimination with Jammu 3/9/2011 12:14:19 AM MINCING NO WORDS NEHA EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 8: The cornered Jammu and Kashmir Government yesterday agreed to set up a house committee to conduct inquiry into the up-gradation and creation of health centres in the assembly segments of ministers. The government took this step to break the deadlock. The entire opposition had on Saturday walked out of the assembly accusing the health minister of ignoring the constituencies the opposition parties represent in the assembly and showing undue favour to the constituencies he and other ministers, including the finance minister, represent. The opposition had bitterly criticized the health minister, created a scene and charged him with san...   READ MORE

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