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| Mercy Corps Program Director deported to USA | | All foreign NGOs put under security scanner in J&K on MHA's notice | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
srinagar, Apr 12: Kashmir Program Director of the American non-profit organisation, Mercy Corps, Usman Rahim, has been deported to USA after working on different projects in coordination with the state and the central governments for nearly eight years. With this dramatic development, authorities have put all the foreign NGOs under a high security scanner.
According to authoritative sources, customs and immigration authorities on Indira Gandhi International Airport stopped 42-year-old Usman Rahim who was returning to New Delhi in a flight from Dubai on March 9th. With an entry on his American Passport, Usman was sent back to USA via Dubai. If these highly placed official sources are to be believed, the immigration authorities recorded on Usman's passport that his activities in India had been "not consistent with the visa granted to him" from time to time.
Usman's wife, Nafeesa, who is a British national, has been left alone in Srinagar. Sources said that nobody from the government asked her either to leave the country or stay back in Srinagar. Efforts to contact ... | |
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| Does JKCA fund scam end with Goni's ouster? | | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Apr 12: Dr. Farooq Abdullah president of JKCA Thursday ordered a four-member probe into the multi-crore fund scam in the state's cricket body.
A JKCA official said president, Dr. Farooq Abdullah today nominated four members of the association's working committee to carry out an in-house probe into the reported misappropriation of funds in the association.
Four members namely Amarinder Singh Micky, Mohammad Ashraf Bhat, Ashinder Koul and Sham Kalkotra have been entrusted with the job to probe the reported misappropriation and submit their report. The in-house probe will also identify genuine and fake representatives of various cricket clubs in the state with w... | |
| | | | Interlocuters' report to restrict Parliament's jurisdiction over Jammu Kashmir | | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Apr 12: If the latest reports are to be relied on the cat is out of the bag of the interlocuters. The three interlocutors have, as per the reports, recommended that a constitution committee (CC) being set up to review all those central laws that had been extended to Jammu and Kashmir after 1952.
The CC should be headed by an eminent jurist and comprise members from the state and all over the country who are known for their merit, honesty and integrity. It should be left to the CC to decide which central laws needed to be repealed and which needed to be retained. In fact the interlocutors want those laws that restrict the state's powers in shaping the destiny of p... | |
| | | | Press Council to challenge HC order in SC: Katju | | | | Agencies
NEW DELHI, Apr 12: New Delhi: Terming as "not correct" the Allahabad High Court order which prohibited all media reports related to troop movements, Press Council of India (PCI) chairman Justice Markandey Katju on Thursday said that the Council would soon challenge it in the Supreme Court.
"The Press Council of India will be challenging the order of the Allahabad High Court in the Supreme Court of India very shortly," the PCI chief, who is a former Supreme Court judge, said in a statement.
Katju said that "with great respect to the High Court, I am of the opinion that the order of the High Court is not correct."
He said that the Indian Army was not a colonial army, but the a... | |
| | | | Differences between NC, Cong mar early prospects of ULB polls | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 12: Even as J&K coalition government has reaffirmed its commitment on holding the Urban Local Bodies elections as early as possible, what appears to be the main hurdle at this point of time is differences between the allies NC and Congress over the fundamental issue of politics, as both are yet to arrive at unanimity as to whether the polls be held on party basis separately or jointly as coalition on the lines of friendly contest.
Sources said even though the government has projected unpreparedness of Election authorities in preparing and finalizing draft electoral rolls as the main reason for delaying the polls, it is actually sharp and vertical differen... | |
| | | | Interlocutors' report deflates NC's autonomy balloon | | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Apr 12: Restoration of autonomy shall create a constitutional crisis in the state. This has been attributed to New Delhi's nominated Interlocutors' report that was submitted to the Union Home Ministry last year.
A local news agency quoting sources said the report while ruling out restoration of autonomy has recommended restoration of Article 370 in its original form. The report has stressed need for appointment of Governor of the state after consulting the state legislature.
The report, according to the news agency, has made a passing reference about unmarked/mass graves in the state of Jammu Kashmir.
The `leak' must have shocked the National Conference, belie... | |
| | | | Pandits suspect foul play in mysterious death of scribe in Valley | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 12: Suspecting foul play in the mysterious death of a scribe of national Hindi Daily Amar Ujala in Srinagar yesterday, Kashmiri Pandits have demanded a thorough probe into the matter to ascertain the facts.
In their separate statements the KP organizations have urged the Government to order a CBI probe into the mysterious death of scribe in view of recent warning of terrorists to attack the journalists in the Valley. ``We suspect a foul play in Ashok Razdhan's death and it does not appear to be a suicidal case'' said Ramesh Manwati a protagonist of Panun Kashmir.
He said the relatives, friends and family members of Razdhan as well as his colleagues don't be... | |
| | | | Shia-Sunni conflict in NA alarming | | Anti-Pak Rally In Kargil | | | Neha
jammu, Apr 12: Things in the Shiite Muslim-dominated Kargil in the trans-Himalayan Ladakh region are assuming alarming proportions and the developments as they have started unfolding in Kargil have the potential of provoking the already rather dissatisfied and neglected Shiite Muslims in the Valley to ape their co-religionists in Ladakh and create troubles in Kashmir. The Shiite Muslims in Kashmir constitute one of the four major communities in Kashmir, including Sunni Muslims, ethnically different Gujjar and Bakerwal Muslims and Pathowari-speaking or "Pahari"-speaking Muslims (all, without any exception, Sunnis) and Shiite Muslims.
The Shiite Muslims of Kashmir and Kargil have no lo... | |
| | | | Indian leaders' mindset of defeat | | Delhi And J&K | | | Rustam
jammu, Apr 12: Why is it that the Government of India pursuing a unilateral process of "reconciliation" with Pakistan bordering on acceptance of latter's contentions on almost all aspects of issues involved in Jammu and Kashmir? The reason perhaps lies in the mindset of the Indian leadership at the helm, barring perhaps Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi and PV Narsimha Rao. Rest of the Indian leaders, which remained at the helm of affairs perhaps were never actually able to convince themselves that a Muslim majority state can have a sustainable existence within secular India. Like Gandhi, all of them seemed to believe in abdication in the face of the challenge posed by Muslim ident... | |
| | | | Omar Abdullah ashamed to share name with accused | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 12: Expressing his outrage over the death of baby Afreen, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said he felt ashamed to share his name with that of her father.
"For once I'm ashamed to share my name with someone. Her (Afreen) father's name and my first "n (and) middle name are the same," Omar wrote on micro-blogging site Twitter.
Three-month-old Afreen, allegedly battered and abused by her father Umar Farooq for being born a girl, died at a hospital in Bangalore yesterday after suffering a cardiac arrest.... | |
| | | | Hardcore criminal booked under PSA | | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Apr 12: District Magistrate Jammu ordered the detention of a hardcore gangster who has been arrested by Jammu Police be booked under J&K Public Safety Act.
"Upon the recommendation of District Police Jammu, District Magistrate Jammu ordered the detention of one notorious gangster of Yudvir @ Babloo gang member namely Manoj Kumar @ Moja son of Late Ashok Kumar resident of W. No. 04, R.S. Pura Jammu under J&K Public Safety Act, police said.
Police statement said that subject is a hardcore/habitual criminal who has formed a gang of criminals to carry out his nefarious activities and seven (7) criminal cases under heinous offences have been registered against the su... | |
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