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| Cabinet meet: ‘No movement forward’ in Dogra certificate issue | | Reshuffle at top level in Forest Deptt: Tiwari is PCCF | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, April 20: Even as the Chief Minister led state cabinet took up Dogra certificate issue as vital subject in the agenda, no movement forward was seen not to speak of any further decision in the matter, it now being sub judiced. The cabinet however, did not desist from discussing ‘pros and cons’ as also its political and legal implications, the issue having assumed controversial contours in the wake of opposition to it from certain quarters in Kashmir. The Cabinet also effected reshuffle at the top most hierarchy in Forest Department besides approving creation of posts in SERC and Bagus Development Authority.
Dogra certificate issue which has been in the centre st... | |
| | | | Abbas Ansari suspended from Hurriyat after meeting with Padgaonkar team | | Interlocution ends up as a failed intelligence operation | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Apr 20: Having failed to meet any of the separatist leaders in the last six months, Dileep Padgaonkar-led team of New Delhi’s interlocutors today succeeded in arranging its maiden interaction with the senior Hurriyat leader Maulvi Abbas Ansari. However, Ansari realized soon that he had only burned his fingers as, within minutes of the meeting, Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq declared him as a
delinquent and suspended his membership in the Hurriyat Conference.
The team of celebrated interlocutors, including academician Radha Kumar and retired bureaucrat M M Ansari, called on the cleric-politician Abbas Ansari at his Khankah-e-Sokhta residence in
Safakadal area of... | |
| | | | Niyas approaches Raj Bhawan, SASB adamant | | Curtailment of Amarnath Yatra | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 20: Despite several Hindu religious and social organisations expressing anger and disgust over the decision of Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) to curtail duration of Amarnath Yatra, the board has seemingly decided not to review the decision. According to an official handout issued here today, SASB has given a detailed account of reasons which led them to curtail the duration of Yatra. It has given this explanation after a delegation of the Baba Amarnath Avam Baba Buda Amarnath Yatri Niyas headed by its President, Surinder Mohan Aggarwal, presented a Memorandum to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) R. K. Goyal of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board, here today a... | |
| | | | Two held with 78.5 kg poppy straw | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
KATHUA, Apr 20: Two drug peddlers were today arrested by police at
Sakta Chak near nagri Parole here while they were trying to smuggle
78.5 kg poppy straw in three trucks.
The accused were identified as Harbans Singh alias Angha, son of
Kirpal Singh of ward No 14, Sawan Chak, and Vijay Kumar, son of
Bishambar Dass of Sakta Chak.
Police sources said acting on a tip-off, cops intercepted three
trucks (JK02D/0863, JK02R/7463 and JK08/7713) at Sakta Chak and
recovered 78.5 kilograms of poppy straw from them.
While the drivers fled the spot, cops caught hold of Angha and
Vijay. The trucks, which belonged to Angha, were also seized, the
sourc... | |
| | | | Lady Inspector caught in CC camera while taking "graft", suspended | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 20: Known for her arrogance and overbearing social behaviour, traffic police Inspector Anita Chopra has been placed under suspension for allegedly accepting graft from a minibus operator near the Gujjar Nagar Tawi bridge here.
Police sources said Anita, alleged to be in the habit of showering choicest abuses on anyone who came across her on the road, was caught in a close-circuit (CC) camera, which was being monitored by cops in police control room here, while allegedly taking money from a traffic violator near the Gujjar Tawi bridge.
Unaware of the CC camera keeping a tab on her activities, she allegedly accepted money from a traffic violator for letting hi... | |
| | | | MLAs who cross-voted in LC polls | | PIL for CBI probe against BJP | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 20: SOS International, in a PIL filed in high court here, has sought registration of a case under prevention of corruption Act against the BJP MLAs, who had allegedly cross-voted in legislative council polls in lieu of cash and other considerations.
In the PIL, the NGO prayed for the issuance of a direction to CBI to register a case under prevention of corruption Act against the BJP MLAs who had indulged in cross-voting during the LC polls.The NGO sought further direction to the state of J&K through chief
secretary and legislative assembly secretary to take action against the erring seven BJP MLAs for having indulged in the electoral malpractices with respe... | |
| | | | Conflict over Dogra certificate baseless | | | | Dogra certificate issue is not against the valley people, neither will it harm their interest. This certificate will help the Dogra of Jammu, irrespective of religion-Hindu, Muslim, Sikhs in getting special relaxation in height and chest in central forces. The fresh controversy on issuance of Dogra certificate in Kashmir particularly from separatist section is unwarranted Early Times speak to Lawyers in Jammu and seek their views on the issue.
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| | | | | Vishal Mahajan, Advocate, J&K High Court, Jammu. | |  One should not give ear to false rumors about Dogra certificate. There are misgivings regarding Dogra certificate and people are not aware about this issue. I as an Advocate and son of the soil, fully support issuance of Dogra certificate.
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| | | | | Rakesh Pandita, Advocate, J&K High court, Jammu | |  I fully support the issue of Dogra certificate and want to see other colleagues to support it. This certificate will benefit the youth of Jammu province. This practice is not new as this is continuing since Maharaja’s time. I hope good sense will prevail on those who oppose it.
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| | | | | Neeraj Mehta, Advocate, J&K High court, JMU | |  Even since the order has come, a number of Kashmiri leader, both separatist as well as the so-called main stream leaders have been opposing tooth and nail the same order. Why so much of hue and cry on this issue, people should not create controversy and instead should support it. Dogra certificate issue is known to some people and others are ignorant about it.
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| | | | | Ajay Singh Manhas, Advocate, J&K High court, JMU | | 
I fully support the issue of Dogra certificate as it justifies the aspiration of people of Jammu region which has remained neglected for so many years. It was on March 25,2011, when Revenue Deptt issued order no Rev (LB) 69 of 2011 dated 25 March, 2011, that empowered Dogra including Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs of Jammu province to obtain Dogra certificate so that they enjoy certain relaxations in the rules governing recruitment to the Army and the central paramilitary forces.
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| | | | Did erstwhile USSR ditch India in UN? | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, April 20: On April 21, 1948, the UN Security Council passed a resolution seeking measures for settling the Kashmir dispute. Surprisingly, the USSR did not participate in voting. Had USSR exercised its veto, the resolution would have been blocked. This was not the first time when USSR abstained from voting. The former superpower did not try to block the resolutions. The UN passed as many as 20 resolutions urging both India and Pakistan to settle the issue through an impartial plebiscite. The process of passing resolutions continued upto December 31, 1971.
India remained USSR’s most trusted ally till its disintegration. On the other hand USA took active part in ... | |
| | | | Army chief visits Leh | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Leh, April 20: Army chief General V K Singh visited Ladakh along with President Central Family Welfare Organization (CFWO) Bharti Singh, today.
“The General officer was received by Army Commander Northern Command, Lt Gen K T Parnaik, and General Officer Commanding, Fire & Fury Corps Lt Gen Ravi Dastane, at the technical airport, Leh,” officiating PRO Defence, Jammu, SN Acharya, said
The Army Chief was briefed on the operational aspects of the Corps zone. He later interacted with the officers and Jawans at the Fire & Fury Corps Headquarters, during which he emphasized on the requirement of extensive combat training whilst braving the hardships of weather and terrain. H... | |
| | | | Roundtable Conference on Jammu and Kashmir | | Rigorous Exclusion of Jammu-Ladakh | | | STARK REALITY
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 20: J&K acceded to India on October 26, 2011. Delhi committed blunder that very day itself by involving the then NC president and a known protagonist of greater autonomy and bitter critic of the Jammu Dogras, Sheikh Abdullah, overlooking the fact that he had no locus standi in the matter. New Delhi did all this to humble Maharaja Hari Singh, a democrat of democrats and great Indian who had played a magnificent role in the roundtable conference in London it the beginning of the fourth decade of the twentieth century, organized to find ways and means to involve the Indians in the country’s law-making processes and executive. Ever since Oct... | |
| | | | Opportunity for Congress to capture BJP’s political space | | Dogra Certificate Issue | | | MINCING NO WORDS
NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 20: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has, according to a report, accused Hurriyat Conference (G) of “cheating the Kashmiris on Dogra certificate issue. He said if Geelani wants to snatch the right of people, the state government will not allow him to do so. If the Dogras of Jammu had protested on the certificate issue, they would have been justified. Dogras are a small section.” The report is both positive and negative. Positive because the Chief Minister has called the Geelani’s bluff and negative because he has said the “Dogras are a small section.”
Dogras are not a small section as compared to the ethnic Kashmiris. The fact is that the... | |
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