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| Why should retiring officials shamelessly cling to their chairs? | | 30-60 an ideal solution as public opinion is overwhelmingly against service extensions | | | AHMED ALI FAYYAZ
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Apr 25: Notwithstanding the government’s policy of not granting extension of service or re-employment to any of the retiring public servants, state bureaucracy had, of late, prepared a proposal of extension in favour of nearly a dozen of its blue-eyed boys. Chief Secretary, S S Kapoor, and General Administration Department (GAD) are understood to have decided to acknowledge off-the-office services of certain retiring officials without Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s knowledge. Chief Minister has summarily turned down the proposal with reasonable application of mind but not taken the trouble of asking his bureaucracy as to what made it push a ... | |
| | | | 3 yrs on: No honour for state awardees | | | | ARTEEV SHARMA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 25: The wait for sixty persons excelling in different fields, who were selected for the state awards during the past three years, is stretching long as the State government seems to have either forgotten their deeds having recognized as heroics to be honoured by it or deliberately lingering to buy time to do the same in leisure.
Such is the state of affair that one of the awardees himself being the member of the system followed by the government for the honour admits “irresponsibility” of the administration as one of the only factor behind the “mismanagement”.
Ahmadullah Shah, who is among those selected for the award, is Special Secret... | |
| | | | Pak intruder held in Ramgarh | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 25: A Pakistani intruder was apprehended by security forces from the Ramgarh sub-sector near here today. Police sources said a Pakistani national was found moving under suspicious circumstances at Ramgarh when jawans caught hold him. His sustained interrogation was in progress, the sources added.
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| | | | Two cops arrested in the BOSE paper leakage scam | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 25: In the ongoing investigation into the BOSE paper leakage scam, two police wireless operators were today arrested for allegedly being part of the racket.
Police sources identified them as Ajay Kumar and Manjeet Singh. While Ajay was posted as wireless operator at Chadwal police post in Kathua, Manjeet worked as wireless operator in IRP 6th Bn.
Their alleged involvement figured during the interrogation of the arrested BOSE section officer Mohan Singh Jamwal.
Sources said while Ajay used to sell the leaked BOSE papers in Kathua areas, Manjeet had his network of contacts in R S Pura. Sources said the BOSE joint secretary A K Abrol, who was incharge
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| | | | Kote-Bhalwal jail superintendent booked in dowry case | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 25: A case was today registered by police against Kote-Bhalwal jail superintendent Salim Ahmad Baig for allegedly demanding dowry from his wife -- a government school teacher.
A written complaint against Baig was made by his wife Shabeen Shadab with the women cell at Canal Road here, police sources said. Acting on the complaint, police registered a case against the jail superintendent under section 498-A (FIR No 18/2010).
In the complaint, the woman alleged that her husband had been subjecting her to mental harassment and curelty for the last five years.
She alleged that her husband was not only demanding dowry but had also thrown her out of her mat... | |
| | | | Week-long operation ends with killing of two infiltrators in Punjab | | Two Punjab police cops also killed | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 25: Hiding in wheat fields for a week to avoid contact with police, two infiltrators, who had escaped from Rajbagh in Kathua after a brief encounter with police on April 19 last, were killed early Sunday morning by Punjab police (PP) in a gunbattle at Ratarwan in
Gurdaspur, close to the Punjab's border with J&K, near the Indo-Pak International Border (IB). Two PP cops also lost their lives.
The two slain militants, who were from Pakistan, belonged to the pan-Islamic militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Kathua SSP Gareeb Dass said.Punjab DGP P S Gill told The Early Times on phone that the two militants had been killed by the valiant cops. The gun battle a... | |
| | | | Traffic restored on Sgr-Leh NH | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 25: Srinagar-bound vehicles stranded on the road were this afternoon allowed to move towards their destination after the highway, the only road linking frontier region of Ladakh with rest of Jammu and Kashmir, was partially cleared, officials said.
They said efforts were on to restore two-way traffic.
The arterial road, considered the lifeline of Ladakh, was closed for vehicular traffic on April 19 following heavy snowfall at the 11.578 feet high Zojila pass, only three days after it was opened for traffic after remaining closed for nearly six months.
This time the highway was opened for vehicular traffic a month ahead of schedule due to efforts of the B... | |
| | | | Pak Issues Threat to Move WB | | Kishenganga Project: | | | Agencies
NEW DELHI, APR 25: Pakistan has issued a fresh threat to move the World Bank for arbitration over Kishenganga power project in Jammu and Kashmir, which it alleges violates the 1960 Indus Water Treaty.
Pakistan has issued the threat in a recent letter to India, the third such communication in last one year, official sources said.
In the letter, Pakistan has said the Indus Water Treaty, which governs sharing of six common river waters, is being violated by the Kishenganga project and it has the "right" to move the World Bank for arbitration, they said.
Pakistan's fresh threat comes after several rounds of bilateral talks failed to end differences over the issue.
Under the Treaty... | |
| | | | Two SPOs killed in road mishaps | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 25: Two special police officers (SPOs) were killed in different road accidents here since last night.
Police sources said SPO Harjit Singh was killed on the spot when the motorcycle, he was driving, hit a horsecart at R S Pura. Hailing from Akalpur, Domana, he was at present posted as a guard at Muthi migrants' camp.
In the other incident, SPO Sham Lal was injured critically when a speeding truck rammed into Battal check post near here last night. He was admitted to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. He was resident of Palnoo, Majalta. Cases in this connection stand registered at the concerned police stations.
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| | | | VC of CU: Are authorities deliberately playing with fire? | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 25: Reports in a section of the press suggest that the concerned authorities have finally decided to ignore the Jammu sentiments and appoint former Vice-Chancellor of Jammu University, Prof Amitabh Mattoo, as Vice-Chancellor of Central University in Jammu.
The reports, if correct, would mean that the authorities have no regard whatever for the sentiments of the people of Jammu, who have been urging the President of India and Union Human Resources Development Minister to appoint a Jammu-based academician as Vice-Chancellor of the Central University, which was sanctioned for this province after the Jammu-based organizations, including student organizations, up... | |
| | | | Congress must take on Jinnahs of Jammu and Kashmir | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 25: The situation as it exists today in Kashmir and in the Muslim-majority areas of Jammu province is very serious. Many Jinnahs are active in these areas. Their objective is to vitiate the political atmosphere in these areas, create communal tensions and fear among the followers of a particular religion, prepare them for a revolt against India and obtain independence from New Delhi. These Jinnahs are conducting themselves in these areas in which Mohammad Ali Jinnah had conducted. In fact, the methodology applied by the Jinnahs of Jammu and Kashmir is identical.
Those who have become very active in Kashmir and the Muslim-majority areas ... | |
| | | | MF Hussain enters to blur Azad's Aligarh roadmap for Congress | | | | ABID SHAH
Early Times Report
NEW DELHI, Apr 25: Congress point man Ghulam Nabi Azad's moves to help his party bosses in putting a minority savvy image, courtesy Aligarh Muslim University have indeed landed up the party in a soup.
This has also put the university's annual convocation on hold for which AMU has sought consent from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and famed painter MF Hussain for accepting honorary degrees at the 2010 AMU convocation which has overshot schedule as it should have taken place by the end of the last month. But so far the Congress top brass have neither accepted, nor declined the university's offer to confer honorary degrees on t... | |
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