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Recruitment scam unearthed in Kishtwar

15 recruited as ReTs on fake documents now regularised 52 lakhs drawn as salaries by fake appointees

4/28/2012 12:46:41 AM

Asif Iqbal Naik Kishtwar, Apr 27: Kishtwar police have cracked a fake certificate scandal in Drabshala Zone of Kishtwar district today by detecting appointment of 15 ReTs on fake documents. While divulging the details, Dy.SP HQ Kishtwar Abrar Ahmed Chowdhary said that developing specific information received in this regard, Police have detected a major forged certificate scandal. He said that the investigation conducted so far revealed that 15 persons have got recruited as teachers in Government schools on the basis of forged certificates which include fake degree, diploma, marks cards and date of birth certificates "The culprits successfully violated the merit relegating the genu...

Court chargesheets bank employee for torturing wife

Dowry case

4/28/2012 12:45:34 AM

Early Times Report JAMMU, Apr 27: Special Municipal Magistrate (SMM) Jammu has charge sheeted three members of a family including an employee of Jammu and Kashmir Bank for torturing wife for Dowry purposes. The employee named Amit Gupta, who is working as an Associate Executive in Jammu and Kashmir Bank has been alongwith brother and mother, charged with torturing his wife and intimidating to eliminate her. Court of Special Municipal Magistrate has directed prosecution to adduce evidence for the charges slapped on the accused. Court, however, said that it could not find ingredients of section 406 RPC in the charges levelled against the accused Amit Gupta and his family members. Counsel f...

Gupta's master stroke

Removes 4 BJP MLAs for defection

4/28/2012 12:45:08 AM

Early Times Report JAMMU, Apr 27: In a significant development, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Professor Chaman Lal Gupta has removed four party MLAs on grounds of defection. The removed MLAs include Jugal Kishore, MLA Nagrota Constituency, Ashok Khajuria, MLA Jammu East Constituency, Sukhnanda Singh, MLA Marh Constituency and Sham Choudhary, MLA Suchetgarh Constituency. All of them are members of BJP legislative Party. Gupta's letter, a copy of which has been sent to the Speaker, said 11 members of J&K Legislative Assembly formed BJP Legislative Party in J&K Legislative Assembly and elected. Chaman Lal Gupta as Leader of BJP Legislative Party. The decision was communicated to H...

PDP takes lead over rivals in observing

Maharaj's death anniversary

4/28/2012 12:44:43 AM

Early Times Report JAMMU, Apr 27: To make inroads in all the three regions of the State, the Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has launched a state wide campaign by taking people from all shades of opinion along it. The Party which has already gained its foothold in Kashmir valley is also concentrating on Jammu and Ladakh regions by wooing the people of these two regions to increase its support base emerge as a political force to reckon with in these two regions also. Eyeing the 2014 Assembly elections and coming Municipal Corporation and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) elections in the state, the PDP leadership does not shy away in raking up the emotive issues concerning the peopl...

Omar fails to strike a chord at Poonch

4/28/2012 12:44:13 AM

Salil Raina Poonch, Apr 27: Apart from criticism PDP and the Congress, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah had nothing to convey to the people of Poonch. However, the hapless Poonchies shall remember the visit for a long time-not because Omar mesmerized them by his oratory skill but for the severe restrictions imposed on their movement. Some of the rallies were well attended but Omar had nothing to say except the RTI Act, Sher-e-Kashmir employment package, Panchayati elections and Public Service Guarantee Act. He also attacked PDP and its president Mahbooba Mujfti repeatedly. In one such rally he said: "Mahbooba Mufti can't see the development which we did, because she cannot see the reality...

Who is Omar Abdullah?

4/28/2012 12:43:45 AM

Salil Raina Poonch, Apr 27: Had Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah heard him, he would have received the shock of his life. A 78-year-old posed a direct question to Early Times reporter when he was covering Omar's Poonch visit. The old man does not know Omar Abdullah and he made no bones about it yesterday. Abdul Aziz, 78, had severe pain in his kidney and desperately wanted to reach the Poonch hospital. The restrictions imposed by the district administration irritated the old man to the hilt. "Why do you impose restrictions on us", he asked a police man. He was told that the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah was around. "Who is Omar Abdullah, I don't know him", the old man shot back. ...

Mirwaiz crossing the line, provoking Jammu & Ladakh

Division of State

4/28/2012 12:43:23 AM

Neha JAMMU, Apr 27: APHC (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has once again reiterated that "Kashmir is a trilateral issue" and the three parties to the "dispute" are Delhi, Pakistan and Kashmiris". What was conspicuous by its absence in the Mirwaiz's suggestion was Jammu province which is two times that of Kashmir in terms of geographical area and houses almost half of the State's population that is committed to India as well as Indian political system, whatever it is. The demands of the people of Jammu province range from trifurcation to reorganization to adequately empowered regional council. He also excluded Ladakh and its people from his sugestion. Ladakh and its people, like Jammu pro...

Remembering Hari Singh

He must get credit for popularizing education

4/28/2012 12:42:58 AM

Early Times Report JAMMU, Apr 27: 4: The National Conference has been claiming credit for popularizing education in Kashmir. However, history falsifies this claim. It was Hari Singh who did the miracle. In early 30s, Maharaja Hari Singh made education compulsory. Schools were opened across Kashmir and children were taken forcibly to the schools. Parents found liable of marring the career by denying them education would be arrested and punished. Such schools were called Jabri Schools. Jabri in Kashmir means forcible. An active member of Muslim Conference, Muhammad Yusuf Khan, who died at the age of 85 in 2010 said, "I belonged to a family of weavers. A master craftsman in our loca...

Mirwaiz breaks silence on sectarian divide in Kashmir, accuses GoI of funding bureaucrats to create wedge between Muslims

4/28/2012 12:42:31 AM

Bashir Assad Srinagar, Apr 27: The growing religious sectarian divide in Kashmir today came to the fore when Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq lashed out at New Delhi for funding a selective group of Kashmiri bureaucrats to create what he termed wedge between Muslims in Kashmir. It merits a mention here that a section of national and international media is publishing reports of GoI funding Kashmiri bureaucrats to promote Barelvi sect of Islam to act as a deterrent to the growing Wahabi Islam in the valley. Interestingly, Mirwaiz who is also the grand cleric of Kashmir is symbolising the traditional Sofi cult of Islam which is loosing its foothold in the valley as the ...

Congress not interested in empowering Panchayats?

NC & Panchayati Raj

4/28/2012 12:42:14 AM

Rustam JAMMU, Apr 27: The National Conference (NC), which is sharing power with the Congress and has been leading the government since the last more than three years, is actually at the mercy of the Congress like the Congress at the centre is at the mercy of Trinamool Congress (TMC) of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee. Everyone knows that the TMC has only 18 members in the Lok Sabha, as against the Congress's tally of 2007 and still it is the TMC that is calling the shots and dictating terms. The TMC is part of the Congress-led UPA and is sharing power with the Congress like the Congress is part of the coalition government in the state and sharing power with the NC which has onl...

Govt orders transfers & postings of IAS, KAS officers

Harvinder Kour posted as Registrar Sales Tax Tribunal

4/28/2012 12:41:51 AM

Jammu: Government today ordered transferred and posting of one IAS and 28 KAS officers. As per the order Qadri Hafiz-Llllah, KAS, Special Secretary to Government, Home Department, under orders of posting as Joint Financial Commissioner, Agrarian Reforms in the office of Financial Commissioner, Revenue shall continue as Special Secretary to Government, Home Department. Rukhsana Gani, KAS, Deputy Labour Commissioner, New Delhi is transferred and posted as Additional District Development Commissioner, Srinagar against an available vacancy. Tanveer Iqbal, KAS, Programme Officer, ICDS Project, Udhampur is transferred and posted as Programme Officer, ICDS Project, Jammu vice Deepika Kumari Sh...

5 held for running fake Telecom Tower Const Co

4/28/2012 12:40:59 AM

RAJOURI: Five persons have been apprehended by police here today for allegedly running a fake telecom tower construction company in the district. As per details, police were frequently receiving complaints that the representatives of fake company had been visiting rural areas of district Rajouri and carrying out fake surveys for installation of towers of private telecom companies, including aircel and airtel. During surveys, they charge registration fee from people and assured them that after the installation of tower, they would receive about Rs 4 lakh as compensation and a employment would also be provided to one of their family members. Acting on these inputs, police today raided the ...