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PSC results contradict claims of Urdu activists, 143 make it to KAS • Urdu highest scoring subject Syed Junaid Hashmi 4/30/2011 12:45:24 AM • Even failures got good marks JAMMU, Apr 29: Recently declared selection list of Combined Services Examination (CSE) for year 2009 by Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) has given befitting response to all those who ridicule government for not doing enough for promotion and propagation of Urdu in the state. Of 1288 candidates who had been declared to have qualified the mains examination, almost 25 percent i.e. around 316 made it merely because of the marks secured by them in Urdu subject. Further, 143 of these 316 candidates i.e. around 48 percent of total Urdu candidates who appeared before high profile interview board of the commission made it to the final selection list released recently. Of the 392 CSE qualified candidates, around 36 percent are with Urdu background i.e. 143 Urdu knowing candidates are likely to become part of police and administrative set-up. More importantly, all these 308 candidates including 143 who made it to the final list of the commission are seemingly experts in Urdu. All have secured more than 60 percent marks and in around 4...   READ MORE

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Is KAS result a state secret! 4/30/2011 12:39:12 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Apr 29: Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) has seemingly got upset over manner in which a good number of aggrieved students have been approaching newspaper offices, claiming injustice with them on the basis of marks cards uploaded by the commission on its website. The commission made the facility available for candidates in general on April 17, 2011. Those students who could not make it to the final selection list downloaded the marks cards and then reportedly compared it with those who got through the high profile interview of the commission. These students then approached several newspaper offices including Early Times alleging that a good...   READ MORE   ‘Govt bowed on Certificate today; India will buckle on Azadi tomorrow Hurriyat triumphant over withdrawal of Dogra order 4/30/2011 12:25:17 AM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz SRINAGAR, Apr 29: Withdrawal of Dogra Certificate order by Omar Abdullah government has instantaneously brought a sense of pride and victory in the Valley’s separatist camp. Heads of both factions of Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, today celebrated the revocation as “a great achievement for the Kashmiris” and told their Friday audiences that India would be forced in the same manner one day to grant the Jammu and Kashmir “freedom”. “We have forced them bow and withdraw Dogra Certificate (order). This is a great achievement for the proud Kashmiri people. This is now clear that our freedom struggle will reach its logical conclusion one...   READ MORE   Vaishnodevi pilgrim dies of heart attack 4/29/2011 11:50:22 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT KATRA, Apr 29: A pilgrim died of heart attack at Adh Kunwari enroute to the holy cave shrine of Mata Vaishnodevi here today. He was identified as Gulab Singh, son of Lahori Singh of KarolBagh, Delhi. Police said he died soon after he complained of chest pain at Adh Kunwari. ...   READ MORE   Jammuite receives gun shot in Assam 4/29/2011 11:49:38 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Apr 29: A local driver was wounded at Charli in Assam after a bullet fired by some miscreants pierced his right shoulder.Police sources said Ravinder Singh alias Babbu, son of Amar Singh of Upper Gadigarh, was driving his truck when a bullet, fired by some unknown people, pierced his right shoulder, injuring him critically. He, however, did not lose courage and sped away. After his treatment in a hospital there, he returned home. He was now undergoing treatment at the GMC hospital. ...   READ MORE   Cop, 2 women among 4 held as police busts sex racket 4/29/2011 11:48:47 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Apr 29: Police today busted a sex racket in Poonch and arrested four persons, including a police cop and two women, in this connection. The accused were identified as IRP 9 Bn cop Abdul Rehman, who at present was posted at Surankote, Imitiaz Ahmad, Afia Begum and Tasveer Akhtar. Of the two women, one was wife of a seopy, while the other was a divorcee, police sources said. Sources said the two women were allegedly running the brothel for the past some time in a rented room at Ajot in Poonch.Acting on a tip-off, police raided the room today and arrested the accused while they were alleged to be in a compromising position, the sources added.A case was registered ...   READ MORE   ‘Army not required in Srinagar’ Of CM and his `diplomacies’ 4/29/2011 11:48:22 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Srinagar, Apr 29 (KNS): The Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, has said that there wasn’t only need of Cricket diplomacy, but hockey diplomacy, music diplomacy and above all people to people contact to forge close ties with Pakistan. Omar said in an interview with News 24 channel that China factor in Kashmir deserve serious view, though things were not alarming and China won’t invade India. “Nevertheless, China’s growing presence across Ladakh border as well as in POK can not be ignored,” he said. Replying to a question whether he thinks that growing presence of China across Ladakh and PaK was serious, he said, “It deserves serious view. I know that the Centre governme...   READ MORE   New guidelines framed HM rules out protests in Kashmir 4/29/2011 11:47:41 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT NEW DELHI, April 29 : Ruling out protests this summer in Kashmir, the union Home Minister, P Chidambaram said a set of new guidelines had been framed for the security forces deployed in Jammu and Kashmir to handle civilian protests by using non-lethal weapons. He was addressing a press conference here today. Home Minister P Chidambaram said the new Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) have been formulated for use of non-lethal weapons to handle civilian protests in the State."These SoPs have been framed by the Jammu and Kashmir Police and the CRPF is involved in it," he said at a press conference here.Chidambaram said he hoped that there would be no protests in the comi...   READ MORE   Militancy on decline, but not over: DGP 4/29/2011 11:46:45 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Srinagar, Apr 29 (KNS): The Director General Police, Kuldeep Khoda, Friday said that militancy was on decline in Kashmir ‘but it isn’t over yet.’Khoda who was the Chief Guest on the final of Police Public T-20 Cricket Tournament 2011 played at Sport Stadium Anantnag told KNS that attempts were being made across the LoC to revive militancy in Kashmir. “Thought militancy is on decline, but it has not ended completely. We have reports that militants across LoC are ready to sneak in.”“However, Police and Army are ready to deal with the situation. We would foil their attempts,” he added. On law and order situation in the valley, Khoda said, “No one would be allowed to disrup...   READ MORE   Niyas, Board heading for show-down, Togadia extends full support in running Amarnath yatra for 2 months 4/29/2011 11:46:20 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Apr 29: With VHP openly extending support to Baba Amarnath Yatri Niyas to run the annual yatra for complete two months as per the Hindu traditions the Yatri Niyas and Shri Amarnath Shrine Board is heading for another show down this time. The VHP which announced its full support to the Niyas in its movement to run the yatra for two months from Jesht Purnima falling on June 15 said no cut in yatra schedule will be allowed. The VHP international general secretary Dr Parveen Bhai Togadia who was on two days tour of Jammu region today made it clear that no interference in the yatra schedule will be allowed either by the Board or the Government. He made i...   READ MORE   E-ticketing for chopper services at Shri Vaishno Devi operational 4/29/2011 11:45:29 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, April 29: The Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board has operationalized the on-line reservation system for availing helicopter services on Katra-Sanjichhat-Katra Sector. Briefing governor N N Vohra, who is also chairman of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, R K Goyal, CEO of the shrine board, said that after a transparent bidding process the one-way passenger fare for heli-travel between Katra and Sanjichhat had come down from Rs 1225 per passenger to Rs 699 per passenger from April 1. Dr Mandeep Bhandari, Additional CEO, said that a yatri possessing an e-ticket must carry valid proof of identification such as a passport, PAN card, voter ID card, driving l...   READ MORE   No cause for brave Dogras to feel disheartened Dogra Certificate 4/29/2011 11:44:50 PM MINCING NO WORDS NEHA EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Apr 29: Kashmiri separatists and anti-Dogra forces in the Valley are feeling jubilant. The reason: The NC-Congress coalition government has revoked the March 25 order that had entitled the Dogras, along with the people of Kashmir and Leh, to relaxations in terms of height and chest expansion – relaxations meant for those desirous of joining the central paramilitary forces, including the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). The over-enthusiastic state’s Revenue Department, headed by Congress leader Raman Bhalla, had issued the said order taking into consideration the January 11, 2011 order issued in this regard by the Ministry of Home Affair...   READ MORE

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