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Omar Abdullah: Not taken off as yet as CM 4/9/2010 12:32:53 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Apr 8: 15 months of Omar Abdullah rule will be over on April 5. During these months of his rule, the Chief Minister didn't do anything that indicated that he had the necessary administrative skills to deliver on any front. The prevailing anarchical conditions in Kashmir and discontent and disaffection among the masses in all the three regions of the state and government employees, the backbone of government, are the immediate results of the administrative system he handed down to the people. The Chief Minister messed up everything; gave a particular type orientation to the administrative apparatus; transferred officials in a vindictive manner on several occasions to put the National Conference supporters at vital places; spent most of his time outside the state leaving everything to the whims of persons interested only in their own well-being; and made several controversial statements the result of which was negative both for the suffering people of the state and New Delhi. Sometimes it appeared that he was a non-existent Chief Minister. In fact, severa...   READ MORE

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EJAC 'Secretariat Chalo' on Apr 12 Police asked to check attendance in office, prepare video-graphs of 'trouble makers' 4/9/2010 12:32:37 AM ARTEEV SHARMA EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Apr 8: With Essential Services Maintenance Ordinance (ESMO) failing to restore normalcy in government offices and Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), the State government today again acted tough against the striking employees and detained five employees' leaders including two women for mobilizing the employees in support of strike. While the State government has directed the police to check attendance in offices, prepare dossiers and video-graph of "trouble-makers," Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC), an amalgam of several employees' associations, has called for 'Secretariat Chalo' on April 12. The government order came after the employe...   READ MORE   ESMA reduced to humk-e-nawwab ta dar-e-nawwab Trade union leaders set up 'War Control Room' at CAPD hqs; Shutdown continues 4/9/2010 12:32:14 AM AHMED ALI FAYYAZ EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Apr 8: Even as authorities have detained nearly 50 trade union activists in what are locally ridiculed as 'ornamental arrests', Omar Abdullah government's decision of invoking the draconian Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) has been reduced to a joke. As over 95 percent offices and all educational institutions remained locked on the fourth consecutive day of the strike sponsored by Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) of the employees, prominent trade union leaders have established a control room for running and monitoring the strike at CAPD headquarters while holding daily press conferences to browbeat the Government. Reports avail...   READ MORE   ‘Torture of maid in Girls Hostel’ JU panel report 'tailored' to save warden, scrap it, SHRC tells VC 4/9/2010 12:31:44 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Apr 8: Over an year after the occurrence of the incident of alleged torture of a minor maid by the then Warden of Girls Hostel Jammu University, the State Human Rights Commission has asked the Vice Chancellor the scrap the report given by the Committee of four Professors and take fresh view of the developments in the incident followed by an action mandated by the law which is necessary for health and dignity of the institution. While disposing of the case after considering the details of the complaint registered in this regard by Balraj Puri, Convenor of PUCL(People's Union for Civil Liberties), the Human Rights Commission has observed that University of Jammu...   READ MORE   Appointing former JU VC as VC of CU Jammu will be suicidal 4/9/2010 12:30:44 AM EARLY TIMES STORY JAMMU, Apr 8: “The office of IQAC has been performing functions that are within the sacred jurisdiction of many of the statutory bodies of the University, including Academic Council and Board of Studies. It has not only been issuing guidelines to the Heads of Departments and the faculty members but also assessing, evaluating and grading the performance of the teachers. So much high profiled has been the office of the Director IQAC (held by a female official) that it has even dwarfed the office of the Dean Academic Affairs who is not only the senior most academician of the University but officiates as the Vice-Chancellor in the absence of the Vice-Chancellor…” ...   READ MORE   Inter-District Recruitment BILL: April 9 can make or mar the state government 4/9/2010 12:26:02 AM RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Apr 8: The Legislative Assembly will meet tomorrow to take into consideration the sensitive inter-district recruit bill, along with amendments moved by the Congress and the JKNPP. It will be a very crucial day for the NC-led coalition government. Any failure on the part of the floor managers may add to the difficulties of the government and it would not be easy to surmount them. The issue is so sensitive that it has assumed regional overtones. Any attempt on the part of the government to get the inter-district recruitment bill passed in its original form will not only culminate in the fall of the government but would also further embitter the already rat...   READ MORE   "NO" to Rehbars engaged against no vacancy CHAMAN KAUL EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Apr 8: Unemployed youth engaged against "no vacancy" under Rehbar-e-Zirat (ReZ) and Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) schemes would not be included in the list of those contractual em 4/9/2010 12:25:30 AM CHAMAN KAUL EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Apr 8: Unemployed youth engaged against "no vacancy" under Rehbar-e-Zirat (ReZ) and Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) schemes would not be included in the list of those contractual employees whose services were going to be regularised by the government. This means nearly 3,000 such youth were unlikely to be regularised as, according to the government, they were engaged against "no vacancy". Finance minister A R Rather told the Upper House a couple of days back that out of a total of 58,000 ad-hoc, contractual and consolidated employees serving in various government departments, about 55,500 had been regularized and the remaining would be made permane...   READ MORE   Aasiya seeks arrest of her children 4/9/2010 12:25:15 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, April 8: Dukhtaran-e-Millat Chief Aasiya Andarbi has sought arrest of her two sons. The arrest, according to her, will relieve them of police harassment. In a statement issued at Srinagar late this evening, Aasiya said: "I went into hiding three months ago to escape arrest. The police knows about it but my house is raided almost daily to harass my children." Aasiya said her husband was serving a life term in Srinagar central jail. "I am left alone to take care of my children. But ever since I went into hiding, my children live alone. The police harass them day in and day out. Yesterday they found scores of police men in the hose when they returned from school", ...   READ MORE   PP resists transfer of case to BSF court 4/9/2010 12:24:41 AM JAMMU: The court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Srinagar remanded BSF Commandant RK Bird and constable Lakhwinder Singh to judicial custody till April 23. The duo is accused of killing Zahid Farooq a student of 11th standard at Nishat on February 5. The counsel for the accused Moulvi Aijaz and the public prosecutor Abdul Aziz Teli were present. Teli resisted an application by BSF DIG RM Panoli seeking trial of the accused in a BSF court under 80 of BSF Act 1968. The DIG also quoted section 549 of Cr PC which prescribes serious punishment for security men. The DIG said in exercise of powers conferred on me by section 80 BSF Act; I have decided to bring the accused to justice in a BS...   READ MORE   6 accused from J&K convicted 4/9/2010 12:24:19 AM NEW DELHI: After 14 years of Lajpat Nagar Central Market bomb blast in New Delhi that killed 13 people and injured 39, a Delhi court has convicted six of the 10 suspects belonging to the banned terror outfit Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front. The blast was triggered by an explosive laden Maruti car that went off on the evening of May 21, 1996, killing and injuring people and damaging nearby buildings. Giving the verdict in a packed court room today, District and Sessions Judge SP Garg said, "I convict six accused in this case. Now the matter is fixed for April 13 for advancing of arguments on quantum of sentence." The six accused are Mohammed Naushad, Mohammed Ali Bhatt, Mirza Nissar Hu...   READ MORE

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