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| Non-performing Government advocates being shunt out | | Advocates senior in hierarchy being clubbed with 'dead wood' for unknown reasons | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, May 2: Department of Law has begun a cleansing exercise to effect a major shake up in all layers of Government advocates. While as search is underway to find meritorious and competent advocates for induction, a sizeable chunk of non-performing Government advocates are being shown the door in near future.
If highly placed authoritative sources are to be believed, even a few of the well performing Government advocates are also being disengaged. Those being dropped inspite of their track record of impressive performance include Senior Advocates holding prestigious posts. They, according to sources, are currently under tremendous pressure to submit his resignation. Even as the cause of clubbing these persons with the "dead wood" is still unclear, sources insisted that a couple of Cabinet Ministers had grown angry with over "not resisting" J&K High Court's interim directions in a PIL related to land grabbing in Jammu.
According to these sources, it was being communicated to one of the senior most advocates that in case he failed to put in his papers of r... | |
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| Enquiry report on Haji Yusuf death case not complete | | | | Early Times Report
jammu, May 2: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's deposition before the magistrate which was enquiring the mysterious death of Haji Yusuf, NC activist that the deceased was summoned to the camp office at Srinagar for ascertaining the veracity of the complaints of Muhammad Yusuf Bhat and Ab. Salam Reshi against him (Haji Yusuf) cannot be disputed, however, in the latter part of his deposition Omar has left many questions unanswered which the Magistrate enquiring the case was supposed to ascertain.
While hushing up the matter, Magistrate Muhammad Akbar Ganai who was then Additional Deputy Commissioner Srinagar and has been now posted as Deputy Commissioner Budgam has wittingly... | |
| | | | Appointed as SAB chairman for 5 yrs, Justice Koul is in office for 12 yrs now | | A case of 'illegal' extensions....? | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 2: Even as Justice (retired) Makhan Lal Koul was appointed as state advisory board (SAB) chairman for a term of five years in 2010, he surprisingly continues to hold the office even in 2012.
Koul was appointed as the advisory board chairman on November 22, 2000, and his term was to expire on November 23, 2005.
His this appointment was made in accordance with law as chief justice of the J&K high court was also consulted under section 14 of the state public safety act (PSA).
But when his term expired in November 2005, an ex-post facto sanction was accorded for his continuation along with other two members of the board till further orders vide government orde... | |
| | | | JK Bank plays typical NGO | | Starts SDP on knitting in Kupwara | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 2: Playing a typical non-Governmental organization (NGO), the Jammu Kashmir Bank RSETI today commenced a ten-day `skill development programme' on knitting in Kupwara.
Pertinently the Valley especially the frontier district of Kupwara has been flooded with knitting and sewing machines during the past two decades by various NGOs. According to rough estimates as many as 2000 knitting and sewing machines have been `gifted' to widows and orphans till date to enable them to make an `honourable' living.
The problem, however, lies not in the machines but in the number of machines that have been given. The machines, social scientists believe, have adversely affec... | |
| | | | J&K BJP's resolution on Gilgit-Baltistan | | Contradicting Vajpayee -- II | | | Rustam
JAMMU, May 2: That those who were raising fingers against the RSS proved right can be seen from what its 'great ideologue' Tarun Vijay shamelessly did in Delhi on January 19. Tarun Vijay these days also represents the BJP in the Rajya Sabha. The Director of the RSS-founded Shyama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation (SPMRF) exposed the RSS and its questionable approach towards Jammu and Kashmir in general and the exiled Kashmiri Hindus in particular, the day he organized a discussion to mark two decades of what he himself described as the "most atrocious exile (read migration of the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus from their original habitat in 1990) in the world."
To the ast... | |
| | | | Indian Armed Forces' strike power to be improved to puncture terrorists' balloons | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 2: Apart from building 75 tactically and strategically important roads all along the border with China-India, despite its search for friendly relations with Beijing, has plans of augmenting and optimising force application capability in order to meet any threat from across the LAC, particulary in North East and Ladakh.
Under the five-year long plan the Indian armed forces were being provided with all possible technical and financial support for addressing logistic voids for enhancing logistic capability, enhance mobilisation for ensuring quick reaction capability in aviation.
Official sources reveal that the Army, Air Force and the Navy were being assisted i... | |
| | | | Quitting J&K? | | Five disturbing developments -- II | | | Neha
JAMMU, May 2: Defence Minister AK Antony told the Lok Sabha on the same day that India and Pakistan have agreed to hold "meaningful and result-oriented discussion to demilitarise Siachen glacier region where 26 soldiers died during deployment last year". In a written reply, the Defence Minister said, "The number of casualties in Siachen in last one year is 26" and added that "12th round of Defence Secretary-level talks were held between India and Pakistan on May 30-31, 2011... It was agreed to continue the discussions in a meaningful and result-oriented manner." "Both sides (India and Pakistan) welcome the ongoing dialogue process which is contributing to an enhanced understanding of ... | |
| | | | NHRC pulls Omar, asks Govt to explain within two months | | Tricolour hoisting controversy | |  Early Times Report
NEW DELHI, May 2: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has pulled up the Omar Abdullah-led Government in Jammu and Kashmir for 'disallowing' BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Ananth Kumar and a host of party supporters from hoisting the national flag in Srinagar's Lal Chowk on Republic Day last year. The NHRC further has asked the State Government to explain within two months why it defied the Constitution.
'Every citizen enjoys the fundamental right to go to ... | |
| | | | Azad rules out change of CM, says Omar to continue in office | | |  Early Times Report
Devsar (Kashmir), May 2: Ruling out change of guard in the chief ministerial office, Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said the National Conference would head the coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir for the rest of its tenure to ensure stability. "We do not want change every two years or every three years. We do not want transfers and appointments done every day," Azad said, addressing a rally at Devsar in south Kashmir's Kulgam district, 90 kms from Srinagar. He... | |
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