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J&K's 669 MW hydroelectric projects 'ill-planned'?
Power Ministry caught napping!
6/19/2012 12:49:46 AM
Syed Junaid Hashmi JAMMU, June 18: Incapacity of respective state government to take to task companies involved in projects planning, construction and operation of hydroelectric projects across Jammu and Kashmir has led both to avoidable delays and cost escalation. Respective power ministers have seemingly kept onus on revenue collection, transformer replacement and other minor issues. They have hardly sought answers for projects being located in areas which are seismically active and where natural disasters including flashfloods have stuck repeatedly. The focus has remained on job creation. Four hydroelectric projects with combined capacity of 669 MW which are at various stages of construction showcase abysmal planning by the companies involved alongwith lack of effective monitoring at state government level. 240 megawatt Uri-II hydroelectric project which is likely to be completed by March 2013 bore brunt of earthquake which stuck Uri and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) on October 8, 2005. This was followed by flash floods in March 2007, May 2010 and September 2011 which res...
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Constable Abbas---a kin of Navy deserter Jan Maulvi
5 more lifted in Tral for sustained interrogation
6/19/2012 12:49:30 AM
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz SRINAGAR, June 18: With a Special Investigation Team of District Police Srinagar continuing raids and lifting five more persons for questioning in Tral, detained CID constable, Mohammad Abbas, has surfaced to be a cousin of top wanted militant, Jan Mohammad Ahangar, who had deserted Navy and was subsequently killed in a gunbattle in Pulwama district. Highly placed sources in J&K Police revealed to Early Times that SIT was smoothly carrying on investigation into the Police-militant nexus that has surfaced last week in wake of the assassination of a former militant of Hizbul Mujahideen, namely Ghulam Hassan Mir alias Shabnam. Arrested in 2006 and released in 2007, Shabnam h...
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Under trial dies in Central Jail
6/19/2012 12:49:15 AM
EARLY TIMES REPORT Srinagar, June 18: An under trial brought to Rainawari Hospital by Central Jail authorities for treatment, was declared brought dead, police sources said. Police has registered a case under 174 CrPC in this regard. "He has been identified as Ajaz Ahmad Malik,27 son of Ghulam Qadir resident of Urwan Newa, Pulwama, he said. Police sources said that deceased was in judicial custody since May 5 in Central Jail Srinagar in case of FIR No. 211/2011 under section 15/18 NDPS Act of police station Pulwama. The detainee was presently facing trial in the Court of Additional Sessions Judge, Pulwama. Police has initiated inquest proceedings under section 174 CrPC in this regard. ...
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GJ Singh is new IG CRPF in Jammu region
6/19/2012 12:49:04 AM
early times report Jammu, June 18: Gurinder Jit Singh today took over as the new Inspector General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Jammu. Singh will succeed former IG, A M Mohammad, who had retired in April, a CRPF spokesperson said here. The 1967-batch officer was posted at the CRPF headquarters in New Delhi and has already served six years in Jammu and Kashmir in various capacities, he said. ...
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Congress in complete accord with NC
Humiliating Jammu & Ladakh
6/19/2012 12:48:56 AM
NEHA JAMMU, June 18: A day after the interlocutors report was made public by the Government of India the uncouth NC additional general secretary and uncle of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Mustafa Kamaal condemned the interlocutors. The report was made public on May 24. He had many grouses against the interlocutors and one of them was that the interlocutors had sought to disintegrate the state by urging New Delhi to set up three regional councils for Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. He also denounced the interlocutors for their suggestion that the restoration of the state to the pre-1953 position was fraught with dangerous ramifications and added that the NC will not only oppose this suggestion t...
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NC-Cong leaders launches war
6/19/2012 12:48:43 AM
early time report Jammu, June 18: Despite being two major coalition partners-ruling Jammu and Kashmir state- the leadership of both NC and Congress has launched scathing attacks against the working of each other. The said attacks in terms of allegations and counter-allegations and some times in a veiled manner clearly indicates that "all is not well" among the coalition partners. While in government, the Ministers of both NC and Congress claims that the coalition is running smoothly and with good understanding and faith among each other, the situation is quite opposite at party level. Few days back, the NC leaders including its entire Provincial level team and party's spokesperson and ...
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But where is the signed copy of Delhi Agreement?
NC Not Speaking The Truth
6/19/2012 12:48:27 AM
EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, June 18: Speaking in a seminar in Srinagar, NC ideologue and Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather on Sunday a number of times referred to the so-called Delhi Agreement of 1952 to make his point that New Delhi consistently eroded autonomy that state had been granted under Article 370. He said many other debatable things. However, what was significant was his focus on the otherwise non-existent 1952 Delhi Agreement. He wanted to convey an impression that the Delhi Agreement had granted to the state the status of autonomous region in the Union under some definite constitutional guarantees. What the Finance Minister said was factually incorrect. It is, however, true...
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Panchs, sarpanchs feel ditched as govt fails to devolve powers on them Panchs, sarpanchs feel ditched as govt fails to devolve powers on them
6/19/2012 12:48:11 AM
BHARAT BHUSHAN JAMMU, June 18: On December 1 last, panchs and sarpanchs in J&K were "empowered" to impose fine under anti-tobacco act but they feel ditched now as even after six months of this official announcement they have yet not received any intimation in this regard. "In the absence of an official intimation to us, we cannot fine a person smoking at a public place, or ask him to desist from violating anti-tobacco act," Kot (Bhalwal) panchayat sarpanch Prabhakar Singh said. "Also, while trying to ensure the implementation of the act, we will be turning our voters against us," he added. Prabhakar said despite the oft-repeated government assurances that it was committed to devolve po...
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People yearning for political change in J&K……?
6/19/2012 12:47:33 AM
early times report Jammu, June 18: NC led coalition continues to run with complacency of good governance, neat and transparent functioning and a corruption free system, people continue to suffer and are fed up on all these fronts for all these are contrary to the claims made by the government . t time when the government hs crossed mid mark in terms of its tenure of six years even s the people have no option to pull on in the present coalition, yet the yearning for big political change is fast gaining momentum. The moot point is have alarm bells started ringing for both NC and Congress much ahead of 2014….? With common masses getting disillusioned with the present coalition govern...
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DB dismisses appeal of two allottees
Bahu Plaza allotment case
6/19/2012 12:47:17 AM
Jammu, June18 (JNF): In the much publicized/controversial allotments of 31 shops/halls at Bahu Plaza Jammu, the Double Bench of High Court Jammu wing dismissed the appeal filed by Tarun Bali & another challenging the orders passed by the writ Court dated February 22, 2012 and June 6, 2012. A Division Bench of the State High Court comprising Justice Virender Singh and Justice Mohd Yaqoob Mir dismissed the appeal filed by Tarun Bali & another challenging the orders passed by the writ Court dated February 22, 2012 and June 6, 2012 in writ petition Sunil Mahajan Vs State whereby the writ Court had directed the Commissioner/Secretary GAD to submit the action taken report with regard to judgment...
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Medicinal plants that can win JK a fortune
6/19/2012 12:47:02 AM
Early Times Report Jammu, June 18: Some of the most needed medicinal plants grow in Jammu Kashmir. However, unfortunately the government has been ignoring these resources for unknown reasons. Experts believe the plants can win the state quite a big fortune. A plant commonly called as Soungul/Pooes-Tul (Taxus Baccata) collected by Dr Bashir is believed to yield some alkaloids that are used as anti-cancer drugs in the world of ailments. The plant needs to be studied seriously. Vanwangan (Podophyllum Emodi) is found growing all over Kashmir from 6000-10000, especially in Fir forests of Gulmarg and Gurez valley. The root of the plant yields Podophyl...
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Trade union leader bounces back on Omar, announces volunteer retirement
6/19/2012 12:46:55 AM
Bashir Assad Srinagar, June 18: Veteran trade union leader and president Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) Muhammad Khursheed Aalam today bounced back on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for his remarks by announcing retirement from services ahead of the date of his superannuation, by doing so Aalam has thrown ball in Omar's court. A day after Omar Abdullah accused 'some trade union leaders' of playing with the future of unemployed youth of the state for their own vested interests as they were at the verge of retirement, president EJAC Khursheed Aalam today announced his volunteer retirement well ahead of the date of his actual date of retirement which falls on September 1st. Pertine...
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KU: House of learning or den of anti India activities
Seminar On Shared Sovereignty -- I
6/19/2012 12:46:46 AM
RUSTAM JAMMU, June 18: Is University of Kashmir a seat of learning or is it a den of anti-India intrigues? Indeed, Kashmir University is a den of anti-India intrigues. How else should one describe what transpired on June 17 during the two-day seminar on Jammu & Kashmir and the federal models of shared sovereignty", which was organized by the Kashmir University's Political Science Department, in collaboration with a well-known pro-separate Delhi-based "think-tank" Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation (CDR)? The CDR has been quite active for years now. It has organized a number of anti-India seminars in and outside the state. The very theme of the seminar suggested that pro-separatist ele...
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