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| State government refuses SVO permission to prosecute top sharks | | Is anti-corruption only for class 4th employees? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 29: Highly placed sources have told Early Times the state government has refused permission for prosecution sought by the state vigilance organization (SVO) against at least three top ranking officials.
Sources said the vigilance sleuths have completed investigations into serious allegations against some top officials whose movable and immovable assets were found far beyond their known sources of income.
"These officials have been running scams and frauds in various departments they remained posted at and in the process, they have amassed huge assets which are completely disproportionate with their known sources of income," source said.
It has also been di... | |
| | | | Keeping a promise-Omar's style | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 29: The Chief Minister Yesterday left an assembly of villagers at Beerwah in Budgam district shocked when he preferred to walk away from a function over making a `false' commitment. Omar's colleagues had managed a good assembly by promising the gullible villagers district status for Beerwah.
Omar later wrote on social networking website Tweeter that his politics was based on truth. "I do not make false commitments", he said. The Chief Minister has won many admirers across the globe during the past three years. They appreciated Omar for his fairness and boldness. However, there are people who took Omar's comments with a pinch of salt.
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| | | | Chopra family murders: Nago moves HC for CBI probe | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 29: Amandeep murder accused Nagar Singh alias Nago, whom SIT probe has found an accused in the Chopra family murders, today moved high court, alleging that Jammu range DIGP Farooq Khan was "biased" towards him and had been "willfully making every possible effort to prosecute him in the case for no fault of his".
In his petition, he sought a direction to the state through financial commissioner (Home) and director general of police to implement in letter and spirit SRO 309 whereby the state, vide notification No Home 107/ISA/dated September 25, 2006, had given its concurrence for further investigation into the Chopra family murder case by CBI, prohibiting Far... | |
| | | | Not by dredging alone but by anti-encroachment drive too | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 29: If the Jammu and Kashmir Government wants to repeat an incident of 1960,when the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru commissioned one dredger for cleaning the river Jehlum,it should invite either Sonia Gandhi,grand daughter-in -law of Nehru or Rahul Gandhi,great grandson of Panditji,to inaugurate two dredgers that are being pressed into service within a couple of months under the conservation plan of the Jehlum that meanders through the valley right from Verinag,its source in south Kashmir,to Bar amullah in the north.
The Government has moved from the Dal lake to river Jehlum.After 36 years' of planning and implementation of various schems for conservat... | |
| | | | Porn CD case: People protest at Kishtwar, block road | | | | Early Times Report
KISHTWAR, June 29: Angered by the shooting of a porn CD allegedly in a coaching centre in the town here, a large number of people, mostly youth, took to streets today and blocked the road outside deputy commissioner's office, demanding stern action against the accused.
The coaching centre owner and private school teacher Tariq Qayoom Tak has already been arrested by police in the case. Condemning the incident in strongest words, people first gathered at Jamia Masjid here and then marched towards DC office where they held a demonstration, demanding severe punishment to Tariq, seize all his property in the town, unmask other accused and a ban on private tution c... | |
| | | | Patnitop not Gulmarg or Pahalgam | | | | Neha
Jammu, June 29: Patnitop Development Association (PDA), hoteliers and restaurant owners observed a complete shutdown in Patnitop and blocked the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway for sometime on Monday to register protest against discrimination with Patnitop, Jammu province's famous tourist spot. They took this step hoping that the state government would concede their long-pending demands ranging from the implementation of the sanctioned Gandola project to construction of 8-kilomater-long Karnah-Gorikund road that would reduce the distance between Patnitop and other tourist spots like Mantalai and Sudhmahadev to the construction of sewerage treatment plant to the construction of shoppin... | |
| | | | Forget Past, Give Autonomy | | BJP is a communal party, says Farooq Abdullah | | | Rustam
Jammu, June 29: NC president and Union Minister for Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah yesterday dismissed the BJP as a "communal organization" and urged its leadership not to look back or to "think of the country of six decades ago" and be modern or to "think of modern India." The immediate provocation was the charge leveled by BJP veteran and former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani that neither Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru nor Sheikh Abdullah considered J&K as an integral part of India. Abdullah asserted that "J&K is today part of India due to Sheikh Abdullah and National Conference. Otherwise, we would have become part of Pakistan and nobody could have stopped us."
India is a d... | |
| | | | BJP does U-turn on militants' rehabilitation policy | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 29: Are the BJP, the NC and the PDP on the same page? Yes, it appears so. The stand the BJP took yesterday on the rehabilitation of the Pakistan-based hardcore terrorists and militants of Kashmiri origin leaves none in any doubt that BJP has taken a complete U-turn on the issue, thus sending a clear signal that there is no fundamental difference between it and the Kashmir-based political parties. This, notwithstanding the fact that the BJP also talked about the "unemployed youth of Jammu and Kashmir." The BJP yesterday said: "It is not opposed to the rehabilitation of former militants."
This is perhaps for the first time that the BJP has taken such a stand o... | |
| | | | BSF fires on IB after 2 suspects sighted | | | | JAMMU: Foiling an infiltration bid on the International Border (IB) at Ballad in Ramgarh sub-sector of Samba, BSF Tuesday night fired at two suspected militants who then fled back to Pakistan, fearing danger to their lives.
A BSF patrol picked up the movement of two suspected militants on the IB at about 12.30 pm. Official sources said when the suspects walked into the Indian territory towards the barbed-wire fencing, the jawans opened fire. The duo, however, did not retaliate and managed to flee back to Pak territory unhurt. The firing continued for about 15 minutes, the sources added.
Tracer rounds were also fired by BSF to illuminate the area. Vigil was further enhanced after th... | |
| | | | Militant commits suicide after troops' cordon | | | | Srinagar: A militant today committed suicide by shooting himself inside a masjid in north Kashmir's Sopore town after security forces had laid a siege, a police spokesman said.
He said Tamir Ahmad Khuroo alias Junaid opened fire on a CRPF bunker at Arampora in Sopore at 11.50 am.
"The militant was given a chase by a party led by Sub Inspector Badloo Ram of 179 Battalion CRPF. He ran towards the local Mosque (Masjid Fatima) Gulabad Sopore. As troops cordoned the mosque, militant fired on his head," he claimed.
A civilian Mohammad Akbar Sofi son of Habibullah entered the Mosque and confirmed that one body alongwith a pistol was inside. "The body was evacuated with the help of two other civ... | |
| | | | DSP beats up SPOs for passing wrong info about ultras' movement; prople protest | | | | rajouri: Angered by the passing of "wrong" information by them about the movement of militants in Draj area of Koteranke, Budhal, near here, a police officer today beat up five special police officers.
The incident sparked off strong protest in the area with people blocking Rajouri-Budhal road to vehicular traffic. Police sources said searches were launched by security forces in Draj forests on the basis of a tip-off given by SPOs -- Khadam Hussain, Mohammad Amin, Liaqat Ali, Abdul Lateef and Manzoor Ahmed about the movement of militants there.
However, when forces could not find any clue to the whereabouts of militants even after four days of operation, it was assumed that the SPO... | |
| | | | Not a lameduck or a puppet PM: Manmohan | | | | new delhi: Under fire for his silence, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Editors as part of his new media outreach strategy on Wednesday and showed he's the boss.
Dismissing talk that he is a "lameduck" Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh said he has been entrusted with the job by the Congress party from which he has not heard "any contrary view".
Terming the perception that his government had gone "comatose" and was "lameduck" as clever propaganda of the Opposition "to which some sections of the media had lent ear", Singh asserted that "truth will prevail" and his performance will speak.
Singh spoke of "maximum possible cooperation" that he was getting from Congress President Sonia Gandhi wh... | |
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