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| Why does Chairman J&K Bank keep away Secretary Finance? | | Iqbal Khanday fails to become Director on Board for 6 months | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, June 5: Government of Jammu & Kashmir has gone unrepresented in around half-a-dozen important agenda meetings of the Board of Directors (BOD) of Jammu and Kashmir Bank in the last over five months. Senior IAS officer, Mohammad Iqbal Khanday, was appointed as Principal Secretary Finance by Omar Abdullah's Cabinet on December 16th, 2011, but he has not been appointed or declared as Director on Board in J&K Bank since last year even as the bank's most important annual event, Annual General Meeting (AGM), is being planned here within a month.
By convention, as well as by the bank's Article of Association, state government's administrative Secretary of Finance Department becomes Government's nominee and Director on Board. However, the procedure involves filling up of a small form, customary recommendation of the bank's Nomination Committee that sets the agenda of Finance Secretary's appointment as Director for Board of Directors. State Government has 53.17% share in the government-controlled company.
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| Amarnath Yatra, Omar-Vohra connection | | Meddling with religious beliefs | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, June 5: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's three and a half year tenure has seen Jammu and Kashmir passing worst of the times. And when it comes to Amarnath Yatra, Omar is reminded of the comment which changed the course of 2008 land agitation.
Omar made an emotive speech and ended it by saying that not an inch of land belonging to Kashmiris would be given to the Amarnath land agitators. The comment changed the face of the agitation. A commoner, Kuldeep Verma sacrificed his life but not before leaving an emotive letter for Jammuites. The letter made a mention of Omar talking about not returning the Amarnath land to the Hindus, who had been demanding it.
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| | | | Jain among other VHP, BD leaders arrested | | VHP terms andolan a victory | | | early times report
JAMMU, June 5: On day third of VHP's Amarnath Yatra movement 200 activists were arrested for violating the prohibitory orders in the City. As usual they were taken to Shri Amarnath yatri Niwas and later removed in the afternoon.
Those arrested included national spokesman VHP Dr Surinder Jain, VHP leaders Dr V K Gupta, Dr Sham, and BD leader Nand Kishore.
Before their arrest scores of VHP and Bajrang Dal (BD) activists assembled in Parade in front of Brahman Sabha and protested against the Government action for not allowing the permission to the yatris on Jesht Purnima yesterday to maintain the age old tradition of the yatra.
The yatris shouting slogans against the ... | |
| | | | Yatra curtailment not done under pressure: Sri Sri | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, June 5: Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravishankar who is a member of Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) today said there was no pressure on the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board on deciding the duration of the Amarnath yatra, which was only curtailed keeping in view the safety of the pilgrims.
"I would like to clarify to the Shiva Bhaktas who are eager to undertake the yatra that we sincerely wanted to keep the yatra from Jyeshta Purnima onwards. There was no pressure from any individual or organisation on us. It was purely a logistical challenge to ensure the safety of the yatris," the spiritual leader stated in a statement issued today.
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| | | | BCCI takes U-turn to hush up JKCA scam 'never ordered any probe into the multi-crore scam' | | | | Bashir Assad
Srinagar, June 5; In a complete U-turn from its earlier stance, BCCI today denied having ordered any probe in multi-crore JKCA scam which surfaced earlier this year when officials of the association while acting as whistle blowers disclosed running of parallel by office bearers who were enjoying proximity with its president Dr. Farooq Abdullah.
Meanwhile, in its interim report submitted to JKCA president Dr. Farooq Abdullah, the internal probe committee constituted earlier has discovered embezzlement in cash transaction to the tune of Rs. 40.50 crores as the principal amount and around 14 crores as interest component which has been misappropriated by chairman JKCA Aslam Go... | |
| | | | High command not able to 'harmonize' final list….? | | Delay in announcement of new PCC raising speculations | | | early times report
Jammu, June 5 : Even as Member Parliament Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz is all set to continue as the chief of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) for next term, but delay in making this announcement formally is causing all sorts of speculative gossips in the political quarters and within the organization. With change on cards in the entire PCC makeup, the High command is likely to announce the new state party unit soon but pushing the things further are only generating speculations loaded with spice out of the factional infighting , each side giving the tilt of names including PCC chief in its favour.
Sources said that New Delhi has almost cleared the name o... | |
| | | | Radha says BJP's stand puzzling | | Interlocutors' Report | | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, June 5: Former interlocutor for Jammu & Kashmir Radha Kumar is unhappy both with the Hurriyat leaders and the BJP. Her grouse against them is that they have rejected the report without even studying it. However, what has stung Radha Kumar more is the reaction of the BJP. The BJP has termed the report as "disastrous".
What exactly has she said about the BJP? In an interview to an English daily only a few days ago, she said: "The BJP's reaction completely puzzles me. When it comes to J&K, the party seems to change its position every other day. Their rejection of the report is completely different to what their leadership said when we met them. We met BJP groups and delegatio... | |
| | | | Fissures in Hurriyat (M) deepen | | Nayeem writes to Mirwaiz | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 5: With different constituents of Hurriyat (M) going public on the issue of Professor Abdul Ghani Bhat's controversial statement, the possibility of cementing the cracks in the separatist conglomerate seem quite bleak.
Nayeem Khan's organization, National Front (NF) issued a statement in the summer capital this evening accusing Professor Bhat of ignoring Mirwaiz Umar Farooq's instructions besides violating the constitution of the amalgam.
A spokesman of the NF said: "Professor Bhat instead of feeling sorry for his controversial remarks issued a statement saying he stands by what he said at Sopore." Pertinent to mention Professor Bhat while addressing p... | |
| | | | Mehbooba ridicules NC, Cong & BJP | | Grievances of Jammu | | | NEHA
JAMMU, June 5: One may or may not endorse the stand of People's Democratic Party (PDP) on Jammu & Kashmir. One could also question its self-rule doctrine and say that there is no fundamental difference between the greater autonomy concept and the self-rule doctrine. But no one could question what PDP president and Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly Mehbooba Mufti yesterday said about National Conference (NC), Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). On Monday, she ridiculed all the three formations. She said that "while the NC leadership is busy in spending on lavish life style, the BJP and the Congress too are not associating themselves with the grievances of people e... | |
| | | | Tension grips GMCH after SPOs beat up NO | | | | early times report
JAMMU, June 5: Tension gripped the GMCH here today after some SPOs allegedly beat up a nursing orderly (NO) in the hospital premises.
NO Suresh Kumar (45), son of Dewan Chand of Rajpura, was on duty in the GMCH emergency wing when a man came to him for a trolley which he needed to carry a patient.
Police said when the NO asked the man to pay him Rs 50, or so, as security, which is refunded after the trolley is returned, there was an altercation between the two.
An SPO, who watched all this from a distance, then intervened and asked the NO to immediately hand over the trolley to the man. This resulted in heated exchange of words between them.
Police said the SPO was ... | |
| | | | No joking please; be serious Mr Gupta | | Where is tangible development? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 5: The state is forwarding in all spheres and under the visionary and dynamic leadership of Jenab Omar Abdullah the socio economic condition of the state is emerging stronger and stronger in spite of the fact that disparate opposition creating hurdles.
This was stated by Provincial President of the National Conference, Advocate Rattan Lal Gupta in a statement issued here today.
Well Gupta cannot be serious in boasting progress of the state in all spheres. Perhaps Gupta is unaware of the death of more than 330 infants in Srinagar's only pediatric hospital. This speaks volumes about the quality of healthcare in the state.
The senior Advocate tried his b... | |
| | | | Mufti aghast over `myopic' telecom policy, seeks PM's intervention | | | | Early Times REport
Srinagar, June 5: Terming the decision to keep Jammu and Kashmir out of the new telecom policy as discriminatory, thoughtless and divisive, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today urged the Prime Minister to intervene and scrap this diktat. Addressing a meeting of the members of Kupwara district committee today party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed said such treatment of the state only fuelled alienation, contributed to trust deficit and cultivated the feeling of 'otherness' among the people here.
Mufti said it was ironic that J&K should be kept of a scheme that is christened one nation, one number when the central government is talking of winning the hearts and minds of ... | |
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