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| Ousted JCC Bank Chairman continues to enjoy freebies at bank's expense | | | | Sumit Sharma
JAMMU, June 5: Notwithstanding the terrible mess that the Jammu Central Cooperative Bank (JCCB) has put itself in, which is reflecting in its standing and repute, the ousted chairman Mohinder Singh continues to use vehicles of the bank including Tata Safari JK02AC/4019 and Ambassador bearing registration number JK02AH/6183, further pinching the bank exchequer.
The disclosure was made when the management of the Bank sent an old vehicle to receive the administrator namely Mufti Farid-ud-Din appointed by the Government at the Jammu Airport. Fumigated over the dilapidated condition of the car sent to him, the administrator expressed his anguish to the bank officers who had gone t... | |
| | | | HC orders sealing of hotels across JK | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, June 5: Taking strong exception to "vague" status report filed by State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Jammu and Kashmir High Court today ordered sealing of all hotels operating without STP in the state, particularly in Katra, Patnitop, Jammu and Srinagar, within one week..
Hearing a Public Interest Litigation, a Division Bench of the court comprising of Chief Justice MM Kumar and Justice MH Attar observed that the status report filed by State Pollution Control Board was far from satisfactory.
Advocate General MI Qadri assured that all effective steps shall be taken to ensure that hotels in category-A have STP operational particularly in the area of Katra,... | |
| | | | Congress all out to expose its coalition partner | | NC's mass contact programme | | | Rustam
JAMMU, June 5: National Conference (NC) has planned to launch a mass contact programme to educate public opinion about its performance and achievements. The decision is obviously taken in the aftermath of its massive defeat at the hands of the main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP), which won all the three Lok Sabha seats in the Valley with an impressive margin and got 20 per cent of the total votes polled, as against the NC's tally of less than 10 per cent votes. According to the Election Commission, the NC got 11.1 per cent votes. It is not true in the sense that these figures also included the Congress votes. In any case, the PDP performed exceedingly well and the NC suf... | |
| | | | Cong on revival track in J&K; Party to formulate separate strategies for Jammu, Kashmir regions | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 5: Veteran Congress leader Makhan Lal Fotedar's arrival in Srinagar for a week long tour has raised many eye-brows because Fotedar is known for his relations with leaders of other political parties.
Credible sources in Congress said that party high command has deputed Fotedar to Srinagar to interact with grass-root level workers to formulate a new plan to revive Congress in Jammu and Kashmir. Instead of depending on coalition partner National Conference, Congress leadership has decided to contest coming Assembly elections on its own.
Sources said that party leadership has realized that in Jammu region there is still Modi Wave and it is obvious that party is... | |
| | | | Cong on revival track in J&K; Party to formulate separate strategies for Jammu, Kashmir regions | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 5: Veteran Congress leader Makhan Lal Fotedar's arrival in Srinagar for a week long tour has raised many eye-brows because Fotedar is known for his relations with leaders of other political parties.
Credible sources in Congress said that party high command has deputed Fotedar to Srinagar to interact with grass-root level workers to formulate a new plan to revive Congress in Jammu and Kashmir. Instead of depending on coalition partner National Conference, Congress leadership has decided to contest coming Assembly elections on its own.
Sources said that party leadership has realized that in Jammu region there is still Modi Wave and it is obvious that party is... | |
| | | | Despite rout, Farooq fails to revamp party units | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 5: As the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) President, Farooq Abdullah brought some changes in the party and gave prime posts to his close aides, he couldn't force his decision on Jammu unit of the party.
Abdullah even can't remove Omar's close aides , Nasir Aslam Wani from provincial president's post of Kashmir province.
Sources in National Conference said that Farooq wanted to bring change in Jammu unit of the party where NC working president, Omar Abdullah has posted his close aide as provincial president, who is taking each and every decision with respect to the Jammu province.
"There was strong resentment against NC provincial president Jam... | |
| | | | National Conference, no longer leading mainstream regional party of J&K | | Gets wiped out in Jammu, limited following in Kashmir | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, June 5: Not long ago there was a single regional mainstream party in Jammu and Kashmir and that was National Conference. The party had its base across the state with people religiously following the programmes being put forward by the leaders of this party.
However, as on date National Conference is no longer the party of people of the state. Its base has shrunken like the size of world famous Dal Lake. The party that emerged as single largest party in the 1996 Assembly elections has been reduced to a party representing a few pockets of Kashmir.
The party has virtually been wiped out from the scene from the Jammu division where Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has ma... | |
| | | | Iranian ambassador plays diplomat at separatist seminar | | Remains mum, no mention of K word | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, June 5: Much to the discomfort of the separatist leaders present in the seminar, the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ghulam Raza Ansari maintained complete silence over Kashmir issue and did not even mention the word Kashmir during his 15 minute speech in a seminar in Srinagar.
The seminar was organized by Anjaman-i-Shari Shean to commemorate the 25 death anniversary of the founder of Islamic Republic of Iran Imam Khomeni.
The Iranian ambassador to India talked about Egypt, Sham, Libeya and Iraq while maintained silence over Kashmir. "We were expecting that at least he (Ghulam Raza Ansari) will urge upon India to resolve the long pending Kashmir ... | |
| | | | Those enjoy dual citizenship hate the other Indians' presence in J&K | | Tarigami's dangerous line | | | Neha
JAMMU, June 5: Chairman of the Indian Constituent Assembly BR Ambedkar had in 1949 told the votary of "Switzerland-type independent Kashmir" Sheikh Abdullah that he did not consider his demand for a special status for Jammu and Kashmir rational and that his demand, if accepted, would cause harm to the national interest. He had said: "You want India and Indians to defend Kashmir. You want Kashmir and Kashmiris to exercise all rights all over India, but you not want Indians to exercise all rights in Kashmir. I am Law Minister of India and I cannot be a party to an act betrayal of national interest".
Sadly, however, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, a fake secularist and bitter critic of... | |
| | | | BJP MPs squander historic opportunity, prefer oath in Hindi | | Dogri fails to reverberate in Parliament | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, June 5: The famous Hindi phrase, "Hathi Ke Dant Dikhane Ke Aur, Khane Ke Aur (Elephant has two set of teeth-one to show off and the other to chew with) aptly fits on Bharatiya Janta Party's (BJP) two Member of Parliaments (MPs) from Jammu region while taking oath as members of 16th Lok Sabha today, sadly ignored their mother tongue Dogri but preferred Hindi to make the affirmation.
Though the State BJP unit always presents itself as the sole 'protector' and 'guardian' of Jammu's identity, culture and ethnicity but its MPs, who represent Jammu province's uniqueness in the Lok Sabha did not deem it fit to give Dogri its due recognition, which is included in the 8th Sc... | |
| | | | Polls on mind, both allies taking decisions 'blindly' | | Age raising sops continue to draw flak from general masses | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 5: In divided camps, as both ruling allies NC and Congress 'celebrate' the just announced decisions of raising retirement age of government employees and eligibility age for candidates applying for jobs, both the decisions are drawing flak from a larger section people who look at these steps as desperate bid of both the parties to win coming Assembly elections. In the spree of congratulatory messages, hailing of statements and gratitude expressing messages from within the parties, the one up manship show continues even as common masses are viewing these decisions as doing more harm than any good to a large number of unemployed educated class of the society.... | |
| | | | `Satbaran tunnel connects Kashmir to Russia' | | Lolab Valley | | | Syed Tahir Bukhari
KUPWARA, June 5: Lolab valley, which is locally known as 'Wadi-e-Lolab' is not only known for its orchards, springs, lake, and lush rice fields. But is also historically rich in its traditions, culture, the visitors can easily reach to this place by road. Travelers can stay in government huts.
Ab Rashid Khatana from Kalaroosa says, "In Kalaroosa there is a place called Satbaran Tunnel which is believed to connect Kashmir with the erstwhile USSR. According to him our ancestors used to visit this place and we heard it from them.
"Condition of these roads is worst and it has added miseries to our lives, in the night hours we have to pay Rs 1500 from Kalaroosa to Kupwar... | |
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