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Misgovernance is a misnomer, it's no-governance Students dying to see teachers, who never attend duties, operate as 'journalists', take multiple salaries, interview DCs and Ministers 7/10/2011 12:28:33 AM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz BARAMULLA, July 9: Students at Government Middle School Gohan, in Chandoosa zone of Baramulla district, have only heard that Kousar Salam is one of their teachers. He has seldom taken a class. They, however, listen to their teacher regularly reading out his news dispatches in daily news bulletins of Radio Kashmir, Doordarshan Kendra (DDK) Srinagar and the much-hyped DD Kashir. Nobody in the zone, or perhaps entire Baramulla district, has the spine to ask this employee why he was not discharging his duty of teaching in the classroom. Kousar Salam S/o Pir Abdul Salam R/o Thindma, Kreeri, has been regularly receiving monthly salary of around Rs 15,000 from Omar Abdullah's government as records of the Department of School Education mention him as a government teacher. Least caring for the future of his students, Salam has been rubbing shoulders not only with Deputy Commissioner of Baramulla but also the Cabinet Ministers whenever they visit the North Kashmir district headquarters. While drawing his salary as teacher regularly, he has been simultaneously working as 'Pa...   READ MORE

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Why should New Delhi give autonomy to NC? 7/10/2011 12:28:04 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 9: New Delhi strongly resisted Mirza Afzal Beg's demand for restoration of autonomy in 1975. Late Advocate ghulam Nabi Hagroo who besides being a close friend of Beg also officiated as acting president of the Plebescite Front talked said three months before his death that Sher-e-Kashmir conceded the demand easily. Hagroo said: "Beg tried his best to get the maximum out of the talks and prolonged the dialogue process. Never did he know that he was taxing sher-e-Kashmir's patience. One day when Beg was busy negotiating terms and conditions of `Kashmir settlement', Sher-e-Kashmir forced entry into the room, dragged beg out and gave him a sound scolding. " "...   READ MORE   Kashmir's accuse Omar led coalition of total failure in delivering goods 7/10/2011 12:27:52 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 9: The catchy slogans of autonomy BY National Conference (NC) has failed to cut much ice in valley with majority of Kashmiris totally fed up with the policies and programmes of Omar Abdullah led Government which they alleged instead of solving the problems of common man has compounded them with its wrong policies and programs. The people had pinned high hopes in coalition government headed by Abdullah which assumed office in 2008, said Mir Ghulam Rasool a veteran trade unionist and a social activist. It was a general opinion that Abdullah being a representative of youth will prove better than his predecessors and bring a revolution in bringing state on the ...   READ MORE   CBMs must to resume dialogue: Soz 7/10/2011 12:27:37 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, July 9: President Pradesh Congress Committee, Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz Saturday said that Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) were important to bridge trust deficits between the India and Pakistan. Speaking to KNS after attending Pugwash Conference in Berlin, he revealed that a major breakthrough will be achieved in the talks between India and Pakistan. "The seriousness of civil society over terrorism and dialogue process in Pakistan is a clear indication that there is chance of trust between the two nations," he said. He said that terrorism was the main impediment in the restoration of peace across borders and resumption of dialogue between the two countries. "D...   READ MORE   Hope rekindles again for defunct SAC...... Govt convenes meeting of selection panel on July 18 7/10/2011 12:27:23 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 9: Hopes have again rekindled for the State Accountability Commission which is lying completely defunct for the last over three years now. The government is convening a crucial meeting on July 18 in which the members are finally expected to be selected for the Commission on which the government is incurring expenses only on maintaining the two offices in two capitals of the state besides paying huge amount on the staff employed for its functioning. Reliable sources said that following the directions from the High Court the NC led coalition government, in which the latter has been pulled up delay in making appointments, the high level committee is meeting on ...   READ MORE   Baghliar begins showing colours-1 Doda region on brink of disaster, J&K govt in deep slumber 7/10/2011 12:27:05 AM Syed Junaid Hashmi JAMMU, July 9: District Doda and parts of district Ramban are at the verge of facing a major natural catastrophe while Kishtwar district and Bhaderwah town are likely to get cut off from rest of the world in the very near future. Courtesy: Jammu and Kashmir government's much hyped 450 megawatt Baghliar Hydroelectric Project (BHP) which has neither been able to address power woes of the state not brought in revenue on the expected lines. But the project has begun scaring people of Doda town due to rising level of water in Baghliar dam. Pul Doda, which once used to be called the gateway of erstwhile district Doda is nowhere is existence. It has got submerged completely...   READ MORE   Employment Package Will Jammu get its legitimate share? 7/10/2011 12:26:31 AM Neha JAMMU, July 9: New Delhi on Thursday announced a Rs 1,000-crore special package for imparting training to 40, 000 graduates, post-graduates and professional degree holders for Jammu and Kashmir. The package would be implemented in five years. According to reports, the scheme aims at "enhancing employment opportunities in the state" and formulating "a job plan involving public and private sectors, especially for the youth." Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared the scheme. According to one report, the package, when implemented in its entirety, would "accommodate 500,000 unemployed youth." Now that the authorities in New Delhi have announced a special package for the state, it ...   READ MORE   Empowerment, Political Solution -- III Issues for the interlocutors' consideration 7/10/2011 12:26:07 AM Rustam JAMMU, July 9: 8. As mentioned yesterday, it is Kashmir and the people it houses which have been playing all the shots. It is obvious that the state's other two regions have suffered enormous socio-economic and political losses. Neither the people of Jammu province, including Hindus, Sikhs, Gujjar and Bakerwal Muslims and Pathowari-speaking Muslims, nor the people of Ladakh have any say in the governance of the state, notwithstanding the fact that there are Jammu and Ladakh-based ministers in the council of ministers. They are virtually non-existent. They only sign on the dotted lines. In fact, they, like their Kashmiri counterparts, take pride in catering to the reasonable and unre...   READ MORE   Age and youth to meet in New Delhi to resolve Indo-Pak issues 7/10/2011 12:25:45 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 9: The wheel has turned full circle during the last one year. In the middle of July last year the foreign ministry level talks between the then Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Shah Mahmood Qureshi,and India's External Affairs Minister, S.M. Krishna, ended on a bitter note after the former tried to slight the latter. However, within a couple of days Pakistan Foreign Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, played the role of a cake seller and removed traits of bitterness from the mouth of Krishna. And when Hina Rabbani Khar, acting foreign Minister of Pakistan, lands in New Delhi in the third week of the current month for talks with her counterpart, S.M. Krishna, it would...   READ MORE   2 cousins go missing under mysterious circumstances 7/10/2011 12:25:30 AM JAMMU: Two minor boys have gone missing under mysterious circumstances from Bhore Camp locality of Chatha. They were identified as Akshay Sharma (14), son of Sundershan Sharma, and his cousin Sahib Sharma (9), son of Bhushan Sharma, both residents of ward No 2, Bhore Camp. Quoting family, police sources said the duo left homes Thursday last to play cricket in the Bhore Camp ground, but did not return. They were said to have been seen last by a locality woman near Asia Hotel at Gandhi Nagar, the sources added. Though Chatha police had registered a case in this connection, they were yet to get any clue to their whereabouts....   READ MORE

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