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LIC official, teacher work as 'correspondents' for Radio Kashmir BANANA PEPUBLIC OF JAMMU & KASHMIR - [3] 7/12/2011 12:29:11 AM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz PULWAMA/ANANTNAG, July 11: While Cultural Assistant in J&K Academy of Art, Culture & Languages, Zahoor Sultan War, and teacher at Government Middle School Gohan, Chandoosa, are simultaneously working as 'Correspondents' for Radio Kashmir in Kupwara and Baramulla districts in North Kashmir, South Kashmir is behind none in making a mockery of the institutions of both, Government as well as Media, in the conflict-riddled Kashmir valley. During an investigation, Early Times discovered that a Head Clerk of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), a Government of India Undertaking, as also a Government schoolteacher have been regularly working as 'reporters' with the national broadcaster. Law calls it "business" and makes the defaulters of the Service Conduct Rules of both, Government of J&K as well as Government of India, liable to severe punishment---imprisonment upto two years and fine in cash. Termination of service in such matters is the basic requirement of the disciplinary action by the employer department. However, senior officials of All India Radio (AIR), LIC and Sch...   READ MORE

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Can Omar Abdullah afford to watch his decisions being flouted by his team? 7/12/2011 12:27:00 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 11: It seems to be a hands up situation for the political masters in Jammu and Kashmir as senior bureaucrats and now even vice chancellors have mustered the courage (read arrogance) to flout the directives of the chief minister, Omar Abdullah. Some time back, the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST) Kashmir announced its decision to establish the forestry college of the university in chief minister, Omar Abdullah's Ganderbal constituency. All the ground work was completed by the university authorities after land was identified at Benhama village of Ganderbal district. Besides, fencing the area where the proposed forestr...   READ MORE   Mader-e-Meharbaan anniversary goes un-noticed Wake up call for NC 7/12/2011 12:25:11 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 11: Kashmir has changed. this was proved yet again today. The death anniversary of Begum Akber Jehan popularly known as Mader-e-Meharbaan (Kind mother) up to late 80s went un-noticed. Barring few official functions, nothing happened in the Valley. When Sher-e-Kashmir passed away around one million people participated in his funeral. At least five persons got killed in stampedes at various places enroute the final abode of the `beloved' leader at Hazratbal. Kashmiris were in shock. they mourned the death for several days aand life came to a standstill in he Valley. Eleven years ago, his wife Mader-e-Meherbaan passed away on July 11. A few people attended ...   READ MORE   Court grants 15 day judicial remand of Raju Simblia Chopra family murder 7/12/2011 12:23:29 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 11: The court of forest magistrate today granted fifteen day judicial remand of one of the accused Raju Simblia in the much publicized murder of Cement Tycoon RB Chopra, his wife Madhu Chopra, his daughter Solani Chopra and driver and servant on September 18, 2006. Today Special Investigation Team produced Rajinder Singh alias Raju Simblia son of Darshan Singh resident of Simbal Camp Ward 4, Jammu in the Court of Forest Magistrate Jammu, with the request to grant fifteen days judicial remand of the Raju Simblia. The court after considering the application filed by SHO P/S Bahu-Fort Jammu Sunil Singh Jasrotia,seeking 15 days judicial remand of accused...   READ MORE   Roundtable Conference on Kashmir in Jammu 7/12/2011 12:21:03 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 11: It was expected that the New Delhi-appointed interlocutors would organize in Jammu a conference on Kashmir and Kashmiri aspirations and it actually happened on the first day of the two-day roundtable Conference. Rabidly anti-India elements from Kashmir were there in full strength in the conference and some of them included the well-known India-baiters like Gul Mohammad Wani, a Kashmir University teacher, and the US-based Sheikh Abdullah's granddaughter Nyla Ali Khan. The interlocutors had taken all the precautions to ensure that the roundtable conference remained Kashmir-centric. A few Kashmiri journalists and former bureaucrats were also there in the con...   READ MORE   Fed up with mushrooming growth of organizations Jagti migrants for constitution of democratic body 7/12/2011 12:19:41 AM EARLY TIMES Report JAMMU, July 11: Fed up with mushrooming growth of organizations, Kashmiri Pandits putting up at Jagati have asked the Government to hold the elections in the township so that a democratically elected body comes in force to represent the day to day problems of the community before the Government. The Various KP factions in Jagati in a meeting here today resolved to put their case before the Government strongly as the mushrooming growth of Pandit organizations instead of solving the problems of the community have increased them many fold. The Pandit organizations while asking these self styled leaders to wind up their units has urged the Government to derecognize them a...   READ MORE   Social organizations condemn police for no action against oil mafia 7/12/2011 12:17:34 AM Early Times Report Kishtwar, July 11: Illegal trade of fuel is on rise in mountainous district Kishtwar and the police are a mute spectator. In a recent development, a local journalist who tried to raise the issue and lodge a complaint before police was manhandled and threatened by the oil mafia. As per details Balbir Jamwal, a local reporter when saw few persons carrying on the illegal trade near Sangrambhata immediately called upon police officers and at the same time all of a sudden the goons who were refilling their vehicle attacked upon him and also threatened him of dire consequences. As per Jamwal they informed him that they are the men of a local congress MLA. The journalist h...   READ MORE   Demand for Union Territory in Ladakh Issue of empowerment -- II 7/12/2011 12:15:43 AM Rustam EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 11: The operative part of the communication/memorandum submitted by the LBA to the Prime Minister of India read: "Ladakh is not prepared to go to Pakistan whatever the result of the plebiscite may be." The communication also said: "We seek the bosom of that gracious mother (India) to receive more nutriments for growth to our full stature in every way. She has given us what we prize above all other things - our religion and culture. The Ashoka wheel on her flag, symbol of goodwill for all humanity, and her concern for her cultural children, calls us irresistibly. Will the great mother refuse to take to her arms one of her weakest and most forlorn and d...   READ MORE   Interlocutors' 5-point agenda & 5 sessions Futile Exercise -- I 7/12/2011 12:12:46 AM Neha EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 11: Selected delegates to the Round Table Conference (RTC), organized by the interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), met today at the PWD Guest House, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu, to express their views on the 5-point agenda circulated by the interlocutors. They would meet on Tuesday as well. The interlocutors have planned five sessions and the focus in each session would be on one particular issue. The issues are simple and everyone is fully aware of them. In fact, these are some of the issues that have been irritating the marginalized and persecuted sections. Even the interlocutors are aware of the issues enumerated in their agenda. In other words, the 2-d...   READ MORE   Prem Sweet Shop, Kud fined for weighing less Penalty of Rs 20,000 imposed 7/12/2011 12:09:37 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU,JULY 11: A penalty of Rs 20,000 was imposed on Prem Sweet Shop, Kud for allegedly duping customers by weighing less. Deputy Director Legal Metrology department Vinod Prabakar when contacted informed that a team of enforcement wing was dispatched to Kud following complaints that Prem Sweet Shop weighed the products along with the card board containers thus violated rules of the Weight and Measures Act. He said during surprised checking it was found that the shopkeeper delivered 150 gram less sweets to a consumer against 1 kilogram at Kud. ...   READ MORE   Absconder arrested after 8 years 7/12/2011 12:07:43 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu: An absconding person wanted in Arms Act by Miran Sahib Police has been arrested after eight years, informed sources said. They said that Harpal Singh alias Pummy son of Surjeet Singh of ward number-4 in Simbal Camp was arrested from his residence, following inputs about his presence there. "Harpal was wanted in a criminal case of arms act and a case FIR number 90 of 2003 under section Arms Act of RPC was also registered against him eight years back," the sources said. They said that he was evading his arrested by changing his name and hideouts from time to time to dodge the police....   READ MORE   Boiler blast in Pencil factory leaves two labourers dead 7/12/2011 12:06:44 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, July 11: One labourer died on spot while another succumbed to burn injuries in GMC Hospital in a boiler blast that occurred in a pencil factory here in Bari Brahmana area on Monday. Police sources said that, the incident occurred at the evening hour when suddenly boiler of the RR Pencil factory burst after catching fire. In the incident, two workers working near the boiler received burn injuries. They were rushed to the GMC hospital where doctors declared one of them as brought dead. He has been identified as Dev Chander of Bihar while the condition of other worker identified as Jitto Dewi of RS Pura, who was admitted in GMCH in a critical condition succumbed t...   READ MORE

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