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| Ashok Prasad takes over as DGP | | Signal from Delhi: Rajendra would become DGP, Prasad DIB in 2014 | |  Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
srinagar, July 23: Resident of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh cadre IPS officer of 1979 batch, Ashok Prasad today joined as Director General of Police in the country's most sensitive State of Jammu & Kashmir. After BS Bedi and Gurbachan Jagat, Prasad is the third IPS officer from outside the State who has been appointed as head of the Police force in J&K in the last 23 years of armed insurgency.
Early Times had exclusively reported in its issue of July 22 that, contrary to all spec... | |
| | | | Delay in party polls triggering unrest, 'groupism' | | Fissures in National Conference | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 23: Whether it is State unit of Congress, the BJP or for that matter the National Conference - internal bickering has damaged the image of these parties.
Split of State unit of BJP into two factions, strapping factionalism within Congress has been hitting the headlines for last couple of years. The then Congress leaders trading serious charges against each other has entertained the people since 2011 but what was happening within National Conference was even more shocking and interesting too, however, some invisible hands refrained the NC leaders from going public and "invisible hands" for some were the arms of power chairs.
Past two or three years bear... | |
| | | | Five Police Stations in Jammu goes headless | | 'Acting DGP Rajendra alleged for rolling back 8 Insp of armed wing' | | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu, July 23: Five police stations imminently headless when the police officials manning the affairs of these stations were among unlucky 'eight' official count who recalled to their parent postings in Armed wing of police, highly placed sources said.
Police said that eight cops posted in executive wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police have been directed to merge with their parental wing i.e. Armed wing of police. Earlier, their services were sought in executive wing owing to the shortage of the officials to handle the law and order maintenance.
Sources said that order was issued by officiating Director General of Police (DGP) K Rajendra, just an hour before handing over the ... | |
| | | | Cong likely to get back Ministries soon | | | | ET Report
Jammu, July 23: The Congress is likely to get back Ministries of R&B and Education very soon. The party high command is likely to communicate to the Chief Minister in this regard by next week. The party high command has made up its mind after a Congress workers consistently complained about denying their due.
According to party sources, the decks are cleared for getting two prestigious Ministries which has been kept by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah with himself. Party sources said now that Presidential elections are over, the party was keen to clear some of the pending issues with regard to the J&K.
Sources said party high command has been briefed consistently about the grouse ... | |
| | | | Acute power crisis in Jammu, PDD misleads young CM | | 'Night curtailment routine' | |  Syed Junaid Hashmi
Jammu, July 23: Jammu is reeling under acute power crisis with people across the city spending nights out in the open.
Unscheduled power curtailment especially during the night hours has made life miserable for commoners. PDD, which is acting on the aid and advice of officers in the Civil Secretariat, has made it a routine to affect curtailment during the night hours. Such is the callousness and chaos at the level of Power Ministry which is headed by Chief Minister that onu... | |
| | | | Kashmiri leadership displays remarkable unity | | Presidential election | | | Rustam
Jammu, July 23: The process to elect 13th President of the Union got completed yesterday with the declaration of result. As was expected, former Union Finance Minister and UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee won the election hands down. He defeated the otherwise brilliant and popular former Speaker of Lok Sabha Purno A Sangma by a huge margin of almost 3,50,000 votes. The victory of Mukherjee, Congress veteran and man of all seasons, was a forgone conclusion given the composition of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha as well as State Legislative Assemblies. The level of his popularity could be measured from the fact that even two constituents of the BJP-led NDA - Janata Dal (United) and Shiv... | |
| | | | Diluting special status of JK | | Can Sher-e-Kashmir be exonerated? | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, July 23: Responding to BJP leader, Arun Jaitley's statement on Article 370, the National Conference spokesman Tanvir Sadiq said Article 370 was important and safeguards peoples' identity and interests.
Usually National Conference activists accuse Bakshi and the Congress of diluting the special status of the State. However, some Central laws were extended by Sher-e-Kashmir as well and his son, Dr Farooq Abdullah broke all records. Neither Sher-e-Kashmir nor Dr Farooq Abdullah ever protested abrogation of Article 238 of the Indian Constitution. This particular Article deals with Centre-State relations and was considered soul of Article 370. Silence of leaders ... | |
| | | | Vohra calls SASB meeting amidst mounting deaths in Amarnath yatra | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 23: Stung by the frequent interventions of the apex court in the wake of unchecked and increasing number of deaths in the annual Amarnath pilgrimage, the Governor N N Vohra chairman of the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) has summoned the emergency meeting of the statuary board at Raj Bhawan Srinagar on Wednesday. Incidentally it is the first meeting of the Board this year.
The Governor who is cornered from all sides for total mess in the pilgrimage this year, including from the Chief Minister who spoke about inability to properly regulate the pilgrim traffic, is keen to keep the Board members on board on all issues including much concerned issue of... | |
| | | | Arun dismisses Article 370 as a "conspiracy" | | Failure Of Local BJP Leadership | | | Neha
Jammu, July 23: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Arun Jaitley, who is also considered as BJP ideologue and trouble-shooter and who had looked after party affairs in Jammu & Kashmir for several years, has done it yet again. He takes great interest in Jammu & Kashmir affairs. Suggesting a solution to what ails Kashmir, he said the other day in New Delhi that if the problem in Kashmir is to be surmounted and the people of the State are to exercise all the rights made available by the Indian Constitution, Article 370 has to go root and branch. He not only dismissed Article 370 as a "conspiracy" against the people of Jammu & Kashmir, but also described it as the biggest blunder Congress b... | |
| | | | Mumbai court extends Parvaiz Tak custody by 2 weeks | | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
kishtwar, July 23: Mumbai Additional Metropolitan court today (23rd July) extended the police custody of Parvaiz Iqbal Tak accused in murder of Bollywood starlet Laila Khan and her 5 other family members by two weeks. Mumbai Crime Branch produced Tak in court after his four days police remand ended today. After hearing the argue of prosecuting officer of Crime Branch Mumbai, Court extended police remand of Parvaiz Tak till August 6, 2012. Tak who was arrested by Kishtwar police on June 21 when he was returning from Nepal confessed the killing of Laila Khan and her family members before Kishtwar police. After confessing the killing of six people, local court in Kishtwa... | |
| | | | Kamaal gets thrashing from Qureshi | | `NC can do anything for power' | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 23: Allegations against PDP patron, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has won National Conference additional general secretary, Dr Mustafa Kamaal severe criticism from PDP leader HD Qureshi. Qureshi said Kamaal had lost balance of mind. "He has crossed all limits and gone mad in the lust of power that has exposed his frustration.
He expressed surprise that Kamaal was distorting historic facts. NC remained the part and parcel of every political system at Centre and even shared power with BJP Government under Atal Bihari Vajpayee when Omar Abdullah was part of Government as MoS of Foreign Affairs.
"Right from 1947 it remained in the corridors of powers in New Delhi. Th... | |
| | | | PWD supervisor killed, 4 injured in blast at Kathua | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 23: A Government employee was killed and four others were injured in a powerful blast in the compound of a police station in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir today. During disposal of old blasting material by the Public Works Department (PWD) officials, a powerful explosion took place inside the compound of Bani police station near an under-construction building this morning, Deputy Inspector General of police, Jammu-Samba-Kathua range JP Singh said. The blast occurred when they were taking the explosive material out of the police station for its use in construction works.
In the explosion, PWD Supervisor Mohammad Iqbal died on the spot, the DIG said, ad... | |
| | | | Cheats booked by CB Jammu | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, July 23 : Crime Branch, Jammu have registered a criminal Case FIR No. 17/2012 u/s 420, 465, 468, 471,120-B/ RPC against Mohammad. Ashraf Hafiz S/o Mohd. Yousaf R/o Koteranka, Rajouri, Mamta Devi W/o JasbirSingh, Jasbir Singh H/o Mamta Devi, Sonia D/o Jasbir Singh,\ Neelam Devi W/o Harnam Singh Rs/o of near Vishwav Bharti School, Akalpur Muthi, Domana, Jammu, Mohd Yousaf Wani and Abdul Qayoom Rs/o Srinagar for their involvement in the offences of cheating, fraud and\ criminal conspiracy.
Brief facts of the case are that a complaint on behalf of Sikander Hayat S/o Mohd. Yousaf, Sikander Hussain S/o Abdul Ghani, Mushtaq Hussain S/o Mohd. Younis, Mohd. Aksar... | |
| | | | Central zoo authority approves international standard zoos for Jammu, Srinagar | | Manda zoo to be relocated at Nagrota, developed on African Safari pattern | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
JAMMU, July 23: The Manda zoo, located close to the city here, would be shifted to Khanpur at Nagrota, about 400 mt off the national highay on Jagti road, where the process has been set in motion to develop it according to international standards.
The central zoo authority of India (CZAI) has already given its approval in this regard, a senior official in the state administration told ET. Khanpur is about 8 km from here on the Jammu-Srinagar road.
The CZAI had also approved a zoo for Srinagar, which would be set up near the Tulip Garden, he added.
Currently Manda zoo does not match international standards as it is simply a Deer Park. The animals there are kept in cages ... | |
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