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Mehbooba pulls down mikes, bulldozes Speaker PDP MLAs marshaled out on creating ruckus in House over Shopian 7/28/2009 12:13:20 AM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz SRINAGAR, July 27: On day one of the month-long Budget session in Legislative Assembly today, opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members were marshaled out after they created pandemonium in the House over the May 29/30 rape-cum-murder of two young women in Shopian and their leader, Mehbooba Mufti, shouted on the Speaker and pulled down mikes from his desk. Even as the PDP MLAs staged a sit-in on the outer entrance of the Civil Secretariat and Assembly Complex, House proceeded with the scheduled business of paying obituary to some former legislators who had passed away in recent past. Immediately after the Speaker, Mohammad Akbar Lone, took his position and declared the Business open, senior BJP leaders, Prof Chaman Lal Gupta and Ashok Khajuria, got up to raise the issue of their frisking by security staff at the Secretariat entrance. They shouted that pro-Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami people were being allowed to enter with their own vehicles but the mainstream legislators traveling in officially allotted cars were being subjected to intense checking and phys...   READ MORE

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BJP members protested frisking of their bags 7/28/2009 12:12:38 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, July 27: Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly today witnessed uproarious scenes when Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members raised the issue of frisking of their bags by security officials at the main gate of the House. Ashok Kumar Khujuria and other BJP members were on their feet when the House met for the maiden sitting in the newly constructed Assembly complex here, protesting the frisking of their bags by the security officials. ''Our bags are being searched which is an insult to us'', they said. Khujuria alleged Jamat people were not being frisked but we are harassed. A BJP member complained that there was no way to go into the well of the House. However...   READ MORE   110 ceasefire violations by Pak since 2006: Govt 7/28/2009 12:12:06 AM Agencies NEW DELHI: 110 incidents of ceasefire violation from Pakistani side have taken place along the Line of Control (LoC) since 2006 in which nine Indian security personnel were killed, the government said on Monday. "A total of 110 incidents of ceasefire violations have taken place along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir since 2006. These include 47 incidents of trans-LoC firing... our troops have suffered nine fatal and 25 non-fatal casualties," defence minister A K Antony said in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha. A maximum of 77 such incidents had taken place in 2008, 21 in the 2007 and 3 in 2006. "Nine violations have taken place so far this year," he added. Meanwhile, r...   READ MORE   SAYSS rejects Deputy CM's proposal on Central University 7/28/2009 12:11:44 AM Early Times Report Jammu, July 27: Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangarsh Samiti, which spearheaded over two-month long agitation over Amarnath land row last year, on Monday rejected proposal of the state government that it will approach the Centre and seek two Central Universities and two Indian Institutes of Management for the state. "We outrightly reject this proposal mooted by Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand at a meeting held recently here with the representatives of various political parties," the spokesperson of SAYSS Dr Narinder Singh said in Jammu. Our stand is that the central university should be established in Jammu region, as promised by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a co...   READ MORE   Sim, memory card recovered from two people at Chakanda bagh 86 switch sides along the LoC 7/27/2009 11:46:13 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, July 27: 86 people travelled across the Line of Control on Monday from Chakanda bagh in Poonch area of the state, police sources told Press Bureau of India. Meanwhile, authorities recovered a SIM and a memory card from two people who crossed over to this side to meet their relatives. Sources told PBI that 45 people crossed over to Pakistan Administered Kashmir, PaK. Out of these five men crossed over to meet their relatives across the LoC while as 40 people returned back after staying over in Poonch region to meet their relatives. 41 people crossed over to this side early morning as the bus carrying them reached Chakanda Bagh. Sources said that 20 visitors ...   READ MORE   Shortage in Depots Triggers Timber Smuggling Govt promoting forest loot 7/27/2009 11:45:15 PM Salman Nizami JAMMU JULY 27: The shortage of timber at forest depots in Jammu province during the last two months has delayed construction works and forced consumers to get timber through illegal means. The non-availability of timber has also rendered the construction work of many government buildings including schools and Panchayat ghars incomplete in the proviance. The Public works department Ramban has made a payment of about Rs 10 lakh for timber in march 2009 for the construction of buildings but the department is yet to get it. A senior officer alleged that the department of Forests was delaying the supply of timber only to sell the same at higher rates later. He said the shorta...   READ MORE   Army short of 11,387 officers: Antony 7/27/2009 11:44:29 PM Agencies New Delhi, July 27- The Indian Army is short of over 11,387 officers, Defence Minister A K Antony told the Lok Sabha on Monday. While the Navy was short of 1512 officers, the shortage in the Air Force was 1400, he said in a written reply. However, there is no significant shortage of Personnel below Officer Ranks (PBORs) in the Armed Forces and nearly a lakh joined the Army in that category in the last three years. As many as 5033 officers and 96,453 PBORs joined the Army in the last three years while 1209 officers and 6792 PBORs were enrolled by the Navy during the same period. As many as 1451 officers and 21,311 PBORs joined the Air Force in the last three years, Antony sai...   READ MORE   Infiltration bid foiled, three militants killed 7/27/2009 11:44:04 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, July 27: Security forces on Monday foiled an infiltration bid from across the Line of Control (LoC) by killing three heavily armed militants in the frontier district of Kupwara, a defence spokesman said. The militants were killed in a fierce gunbattle near Eagle post in northern Tangdhar sector, 140 kms from here, the spokesman said. He said the Army had laid multiple ambushes in the area after noticing movement of militants attempting to sneak into this side of the border. The militants were trapped and were asked to surrender, following which they opened fire, he said. An encounter ensued in which three militants were killed, he said, adding a huge ca...   READ MORE   Infiltration bid foiled, three militants killed 7/27/2009 11:42:53 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, July 27: Security forces on Monday foiled an infiltration bid from across the Line of Control (LoC) by killing three heavily armed militants in the frontier district of Kupwara, a defence spokesman said. The militants were killed in a fierce gunbattle near Eagle post in northern Tangdhar sector, 140 kms from here, the spokesman said. He said the Army had laid multiple ambushes in the area after noticing movement of militants attempting to sneak into this side of the border. The militants were trapped and were asked to surrender, following which they opened fire, he said. An encounter ensued in which three militants were killed, he said, adding a huge ca...   READ MORE   NC now befooling people of Jammu by displaying misleading ads 7/27/2009 11:41:51 PM CHAMAN KAUL JAMMU, JULY 27: While Kashmir valley is struggling to come out dilemmatic situation prevailing for the last two months there and Jammu region read to boil here over the issue of shifting of Central University (CU), National Conference (NC) did not let the chance to befool the people of Jammu by displaying advertisement in a local daily through its Jammu based workers. Workers in the advertisement extended thanks to Chief Minister for sanctioning Central University one each at Kashmir and one at Jammu, not only this, workers have also extended gratitude to Omar Abdullah for announcing two IIMs and two IIITs one in Kashmir and one Jammu. But the question arises that when, where ...   READ MORE   Transfers, postings for dead, retired in CTD 7/27/2009 12:03:51 AM CHAMAN KAUL JAMMU, JULY 26: Ostensibly, it looks dramatic but it is fact that in the office of Commissioner Commercial Taxes Department (CTD) J&K Government, transfers and posting for dead and retired persons are made possible by the officials at the helm of affairs, under which law and rule remains a big question to be answered. The recent order by office of the Commissioner Commercial Taxes Department for posting and transfers vide 126/127 dated July 22nd 2009 speaks the volumes of the seriousness of the officials at the helm of affairs as one Mohammad Junaid at serial 17 of the order circulated has left the department on 31.07.2007 (means dead for department) and joined the higher edu...   READ MORE

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