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| JSC Okays Bill to embargo inter-district recruitments | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 8: The Joint Select Committee of the both Houses of state legislature has approved, with amendments, the controversial and regressive Bill seeking to ban inter-district recruitment in government services.
The Bill, strongly opposed by the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other reserved categories was introduced in the legislative assembly earlier this year on February 28. However, following an across the board opposition, both within and outside the House, the Bill was referred to a Joint Select Committee, of both the Houses, under chairmanship of Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Abdul Rahim Rather.
Titled AS ‘J&K Civil Services Decentralisation and Recruitment Bill, 2009’, the piece of legislation sought to ban recruitment of youths belonging to one district against the posts in another district. While introducing the Bill, the Law Minister had said that the practice of reserving district level posts for the people of same district is being revived to ensure that right of the local youths is not taken away by the applicants of other d... | |
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| 1,640 pilgrims leave for Amarnath shrine | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jul 8: A fresh batch of 1,640 pilgrims today left for Amarnath cave shrine in the South Kashmir Himalayas, official spokesman said.
The pilgrims, comprising 985 men, 359 women, 44 children and 252 Sadhus, left for the Amarnath shrine in 37 buses, 11 light motor vehicles and two motorcycles from the Yatri Bhawan here, the spokesman added.
The two-month-long yatra started from shorter Baltal route on June 15, after one week's delay, while traditional Pahalgam-Chandanwari route was opened for pilgrims on June 26.
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| | | | J&K Bank robbed in Kishtwar, over Rs 1 Crore loss estimated | | | | Early Times Report
Kishtwar, July 8: While Police and Bank officials are still verifying the facts and ledgers to tabulate the actual loss, a variety of factors including an insider’s hand and carelessness offered a clear opportunity to smart and well trained hi-tech robbers to loot a branch of Jammu and Kashmir Bank here. The Bank officials are yet to confirm but conflicting versions of close door calculations suggest that robbers walked away with anything between Rs 80 lakh to 150 lakhs. “We are yet to ascertain the actual loss as Police have taken over the premises for investigation”.
The Branch of J&K Bank was fitted with Close Circuit Television Cameras and, interestingly, robbers ... | |
| | | | AIMPLB rejects Court decision on days | | | | Agencies
Bhopal, July 8: The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Wednesday termed the Delhi High Court's verdict decriminalising homosexual acts among consenting adults as "illegal, irreligious and unnatural" for the society.
AIMPLB president Maulana Rabe Hasani Nadvi said that the court's decision was in favour of only a very samll gay community. Nadvi said the court decision should be "condemned" as it was "irreligious and unnatural" and added "we would not allow the western culture to be imposed upon the innocent Indian society."
He said few western countries were trying for the last many years to make homosexuality legal among their people and the decision will give str... | |
| | | | Challenging transfers not matter of right | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, July 8: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has said that a government employee cannot claim transfer to a place of his choice as a matter of right.
The bench, comprising Chairman V K Bali and Vice Chairman L K Joshi, passed the order on a plea filed by a 1994 batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer, challenging the Centre's direction to transfer him to Gujarat.
The Officer, Rajeev Kumar, working on deputation as an Additional Commissioner in the revenue department pleaded that like other colleagues, he should be given posting in Delhi.
"Under the rules, an IRS (official) is bound to serve anywhere in the country. He cannot claim a posting to Delhi as a m... | |
| | | | Zardari bares truth, says Pak created militants, extremists | | | | Agencies
Islamabad July 8: For the first time, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has admitted that militants and extremists were "created and nurtured" in the country as a policy to achieve some short-term tactical objectives.
But they began to haunt the country in the post-9/11 era, Zardari said in a candid admission during an interactive meeting with former senior civil servants at the presidency last night.
Militants and extremists emerged on the national scene and challenged the state not because the civil bureaucracy was weakened and demoralised, but because they "were deliberately created and nurtured as a policy to achieve some short-term tactical objectives," he said. "Let... | |
| | | | In parts or whole, Army opposes AFSPA rollback | | | | Agencies
New Delhi July 8: The Army is strongly opposed to any move to either 'withdraw' or 'dilute' the iron-fisted Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) in Jammu & Kashmir 'in a hurry' contending it will fritter away hard-fought gains in the anti-militancy battle.
This comes in the backdrop of the Union home ministry contemplating 'a phased withdrawal of AFSPA from some relatively violence-free districts like Srinagar, Budgam, Jammu and Kathua, with state chief minister Omar Abdullah repeatedly raising the demand with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, home minister P Chidambaram and defence minister A K Antony.
Civil rights groups, on their part, also want AFSPA to be scrapped on th... | |
| | | | Biggest handwritten copy of holy Quran | | | | Agencies
Kottayam, Jul 8: Babugy (45) of Thazhathangady had set record by making a handwritten copy of the Holy Quran, which he claimed to be the biggest of its kind in the world.
He had given application to enter the Guinness Book of World Records, reports said adding that the book, 85 cm in length and 65 cm in width, had 603 pages and weighed 50 kg. The writer took three years to complete the holy book.
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| | | | Farooq smells conspiracy as calm eludes Kashmir | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
New Delhi, July 8: Even as Srinagar again erupted this afternoon following death of a youth, the National Conference president and Union Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah today alleged that there were some elements in Kashmir wanting to keep the Valley on boil.
Farooq, however, favoured that law and order situation should be handled by the Jammu and Kashmir Police by keeping CRPF on the standby to be called when need arises.
Vested interests wanting to keep Kashmir "on the boil" are behind the current disturbances in the valley, Union Minister and President of National Conference Farooq Abdullah said today and expressed confidence that local police is competent enough ... | |
| | | | Srinagar again on boil after youth’s mysterious death | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 8: Violent protests brought normal life to a complete standstill in this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital Wednesday after a missing youth was found murdered in an old city area triggering a fresh wave of violence in an already vitiated atmosphere.
At least 20 people were injured in the fresh violence, which follows the violent stirs over the mysterious rape and murder of two women in a south Kashmir village in May and killing of four protesters in alleged police firing in north Kashmir's Baramulla and Sopore towns last month.
The body of Asrar Ahmed Dar, 20, a student who was reported missing from uptown Maisuma area since Saturday, was found in Rainawar... | |
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