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| All showrooms on Bypass in brazen violation of law | | Minister inaugurated illegally raised showroom; PDP gets details of “explosive violations” from SMC | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Aug 1: Opposition PDP leader Maulvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari has got trapped in the net of his own creation by raising the issue of wetland encroachments in Assembly’s budget session. House Committee’s first sword has begun dangling over the fate of his newly created showroom---Ansari Toyota----on the national highway Bypass near Parimpora. With one of the PDP members, namely Nizamuddin Bhat, distancing himself from the House Committee’s “direction” asking Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) to lock Ansari’s under-construction complex, the principal opposition party has collected material to establish, during forthcoming session of legislature, that almost all the automobile showrooms and sale centres on the 18-Km Bypass---Pantachowk to Shalteng---were illegal and raised in brazen violation of law and Master Plan.
Well-placed sources revealed to Early Times that in order to deflect the brunt of the House Committee direction from Ansari’s showroom to other commercial complexes, mostly belonging to friends and relatives of the ruling National Conference (N... | |
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| Swindling of Eco-conservation funds by BGSBU, NGOs | | High profile Committee to submit much-delayed probe report soon | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Aug 1: High profile committee probing into alleged misuse of financial assistance provided by Union Forest and Environment Ministry to five non-Governmental organizations alongwith Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU) is soon going to submit its report to the State Government.
Sources said that probe is in the final stages. They added that Deputy Commissioners of Anantnag, Srinagar and Rajouri have managed to secure records from the NGOs and the University involved in the alleged scam. Deputy Commissioners have managed to visit the places where the concerned organizations have carried out the afforestation under the said programme, sources disclosed.
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| | | | Competent cops a demoralised lot in J&K Police, allege insiders | | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Aug 1: Some senior J&K police officers, both retired and serving, have alleged that the competent personnel, who had a proven track record, are a demoralised lot in the force.
Those driven by the desire to work are ignored and made to suffer, while others who have blemished track records are preferred to them when it comes to field postings," a senior police officer said.
Because of this approach of those at the helm of affairs, demoralisation had started creeping into the police ranks, he asserted.
It was not at all a good sign for the force which had a bigger task of fighting militants and restoring complete peace to the State, the officer added.
He felt that me... | |
| | | | Shall CM accept papa's advise or take a bold decision | | Omar wants AFSPA to go, New Delhi wants impunity | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 1: On AFSPA, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is playing safe. Papa has advised him not to take cudgels with New Delhi but he is losing ground to Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) and needs to act fast. He has two options; either to follow Papa's advise like a good boy or take a bold decision. But that may cost him his job.
Any ways, Omar has not been able to hide his concerns. While the campaign continues, Omar gave nod for the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) a Centrally controlled arrangement to fight terror. The four members of NC in the Lok Sabha voted along with the Government in support of NCTC even as a major UPA component Trinamool Congress wal... | |
| | | | Lady Assistant Prof now accuses JUTA president of harassment | | Probe committee constituted | | | Abodh Sharma
JAMMU, Aug 1: A lady Assistant Professor of the department of Mathematics in the University of Jammu who had filed a complaint with the Vice Chancellor against a senior Professor and Head of the Department of her own department, who also happens to be the president of the Jammu University Teachers Association (JUTA) charging that he was teaching at a private tutorial during the university working hours abandoning his own classes in the university, has now charged the same Professor of harassment. A written complaint by the lady Assistant Professor has been marked by the Vice Chancellor to the Dean Academic Affairs who in turn has handed it over to the probe committee.
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| | | | NC govt brags, boasts about its 'achievements'... And Jammu sulks in anger | | NBCC men and machinery take 'sadistic joyrides' on all roads | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 1: Uprooted roads..., unevenly spread construction material in the middle of roads, messed up lanes and by lanes in residential areas, unending traffic jams compounded by mismanagement and inability of cops to regulate movement of vehicles... and the monsoon blues with unpredictable heavy showers that have turned the entire city road surfaces into open sewers... Pass from any area of the city and you would counter a filthy scenario that has come to stay in the winter capital for over four months .
These are only a few problems which have lately assumed menacing proportions in all areas and left Jammu, called with pride by our politicians as winter capital ... | |
| | | | What happened to new drug policy? | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 1: After creating a `storm 'in March this year, the Government seems to have forgotten about the new drug policy. The proposed policy triggered a serious debate in the society. While the pharmacists opposed it tooth and nail, some quarters supported the new policy. Both had valid reasons to substantiate their claims.
A medical expert wishing not to be named said, "The doctors in the absence of any drug policy prescribe the medicines of a particular company to patients but as per the newly framed drug policy they are bound to write the name of the salt instead of drug on prescription which will surely end the nexus between them and the sub-standard pharmac... | |
| | | | Shinde's first statement as HM not inspiring | | Terror Is Terror | | | Neha
JAMMU, Aug 1: Sushil Kumar Shinde who today took over from P Chidambaram as Home Minister is unlikely to deviate from the path his predecessor charted during his controversial period in the North Block. In other words, it is extremely likely that Shinde will pursue the Chidambaram line as far as Islamic and Maoists terrorists/dreaded Naxalites are concerned. Shinde today said that the greatest danger to India is from the Naxals. This is what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his predecessor had been saying for years now. Like them, Shinde didn't say a word against the Pakistani-sponsored Islamic terrorists, as also against Kashmiri and other communalists who, like the Maoist terrorist... | |
| | | | Who should apologize publically; NC, PDP? | | | | ET Report
JAMMU, Aug 1: National Conference (NC) today obliquely accused Congress leadership of hatching conspiracies against Kashmiri leadership and the people of Kashmir.
It has asked the Congress leadership to publically apologize to the people of the State for misdeeds. It may come as surprise for many but NC leader Sajjad Shaheen in a handout issued here today while talking about PDP patron Mufti Mohammed Sayeed said "Mufti Sahib has perhaps forgotten that prior to formation of his party, PDP, he has been all along his political life part of same establishment responsible for hatching conspiracies against Kashmiri leadership and people of Kashmir."
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| | | | Delhi giving unflinching support to Omar | | Weak Congress, Weak Opposition | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Aug 1: One can question the political views of senior PDP leader and former Finance Minister Tariq Hameed Kara, but it is difficult to disagree with him when he says that "Delhi has never given such unflinching support to any Chief Minister in Jammu & Kashmir as was given to Omar Abdullah". It is a fact that New Delhi under the present Congress-led UPA dispensation has been giving unstinted and unqualified support to Omar Abdullah ever since January 5, 2009, when the NC-Congress coalition Government was formed.
In 2010, there was the possibility of New Delhi showing Omar Abdullah the door. 2010 saw Omar Abdullah abdicating his authority for all practical purposes with extrem... | |
| | | | 4 grenade attacks from Kupwara to Srinagar | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 1: Suspected militants launched four grenade attacks in different parts of Kashmir valley since last 24-hours, police said.
Police said militants hurled a grenade towards the house of Sarpanch Mohammad Rustum Dar son of Ghulam Hassan Dar resident of Nagri, Kupwara last night. The device exploded in the lawn resulting in damages to glass panes of the house. Police have registered a case in this regard.
Dar said that at 1 in the night unknown militants hurled a grenade towards his house. "The grenade was thrown from backside of the house. I don't know who is behind the attack," he said.
Police have lodged an FIR 272/2012 and started investigatio... | |
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