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Shame! J&K again tops country’s corruption chart 8/20/2008 11:39:35 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Aug 20 Four years back a survey conducted by an internationally reputed organization placed Jammu and Kashmir at number two among the most corrupt states of the country. This gave a cause of action to the then Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and the campaign was more vigorously followed by his successor Ghulam Nabi Azad who declared rooting out corruption from Jammu and Kashmir as his foremost agenda of governance. Four years down the line and two Chief Minister scaring every public employee with their overreaching arm of the State Vigilance Organization and the State Accountability Commission, Jammu and Kashmir has once again topped the list of corrupt states. If Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Ghulam Nabi Azad were here to face the public, they would have certainly found it difficult to answer their claims as the Transparency International has once again declared Jammu and Kashmir as one of most corrupt states in India. Infact, in its latest survey for 2008, the Transparency International has declared Jammu and Kashmir as a state with alarming rat...   READ MORE

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Tension on kids’ day, violence rocks Jammu 8/20/2008 11:39:08 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Aug 20 • Several thousands of children court arrest • Large scale violence, arson in Jammu • BJP leader’s car torched, house attacked • Youth dies on way to ‘jail’ in Bishnah • Samiti names panel for talks with Guv’s panel As Jammu refuses to relent at any cost less than the restoration of 800 kanals of land to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, the situation today literally went out of control with people picking up sporadic clashes with the security forces and ransacking the public facilities including Police Stations. After 50 days of a unanimous non-partisan protest and demonstration, today agitation saw some political colours when the house of a BJ...   READ MORE   Pangs, anxiety hit CET aspirants 8/20/2008 11:38:28 PM Munish Gupta Jammu | Aug 20 Pangs, anxiety and uncertainty can sum up the state of mind of thousands of students aspiring to become doctors, engineers or take other professional courses after following the Common Entrance Test conducted by the Board of Professional Entrance Examination. A decisive examination in the career of any student after passing the higher secondary examination, the Common Entrance Test has thrice slipped its scheduled and no one –neither the students nor the Board –has any idea as when the exam can be conducted. The scheduled of this Jammu and Kashmir’s most keenly contested examination has been postponed thrice, so far, due to the ongoing agitation launched by...   READ MORE   NSA holds marathon meet in Srinagar 8/20/2008 11:38:04 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Aug 20 As New Delhi’s United Progressive Alliance government and Jammu and Kashmir Governor NN Vohra’s administration continue to look towards each other for dousing fire in the state and buying more time for peace, the National Security Advisor MK Narayanan today had a marathon discussion in Srinagar with top officers of administration and the leaders of political parties. Pressed by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh as a firefighting emissary, Narayanan reached Srinagar this morning to have a first hand assessment of the ground situation. He was accompanied by Defence Secretary, Mr Vijay Singh, Chairman Joint Intelligence Committee, Mr H Upadayay, Directo...   READ MORE   Doctor beaten, GMC staff goes on indefinite strike 8/20/2008 11:37:45 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Aug 20 The whole GMC hospital administration went on indefinite strike as soon as news of doctor beaten spread. The fire got fuel too when the case of fraud played by the authority came on four in the office of the Principal GMC hospital Dr Rajinder Singh before doctors present there with DC Jammu and SSP Jammu. Speaking to media person’s doctor’s said that the incident occurred when Dr. Vineet Gupta working as Registrar Orthopedics who also had to perform as in charge emergency duty today was coming to hospital and on the way he was intercepted by the Janipur police during the naka checking. He showed his identity card and the curfew pass to the police off...   READ MORE   No tears on Musharraf's exit 8/20/2008 11:37:20 PM Nirbhay Jammual Jammu | Aug 20 Even though Gen.Parvez Musharraf hung his boots gracefully not a tear was shed either in Pakistan or in Kashmir.If not anybody else Syed Ali Shah Geelani,who has been heading pro-Pakistan lobby in Kashmir,demonstrated that he was with the rising and not with the setting sun when he announced publicly in Srinagar on Monday that Musharraf had deceived both Pakistan and the people of Kashmir.By saying so Geelani expressed in public the anger Jamait-e-Islami leaders in Pakistan had against Musharraf.If political analysts and intellectuals in Pakistan and India debate on the plus and minus points of Gen.Musharraf they will find him having more plus than minus p...   READ MORE   PM worried, US pokes nose 8/20/2008 11:36:37 PM Early Times Reporter Jammu | Aug 20 Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has once again made public his deep worries over the situation assuming in Jammu and Kashmir following controversy on Shri Amarnath Shrine land transfer as the international community too has started speaking about the crisis making it tough diplomatic challenge for India. Three days after the United Nations Spokesman said that the Secretary General is monitoring the situation, the US has expressed concern over "recent incidents" along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir and "some violence" in the northern state and said attention needs to be paid to calm down things. "We have been concerned about some of the ...   READ MORE

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