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Rather speechless in Assembly over JKB’s Rs 6.5 Cr loan to PDP leader Drabu escapes with another embarrassment for Omar’s Govt 8/30/2009 11:59:35 AM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz SRINAGAR, Aug 29: Close on the heels of Mehbooba Mufti’s revelation that former Economic Advisor to Jammu & Kashmir Government, Haseeb Drabu, had simultaneously functioned as a political advisor to the PDP and drafted the party’s ‘Self Rule’ concept alongwith Muzaffar Hussain Baig, Omar Abdullah’s National Conference-led coalition Government was subjected to yet another embarrassment today: Minister of Finance, Abdul Rahim Rather, had no answer to the Independent MLA Sheikh Abdul Rashid’s question in Legislative Assembly. It was for the first time, at least since 1996, that a Minister himself pleaded for deferment of a starred question after learning that the reply was altogether missing from the file. Figuring at serial number 2 of today’s List of Questions in the Assembly, MLA Sheikh Abdul Rashid’s question was: a) Whether it is a fact that the Jammu & Kashmir Bank, through its Polo View Branch, has provided a loan of Rs 6.50 Cr, besides other loans for raising housing colonies and fruit business, to Adnan Business Group without taking any mortgages against...   READ MORE

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Vyas heads ERA, Narula goes to RD Naseema Div Com Kashmir, Nehru MD JKTDC 8/30/2009 12:18:28 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Aug 29: Weeks after he was recalled from the Raj Bhawan after a year long of successful term in most trying times of Governor’s direct rule and later during Amarnath Yatra, senior IAS officer Bharat Bhushan Vyas was today handed over another key responsibility of Commissioner Secretary Planning and Development Department besides manning the Economic Reconstruction Agency. Besides posting of Vyas, the state Cabinet which met in Srinagar today under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah approved transfers and postings of 25 other officers. According to the Cabinet order, Pramodh Jain, IAS, Commissioner Secretary, Social Welfare Department has been ...   READ MORE   Bhat is PSC Chairman; Jandial, Samoon newmembers 8/30/2009 12:17:52 AM CABINET APPROVES • Regularization of ad hoc, contractual employees • DA hiked w.e.f. Jan 1, 2009 • New pension scheme • Revision of wages of daily wagers • Key posts for 10 new districts • Revision of pay scales for College teachers Jammu, Aug 29: Putting all speculations to rest, the government today approved appointment of SL Bhat as new Chairman of the Public Service Commission. Bhat was currently Financial Commissioner Planning and Development. A decision to this effect was taken in the meeting of the state cabinet at Srinagar. The post of Chairman of J&K Public Service Commission had fallen vacant earlier this year upon retirement of Mohammad Shafi Pandit. Seni...   READ MORE   VRS: 1,000 PHE employees on way out 8/30/2009 12:17:08 AM Sant Kumar Sharma SRINAGAR, August 29: The carrot and stick policy being followed by the Public Health Engineering (PHE) department seems to have started wielding results. Over a thousand employees have already submitted applications to benefit from a voluntary retirement scheme (VRS). According to the minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Mr Taj Mohiuddin, employees are submitting applications in hordes to opt for voluntary retirement. These applications have been received from all the districts of the state, he added. The employees applying for VRS are trying to make use of an amnesty being offered by the ministry presently. This amnesty is in operation for a limited period...   READ MORE   Sagar snubs Chaman 8/30/2009 12:16:55 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Aug 29: Senior BJP leader and a seasoned Parliamentarian Prof Chaman Lal Gupta today got a snub in the Legislative for, what Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ali Mohammad Sagar described, spoiling precious time of House for gaining publicity. The leader of BJP’s Parliamentary Party in the Assembly, Chaman Lal Gupta had to withdraw his resolution on compulsory voting after the Law Minister said that there was no constitutional merit in his arguments. Sagar today informed the Legislative Assembly that there is no provision in the Constitution of State for making voting compulsory. He said that people have every right to vote or not to vote in the democra...   READ MORE   Notification issued for LC bye-polls 8/30/2009 12:16:05 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, AUG 29: Secretary J&K Legislative Assembly, Mr. Mohammad Ramzan who is Returning Officer for bye-election to the Legislative Council of J&K by the members of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly today notified that an election is to be held of one member from amongst the persons who are residents of the Doda district of Jammu province and are not members of Legislative Assembly. The forms of nomination paper may be obtained at the offices of the Secretary J&K Legislative Assembly or Deputy Secretary J&K Legislative Assembly between the hours of 11 a.m. to 3 p.m from August 29, 2009 to September 4, 2009. It is further notified that nomination papers may be de...   READ MORE   Autonomy still alive, says NC about ‘dead’ issue under consideration of ‘defunct’ working group 8/30/2009 12:15:43 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Aug 29: After a prolonged silence of National Conference on its pet issue, the government today confirmed to the Legislative Assembly that Autonomy resolution was still alive and under consideration of the ‘near defunct’ Working Group of the Prime Minister. Amidst a nationwide outcry, the National Conference government had moved and got passed the Autonomy resolution in Legislative Assembly on June 26, 2000 and send for consideration to the Central Government. The NDA Government, then ruling at Center, outrightly rejected the Autonomy resolution but the National Conference continued to be a part of Vajpayee led Government. The Autonomy issue invariably com...   READ MORE   Upset Info employees seek ‘third-party’ help 8/30/2009 12:15:19 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Aug 29: They do the firefighting for government but when it comes to their issues, the apparently looks the other way. Therefore, the employees of the Information Department today got the issue of their plight raised in Legislative Assembly through one of the most vocal legislators –of course not associated with the ruling coalition –and invited the Speaker’s attention for a word to the government. Member Legislative Assembly and State Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami today used the occasion of Zero Hour to share with the house the plight of the employees of Information Department. The Chief Minister, who happens to be t...   READ MORE   BJP feud endangering India’s strategic concerns 8/30/2009 12:14:49 AM ABID SHAH New Delhi, August 29: Unlike the hawks in Pakistan who never forget the ‘K’ word despite worst differences in their ranks, back home the warring BJP hats are letting nothing go off their hands in their desperation to hit at each other. So much so that the internecine battle in the saffron ranks must be making now 10-year-old Kandahar cynosure, Maulana Masood Azhar, applaud them. Events in the saffron party during past couple of weeks or so have costly collateral in terms of India’s vital concerns. This is what intelligentsia and informed sections in the Capital have started to feel strongly about. No less a person than the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has expressed concer...   READ MORE   Hugging youth pumps bullet in belly of friend 8/30/2009 12:14:20 AM SUMIT SHARMA Jammu, August 29: In a dramatic case of picking up no-holds-barred crime in the City, a youth was fired at in the belly from point blank range by hugging friend at the former’s residence in Shastri Nagar area of South Jammu. Amandeep Singh, shot into notorious prominence after a shootout incident in the corridor of Jammu University’s Vice Chancellor office few months ago, is currently battling for life in the Intensive Care Unit of Government Medical College here after sustaining a bullet shot in his lower belly. Another bullet which could have pierced through his chest, however, hit the gate of Amandeep’s residence. Amandeep, incidentally, happens to the son of former Me...   READ MORE

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