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| During his Jammu visit, CM turns Marathon meeting man | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORTER
Jammu, Aug 8: With the seat of power away in Srinagar for six months, the occasional visitor to the winter capital, the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had a tough time meeting hundreds of people drawn from several areas of Jammu but the officials say that he heard each one with patience and attention.
Known for the longer hours of his daily work schedule, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Tuesday met a stream of deputations of people from different parts of Jammu division and listened to their problems for eight hours non stop.
The deputations had come from places like Rajouri, Samba, Budhal, Arnia, Bishnah, R.S Pura, Doda, Bhalessa, Bhadarwah, Chatha, Simbal Camp and Jammu city.
Earlier in the day, Azad had addressed a convention, second in a week, of Lambardars and Chowkidars where he tasked the twin village institutions with responsibilities of monitoring development works and creating awareness against social evils in their respective areas. In the afternoon, he went to the civil secretariat where he met 73 deputations. The interaction lasted till... | |
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| And the show must go on | | Academy pushes blue eyed through backdoor; fourth class employees running studios | | | Surinder Raina
Jammu | AUG 7: As passouts from the Institute of Music and Fine Arts continue to struggle for a job to make a two square meal possible, the Academy of Arts, Culture and Languages has pushed through backdoor some blue eyed persons to run the show even from the junior positions.
There are many youth who have graduates and post graduates degrees in Music and Fine Arts and some of them are getting overage are still unemployed but Academy of Art, Culture and Languages inspite of giving them jobs, appointed their blue eyed persons on those posts who are not capable for these jobs. Secretary of Academy Rafiq Masoodi had appointed five persons as class fourth employee on Novem... | |
| | | | Pipe dream: annexing Kashmir in six months | | | | NIRBHAY JAMMUAL
Jammu, Aug 8: While India harps on friendly relations with the neighbor and claims progress on peace process, a Pakistani Parliamentarian and responsible functionary of the Musharraf regime has called for launching Jehad against India to annex Kashmir in six months.
Interestingly, when the Parliamentary Secretary for Defence, Major (retired) Tanvir Hussain Syed, claimed that through jihad, Pakistan could acquire Kashmir in six months, he was speaking in the Parliament and a majority of the members agreed to what he said. A formal reaction from India was yet to be seen till filing this story.
Syed called for sending "jihadis" to Kashmir , because Pakistan would neve... | |
| | | | Ultras building up bases in remote areas | | | | Govind Chouhan | Bhupinder Singh
Jammu | Aug 8 Contrary to the view points that the Lal Masjid operation in Pakistan might put a tab on fresh infiltration, the militants are reported to have build major strongholds in remote areas of Jammu region. Sources claim that fresh infiltrations have lead to re-energized militant infrastructure in these areas.
According to reliable sources, many small villages in the areas of Surankote, Doda Udhampur, Ramban, Rajouri, Bhardwah, Kishtwar, Reasi are again seeing increased activity of militants. Locals say that during the tough Army operations in 2000-2001, the militants were under a run but due to relocation of troops from various areas the b... | |
| | | | Fake certificate haul at Army rally | | Four more arrested today; total eight so far | | | Govind Chouhan
Jammu | Aug 8: The Army recruitment rally at Baribrahmna is attracting big crowds but fake educational qualification certificates still continues to be serious menace as the Army today detected four more such cases taking the total number to eight.
Sources said that the Army today again arrested four youth during recruitment rally at Barjani area in Bari Brahamna with fake education certificate issued from Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education (JKSBOSE) and handed over them to Bari Brahmna police for further verification and after their arrest the tolls goes to eight.
According to sources after arrest of four youths yesterday with fake certificates army... | |
| | | | Lawyers to abstain courts today | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 8: The Jammu Bar Association (JBA) have decided to abstain from work on August 9 in High Court and sub-ordinary courts against the barbane act of Police against the Sr. Advocate Hari Chand Jalmeria who was brutally lathi charged by the police at Katra Yesterday.
As per as release Advocate Jalmeria is under the treatment at GMC hospital for fracture of his left leg. Bar members in the meeting have strongly condemned police action. Among others who attended the meeting were S.S Lehar, A.V. Gupta, M.K. Bhardwaj, C.M. Sharma, Vice President, Amreesh Kapoor, Hafeez-ur-Rehman, Sunil Sethi, C.S. Gupta, Ajay Kotwal, Ashok Parihar, M.P Singh [Palli] President Y... | |
| | | | Goyal is new BSNL chief | | | | Jammu, Aug 8: Kuldeep Goyal Wednesday took over charge as the new chairman and managing director of state-run telecom giant Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) for the next five years in New Delhi, agencies reported.
Goyal, an Indian Telecom Service officer of the 1972 batch, was earlier heading the public sector unit's planning division. Before that, he was in charge of its Maharashtra circle.
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| | | | Blast rocks Bhaderwah, 6 hurt | | | | Jammu | Aug 8: Six persons today got serious injuries in a blast at Seri Bazar in Bhaderwah Doda district. According to reports today evening a blast took place in Main Bazar near Lakshmi Mandir in which six persons namely Raj Kumar son of Kunj Lal, Dalip Singh son of Hans Raj and Ranju Jhir son of Sansar Singh residents of Shen Kojwa, Rakesh son of Puran resident of Zeen Bagh, Dheraj Sharma son of Hans Raj resident of Sarna and Surinder Singh son of Satish Singh resident of Shankoja got serious injuries. The local people who watch the spot inform to police and the injured were shifted to nearby hospital for treatment where one of them Dheraj Sharma was shifted to Government Medical Coll... | |
| | | | Tarigami escapes militant attack | | | | Jammu, Aug 8: The firebrand legislator and CPIM State secretary Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami today escaped unhurt in a militant attack in Shopian district of South Kashmir, the Police said.
According to Police, the militants attacked the heavily-guarded motorcade of Muhammad Khalil Naikoo while he was on way to village Muradpora near Shopian, about 80 km from here. Naikoo was touring his Wachi constituency.
"Militants fired several bursts of automatic fire at the vehicle of the CPI-M leader but he escaped unhurt," said a senior police officer. The vehicle was damaged.
His security guards returned the fire to clear the ambush, the police officer said.
No group has claimed respons... | |
| | | | BSNL, Airtel warned for security breach | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORTER
Jammu, Aug 8: The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a warning to the cellular telecommunication services provider the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd the Airtel for breaching the security restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir.
Reports said that the Department of Telecom (DoT) has issued warnings to several operators who are reported to be breaching restrictions on providing cellular coverage too close to India's international borders. The four operators, Bharti Airtel, Hutch, Reliance and BSNL have been found to have coverage along the 'no service zones' which extend 500 meters along the border. Among the four operators only BSNL and Airtel have their presence in Jammu and... | |
| | | | CM on city monitoring tour, reviews works, pulls officers | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORTER
Jammu, Aug 8: During his 3-hour long tour of Jammu city today, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad inspected pace of work on several important development projects taken up by the government as infrastructure expansion programme.
The Chief Minister inspected the under-construction 200 bed additional paediatrics ward at SMGS Hospital. The facility is coming up at a cost of Rs. 16.24 crores of which Rs. 4 crore have been spent so far.
The Chief Minister asked the project executing agency to lay a beautiful park for patients on the available land.
At Dental Hospital where academic block and hostels for boys and girls are being constructed, the Chief Minister wa... | |
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