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| Geelani asks Kashmiris to get up for total demilitarisation | | Valley divided over Govt’s decision to refer Shopian probe to CBI | | |
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Sep 10: Even as sponsor of the three-month-long agitation, Majlis-e-Mushawarat Shopian, has not disputed Government’s decision to refer inquiry into the mysterious death of two young women to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), senior separatist leader and Chairman of the radical faction of Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, has alleged that it was simply an exercise to protect the criminals. After his release from three-month-long detention, Geelani has asked the Kashmiris to mobilize for total withdrawal of Indian armed forces from Jammu & Kashmir.
Notwithstanding opposition from the mainstream Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as well as the separatist Hurriyat Conference (Geelani) and High Court Bar Association, Majlis-e-Mushawarat Shopian has said that it was not concerned about which agency was investigating the rape-cum-murder of Neelofar Jan and Aasiya Jan on May 29th this year. Majlis spokesman, Mohammad Shafi Khan, has said in a statement today that the residents of Shopian were simply for severe punishment to the guilty. The ... | |
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| Mehbooba has miraculous escape in car somersault | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 10: The Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti had a miraculous escape this evening when the vehicle she was traveling in skidded off the road somersault at least thrice along a ridge before coming to halt just on the outskirts of Jammu city on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.
Mehbooba was immediately rushed to the Government Medical College Hospital here accompanying security entourage. Police party from Jhahjar Kotli led by a Sub Divisional Police Officer and SHO also rushed to the spot and accompanied the fiery PDP leader to hospital.
Doctors attending on Mehbooba told reporters that she had a small injury on her upper lip and on one of fro... | |
| | | | Central employees get 5% hike in DA | | | | Agencies
New Delhi: Over eight million central government employees and pensioners will get an additional five percent dearness allowance that will hit the exchequer by over Rs 2,900 crore this fiscal and Rs 4,355 crore in a full year.
The decision to hike the dearness allowance (DA) for the employees and dearness relief for pensioners just before the festive season, taken at the Cabinet meeting today, will create additional demand and boost the economy which is being impacted by an erratic monsoon.
The additional DA, to be given with effect from July 1 this year, will help these employees and retired people weather the impact of rising prices.
"The Cabinet has decided to release... | |
| | | | Just boxed: No Comments please! | | | | Sant Kumar Sharma
Jammu, September 10: On September 8, a road accident at Assar in Doda district claimed 25 lives. At least 25 others were injured, many of them seriously. Most of them are undergoing treatment at the Government Medical College & Hospital here.
On the other side of Pir Panjal mountains, in the remote Sumbal area of Bandipora district, a young girl Inshah Javed lost her life in a road accident on Tuesday. The area falls in the constituency represented in the Legislative Assembly by the Speaker, Akbar Lone.
Expressing grief over the deaths in Assar, the Chief Minister, Mr Omar Abdullah, directed the administration to pay Rs 25,000 each to the families of those killed an... | |
| | | | Flawed investigation puts ex-babu in dock, ex-mantri goes scot-free | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 10: As much expected, a lenient investigation and overlooking of facts and circumstances by the investigation agency have let a former Minister go scot free and put a retired government official in dock who just acted on instructions and orders of the former in making alleged illegal recruitments over a decade back.
Dr MP Gupta, the then Director Health Services Jammu is accused of having made illegal appointment at various levels in the department on endorsement of the then Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Pandit Govind Ram Sharma. The case pertains to the fad end of Dr Farooq Abdullah’s National Conference government between 1996 and 2002. ... | |
| | | | Police bust scam selling poor man’s food grains | | | |
SUMIT SHARMA
Akhnoor, Sept 10: A day after a spurious cement racket endangering the public life in upcoming private and government buildings was busted; the Akhnoor Police today unearthed another racket of open swindling of poor man’s food grains.
Akhnoor police have seized 45 bags of wheat meant for Below Poverty Line people and arrested three persons besides seizing the vehicle used for the purpose. Akhnoor Police led by SHO Gayan Chand Sharma under the supervision of SSP Jammu Manohar Singh and SP Rural Mohan Lal on specific information conducted raid in the retailer shop in the area and arrested two persons on spot while they were unloading the BPL ration. SP Rural Mohan Lal said... | |
| | | | School Lecturers on warpath | | Not ready to take College Principal at BOSE | | | SANDEEP BHATT
Jammu, Sept 10: Higher Secondary Lecturers have declared a sort of revolt against the department of School Education and picked up direct confrontation with the Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed for allegedly ‘hiring’ a College Principal for the job Secretary Board of School Education.
The School Education Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed, however, says that there is absolutely nothing wrong in making such appointment and there have been numerous examples from the past also.
The State Board of School Education (BOSE) is reportedly short of staff at its top levels and therefore officers are being brought on deputation from the Department of Higher Education or from the U... | |
| | | | US fears Pak could hit India with Iraq arms | | | | Agencies
Washington: The US Congress has raised questions over the Pentagon’s proposal to transfer military equipments from Iraq to Pakistan, by questioning whether adequate safeguards existed to ensure that these arms and ammunition do not end up being used by Pakistan against India.
The Congress questioned the ‘transfer of articles no longer needed in Iraq’ and expressed apprehensions that Islamabad may divert the armaments towards the Indian border.
According to sources, the Pentagon has proposed to transfer US military equipments from Iraq to Pakistan in order to help it counter the extremist threat effectively and step up its operation against the Taliban other militant groups bas... | |
| | | | Only 3 visitors from PoK | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 10: For the second time, not a single person from the Kashmir valley is visiting Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) while only three guests arrived here from across the border today.
Official sources said no fresh visitor left for PoK from the Kashmir valley.
This is for the second time that no citizen from this side crossed over to other side during this month.
However, 16 resident of PoK, who had come here in previous Karvaan-e-Aman buses, left for their residences across the Line of Control (LoC) after meeting their relatives for the first time since 1947. The returnees included six woman and one children.
Similarly, only three people, including one wo... | |
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