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| Baig's legal bid fails to save softdrink of Rs 5 crore penalty | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu|Sep 17
As a Minister for Finance and Law for nearly four years, the Peoples Democratic Party stalwart Muzaffar Hussain Baig apparently did everything best to protect interests of the state but now after crossing over the fence he stood against a government contention but had to loose a legal battle to his one time 'student' eventually bringing a disappointment to his client softdrink which has been slapped with a penalty of over Rs five crores.
After Rs three crore penalty to the ICICI Lombard which had tried to get away with the tax dues, the soft drink tycoon, has come under a Rs five crore tax slap which has been upheld by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. Senior advocate Muzaffar Hussain Baig, who might have tried to "break necks" of the tax evaders during his stint as Finance Minister, defended the case of softdrink but eventually lost. Ironically, when it came to defending the State's interests, Baig's once junior Altaf Hussain Naik, the Advocate General of the J&K Government, had his way.
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| For his anti-militant gut SHO seeks promotion | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu|Sept 17: In a writ petition, the state High Court has favoured consideration of out of turn promotion for a senior Inspector who claims that he played a commendable job in the anti-militancy operation.
Zahid Saif Wani presently Station House Officer at Janipur Police Station in Jammu City has approached the court that directions may be issued to the government for his out of turn promotion as he played a remarkable job in crushing militancy.
Justice YP Nargotra has directed the state respondents to accord consideration to the case of petitioner for out of turn promotion within a period of four months.
Justice YP Nargotra after hearing AM Malik who submitted... | |
| | | | Court grants relief to ailing PoK resident Early Times Reporter | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu|Sept 17
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has come to the rescue of a resident of the Pakistan occupied Kashmir who had come to Poonch to see his relatives but is unable to go back owing to ill health.
Ghulam Mohammad alias Moamda, a resident of village Panadri on the other side of the Line of Control had come on a valid permit to see his relatives in village Loran of Poonch district. However, during his stay here he developed serious heart and kidney and ailments was subsequently shifted to Jammu for advanced treatment.
Fearing his forcible deportation on expiry of valid permit, he filed this petition in the court on which Justice JP Singh ordered stay on... | |
| | | | SHRC to take Govt heads on | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu|Sep17: Even though the government had loudly clarified that then chairman of State Human Rights Commission, Justice AM Mir, had resigned on personal grounds and not for the reason that his recommendations were not being implemented, the same problem has cropped up yet again –a full one year after the quitting of the commission's chief.
This time, however, the problem has got little murkier as the Human Rights Commission had decided to take on the government directly in the High Court. Annoyed over the response of the implementation authorities, the Commission is going to file a writ petition in the high court against the government for not implementing its reco... | |
| | | | Pak objects Siachen peace move | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu|Sep 17
True to its belligerent approach, Pakistan has opposed the Indian peace moves on Siachen glacier –the highest, coldest and bloodies battlefield of the world.
In a landmark decision the Indian government had recently opened the Siachen Glacier in Ladakh for trekking. The Indian Army had said that the first group of trekkers would set off later this month for the 6,300-metre (20,800-feet) high Siachen Glacier.
Pakistan foreign ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam told a weekly briefing that India's deputy ambassador had been summoned on Monday to receive a "strong protest" over the Siachen plan, the media reports reaching here said.
"The area remains a... | |
| | | | Cancer on the rise in State | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Sep 17 While violence continues to be a matter of major concern in the state, the growing number of cancer cases here is also posing serious challenges before the health professionals.
According to Indian Council of Medicine Research, over 6,800 cases of cancer are reported every year. More than 50 per cent of these cancer patients are from the Valley, said Dr Nissar Ahmad Wani, oncologist, Government Medical College (GMC), Srinagar.
Leading oncologists who were in Srinagar recently for a conference on cancer, expressed their concern in this matter.
Cancer specialists feel that if a massive awareness campaign is not launched and better technology to deal wit... | |
| | | | Militants warn youths joining security forces in Jammu | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu|Sep 17 Massive response to recruitment rallies of Army and para-military forces has irked the Hizbul Mujahdeen (HM) militant outfit as it had started threatening locals to refrain from joining security forces in the bordering Rajouri and Poonch districts, sources today said.
Security forces have recovered a large number of posters from the infiltrators crossing Line of Control (LoC) -- signed by Ali Hamza, 'district commander' of HM -- which were to be disbursed among the people in the twin districts, sources said.
In the posters, written in Persian script, the outfit has warned the youths against joining security forces, they added.
Hizb-ul-Mujaheedin whi... | |
| | | | Pak should withdraw its objections to Tulbul project: Soz | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Sep 17
India today asked Pakistan to withdraw its objections to the Tulbul project saying that the proposed navigational locks were not in violation of the Indus Water Treaty.
"Pakistan has complained that we are trying to build a barrage which is a complete misnomer as barrages are meant for diverting the flow of water which is not the case here. We want to build a navigational locks so that water level is maintained at 4.5 feet for navigational purposes," Union Water Resources Minister Saifuddin Soz told reporters here.
The level of water has to be maintained at 4.5 feet during winters to allow navigation on the river, which is not barred by the Indus Wa... | |
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