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CM overrules Chief Secretary's advice, relieves IAS officer J&K's administrative head caught on wrong foot! 9/23/2011 12:54:21 AM Syed Junaid Hashmi JAMMU, Sept 22: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah bypassed counsel of Chief Secretary Madhav Lal and allowed 1980 batch IAS officer P.G. Dhar Chakraborti to continue serving in New Delhi till retirement. Sources said that Chakraborti, a J&K cadre officer of 1980 batch, whose services were requisitioned by the state government after his term in government of India had expired on March 31, 2011, has been allowed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, on his own, to return to union government. He has now joined the inter-state council as Advisor in the rank of Additional Secretary to union government. Sources explained that there was a great deal of tussle between the Chief Secretary and Chakra-borti before this issue could be resolved in latter's favour. As we have already reported, Chakra-borti was from the very beginning quite reluctant to come back to Jammu and Kashmir. He shown reluctance in returning to the state on the grounds that first, has has hardly two years of service left before he retires in October 2013; and second, because his wife is suffering from life-...   READ MORE

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'Resentment' brewing over non representation to communities in BJP body 9/23/2011 12:53:50 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 22: Confronted with a host of unsettled issues, the state unit of BJP is facing resentment and disgruntlement on a count which the leadership cannot afford to keep lingering and delaying for long. It is almost two years now when the state president was elected and a 'reasonable' representation to communities like Kashmiri Pandits , Sikhs and SCs in the state body of office bearers has remained elusive so far. BJP, ironically is party which claims to be the true sympathiser of displaced Kashmir Pandits and has raked up issues related to the community to hilt as their main political plank as and when required to bash its political rivals. Post displacemen...   READ MORE   Congress allowing anti-India forces to muddy waters in Kashmir? Sultan's Dangerous Visit 9/23/2011 12:51:46 AM Rustam jammu, Sept 22: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir (POJK) Sultan Mehmood Chaudhary came to Srinagar to attend a marriage party, stayed there for four days and left the summer capital yesterday for New Delhi from where he would go to wherefrom he had come. He called it a private visit. He met almost all the separatists as well as some so-called mainstream Kashmiri leaders, including Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. Interlocutor Radha Kumar also met with him and reportedly discussed the issues confronting the state as well as India-Pakistan relations, but refused to divulge what transpired between the two. Likewise, the "mainstream" Kashmiri leaders, who met wit...   READ MORE   Kishtwar student conspirator in Delhi blast, says NIA 9/23/2011 12:51:14 AM Early Times Report NEW DELHI, Sept 22: A college student from Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir was Thursday presented to a Delhi court by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) as one of the conspirators behind the Sep 7 Delhi court bombing that killed 15 and left over 90 injured. NIA, which brought Amir Abbas Dev before Additional Sessions Judge H.S. Sharma, said in its remand application that Dev is one of the terrorists who was involved in the bomb blast at gate No. 5 of the Delhi High Court complex. 'He (Dev) is one of the conspirators and he needs to be interrogated thoroughly to trace out his and of his other associates' complicity in this terrorist crime,' the NIA said in its rema...   READ MORE   Family of accused slams media 9/23/2011 12:50:53 AM Asif Iqbal Naik KISHTWAR, Sept 22: Family members of Sharik Khawar Butt detained by Kishtwar police and NIA team along with Amir Abbas and Abid Hussain Bhawani in connection New Delhi High Court blast terror e-mail case slammed media for alleged unethical reporting over the shifting of minor Sharik Khawar Butt to New Delhi by the salutes of NIA along with two accused Amir Abbas and Adid Hussain. Shariq family members said that before publishing or telecasting such news, the ethics of journalism demand that things need to be verified from ground instead of going haywire while preparing the draft of the news. They said that some media persons are adamant to implicate their innocent wards ...   READ MORE   NC can't afford to annoy Modi 9/23/2011 12:50:37 AM Shafiq Mir RAJOURI, Sept 22: For the past some days Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah and leader of the opposition in the state Mehbooba Mufti have been accusing each other for their secret ties with Gujarat Chief Minister Narinder Modi. As per the statements issued from both the sides, it appears that both of them will never have even a shake hand with the party (BJP) Narender Modi belongs to. The war of words between the two leaders started after local press carried a statement of BJP senior leader Sushma Swaraj in which she said that People's Democratic Party leader of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti had praised Gujarat Chief Minister Narinder Modi while speaking at a f...   READ MORE   Are RSS & BJP under the Americans' baneful influence? Securing Nationalists 9/23/2011 12:50:10 AM Early Times Report jammu, Sept 22: The past few days have witnessed several developments clearly suggesting that the American influence is at work to defeat the Indian objective in Jammu and Kashmir, as also to prepare ground for a truce over the state over the heads of the non-Muslims, including the Dogras of Jammu province, Buddhists of Ladakh region, internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus and refugees from West Pakistan and POJK, all non-Muslims and all victims of a regressive and communal ideology and all committed nationalists. The Americans' frequent visits to New Delhi, their unstinted support to Pakistan's spurious claim over Jammu and Kashmir and their pressure on the Congress and t...   READ MORE   Afzal Guru resolution NC agrees to play `good boy' 9/23/2011 12:49:36 AM Early Times Report jammu, Sept 22: The ruling coalition partners are likely to find a way out to deal with the Afzal Guru's clemency resolution which is scheduled to be discussed on the floor of the house on September 28. The coalition partners, according to insiders, have agreed to avoid any embarrassing situation that may arise while discussing the resolution. Earlier the Chief Minister had urged the National Conference legislators to vote in favour of the resolution. The National Conference has agreed to behave like a `good boy' following Congress high command's directive to `find a way out to defeat the resolution'. The NC most likely will create a situation where discussion on ...   READ MORE   Don't browbeat, be polite while dealing with public: DGP to cops, field officers Proposal to enhance SPOs' salary from Rs 3,000 to 5,000 sent to Centre 9/23/2011 12:49:03 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 22 : Asking cops and field officers not to frighten public with stern looks and words while dealing with them, DGP Kuldeep Khoda today said a proposal to enhance SPOs' honorarium from Rs 3,000 to 5,000 had been sent to the Centre. Addressing cops and officers after inaugurating new DPL building at Reasi, he asked them to be polite while dealing with public, police sources said.Khoda stressed the need for maintaining cordial police-public relations through regular police-public meetings, civic action programmes and polite behaviour. The DGP has made such requests to his subordinates in the past too but these seem to have minimal effect on them. There have be...   READ MORE   Omar again lands in Chopper controversy 9/23/2011 12:48:27 AM EARLY TIMES Report New Delhi, Sept 22: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has landed himself in yet another controversy by allowing the former Prime Minister of Pakistan occupied Kashmir POK), Sultan Mehmood Chowdhary use the state owned chopper. Omar as per authentic sources went out of his way to make the former Prime Minister of POK comfortable and treat him like a state guest. Chowdhary was flown in the state chopper on the instructions of the Chief Minister and state minister for tourism, Nasir Aslam Wani accompanied him to the picturesque south Kashmir hill resort of Pahalgam. The PoK leader, Sultan Mehmood Chowdhary has been a hawk on Kashmir and a close friend of th...   READ MORE   Appeal to Hon'ble speaker by Shri Chaman Lal Gupta BJP MLA 9/23/2011 12:42:14 AM Sir, I had raised a question during the last session of the state assembly seeking a reply from the government regarding the decision to stop government advertisements to the daily Early Times published from Jammu. I had also spoken about the highhandedness of the government and its arbitrary, whimsical dispensation regarding distribution of official advertisements to the various newspapers published in the state. Despite repeated requests, the state government did not come forward with any reply to my question and the result has been that through its decision to ignore my question the state government has covertly accepted that it does not have a reasonable answer to my question. Hon'b...   READ MORE

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