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| As police adm is unresponsive to reforms, many retd officers continue to have "illegal" possession of official vehicles | | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
JAMMU, Sept 23: Those at the helm of affairs in the J&K police administration seem to have become unresponsive to any "reforms", or change the "mughlia" culture prevalent among many of its retired officers.
When ET carried a report in July last on the misuse of official cars and Gypsies by many of the retired police officers, a few called up the newspaper office, and said they would be returning the vehicles they had unofficially retained with them. Some others said they were entitled to keep a vehicle each.
Now they say since the police headquarters did not send them any notice in this regard, they, on their own, will not be returning the official vehicles which are in their unofficial custody.
According to sources in state police, some retired J&K DGPs, ADGPs, IGPs, DIGs and SSPs continue to have the unauthorised possession of official ambassadors and other luxury cars.
They were also allegedly getting petrol from police control room (PCR), putting an extra burden on the state exchequer, the sources added.
Sources said rules and regulations did not permit them... | |
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| Land mafia: unholy Nexus of Corporate/ Politicians, officials, property dealers | | | | Bashir Assad
Srinagar, Sept 23: Land mafia is a nexus comprising politicians, criminals, property dealers and corrupt government officials and it does not just comprise some individuals. Without the support of politicians, bureaucrats, judicial officers is it possible for the property dealers to get sale deeds registered in the civil courts and that too for the properties under temples, graveyards, shrines and gurduwaras ? Certainly not. land belonging to Mahavir Ji temple in Srinagar and owned by the Sanathan Dharam Pratap Sabha - sold off, Tul halan forest land in Shopaian-sold off, forest land in Gulmerg -regularized under Roshni Act, forest land in Pahalgam-sold off.
Gurduwara la... | |
| | | | Manhandled PG student demands security | | GMC authorities lodge complaint | | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu, Sept. 23 : A student pursuing post graduation in GMC, Jammu has demanded security after he was manhandled in emergency. The GMC has lodged a complaint with police station Bakshi Nagar.
A senior officer of police when contacted said that a case of assault has been registered in Bakshi Nagar police station. He said that investigation in this connection has been taken up and assaulters would be arrested soon.
Meanwhile, some doctors of GMC hospital approached the Early Times office and said that Dr Naseeb Chand Dengra had not operated the patient and neither was he present on the spot when incident took place as published in ET in its earlier edition They also gave a c... | |
| | | | Over-invoicing, under-invoicing exports common method of fraudulent money transfer across borders: Report | | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Sept 23: Money laundering through the over-invoicing and under-invoicing of goods and services, which is one of the oldest methods of fraudulently transferring money across the borders, remains a common practice today.
The key element of this technique is the misrepresentation of the price of the good or service in order to transfer additional value between the importer and exporter. Over-invoicing of exports is one of the most common trade-based money laundering techniques used to move money. This reflects the fact that primary focus of most income tax assessing agencies is to stop importation of contraband and ensure that appropriate import duties are collected... | |
| | | | Courtesy its Accounts Deptt., JU faces serious loss of credibility, reputation | | | | Abodh Sharma
Jammu, Sept 23: Blame it on its sheer indifference and lackadaisical attitude, coupled with lack of effective supervisory mechanism, the Accounts Department of the University of Jammu has earned serious discredit for the University amongst the business community of the city, as payments against the works done by several firms of repute dealing in furniture, furnishing, computers, books, electrical appliances, paper, printing and even daily news papers have been pending for years. These dealers besides causing serious dent to the reputation of the university are vowing never to deal with the University again.
A noted news agency of the town recently stopped supply of news pap... | |
| | | | Azad pushes Super Specialty Hospital in 'fast gear mode' | | Big step: 50% of faculty to be hired from outside J&K | | | early times report
Jammu, Sept 23: With a motive to scuttle the growing criticism over delay in completion of the Super Specialty Hospital in Jammu, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today announced a fresh deadline exuberating confidence that it would be commissioned by the year end . A new yet significant announcement related to the prestigious Health project he made is that around 50% of the faculty for the Hospital would be hired through advertisements from across the country whereas rest of the staff including specialists would be absorbed at the local level.
"Nearly 50% of the faculty members would be accommodated from outside the State……the idea is to have best brains and ... | |
| | | | State Congress defends anti poor-decisions | | In For More Trouble | | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, Sep 23: It was hoped that the Jammu & Kashmir Congress would follow the Kerala model, oppose FDI and announce some concessions to help the people of the State to two times simple meal. (Congress Chief Minister in Kerala has openly opposed the decision on FDI in multi-brand retail trade, saying it has the potential of harming the trading community and small and margin farmers.) What the Jammu & Kashmir Congress, which is under the total control of the Congress high command (in this case Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi), has disappointed the people of the State.
The State Congress yesterday - much to chagrin of people -- extended unflinching support to the three recent decisions... | |
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