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Legislature passes job bill

Ban On Inter-District Recruitment, 8% Reservation For SCs In All Districts, Violent Protest By PDP

FIRDOUS TAK

Jammu, Apr 9: Amid unprecedented chaos and uproar, Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Friday passed the `Civil Services Decentralization and Recruitment Bill’, making `domicile’ mandatory for selection for divisional and district cadre posts. However, through an amendment with far reaching consequences More

Kupwara celebrates

SHAHID RAFIQ

Kupwara, Apr 9: Legislature passing inter-district recruitment bill triggered celebrations in this frontier district on Friday.As the word about inter-district recruitments being banned spread hundreds of people took to the streets to express their joy and happiness. Many youth were dancing while More

Anti-Kashmiri move: Mirwaiz

Warns Of Perilous Consequences

ZULFIKAR MAJID

Srinagar, Apr 9: The Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, today lashed out at the state government for passing inter-district recruitment bill in its amended form in the Legislative Assembly.“The so-called government passes such bills in the assembly to harm interests of Muslims More

What the bill says

THE Inter-District Recruitment Bill passed by the Assembly Friday, has taken the shape of an Act providing for “equitable opportunities of employment in the Civil Services in the State keeping in view its complex socio-economic and geographical/topographical/linguistic/security concerns and matters More

PDP legislators mull resignation

GK News Network

Jammu, Apr 9: A section of the opposition PDP legislators are mulling resignation from the assembly over the adoption of amended inter-district recruitment bill by the government Friday.According to informative PDP sources, a group of PDP legislators have made up their mind to resign over the issue More



  • Perspective

Making people suffer

Employees want to have the cake and eat it too

WORDS WITHIN BY FIRDOUS SYED

Self-seeking, dictatorial attitude is in our bone marrow, it seems to have become part of our DNA. Most of the time, pro-freedom leadership, particularly the militants are berated for forcing their way More


  • Op-Ed

Information Rich, Knowledge Poor

ISSUE

How the society in general and the student community in particular mistake information availability with knowledge acquisition, writes Ashok Ogra.The current information explosion – triggered by internet More



  • Letters

Right to Education: Let all have it

The present revolutionary act of Right to compulsory and free education for children between 6 and 14 years is a phenomenal achievement of the UPA government. Now at the least the poor children who are More


  • Editorial

Avoid deeper crisis

The showdown between the government and its striking employees seems to be heading towards a much deeper crisis. The government’s step of invoking the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) on Monday More


  • Kashmir

Govt likely to reinstate accused officials

PAHALGAM LAND SCAM

KHALID GUL

Islamabad, Apr 9: The state government is reportedly going to reinstate all the suspended Revenue officials against whom the State Vigilance Organization (SVO) had produced a Challan in the large scale More


  • Srinagar City

BIHARIS do SMC work

Civic body hires labourers, NGOs; Commissioner appeals employees to resume work for ‘healthy reasons’

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Apr 9: With over a thousand metric tons of garbage mounting the City streets and government employees continuing the strike, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation has put labourers including Biharis More



  • Jammu

Another Black Day: Mehbooba

LEGISLATURE DISCREDITED: BAIG

SYED AMJAD SHAH

Jammu, Apr 9: Accusing ruling National Conference for backstabbing Kashmiris through the Inter-District Recruitment Bill, opposition Peoples Democratic Party on Friday termed the passing of the bill in More


  • South Asia

PC owns responsibility of Dantewada attack

Offers resignation, PM rejects

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Apr 9: Taking responsibility for the worst Naxalite attack on security forces, Home Minister P Chidambaram offered his resignation from the Cabinet to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who today More


  • GK Business

Recreational fisheries give revenue to govt

RABIA NOOR

Srinagar, Apr 9: The J&K Fisheries Department has earned Rs 130 lakh revenue on account of recreational fisheries.The revenue has been generated on account of entry fee to the Aquarium-cum-Awareness More



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