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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

40% hike in salaries, double allowances recommended
Pay bonanza for Central Govt staff

NEW DELHI, Mar 24: In what could be a major bonanza for over four million Central Government employees, the Sixth Pay Commission today recommended an average hike of 40 per cent in salaries and doubling most allowances that would cost the exchequer Rs 12,561 crore in 2008-09......more

 

3 civil, 5 police officers transferred

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Mar 24: The Government today ordered transfer and postings of three officers in civil administration and five SSPs. Devinder Nargotra, Commissioner/Secretary, Co-operative Department, who was also holding charge of Administrative Secretary and Animal/Sheep Husbandry Department, has been transferred and posted as....more

Militant escapes from PS, 2 cops suspended

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Mar 24: A militant escaped from custody of Doda police station this afternoon. Police have launched a hunt to nab him while authorities have ordered suspension of two police guards, who were on duty at the police station when the ultra escaped.....more

Mehbooba says BJP leader has called the bluff of NC's autonomy
Farooq, Mirwaiz take umbrage on Advani's revelations

From Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

SRINAGAR, Mar 24: Bharatya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani's autobiography 'My Country, My Life' has instantaneously generated a bitter reaction in Kashmir valley where the National Conference (NC) patriarch, Dr Farooq Abdullah, today asserted that the former Union Home Minister had simply written a bundle of lies and the PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti said that Mr Advani had called the bluff of NC's slogan....more

131 cross LoC

Excelsior Correspondent

POONCH, Mar 24: A total 131 passengers crossed sides as the Chakkan-da-Bagh Line of Control (LoC) point was opened after an interval of fortnight today......more

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Leh, Kargil new destination of car thieves
Car bazars involved in racket

By Sanjeev Pargal

JAMMU, Mar 24: Involvement of some car bazars in the City has surfaced in the racket of car thefts as Special Operations Group (SOG) of Jammu Police and local cops today seized eight more stolen vehicles including one TATA Safari and three Santro cars.....more

Dalmiya faces misappropriation charges

MUMBAI/KOLKATA, Mar 24: Three years after he was voted out of the BCCI, former cricket board chief Jagmohan Dalmiya faced charges of misappropriation of Rs 2.90 crore over which the Mumbai Police will be filing a chargesheet on Wednesday......more

80 new HIV cases in J&K

SRINAGAR, Mar 24: Eighty new cases of HIV have been detected in Jammu and Kashmir till March 15 this year, taking the total number of people detected with the HIV to 1,210 in the State so far......more

Gillani orders release of Judges

ISLAMABAD, Mar 24: Yousuf Raza Gillani was today expectedly elected Pakistan’s new Prime Minister by Parliament and he quickly ordered the immediate release of Judges detained after President Pervez Musharraf clamped emergency last year......more

Stock exhausted, no decision about procurement
PDD's e-metering drive hits roadblock

By Mohinder Verma

JAMMU, Mar 24: The much hyped drive to install electronic meters at all the domestic as well as commercial electricity connections across the State has again hit the road-block, second time within a period of one and half years, due to the lack of Government’s far-sightedness about this reformative scheme......more

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