Credibility of J&K; regime at lowest: Mufti
September 1st, 2012 - 8:21 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Sep 1 (IANS) The credibility of the Omar Abdullah led-coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir is at its lowest due to failure on all fronts and rampant corruption, PDP ... Read more...
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Mehbooba walks out of meeting to select vigilance panel
May 29th, 2012 - 1:01 am ICT by IANS
Srinagar, May 28 (IANS) Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti Monday walked out of an meeting to decide the panel members for the state vigilance commission (SVC), after disagreeing ... Read more...
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BJP activists demand action in Kashmir housing scam
May 12th, 2012 - 7:35 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, May 12 (IANS) Hundreds of Bharatiya Janata Party activists held a protest demonstration here Saturday, demanding stern action against those found involved in the alleged multi-crore-rupee scam in ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka to shut some embassies in Europe (Lead)
March 27th, 2012 - 4:42 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, March 27 (IANS) Less than a week after the West voted against Sri Lanka at a UN human rights meet, Colombo has decided to close some of its embassies ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka to shut some embassies in Europe
March 27th, 2012 - 2:31 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, March 27 (IANS) The Sri Lankan government has decided to shut down some of its embassies in Europe, the external affairs ministry said Tuesday.A spokesperson at the ministry said ... Read more...
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‘Corruption is policy of Omar government’
February 24th, 2012 - 5:17 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Feb 24 (IANS) "Corruption is a policy of the Omar Abdullah government," main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti declared after leading a walkout ... Read more...
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PDP disrupts Kashmir assembly over corruption
February 24th, 2012 - 1:32 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Feb 24 (IANS) The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) moved an adjournment motion on corruption and then disrupted proceedings in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly Friday, a day ... Read more...
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Chidambaram will clarify on anti-terror hub, says Farooq
February 18th, 2012 - 6:51 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Feb 18 (IANS) National Conference president and union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah Saturday said that Home Minister P.Chidambaram would soon clarify doubts of ... Read more...
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National Conference backs Omar on appointments
February 18th, 2012 - 5:25 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Feb 18 (IANS) The National Conference Saturday decided to back Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah over "political appointments" that were flayed by the State Accountability Commission.The ruling ... Read more...
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Kashmir accountability commission issues notice to government
February 17th, 2012 - 11:46 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Feb 17 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir State Accountability Commission Friday asked the state government to explain how it had granted minister of state status to politicians heading ... Read more...
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Peerzada’s ouster a dark shadow on Congress in Valley (Kashmir Newsletter)
February 11th, 2012 - 3:53 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, Feb 11 (IANS) With one of its senior leaders and ministers, Peerzada Sayeed, submitting his resignation to the Congress president Sonia Gandhi over the so-called examgate involving his ... Read more...
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Kashmir Congress infighting reaches new high (Kashmir Newsletter)
February 3rd, 2012 - 1:34 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, Feb 3 (IANS) A bitter war of attrition between two senior Congress leaders has exposed major chinks in the party's Jammu and Kashmir unit which continues to remain ... Read more...
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Kashmir Congress leader calls party minister corrupt
January 29th, 2012 - 2:26 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Jan 29 (IANS) A Congress leader in Jammu and Kashmir has accused a minister from his own party of being corrupt.
Former social welfare minister Abdul Gani Vakil, ... Read more...
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Omar says he has apprehensions over Guru’s execution
August 18th, 2011 - 7:10 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Aug 18 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday said that he has "apprehensions" if Dec 13, 2001, parliament attack convict Afzal Guru is hanged and ... Read more...
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Kashmir anti-graft panel may be formed Saturday
July 29th, 2011 - 8:41 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, July 29 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is likely to hold a meeting Saturday to select the members of the State Accountability Commission (SAC), an anti-graft ... Read more...
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Kashmir to appoint accountability panel members soon
July 22nd, 2011 - 7:56 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, July 22 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir government will soon appoint the chairman and two members of the state accountability commission, officials said Friday.The appointments can be made by ... Read more...
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Unease in Kashmir coalition ahead of meet
July 21st, 2011 - 5:53 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, July 21 (IANS) Relations between Jammu and Kashmir's ruling coalition partners, the Congress and National Conference, are tense ahead of a coordination committee meeting in Srinagar Friday, sources in ... Read more...
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Nexus between lawmakers, businessmen: CPI-M
July 20th, 2011 - 5:58 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, July 20 (IANS) There is a nexus between lawmakers, businessmen and bureaucrats in the country to sustain corruption, M.Y. Tarigami, secretary of the Jammu and Kashmir unit of the ... Read more...
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Kashmir ombudsman selection panel meet again put off
July 18th, 2011 - 7:46 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, July 18 (IANS) The much-awaited meeting to select the chairman and members of Jammu and Kashmir's state accountability commission (SAC), the state equivalent of the Lokpal, was postponed here ... Read more...
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900 bodies found in mass grave in Iraq
July 7th, 2011 - 6:47 pm ICT by IANS
Baghdad, July 7 (IANS) Iraqi authorities have dug up a mass grave with some 900 bodies, believed to be Kurds killed under late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime in 1980s, ... Read more...
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Iraq’s head of anti-Baath committee assassinated
May 27th, 2011 - 8:36 am ICT by IANS
Baghdad, May 27 (IANS) A senior Iraqi politician in charge of a committee purging Saddam Hussein loyalists was assassinated Thursday, Xinhua quoted a police source as saying.Ali al-Lami, the ... Read more...
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MQM chief boasts of creating party’s stronghold in Punjab
April 11th, 2011 - 6:28 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Apr 11 (ANI): Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain has said that no one can prevent his party from creating a stronghold in Punjab.While addressing a public meeting of ... Read more...
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Pak Govt strongly contradicts news report about ‘tamed’ NAB
March 16th, 2011 - 4:58 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Mar 16(ANI): The Pakistan Government has strongly contradicted a news report that said the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), which appears friendly to President Asif Ali Zardari and his coterie, is extraordinarily ... Read more...
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‘Tamed’ NAB not pursuing corruption cases against Zardari as well as Sharifs
March 15th, 2011 - 4:48 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Mar 15(ANI): Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau (NAB), which appears friendly to President Asif Ali Zardari and his coterie, is extraordinarily soft on the Sharif brothers and other opposition leaders, too.The ... Read more...
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Seven years on, Kashmir still waits for information commission
January 12th, 2011 - 1:31 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Jan 12 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir was the first to enact the Right to Information (RTI) Act in 2004. But seven years down the line and despite Rs.8.3 million being spent ... Read more...
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Youth found dead in auto rickshaw in Srinagar’s Sonawarbagh area
September 26th, 2010 - 10:39 pm ICT by ANI
Srinagar, Sep. 26 (ANI): Police have found dead body of a youth in suspicious circumstances here in an auto rikshaw near Accountability commission Office at Sonawarbagh area of Sringar.According to police, ... Read more...
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Tripura constitutes police accountability commission
March 28th, 2010 - 1:19 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, March 28 (IANS) The Tripura government has constituted a police accountability commission to ensure "impartial and efficient" policing, an official said here Sunday.
"The four-member commission, constituted Saturday, would formulate guidelines for ... Read more...
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Pak govt. drafts new law to save NRO beneficiaries’ skin
December 7th, 2009 - 4:18 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Dec. 7 (ANI): The Pakistan People's Party may not have made any efforts to defend the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), but it has hastily prepared a new law to save the ... Read more...
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PPP busy with strategy to counter Pak SC move to revive cases under NRO
November 9th, 2009 - 2:18 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Nov 9 (ANI): Legal experts of the ruling Pakistan People's Party are busy working out a pre-emptive strategy to counter a Supreme Court move to revive cases withdrawn under the National ... Read more...
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Omar takes charge as J-K chief minister, wants good relations between India and Pakistan
January 9th, 2009 - 9:35 pm ICT by ANI
Jammu, Jan.9 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmirs new chief minister Omar Abdullah, while taking charge of his office on Friday for the first time said that he wished India and Pakistan to ... Read more...
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New accountability mechanism in Pak may hold armed forces, judiciary accountable
September 8th, 2008 - 10:39 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Sept 8 (ANI): Under a new accountability mechanism in Pakistan, personnel of the armed forces and judiciary may also be held accountable.
According to The News, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Read more...
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New ordinance to deal with corruption in Pak Army, judiciary on the anvil
September 8th, 2008 - 6:48 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Sep 8 (ANI): Pakistani armed forces and judiciary would be made more accountable under a new accountability mechanism, according to reports.Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has constituted a committee headed ... Read more...
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Tripura to set up special crime control squad
May 27th, 2008 - 4:39 pm ICT by admin
Agartala, May 27 (IANS) The Tripura government has decided to set up a crime control squad (CCS) with the help of police in Delhi, Mumbai and Punjab in view of the spurt ... Read more...
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Bangladesh to get a panel to deal with the corrupt
March 21st, 2008 - 2:28 pm ICT by admin
Dhaka, March 21 (IANS) A "Truth and Accountability" Commission will be set up by Bangladesh's caretaker government to enable corruption suspects to confess their crimes and avoid trial by surrendering their ill-gotten ... Read more...
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Kerala to launch statewide community policing in March
February 25th, 2008 - 6:42 pm ICT by admin
Kozhikode (Kerala), Feb 25 (IANS) Kerala is set to become the first state in the country to launch community policing in all areas. Called Janamaithri Suraksha Padhathi, the project will take off ... Read more...
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