Job quota in government for Kashmiri Pandits

• Job quota in government for Kashmiri Pandits

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  • In a first major step aimed at the return of the Kashmiri Hindu migrants to their homes in the Valley, Jammu and Kashmir’s migrant youth were Wednesday approved reservation in 3,000 government jobs.
    The move was approved by the cabinet ministers Wednesday. A cabinet meeting scheduled for Tuesday evening was postponed as Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi Wednesday.

    Sources in the cabinet told IANS that the government has given formal approval for absorbing 3,000 Kashmiri Pandit youths in government service in the Valley. The jobs have been reserved at the district and divisional level.

  • “Those availing reservation in jobs would have to permanently station themselves in the Valley and even a single day’s unauthorised absence from duty would cost them their jobs,” an official told IANS.

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The Pioneer : >> Woman alleges IPS man duped her into marriage on false pretensions

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    Swati Das | Chennai
  • A Commandant in the 13th Battalion of Indian Reserve Police, Jammu, SR Samuel, IPS, has been charged with duping a Chennai woman into a marriage through misrepresentation. He has also been charged with ill-treatment, dowry harassment, cruelty and criminal intimidation.
    
    In her complaint to the Chennai Police Commissioner, T Sharmila complained (under Section 417 of IPC) that Samuel and his parents had cheated her and her family by claiming that he was a devout Hindu. He entered into a sham marriage — “dishonestly and fraudulently went through the marriage ceremony fully knowing that it was not a lawful marriage”. “The first counter petitioner, knowing fully well that the marriage is not lawful, caused me to cohabit with him leading me to believe that he was lawfully married to me,” Sharmila added in her complaint on September 7, 2009.
    

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Why the Congress cannot erase Narasimha Rao: Rediff.com India News

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  • It's almost as if P V Narasimha Rao never existed, as if the most difficult years in India's [ Images ] recent history were being managed by the invisible hands of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi [ Images ]. The credit for economic reforms all goes to Rajiv Gandhi while the blame for Ayodhya is reserved for Rao. This was Sonia Gandhi's [ Images ] version of India's recent history during the 125th Foundation Day ceremony of the Indian National Congress. She enumerated the achievements of every Congress prime minister since independence but erased Rao and his contributions from her narrative.
  • It is not difficult to decipher why Congress has over the years created this myth that Rao was a closet RSS-wallah. This allowed the Congress to absolve its rank and file of all the blame and make Rao a convenient scapegoat. It is neatly forgotten that it was Rajiv Gandhi's government that opened the locks and performed shilanyas at the disputed site.
  • Harsh Pant teaches at King's College London [ Images ] and is presently a Visiting Professor at IIM-Bangalore.

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Woman Maoist surrenders after leaders attempt to play Cupid - Express India

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  • A fearsome woman Maoist who was involved in violence for the last three years in Orissa, surrendered on Wednesday because her seniors were attempting to play Cupid.

    The woman, Pidikaka Laxmi alias Sunita of Golanda village said she was being pressurised by senior Maoist leaders to marry a Chhatisgarh cadre though she wanted to tie the knot with a young tribal man.

  • Rayagada (Orissa)

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तीन जिलों में तनाव, धारा 144 लागू

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  • जयपुर

  • राजसमंद जिले में समुदाय विशेष के युवकों द्वारा कथित रूप से एक बाड़े में आग लगाकर गोवंश को जिंदा जला देने की लौमहर्षक घटना के बाद उपजा तनाव मंगलवार को भी जारी रहा। धारा-144 लागू होने के बावजूद घटना से आक्रोशित लोगों का रोष रहा और कई जगह बाजार बंद करवाए जाने के बाद हालात बेहद तनावपूर्ण रहे। यहां ताजिए ठंडे नहीं होने से भी स्थिति बेहद नाजुक बनी हुई है।

    उधर भीलवाड़ा में भी सांगानेर कस्बे में दो समुदायों के बीच लाठी भाटा जंग के बाद पुलिस चौकी पर रखे गए ताजिए भारी सुरक्षा के बीच उठाए। वहीं, देर रात पाली जिले के बाली कस्बे में समुदाय विशेष के युवकों द्वारा पूर्व विधायक के परिजनों के साथ ही गई मारपीट के विरोध में मंगलवार को हिंदू संगठनों के आह्वान पर बाली बंद रखा गया है।

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