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    • Posts Tagged ‘corruption’

    Failing to Return Bribe Money, Man Commits Suicide in J-K

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    SRINAGAR: A middle-aged man committed suicide after failing to return the money he had collected from people over assurances that he would get them government jobs. Police said Jankar, 45, took poison at his residence in village Bakore of Khour area in Jammu. They said that the deceased had an altercation with some people over money matters. "He had received money from at least five local people assuring them jobs in Police Department but when he failed to keep his promise, the locals yesterday approached him and...

    Posted 10 days ago.

    Congress Seeks Cooperation of Kashmiri Separatists Against Corrupt

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    SRINAGAR: Seeking cooperation of separatists to launch a war against the corrupt ministers, bureaucrats and politicians in the Jammu and Kashmir, All India Congress Committee (AICC) member Abdul Gani Vakil said there is no place for corrupt people in the society. Vakil blamed the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for "maintain silence despite so many scandals having surfaced during the past four years of his rule." Endorsing the stand taken by both factions of the Hurriyat Conference (HC) and civil society against drug...

    Posted 29 days ago.

    WHERE'S THE MONEY? Schools Forced to Run in Open As Govt Fails to Pay Rent

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    SRINAGAR: Students of more than 20 schools have been forced to study out in the cold in north Kashmir's Bandipora district as the education department has failed to pay rent to property owners. More than 150 schools in the district have been functioning in rented accommodations for decades now. Owners of the 20 houses where the schools functioned locked the rooms rented out to education department alleging that the education department had failed to clear their rent due for years now. "We were being paid very...

    Posted 34 days ago.

    Another member for J-K vigilance commission approved

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    SRINAGAR: The government is learnt to have approved another member for J-K's maiden vigilance commission, formed to help tackle graft in the country's second-most corrupt state. The commission was formed in 2011, but it's head, former DG Police Kuldeep Khoda, was approved on Monday, after a long delay marked by controversies over his...

    Posted 102 days ago.

    Khoda formally appointed as first CVC of J-K

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    SRINAGAR: After controversy and delay, Former Director General of Kashmir Police, Kuldeep Khoda has been finally approved as the first Chief Vigilance Commissioner of the state, local media reports. The anti-graft Vigilance Commission came into being in 2011 and has been empowered to inquire or cause inquiries to be conducted into offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act, Samvat 2006 by public servants, employees of corporations, government companies, societies and local authorities owned or controlled by the...

    Posted 103 days ago.

    Accountability Commission reopens case against Kashmir minister

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    SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir State Accountability Commission (SAC) has initiated an inquiry to learn how a 26-year-long corruption-related matter against State Minister of Agriculture, Ghulam Hassan Mir, had been closed and sanction to his prosecution declined by the Omar Abdullah government, The Hindu reported on Friday. Taking suo motu cognisance, SAC chairman, Y.P. Nargotra, and member, Hakim Imtiyaz Hussain, have asked Vigilance Commissioner, P.L. Gupta, to submit his report to the Commission within a week. The...

    Posted 156 days ago.

    Impossible to eradicate corruption in coalition govt: Kashmir chief

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    SRINAGAR, Nov 17: Observing that the country was yet to mature to multi-party governance, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said it is impossible to eradicate corruption in a coalition government as "trade-offs" become necessary in such a dispensation. "It is impossible to eradicate corruption in a coalition government," Omar said at the Hindustan Times Summit programme titled 'What India needs: Perspective of young leaders'. During the discussion, in which Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh...

    Posted 182 days ago.

    Congress reprimands minister for outburst against LC chairman

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    SRINAGAR, Nov 15: The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) has disapproved of the remarks of its minister, Taj Mohiuddin, against the Chairman of Legislative Council following the controversy over land grabbing allegations against the former. "We disapprove of the remarks of Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Contral Taj Mohiuddin against the Chairman of Legislative Council and term the same as unparliamentary and highly indecent", JKPCC General Secretary, chief spokesman and MLC Ravinder Sharma said...

    Posted 184 days ago.

    NC quits from graft probe against Congress minister

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    SRINAGAR, Nov 10: Two members of the National Conference party have resigned from a five-member panel of the legislative council to probe allegations of corruption against senior congress leader and Public Health Engineering minister, Taj Mohiuddin. The panel was set up after Jammu and Kashmir National Pnathers Party, Syed Rafiq Shah in the upper house last month accused Mohiuddin of grabbing huge tracts of firest land. Members of the legislative council, Khalid Najeeb Suharwardy and Bashir Ahmad Veeri have resigned...

    Posted 190 days ago.

    Tackling corruption in coalition 'impossible': Omar

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    NEW DELHI, Oct 15: Tackling corruption in a coalition government was an "impossible" task, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said and urged that the electorate to give a clear mandate to a single party to fight the menace. In his opening address at the second Asian forum on global governance, Omar said coalition governments would not be able to fight corruption as many compromises have to be made in a coalition set-up. "If corruption is to be fought effectively, people should elect single party...

    Posted 215 days ago.