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By Sanjeev Pargal JAMMU, Oct 24: In a major decision aimed at discouraging unemployed youths from the Government jobs and reducing salary bill, which has been touching ` 13,000 crore a year after the implementation of Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, the Government has decided to freeze almost all allowances for fresh recruits in the Government services, whose posts are advertised after November 1, and cut by half their basic salary for a period of two years and by 25 per cent for next three years. Official sources said the fresh recruits would be treated as Government employees but not in terms of salary and allowances, to which they would be completely entitled only after satisfactory completion of five years in services. The Government has taken a decision to this effect, in principle, and would be issuing a detailed notification in next few days, mostly likely before November 1 when new mode of appointment would come into force. However, the new system wouldn’t be applicable o...

by Anees Aziz On-e of the most important obligations is to know the meaning of shirk, its seriousness and its different types, so that our Tawheed (belief in the Oneness of Allaah) and our Islam may be complete, and our faith may be sound. We say – And Allaah is the Source of strength and true guidance comes from Him: Know – may Allaah guide you – that the word shirk in Arabic means taking a partner, i.e., regarding someone as the partner of another. It is said [in Arabic]: ashraka baynahuma (he joined them together) when he regarded them as two of equal status; or ashraka fi amrihi ghayrahu (he introduced another into his affair) when he made two people involved in it. In terms of sharee’ah or Islamic terminology, shirk means ascribing a partner or rival to Allaah in Lordship (ruboobiyyah), worship or in His names and attributes. A rival is a peer or counterpart. Hence Allaah forbids setting up rivals with Him and he condemns those who take them (rivals) as gods instead of or besides ...

By Tahir Mushtaq GNS JAMMU, Oct : Nearly 1300 people have died in various road accidents in Jammu and Kashmir during past 15-months while nearly 10,000 people have received injured in such incidents in the state. As per the data collected by a NGO, number of such deaths have increased in the state during past few years, mainly due to increased in the number of vehicles and poor road network. Death and Injuries due to road accidents are more than terrorism related deaths in state. More than 50,000 vehicles are being added to the vehicle population annually in the twin cities of Jammu and Srinagar. Due to the floating of traffic rules included polluting vehicles, tinted film glasses, bull bars, over speeding, lack of safety measures on national highways and other roads, pressure horns, overloading of public transport vehicles, plying of vehicles without number plates etc. Sources said that due to rapidly increase in vehicles without proportionate increase in the road length and infrastru...