MUMBAI

J&K Bank, state’s only listed company, is working towards a business target of Rs 1,00,000 crore and Rs 1,000 crore profit in 2013, its platinum jubilee year. Awards are coming in anticipation of it. It recently bagged the ‘best bank’ award in the “Old Private Sector Bank” category of the Best Bank and Financial Institution Awards for financial year 2012. This CNBC TV18 India instituted award was selected by a highly professional panel of experts. The selection followed a robust and rigorous scoring process for all the Banks and Financial Institutions by KPMG, a professional services firm. Mushtaq Ahmad, Chairman & CEO, J&K Bank received the coveted trophy at the hands of Dr C Rangarajan, Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, at a grand function held in Mumbai.

MUZAFFARBADShahnaz Akhtar

People go missing in custody on either side of the LoC. This time, it is Kashmiri migrant Shahnaz Akhter who created news on the other side by accusing Pakistan’s intelligence agencies of kidnapping her husband, Qazi Khushal. He was rounded up near an army post last fortnight and admitted to a hospital. His wife went to see him but she was not permitted. Next day, Khushal had been shifted to some unknown place, BBC reported. Ms Akhter, a migrant since 1990, teaches in a refugee camp school. Pakistani security agencies do scan Kashmiris living there and make arrests.

SOPORE

Ghulam Nabi Lone
Ghulam Nabi Lone

His son created a huge crisis out of the assassination of his father but all the three youth accused of murdering the then education minister Ghulam Nabi Lone on Oct 15, 2005, stand acquitted. Others who died in the ‘Fiadayeen’ attacked were a cop, a CRPF man, a government employee, and a militant. Acquitting the trio – Syed Shabir Bukhari, Shakil Ahmad Sofi (Kreei) and Mushtaq Hussain Akhoon (Saida Kadal), Ramesh Kumar Watal, additional sessions judge Srinagar, observed there was no proof of their involvement.

 

RAJOURIMushtaq Ahmed's  School-residence

It can happen only in J&K. Mushtaq Ahmed, a contractor, has set his home in three of the four rooms that make a primary school of Rajouri’s Kangadwali Chaon village. With his wife and two children, he is living in the school for seven months now. The school operates from one room. The midday meal is being cooked in open for students as the school kitchen is under exclusive use of Mushtaq’s family. Efforts are on to manage his eviction, reports suggest.

SHOPIAN

Once upon a time, it used to happen, especially during wars when people would be killed with elephants trampling upon them. Last week, it happened in Shopian when a housewife Halima Akhtar of Sedow village was critically injured when a horse rider Ama Shah trampled her. She died in SKIMS Soura. Police have registered a case. Was it an accident?

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