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| PDP-BJP resume talks on Govt formation in JK | | Drabu meets Shah, Madhav in Delhi | | | Bashir Assad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 11: Two days after Governor's rule was imposed in Jammu and Kashmir, the major political parties Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) resumed informal talks on government formation in New Delhi on Sunday.
Sources told Early Times the PDP leader Haseeb Drabu met the BJP President Amit Shah and the party General Secretary Ram Madhav this morning and held discussions over various issues. "The government formation in Jammu and Kashmir is likely to get delayed due to forthcoming elections in New Delhi and Bihar in February and March. However, the parties are trying hard to strike a deal which could be conveyed to the Jammu and Kashmir Governor, N N Vohra for obvious reasons," sources added.
They said, "Even if government formation is deferred till the elections are held in Delhi, Governor should be apprised about the deal so that he can accordingly take administrative decisions."
They said second round of fresh talks between PDP and BJP would be held on Monday. "PDP is not ready to give up on any of the five c... | |
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| CAG puts Poonch land owners in deep trouble, tells Army to recover Rs. 2.83 crore | | Recovery of over-paid rent! | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 11: Outgoing NC-Congress coalition government has put Poonch residents whose lands are under army occupation in great quandary as the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has sough recovery of around Rs. 2.83 crore from them.
CAG has in its audit report on Army, Ordinance Factories and Defence Public Sector Undertakings for the year ending 2013, released on December 19, 2014 pointed out that DDE has paid excess rent to the land owners whose land has been requisitioned and is under the occupation of Army in Poonch since February 2008. CAG has put total amount paid to land owners in excess at Rs. 2.83 crore.
CAG has asked Di... | |
| | | | Notwithstanding separatists threats, Centre to go with granting citizenship rights to West Pak Refugees | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 11: Pro-Pakistani separatist leadership and National Conference have ganged-up to oppose citizenship rights for the West Pakistani refugees but the Union Government has decided to go with its proposal to solve six decades long genuine and human problems of these poor people.
Credible sources said that Union Government has already written a letter to different central agencies to formulate a policy how to grant citizenship rights to West Pakistani Refugees (WPRs). The Union Government has also decided that instead of depending upon state government, Centre would take initiative on its own to make these people as citizens of Jammu and Kashmir.
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| | | | WPRs to approach international right groups to expose Kashmiri leaders | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 11: West Pakistani Refugees have decided to approach international human right organizations to expose separatist leaders of Kashmir who have been misleading these organizations.
Separatist leaders of Kashmir Valley have been minting money in the name of alleged human right violations in Kashmir Valley but now they are themselves indulged into depriving West Pakistani refugees of their basic human rights like right to live with dignity. Some human rights groups of the country have decided to assist West Pakistani Refugees to take their case before international human right organizations to expose Kashmiri leaders.... | |
| | | | 7 out of 14 running from single rooms; no new library established in last 20 years | | Jammu's Libraries dying a slow death | | | G S Asgotra
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 11: Attribute it to the persistent neglect and apathy of the successive governments, once vibrant, the Libraries of Jammu are dying slow but sure death.
With 7 out of 14libraries in Jammu district running from single room accommodation, no new libraray has been established in over two decades in entire provice.
The documents in possession of Early Times reveal that seven libraries including District library Jammu, Tehsil library of Akhnoor and RS Pura, Border libraries of Ghou Manahasan , Satriana and Lending Depot Resham Garh Jammu and Reading Room Pallanwala have been running from a single room accommodation, since their establishment, dec... | |
| | | | BJP framing list of advisors to assist Governor | | Known faces among nominees | | | Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 11: The BJP, it has been reliably learnt, has formed a list of advisors to assist the governor. The list, by and large, comprises persons who worked tirelessly for the party during the just concluded assembly elections.
According to sources, the state leadership in consultation with PMO is framing a list of people who flattened ground
for BJP across the state particularly in Kashmir division during the elections.
As the proposal to associate advisors with Governor is yet to get Home Minister, Raj Nath Singh's, nod the party is not only eying to gain more and more public support by developmental works in BJP bastions through its
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| | | | Students seeking admissions in professional courses suffer | | Govt fails to introduce Physical Education at UG level | | | Shiv Dev Thakur
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 11: In yet another failure of the Higher Education department, Physical Education could not be introduced at the Under Graduate level in various colleges even though the same subject is available at 10+2 and Post Graduate level. Reliable sources rued with Early Times that the Higher Education department had decided to introduce Physical education at college level as the subject was already included at the Higher Secondary level as well as PG level after a number of the protests by the students desirous to take admission it.
Sources added that the move would have helped the students who intended toi pursue careers in Physical Education as ... | |
| | | | PIO, FAA sleep over RTI query | | FCI bids to conceal information | | | Bivek Mathur
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 11: In an obvious attempt to conceal information sought under the RTI Act 2009, the First Appellate Authority (FAA) of the Food Corporation of India (FCI), Jammu division has also stayed inert to the query after the PIO failed to file the reply in stipulated time.
On 31.10.2014, an RTI was filed before the PIO, FCI Jammu division seeking details of Jute bags/sacs purchased by the FCI, Jammu division from different Private/Govt firms/contractors and the process of inviting tenders i.e. whether the details of tendering was circulated through newspapers or not with the details of firm/contractor finally allotted these contract of providing jute... | |
| | | | Delhi must not flinch; it must move forward | | Revolt against refugees | | | Neha
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 11: Kashmiri separatists, including Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Miraiz Umar Farooq, Shabir Ahmad Shah and Aasiya Andrabi; Kashmiri parties, including the defeated and Valley-centric NC; the separatist-turned-politician Hakim Yaseen; fanatics and rabble-rousers like Er Rashid; many members of the so-called Kashmiri civil society, to mention only a few, have raised a banner of revolt against New Delhi and the hapless refugees from West Pakistan and threatened an agitation in case New Delhi granted citizenship rights to these refugees. A number of other organizations such as the Jamiat Ahlihadees Jammu & Kashmir (JAJK) too have taken the plunge to oppose the... | |
| | | | JU disregards recommendations of empowered committee | | Regularization of contractual, daily wager employees | | | Avinash Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 11: In utter disregard of the recommendations of the empowered committees on regularization of services of non-gazzeted and forth class employees, the authorities of University of Jammu have conducted interviews for the post of Junior Assistants depriving class employees.
Sources informed Early Times that interviews for the post of Junior Assistant were conducted by the authorities on January 10, 2015. "The empowered committee was constituted to regularize the services of daily wagers as helpers, who had completed seven years of their services. Meanwhile, the cases of contractual employees were also added in the process following the pressu... | |
| | | | Propaganda against PDP led to Governor's rule | | Anger in Jammu | | | Rustam
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 11: The imposition of Governor's Rule in the state has not gone down well, particularly with the people of Jammu province where they were hoping that they would have a real and effective say in the governance of the state for the first time since 1947. There is consensus among the enlightened sections of the society in Jammu that it was the rabid opposition in Kashmir to the idea of the BJP either leading the state government in alliance with the PDP or the NC or becoming the second most important constituent of the government headed by the PDP that compelled the PDP to dither, thus enabling the State Governor to bring the state under his own dire... | |
| | | | Thousands of residents of Budgam suffer on account of poor banking facilities | | | | Shakeel A Khan
Early Times Report
BUDGAM, Jan 11: People of many villages of this Central Kashmir district are still dreaming about the banking facilities at their doorsteps despite the claims of the bank authorities that they are at the back of the commoners.
The authorities claim that the banks are at the disposal of the common people but as a matter of fact people still cherish it to turn into a reality. People in most of the villages face inconvenience on account of the poor banking facilities. Believe it or not, Jammu and Kashmir Bank has failed to come up with the ATM facilities for thousands of inhabitants in the Budgam district when the same has been provided to the remotest ... | |
| | | | Nepotism, laid back attitude of SMC leads to non-implementation of Town Planning Act in Srinagar | | | | Majid Nabi
Early Times Report
srinagar, Jan 11: Nepotism and corruption in Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) has virtually hampered the implementation of much needed Town Planning Act (TPA), which otherwise has been executed in most of the states in India but yet to see the light of the day in smudged Srinagar city.
TPA is comprised of four specialization areas including City Design and Development; Environmental Policy and Planning; Housing, Community and Economic Development; and the International Development Group. There are also three cross-cutting areas of study: Transportation Planning and Policy, Urban Information Systems (UIS) and Regional Planning.
However the Act which... | |
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