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Kashmir centric mainstream leaders under scanner Face corruption, other charges; will have to answer direct questions 1/23/2020 12:05:59 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Jan 22: Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who kick started Centre’s outreach programme in the summer capital has once again hinted that the Kashmir centric politicians will have to answer many questions in coming days. Naqvi alleged that all parties in Kashmir were involved in political corruption during the past 70 years. An analyst while talking to Early Times said, “The statements being issued by the central leaders indicate that Kashmir centric politicians are in a big mess. Even if they are released from the custody they will have to answer many uncomfortable questions and if they are unable to give satisfactory answers they may end up in another jail after they are released.” It’s in place to mention here that more than 40 Kashmir leaders, including three former chief ministers of the erstwhile J&K State, Farooq Abdullah his son Omar Abdullah and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, were detained on and after August 5, 2019, when Centre announced its decision to abrogate Article 370 and divided the erstwhile State into two Union Territories. Many of th...   READ MORE

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Amid plans for Water Management Committees will GOI probe past misuse of central grants in JK Previous regimes involved in misappropriation of funds, turning water bodies into cesspools at large 1/23/2020 12:05:44 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 22: At a time when union Minister for Jal Shakti, Gajendra Singh Shekhawatis laying emphasis on a need to create “Water Management Committees” which will help to manage, harvest and distribute water in efficient manner, there are questions over whether the government will ever probe the misuse of hundreds of crores of central grants in the name of conserving the water bodies of erstwhile state. The central minister on January 21 while addressing people at Barnoti and Hiranagar blocks of Kathua district during his public outreach campaign underscored the need for the greater efforts by the administration for the conservation of water bodies in Jammu and Kash...   READ MORE   President’s Rule or Popular Rule, no difference for former MLA Khan Sahib Continues to enjoy official accommodation at Tulsi Bagh 1/23/2020 12:05:28 AM Jehangir Rashid Early times report SRINAGAR, Jan 22: The union territory of Jammu & Kashmir is at present under the President’s Rule but it does not make any difference for some of the mainstream politicians who continue to enjoy privileges even during the present dispensation. Sources told Early Times that a mainstream politician of the Central Kashmir’s Budgam district continues to have the official accommodation in the highly fortified area of Tulsi Bagh in Srinagar. The politician has been a minister in the past as well and is considered to be one of the ‘king makers’ on the political horizon of Jammu & Kashmir. “Hakeem Mohammad Yasin has represented Khan Sahib Constituency in B...   READ MORE   JU Law Department’s paper creates flutter among students Admin terms issue trivial 1/23/2020 12:05:17 AM Rajesh Tandon Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 22: The students of Law Department of Jammu University today had to face tough time, when they appeared for their Semester-V exam and found misprinting error in their exam paper which led to huge confusion among the students. Sources told Early Times that the issue erupted during exam of Administrative Law of Semester-V, in which typographical error in question paper crated confusion among the students due to which students could not attempt a particular section of exam. Although students raised objection on the exam paper, yet department failed to sort out the issue and put the students in grave distress. They further said that the exam p...   READ MORE   Does administration attempts to portray rosy picture before Union Minister? Police forcibly evicts aspirants for SPO list of Kathua out of venue 1/23/2020 12:04:59 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 22: Instead of allowing public to freely project their grievances before the visiting Union Ministers, the authority allegedly tried to portray a rosy picture by denying an opportunity to the candidates for the list of SPO for district Kathua, forcibly evicting them from the venue. Union Minister for Jan Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat was scheduled to address a meeting at Community Hall Hiranagar at 2 PM. More than one dozen candidates from district Kathua, who had qualified the physical test and were selected for the posts of Special Police Officers (SPOs) for the district Kathua in the year 2017 but selection list has not published yet, had already reach...   READ MORE   Now, Mirwaiz lobby wants end to surveillance in Kashmir Hadh Karr Di Aap Ne! 1/23/2020 12:04:47 AM AB Sharma Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 22: Within three weeks of having resumed to offer congregational Friday prayers at the historic Jamia Masjid here, the lobby supporting senior separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq wants that police surveillance be ended, a controversial demand that can give free hand to militants and other anti-nationals in Kashmir. The Jamia Masjid Nowhatta, which is run by the committee with the Mirwaiz as the custodian has demanded that police should not use drones to keep vigil during the congregational prayers and that there should be no such deployment of cops either. On January 3, the worshipers at Jamia Masjid were told that the deployment of forces a...   READ MORE   JKBOSE declares 12 class results with glitches, agitates Parent-student community 1/23/2020 12:04:30 AM Saahil Suhail Early Times Report Srinagar, Jan 22: Anger is brewing against the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) as the board on Wednesday declared 12th class results with technical glitches. Those students, who had secured even more than required marks (pass percentage) were shown, fail. “I came to access internet and see my result but it shocked me because its shows I have secured 90% marks but marks of chemistry paper (theory) haven’t been credit into my marks sheet,” a female student bearing Roll Number 1126242 told Early Times. Her two friends bearing roll number 1126212 and 1126221 were facing the same problem. Another student, who accessed his result fro...   READ MORE   GBHSS Nowshera students forced to fold mats during Union Minister’s visit 1/23/2020 12:04:18 AM ANKIT KESSAR EARLY TIMES REPORT NOWSHERA, Jan 22: In a shocking incident, the administration of Government Boys Higher Secondary School (GBHSS) Nowshera forced the students to fold the floor mats after completion of Union Minister’s visit in the school here today. Although huge funds were spent for the arrangement of the programme during Union Minister visit in Noshwera as a part of the outreach programme yet school authorities asked the students to fold the floor mats as soon as the p...   READ MORE   Naqvi visits Lal Chowk amid unprecedented security 1/23/2020 12:03:44 AM early times report Srinagar, Jan 23: Minority Affairs Ministry Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Wednesday visited historic Ganta Ghar in Lal Chowk, the nerve centre of the summer capital, Srinagar, amid unprecedented security and interacted very briefly with the shopkeepers. Naqvi, who is on a two-day visit to Srinagar, said the Centre is committed to overall development of the people of J&K. This is the first visit of a Union Minister to the valley after abrogation of Article 370 and Article 35 ...   READ MORE   NIA shifts arrested DySP, three others to Jammu 1/23/2020 12:03:18 AM Early Times report Jammu, Jan 22: After developing some links in Jammu, the sleuths of National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday shifted the arrested DySP Devender Singh along with three terrorists to this winter capital from Delhi in much hyped case of terror links. "Security agencies have already detained a close relative of one of the arrested terrorists from Jammu," sources here said. They said, “the NIA team this evening shifted the DySP and arrested terrorists to Jammu to probe the case of police officer’s connection with the terrorist outfits.” DySP Devender Singh was caught ferrying militants few days back in Kashmir. Sources however, said that the investigations fr...   READ MORE   Landless sanitation workers survive on peanuts, bleak future prospects 1/22/2020 11:57:34 PM Avinash Azad Early Times Report Rajouri, Jan 22: Wakes up at 3:30, Buland Ahmed (37) of Dassal locality, has to trek rugged terrain of nearly seven kilometers, which traverse through several localities, full of furious stray dogs and darkness to reach his place of duty and start sanitation works and complete it before the locality starts its day. Buland Ahmed is a daily wager sanitation worker of Municipal Committee Rajouri and is getting a monthly salary of Rs 6750 and in such a little amo...   READ MORE   Sopore, adjacent areas suffer due to want of good roads, drainages 1/22/2020 11:55:45 PM S Tahir-ulHaq EARLY TIMES REPORT BARAMULLA, Jan 22: The tall claims of the government falls flat when they say that huge amount is being spend or have spent on various developments, but the ground situation is altogether different as the residents of Alsafa Colony Sopore and adjacent areas are suffering due to want of good roads and drainages. "Many roads in Sopore town and its adjacent areas were macadamized but our roads were deliberately left out due to the reasons best known to the a...   READ MORE   Poonch Hospitals sans heating system 1/22/2020 11:55:13 PM M S Nazki Early Times Report POONCH, Jan 22:District Hospital Poonch , SDHs and Primary Health Centers in MendharMandi, Surankote sub divisions of district are without heating systems due to which the patients and the staff are facing immense inconvenience in harsh winter season. Sources said that almost all PHCs in the entire Poonch District that includes the hospitals in block MendharMandi and Surankote are without any heating system due to which not only the patients but the staff working in these hospitals shiver in the biting cold and are unable to perform their duties. Residents of Mendhar said that the patients admitted in the hospitals shiver and are forced to leave the ho...   READ MORE

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