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| Mehbooba reluctant to reveal cards; NC, Cong get desperate | | Govt formation | | | Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 28: Apart from the PDP leadership which continues to remain on tenterhooks ahead of its crucial January 31 meet, the entire mainstream camp of the State including the Congress and the National Conference have started reaching Srinagar to watch the upcoming developments.
Leaders including the former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, NC patron Farooq Abdullah, State Congress chief G.A Mir and several others have started reaching the summer capital three days ahead of the proposed PDP meeting.
Sources said that the NC patron Dr Farooq and president Omar Abdullah are arriving in Srinagar to maintain close vigil over the latest developments. Sources divulged that besides the senior Congress leadership including party's State chief G.A. Mir, Ghulam Nabi Azad is also expected to remain camped in Srinagar for few days.
As the stalemate over the formation of Government continues in JK, the PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti has maintained silence over the latest development unfolding vis-a-vis the future of coalition in the State.
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| 'BJP Ministers must imitate Mehbooba, vacate official residences' | | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Jan 28: The family of late Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Wednesday vacated the Chief Minister's residence at Wazarat Road, Jammu, further confounding the confusion over Government formation in the State. It was a significant development that only indicated that Jammu and Kashmir would remain under the Governor's rule for some more time. The State may even witness mid-term polls.
The Muftis vacated the residence the day former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah opined that "the PDP was scared of elections" and that "the NC would secure majority in the State if fresh elections are held".
"The PDP is 'terrified' of fresh elections in J&K 'due to its political U... | |
| | | | Anti-national Er Rashid wants to resign! | | | | ET Report
jammu, Jan 28: The independent MLA Er Rashid, who keeps on hogging the headlines for wrong reasons, has hinted at possibility of him saying goodbye to the mainstream politics.
He said he has written a letter to Governor seeking action against the police and security agencies for restricting his movement over the past year. "I was not allowed to travel to Chenab Valley as many times as I tried. Many times I was hit and injured. On the Republic Day I was invited but kept under house arrest. What kind of legislator am I who is not allowed to move and talk? If Governor doesn't take action I will be left with no other option other than to resign," Rashid said.
The MLA Langate, w... | |
| | | | DIG purchases 'expensive' flat in posh locality | | | |
Early Times Report
jammu, Jan 28: A Deputy Inspector General of Police, who is presently holding an important position, has reportedly purchased an 'expensive' flat in a posh city locality.
A retired IGP, who is very close to the DIG, helped him to buy the flat, according to police sources.
"The flat is a benami property which has been purchased by the DIG in the name of his close relative," sources alleged.
He lives in a bungalow in another posh locality of the city and also owns land and another property in other city areas.
Sources said the registration papers of the flat have been prepared in the name of the DIG's relative.... | |
| | | | 'Sexploitation' of school girls: Police registers case | | | | ET Report
srinagar, Jan 28: Prompted by a series of reports carried by Early Times about the alleged exploitation of Government schoolgirls in Kashmir, the Government has formally handed over the case to police.
The decision in this regard was taken by Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon, who is understood to have taken a serious note of delay into "mishandled internal inquiry", started by the Directorate of School Education Kashmir.
Dr Samoon decided to handover the case to the police after consultations with the senior officials of police and Education Department.
Sources said the Divisional Commissioner, who was personally in know of the complaint, had called SSP ... | |
| | | | 3 days after R-Day, MA Stadium still shut for sportsmen, open for clubbers | | | | Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
jammu, Jan 28: Attribute it to the whims and fancies of those at the helm of affairs and lack of laid standard procedures, sensitive issue like security is also dealt with different benchmarks for different people in J&K.
Three days after the Republic Day celebrations went off peacefully at M A stadium, the venue of the main ceremonial function, the only centre of sports training in the city has still been kept out of bound for sportsmen, who have been suffering for over a month when the stadium was sanitized due to security reasons; but astoundingly, the Jammu Club, that is housed in the Stadium complex has been thrown open for the influential clubbers, w... | |
| | | | In Guv's rule, Lal has 'lal bati' on his car | | |  Early Times Report
kathua, Jan 28: Even as the State is under Governor's rule, former Health Minister Lal Singh still has red beacon on his car.
To clear doubts, during the Governor's rule, the DDC can issue orders for withdrawal of red beacons from vehicles used by VIPs.
Prem Nath Dogra, the newly appointed District President of BJP Kathua unit, stringently condemned the use of facilities including red beacon atop of official vehicle and said DDC Kathua must uphold the law.
He appealed DD... | |
| | | | Weird J&K: A post-graduate works as cook in Govt School | | |  MS NAZKI
Early Times Report
Poonch, Jan 28: For some it might be out of conjecture but surprisingly the ever-growing unemployment could be gauged from the fact that a post graduate is working as cook in government school for past the many years and that too for peanuts i.e. monthly honorarium of meager Rs 1000/-.
The incident further had turned to a 'paradox' for our system as the person in question has not been paid for the last 7 months further making the things to turn from bad to wo... | |
| | | | 'Friendshipwith accused dents probe committee's partiality' | | Sexploitation of schoolgirls | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 28: The three member enquiry committee formed to probe involvement of some officials of School Education department in 'exploitation' of school girls morally has come under a cloud.
Sources told Early Times that the person heading the committee is a senior official in the Cultural Wing of Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK). They said that it is quite 'impossible' and 'illogical' that the official would submit a negative report in the matter since fingers have been raised over the involvement of some of his colleagues in the scandal.
"It is an irony that the enquiry committee is headed by a senior official of the cultural ... | |
| | | | No records available to check illegal recruitments in ULB | | | | Javaid Naikoo
Srinagar, Jan 28: The cash starved state has lost Rs 90,33252 on salary of 2511 illegally appointed people in Municipal councilsand Committees of Kashmir.
Early Times accessed documents revealing how rupees 90, 33252 are drawn as salary in favor of 2511 people who were illegally recruited in Municipal Councils and Committees of Kashmir in between 2005 to 2011. Barring 14 employees of Municipal Committee Baramullah recruited through SSRB, PSC or by Departmental committees and 47 people recruited through SRO-43 mode in different Municipal Committees of Kashmir, timely placed Municipal commissioners and executive officers recruited 2511 people through back door in exchang... | |
| | | | ERA wakes up after 2 yrs; SE posted as Director Safeguards | | | | ET Impact
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 28: The Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) has finally posted a Superintending Engineer (SE) as Director Safeguards. Early Times had filed a detailed report on this issue on December 24, 2015.
Details available with Early Times reveal that ERA vide its order No: 13 JK ERA of 2016 dated 27.1.2016 has posted P N Bali (SE) as Director Safeguards. Bali was transferred to ERA some two years back but due to official apathy he was not holding any post in the organization which raised sever question mark on the Government functioning . There are several other officers who too have been posted in ERA few years back but they too do not hold any ... | |
| | | | Cong divided over participation in Govt formation | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 28: State Congress is clearly divided over exploring the possibilities of forming an alliance with People's Democratic Party for formation of Government in Jammu and Kashmir, where a political stalemate is prevailing since the death of former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.
This division was visible during the Core Group meeting at Jammu where all the sitting MLAs and MLCs of the party forcefully advocated for playing an active role in formation of Government and participation in the same even as the PCC president G A Mir, Senior vice-president Sham Lal Sharma and others expressed their reservations over sharing power.
According to the sources, ther... | |
| | | | Misappropriation of funds puts RDD schemes under surveillance | | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Srinagar, Jan 28: To prevent the "misappropriation" of funds in Rural Development Department schemes, authorities have decided that schemes would be supervised by village committee and a monitoring body of the Civil Secretariat.
Sources said government has received complaints about fund embezzlements in RDD as undeserving people have been benefitted by various schemes while the deserving ones were left out.
They said it has been found that there had been no check on the implementation of various schemes meant for the development of rural areas. "The Gram Sabha of a village will identify the developmental works and these works will be implemented under their surveillanc... | |
| | | | Roping in outside experts on Kashmir proves costly for BJP | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 28: Roping in so-called experts on Kashmir from outside the State is proving costly for BJP whose alliance with PDP is in jeopardy after the death of former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed.
Sources said that BJP's Kashmir policy has failed to pay dividends as the Party could not grasp it properly during its last 20 months rule at Centre. The main mistake which the BJP did in J&K is that it failed to give the role of experts on Kashmir from the seasoned politicians and intellectuals from the State who have a lot of knowledge of ground realities and psyche of the people of its all the three regions, sources added. Sources said roping in outsiders as expe... | |
| | | | On national TV, BJP misleads the nation | | Waving of Pak flags in Kashmir | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 28: It has become customary with the BJP national spokespersons to take the nation for a ride and mislead it by spreading and preaching falsehood.
Ever since March 1, 2015, when the PDP-BJP coalition formed government in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP spokespersons, without any exception, have been telling the nation that the "Muslims of Kashmir have full faith in Indian democracy" and to mislead it they have been referring to the high voter turn out in the 2014 assembly elections in the state. They also have been shamelessly telling the nation that "the waving of Pakistan flags in Kashmir is not a new phenomenon and making fool of the BJP-led NDA government ... | |
| | | | Project awarded to Kolkata-based company, likely to miss first deadline | | Jehlum dredging | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 28: Irrigation and Flood control department has finally awarded the contract for undertaking dredging of river Jhelum to a Kolkatta-based company.
Chief Engineer Irrigation and Flood Control, Javid Jaffar told Early Times that the department had last year floated tenders at national-level to undertake dredging of Jhelum.
He confirmed that Kolkatta-based Reach Dredging Ltd offered lowest bid for dredging Jhelum and the company has been awarded prestigious Rs 46-crore project.
However, well placed sources inside the department revealed that the company has started work with a slow pace and could likely miss first deadline.
Documents in ... | |
| | | | Govt apathy leads to premature death of Wular Lake in Bandipora | | | | S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
BANDIPORA, Jan 28: The state government has failed to dismantle the encroachments along the banks of Wular Lake, due to which the glory of this famous lake is degrading and has left the general public disappointed to a large extent.
Sources said that although there were clear directions from High Court regarding removal of encroachments along the banks of water bodies like Wular Lake the concerned authorities have failed to restore its glory.
"Wular Lake is being considered as Asia's second largest fresh water body, which seems on paper only and practically the mafia hand in glove with the concerned department have grabbed the land in pennies," sou... | |
| | | | Is BJP's 'arrogance' behind stalemate in Govt formation? | | | | Muhammad Mukaram
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan: 28: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to ailing Chief Minister of Punjab Prakash Singh Badal has raised eyebrows in the PDP camp as several leaders started believing if Mufti Muhammad Sayeed was less 'important'.
Interestingly, PM Modi never visited late Mufti at the AIIMS in New Delhi.
Sources close to Mehbooba Mufti said she was disappointed that neither PM Narendra Modi nor any top Central minister, who played a key role in the government formation, had visited Srinagar to offer condolence to the bereaved family.
Modi had also not visited Mufti at AIIMS, where he was admitted for about 15 days before passing away on 7 Jan th... | |
| | | | Despite court direction, SRTC driver denied 40-month salary | | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 28: The government departments and public sector undertakings have made it a habit of throwing the court directions in dustbin and they follow their own course of action in matters where the court has already given some direction.
Same has happened with the case of a driver of State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC). This hapless driver has been running from pillar to post in order to seek justice, but the same has eluded him so far. The impact of denial of justice has led to health vagaries for this driver, but still then the concerned people are un-moved.
In November 2008 the SRTC driver Mohammad Yaqub Khan went to the court challen... | |
| | | | Despite terror threats, Mata Vaishnodevi pilgrim inflow increases | | | | Shiv Dev Thakur
Katra, Jan 28: Notwithstanding terror threats, the inflow of pilgrims to Shri Vaishno Devi nestled in the Trikuta Hills of Reasi district has increased.
Giving a befitting reply to the reported militant threat, the State of Jammu and Kashmir the inflow of the yatra at holy town Katra once again touched the peak on the Republic Day this year aftermath the terror attack at Pathankot Air Base on January 2 and high alert sounded in J&K. Sources sharing details said that the flow of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Yatra is quite more this year too in the 4th week of January including Republic Day celebration as compared to the corresponding period in past years.
"Despite the recen... | |
| | | | BJP's pressure groups within PDP worry Mehbooba | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 28: Notwithstanding her posturing on certain issues over the last two weeks, PDP President Mehbooba Mufti is stated to be in deep dilemma over formation of government in the state.
To align or not to align again with BJP is the big predicament while as the option of going with 'secular forces' is also posing no less than a catch -22 situation.
To add to this quandary is the BJP's hidden strategy in creating pressure groups within PDP which add to her woes.
Sources said while the PDP chief is taking too much time in taking a final decision on formation of the government, it is not all that easy for her as in the given situation she finds herself surro... | |
| | | | No remuneration for invigilators of SSRB exams | | | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 28: A month after Service Selection Recruitment Board (JKSSRB) conducted entrance examination for various non-gazetted posts, remuneration remains to be unpaid to the invigilators.
Invigilators, who had manned the entrance examination centres in district Kathua, informed Early Times that after the lapse of nearly one month, the private college authorities have been delaying payment.
"For the last few days, we have been making rounds of the private colleges, where we had given duties, but every time the college chairman and officials gave lame excuses", an invigilator rued.
The invigilators further said that they had manned examination centre... | |
| | | | 3 months on, Katra chopper crash report awaited | | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 28: Three months on, the findings of the magisterial and civil aviation probes into Katra Chopper crash are still awaited.
Seven people, including a woman pilot and a newly-wed couple, were killed in November last year when a chopper ferrying them back from holy shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi crashed at Katra after catching fire, in the first fatal plane accident in this holy town.
Official sources said that soon after the incident the Shrine Board approached the DGCA for conducting investigation into the causes of the helicopter accident.
"Accordingly the team of DGCA next day visited Katra and started conducting detailed investigation at... | |
| | | | Ex-ministers' D.O letters of no value to PHQ | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 28: In view of the Governor Rule in the state, the D.O letters of ex-ministers of the BJP-PDP coalition government are of almost no value to the state police headquarters (PHQ). Most of these letters are thrown by their handlers into the dustbin.
Police sources said even as there existed no political government in the state after the demise of chief minister Mufti Mohammad Syed, PHQ was flooded with D.O (demo-official) letters of some ex-ministers.
"In most of these D.O letters, the ex-ministers have asked the PHQ to post officers of their choice in their respective constituencies. They wait for a few days but when no response comes, some even speak to sen... | |
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