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JK contestants pool personal resources to attend national kickboxing championship Participants, parents up in arms against Govt 'callousness' 1/4/2019 11:09:48 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Jan 4: Even as a young girl from Jammu and Kashmir made the entire country proud when she won the World Kickboxing Championship in 2016, the state government is allegedly least bothered about the promotion of the game. Officials said the national level kickboxing championship has commenced in Dehradun but that the team from Jammu and Kashmir is the only one, which is not enjoying any patronage from the state government at the event. Around two dozen sportsmen from the state, who are representing Jammu and Kashmir at the event, are understood to have gone there out of their own resources. Sources said the J&K Youth Services and Sports department and the Sports Council allegedly didn't show any interest towards the promotion of the event. The parents of some of the contesting wards while talking to Early Times said they took their kids to the event out of other own expenses. "All the students have come here out of their own resources as the Jammu and Kashmir Government is simply missing from the scene," the parents said. They said at the time of cel...   READ MORE

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IAS Faesal vouches for right to self-determination and walks free Is India a banana republic? 1/4/2019 11:09:33 PM Early Times Report jammu, Jan 4: Is India a state or a banana republic where one can even preach secession and goes scot-free? The manner in which Shah Faesal, an IAS of 2010 batch and presently Director, School Education, Kashmir, conducted himself the other day and the manner in which the Union Government apparently ignored what he said in writing do suggest that there is something fundamentally wrong with the Indian state. The case in point is what Faesal, along with Mehboob Makhdoomi, wrote in a national daily Indian Express (Jan 3). They in their article "A paradox in the Valley", among other things, wrote: "The perception that it is not ballot but the deep-state that changes regimes...   READ MORE   Governor's Admin promotes tainted officials to prime posts? 1/4/2019 11:09:10 PM Early Times Report jammu, Jan 4: Governor's administration promoting tainted officials" to the prime posts in various corporations across the state recently has put a question mark over the tall claims about system being made transparent. On Thursday the Governor's administration reshuffled the Managing Directors of various corporations and rewarded the "tainted officers" with plum postings, sources alleged. They said that these corporations are already facing huge losses, yet the government seems least bothered. "Instead of appointing some IAS or KAS cadre officers the government has posted officers whose previous track records are dubious," sources alleged. One of the officials, who h...   READ MORE   UT alone can help BJP in Trans-Himalayan Ladakh Party is over? 1/4/2019 11:09:01 PM Early Times Report jammu, Jan 4: Ladakhi Buddhists are quitting the BJP. It will become a story of the past sooner than later in case the BJP failed to arrest this trend. The BJP's decline in the trans-Himalayan region commenced on the eve of the ULB polls. It was clear that the BJP would lose its face if it failed to concede the Ladakhis' age-old demand for Union Territory, but the BJP missed the bus by ignoring the sentiment of the people of Ladakh, particularly of Leh district. The BJP fielded 26 candidates in all the 26 wards into which Ladakh was divided and the Ladakhis inflicted a humiliating defeat on the BJP. It couldn't win even one out of 26 wards. It was the Congress which turn...   READ MORE   Centre hints at holding state, parliament polls together ET report vindicated once again 1/4/2019 11:08:30 PM Early Times Report jammu, Jan 4: Once again report of Early Times carried four months ago over holding of parliament and assembly polls together in Jammu and Kashmir has been vindicated with central government at present mulling to make it a reality this year. On September 23, last year, Early Times reported that chances are high that the Government of India would plan to have parliament and assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir together with Panchayat and Urban Local Bodies elections acting as...   READ MORE   Now Mehbooba trying to create wedge between J&K Police, security forces 1/4/2019 11:06:49 PM Early Times Report jammu, Jan 4: Former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has made a veiled attack on Centre as well as Governor's administration for harassing families of terrorists. Mehbooba, who after losing power has crossed all limits to appease anti-national elements and terror groups, said that J&K Police was not in favour of questioning terrorists' families there was pressure from higher-ups. PDP chief, who on August 25, 2016 had justified the killings by security forces in the ongoing unrest in the Kashmir Valley by saying those hit by bullets or pellets had not gone to fetch milk or toffees, is now trying to create wedge between J&K Police and Security forces by her statements. She ...   READ MORE   SAC approves package for 624 MW Kiru HEP with state-centric improvements Gives nod to J&K's drug-de-addiction policy 1/4/2019 10:57:55 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 4: The State Administrative Council (SAC) which met here today under the chairmanship of Governor, Satya Pal Malik accorded sanction to a set of exemptions for making the 624 MW Kiru Hydro Electric Project (HEP) commercially viable. The Kiru 624 MW HEP is a run of the river scheme on river Chenab located in District Kishtwar. It is one of the most important HEP being implemented through M/S CVPPL, a Joint Venture Company formed between NHPC (49%), JKSPDC (49%) and PTC (2%). To make the project commercially viable, proposal for granting various exemptions to the project was thoroughly examined by the various departments. After extensive deliberations, it wa...   READ MORE   DRS initiates dry leaf composting Waste Management in rural areas 1/4/2019 10:28:54 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 4: With an aim of managing rural waste and implementation of "Gobar Dhan " programme across J&K, the Department of Rural Sanitation initiated processing of dry leaves wherein the leaves are converted into compost that is used as an organic fertilizer by the farmers. In this regard a 4 day workshop began at R S Pura on Saturday. Department of Rural Sanitation J&K began implementation of phase II of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM Grameen) wherein Solid Liquid Waste Management (SLWM) and Gobardhan Schemes are taken up. SLWM has now been renamed as Solid Liquid Resource Management (SLRM) as waste is no-more a waste but a resource if put into use scientifically. C...   READ MORE   No check on installation of illegal hoardings in Srinagar 1/4/2019 10:28:40 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Jan 4: Installation of hoardings illegally are rampant across Kashmir with authorities acting as mute spectators. For installation of any hoarding, the government has to be paid as per the rules. The government has also outsourced it at several places. However, the rules, according to sources, are rarely followed causing a loss of crores to the state exchequer. The coaching centers, sources said are busy promoting their institutions through posters , lampposts, and bridges, giving them a shabby look. Besides, hoardings are erected on electricity poles and promotions painted on roadside walls, questioning the role of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) ...   READ MORE   Srinagar gets first snowfall of 2019, other areas also covered with thick blanket of snow National Highway closed, air traffic also suspended at Srinagar airport 1/4/2019 10:28:34 PM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Jan 4: After a gap of two months, Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu & Kashmir received a fresh spell of snowfall with the other parts of the valley also recording moderate to heavy snowfall since this morning. In the Srinagar district the heavens opened up in the afternoon with snowflakes coming down at around 2 PM. By the time this report was filed at least four inches of snowfall had accumulated in the summer capital of the state. At th...   READ MORE

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