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Money power eligibility criteria for becoming new BJP chief! 10/12/2015 12:15:12 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 11: Contrary to tall claims of ethics and ideology, the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party is learnt to have set money power as the eligibility criteria for selection of new State president of the party unit in Jammu and Kashmir. Including some sitting MLAs and MLCs, more than half a dozen serious contenders are in race for the top post, which is going to fall vacant on completion of three year tenure of the incumbent president Jugal Kishore Sharma next month. Even as these contenders are leaving no stone unturned for lobbying to seek support for their candidature, sources said that the BJP high command has unofficially set new criteria of eligibility for the new president. Unlike past practice, when association with the party ideologue RSS was considered as most important criteria for getting top position in BJP, money power has now dominated this qualification, admitted one of the contenders on the condition of anonymity. According to the sources in BJP circles, the party high command has the opinion that a person with money power and based in Jamm...   READ MORE

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Hotel accommodation for Move employees in Srinagar: A deep rooted nexus of vested interests 10/12/2015 12:15:07 AM Abodh Sharma Early Times Reoprt Jammu, Oct 11: Boarding and lodging of the Darbar move employees of the State Government at summer capital Srinagar is turning out to be a big scam to which state Government and its transparency agencies have assumed a stoic silence. Sources in the government divulge that the very fact that the government has not mulled constructing residential quarters for the move employees for so long and is spending crores on the boarding and lodging of thousands of its employees who move to summer capital Srinagar is indicative of a conspiracy and nexus between influential hotel lobby of the Srinagar, Estates department and vested interests within the government ...   READ MORE   BJP insults Jammu, says in power also because of Kashmir Politics of taunts 10/12/2015 12:15:01 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 11: The BJP, which bartered social, economic and political rights of the people of Jammu region after February 2015 and sought to divide Jammu region into three religio-ethnic zones to facilitate the creation of Greater Muslim Kashmir, on Saturday insulted those who returned from the region 26 BJP members to the Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly. The ungrateful BJP, instead of appreciating the people of Jammu region for the massive mandate that they gave to it in December 2014 hoping that the party would defend the Jammu cause and promote it further by undoing the past wrongs, ridiculed them, said that "people of Jammu & Kashmir have provided great opport...   READ MORE   Awed by Mufti's presence, BJP legislators disappoint as elected representatives Most party legislators yet to learn nuances of parliamentary democracy 10/12/2015 12:14:53 AM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Reoprt SRINAGAR, Oct 11: The week long autumn session of the State's Legislative Assembly that concluded on Saturday amply proved that barring few legislators most of the law makers of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) are yet to have a feel of real democracy in the State. The brief autumn session that turned out to be 'stormy' gave a clear indication that BJP legislators have to learn a lot before they can claim to be real representatives of the people who voted for them. These legislators are yet to learn the nuances of the parliamentary democracy and as such people more so their electorate should not expect miracles from them in near future. BJP legislators...   READ MORE   DECODING RASHID: MLA by choice for shoddy deals? 10/12/2015 12:14:43 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 11: While the beef party in Kashmir and the reactionary consequences thereof by the saffron party is no doubt an astonishing rejoinder which have stirred a sense of belongingness among the people of Jammu, both Hindus and Muslims to revisit their nationalist character which they have upheld in most diverse conditions. BJP's storming into MLA Langate's Abdul Rashid's forte, led by the firebrand, but former RSS pracharak turned Nowshera MLA Ravinder Raina has set an exemplary idiom for the people of the state that whilst valley rises to a clamor of throwing to winds the constitutional guarantees, there are 'individuals' who can give them their 'peace of mind...   READ MORE   SHO approaches Minister for transfer Reason: His senior off and on reprimands him over trivial matters 10/12/2015 12:14:36 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 11: Fed up with the attitude of his senior, a police Inspector, who is at present the SHO of a police station in Rajouri district, is now-a-days taking rounds of the residence of a minister for his transfer to Jammu. The SHO has also called on a senior officer in Jammu and told him that his senior in Rajouri district "off and on reprimands him over trivial issues", according to police sources. Before his transfer to Rajouri, he was posted in Jammu. A senior district police officer, who knew this Inspector, had posted him as the SHO of a police station. After an year or so, he was transferred and made SHO of another "important" police station in the distr...   READ MORE   24X7 power supply only for Bari Brahmana industrial area Industrialists rue discriminatory order 10/12/2015 12:14:28 AM Akshay Azad Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 11: The Jammu and Kashmir Power Development Department being headed by Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh has adopted discriminative approach by ordering round the clock power supply barely in Bari Brahmana Industrial area ignoring other industrial estates: Birpur, Gangyal, Akhnoor, Samba, Udhampur, Ghatti, Kathua etc. Moreover, Minister of State for Power Muhammad Ashfar Mir during Question Hour in the Legislative Assembly on concluding day of session had said, "round the clock Electricity supply is not possible at the moment as state does not have required resources needed for replacing obsolete infrastructure". The statement of MoS is a...   READ MORE   MP Karra wants PDP to sever ties with BJP Beef row fallout 10/12/2015 12:14:19 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 11: PDP MP and former Finance Minister Tariq Hameed Karra on Saturday virtually urged his party command to review its ties with the BJP and suggested that it would be appropriate if the PDP severs ties with the BJP, which is part of Sangh Parivar. "The BJP and its allies in Sangh Parivar should understand that choosing Jammu & Kashmir as a turf for playing perilous games for electoral gains in Bihar would have disastrous consequences as Jammu & Kashmir is a sensitive state and any fresh trouble in the area would have huge diplomatic implications," Karra said, adding that "the elements trying to foment communal trouble in Jammu region, should realize that t...   READ MORE   No Degree, Marks Sheet found attached with Insp Vijay Choudhary's character roll Service record reveals he is BA pass but Roll No, Registration No, College Name are missing 10/12/2015 12:14:08 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 11: Police Inspector Vijay Singh Choudhary, who has most of the times remained in news for wrong reasons, may land in trouble and face an inquiry as the information provided by range police headquarters (RPHQ) in reply to an RTI application makes startling disclosure about the status of his qualification. Zonal police headquarters (ZPHQ) transferred the RTI activist's application to RPHQ vide October 5, 2015 letter No RTI/ZPHQ/67/2015/25285-87 for a detailed reply as regards the educational qualification of Inspector Choudhary. The letter, transferred under section 6(3) of J&K Right to Information Act-2009, was received by RPHQ on October 6 for necessary ...   READ MORE   Gandhi Nagar Govt hospital slaughters norms; performs 66 percent cesareans Doctors facing inquiries, FIRs for unprofessionalism 10/12/2015 12:13:50 AM Sumit Sharma Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 11: In a ruthless departure from the laid norms, doctors in the Gyanecology department of the Gandhi Nagar Govt hospital have conducted nearly 197 cesareans out of the 300 expecting mothers that walked in, against norms of just 18 in a single month, indicating a serious lack of professionalism on part of the government. Already under scanner for serious lapses, following which Health Department initiated two separate inquiries against the doc...   READ MORE   CEOs , ZEOs fail to submit annual property statements 10/11/2015 11:55:47 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Oct 11: The Chief Education Officers (CEOs) and Zonal Education Officers (ZEOs) of School Education Department Kashmir have failed to submit their annual property statement before the competent authority for the last 3 years . The matter has come to public domain after the said information was provided under Right to Information Act (RTI) by the Chief Education Officer (CEO) Srinagar to an information seeker Dr Mushtaq Ahmad Khan from Srinagar. A copy of the RTI reply which is available with Early Times reveals that all the CEO's and ZEO's of Kashmir division haven't submitted their Annual Property Returns from 2012 to 2014 ie three years. The reply from...   READ MORE   Doctors rue mismanagement, patient care severely affected Functioning of city hospitals in jeopardy 10/11/2015 11:55:40 PM K Koushal Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 11: Lack of foresight in division of responsibilities amongst doctors and para medical staff in city hospitals is seriously affecting patient care and resulting in frequent clashes between doctors and attendants of the patients. Doctors allege that consideration lack of foresight and compassion has stressed junior doctors who manage patient care in the hospitals to a larger extent was over stressing and over loading them, thus affecting their professional deliverance and patient care. Doctors said that the problem lies in the management, wherein the three tier working has not been streamlined. "There are three types of health workers in the ho...   READ MORE   NC leveling unfounded charges to stoke communal violence: BJP 10/11/2015 11:55:29 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 11: The National Conference is deliberately stoking communal tension by labeling unsubstantiated charges at the BJP for an attack on the truck drivers at Udhampur. The party, which has been in power for many years, and also has been alliance partner of the BJP, is now making every attempt to label BJP as anti-Muslim in a larger tactic of forcing the PDP to withdraw support from the BJP. "The NC is still not able to digest its historical defeat. Omar Abdullah, who had managed to scrap through with just about 1000 votes, is not adjusting himself to be without power. He still believes that power is his birth-right and to get it back he and his party all ki...   READ MORE   After beef tow; Article '35 A' Likely to generate political heat Kashmiri organizations team up to fight PIL against Article 35 A 10/11/2015 11:55:18 PM Javaid Naikoo Early Times Report Srinagar, Oct 11: At a time when beef row is hitting stands across the state, Kashmir civil Society has set on fire another issue by joining hands with Bar Association of Kashmir to fight a PIL filed by one NGO seeking to undo Article 35 A of the Constitution granting special status to Jammu and Kashmir. After three Hour round table conference of Civil Society members, columnists and Doctors here today, Kashmir Civil Society for Development Studies (KCSDS) decided to support Kashmir Bar Association which has already announced to fight a PIL filed by an NGO seeking repeal of Article 35 A of the constitution. The issue surfaced after very recently ...   READ MORE   Mufti to invite Modi to Kashmir, finalize economic package CM to meet PM next week 10/11/2015 11:55:02 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Oct 11: Eight months on since the formation of PDP-BJP alliance in the state on March 1, Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed is all set to visit New Delhi for a crucial meeting with Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Sources said Mufti will call on Modi next week somewhere close to weekend in the national capital to finalize announcement of much-awaited financial package for the state. It will be Mufti's first visit meeting with Modi after assuming charge as the Chief Minister. Mufti will formally invite Modi for a visit to Kashmir later this month. Sources said back channel talks have succeeded in making the central government agree to grant developmental pac...   READ MORE   JU hoodwinks HC directives to oblige its favorite 10/11/2015 11:54:47 PM Early Times Reports Jammu Oct 11 : Defying the spirit of High Court directives , the Jammu University bent norms to accommodate its blue eyed contractual teacher in the Distance Education Department instead of Department of Home Science. Document in the possession of Early Times divulged that a contractual lecturer who earlier taught Home Science in Distance Education Department, brought directions from the High court dated 26-9-2014 in a case titled Seema Bhasin V/S University of Jammu which reads "the petitioner was engaged on academic arrangements basis as lecturer in the Department of Home Science in University of Jammu. Her engagement was to remain valid till the end of curren...   READ MORE   BJP's silence in LA over sacking of 2 law officers 'disappointing' 10/11/2015 11:54:36 PM Peerzada Ummer Early Times Report Srinagar, Oct 11: The BJP chose to remain silent in the Legislative Assembly's weeklong autumn session over the sacking of two law officers by the PDP minister. On September 22, Additional Advocate General Vishal Sharma and Deputy Advocate General Parimoksh Seth were sacked for "failing to articulate" the government's position against the High Court's September 9 order that directed the administration to strictly enforce the 1932 law that bans beef sale across the state. The BJP high command had intimated its state cadre to raise the issue of the sacked law officers and strive for their reinstatement. Ironically, BJP's 25 members in the Legislative As...   READ MORE   Notwithstanding huge expenditure, outcome of Assembly session 'worthless' Writ of democratic institution was missing, feel ruling party leaders 10/11/2015 11:51:42 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 11: Even as J&K Assembly's autumn session concluded on October 10 within the stipulated schedule, no worthwhile business was seen having been conducted during the week long proceedings that were marred mostly by ruckus and pandemonium on various issues. The writ of the highest temple of democracy was missing throughout, thanks to PDP-BJP alliance government which convened the session as a matter of constitutional obligation yet allowed the efficacy and deliverance of business on lowest ebb. These are the observations not of politicians from opposition parties but the leaders from within the ruling parties PDP and BJP who term the just concluded session ...   READ MORE   Separatists desperate to appease their bosses sitting across LoC 10/11/2015 11:51:35 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Oct 11: Separatists have once again decided to cease an opportunity and orchestrate trouble in Kashmir, top separatists, including Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik have called for a shutdown on Monday in Kashmir to protest against the attack on a Kashmiri truck at Udhampur. Sources told Early Times separatists held day long deliberations on Sunday and decided to call for shutdown on Monday in Kashmir so that situation can be polarized and Jammu could be pitted against Kashmir. "Separatists have asked their henchman to activate their agents to create trouble in volatile areas to trigger unrest," said a source. He said Police...   READ MORE

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