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| DSEJ resorts to selective transfers again, allege teachers | | ‘Masters posted in far flung areas continue to suffer’ | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 11: The recent transfers of master grade teachers in various districts of Jammu region by the Directorate School Education (DSE) has again come under severe criticism with teaching community alleging favoritism.
The tall claims of the School Education Department of adopting rationalization in transfer policy have fallen flat with these transfers. It was claimed by the department that mass transfers will be done so that aggrieved, genuine teachers, who are posted in other districts and in far flung areas for the last 6-7 years will be benefited but it failed again to rise to the occasion as only selective transfers were done wherein influential teachers barring few exceptions managed to get their transfers and posting at their choice places.
Sources informed the Early Times that it has been more than seven years since the last time the mass transfers of teachers were made across the region and till then no such move was taken by the DSE Jammu.
“It was being expected that hundreds of teachers will be picked up for transfers from each district but ... | |
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| Sajjad Lone plays Kargil card to revive relations with BJP | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 11: After a few months of strained relations with the Bharatiya Janta Party, separatist leader turned mainstream politician Sajjad Gani Lone is “trying his best to revive bonhomie” with the right-wing party.
Sources told Early Times that Sajjad has realized that “unless he improves relations with the BJP, his party is a gone case and to revive the same he is making new efforts to win back the hearts of the senior leaders in the right wing party.”
Sources said in the latest such efforts, Sajad who heads Peoples Conference, had sent his party delegation to Kargil to convince the locals there for “harmonious relations with Leh and that they should not seek an... | |
| | | | Surgeries being performed in erstwhile district hospital, patients forced to visit Jammu | | GMC Kathua no better than District Hospital | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 11: Performance of Government Medical College Kathua is no better than a District Hospital, at least in case of conducting surgeries of Ortho, ENT and others, as the hospital is still performing surgeries in the erstwhile district hospital, forcing the patients to visit Jammu or private hospitals.
Sources informed Early Times that the staff deputed to make Government Medical College Kathua functional has been working from the premises of District Hospital Kathua but despite change of status, the Medical College has been unable to conduct major surgeries of Ortho, ENT beside other wings etc. The hospital is presently performing regular surgeries of Gyneocol... | |
| | | | JK reports 569 fresh cases of Corona Virus, nine more deaths come up in union territory | | Positive cases 83633, active positive 10466, recovered 71845, casualties 1322 | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 11: The positive cases of Corona Virus in the union territory of Jammu & Kashmir reached 83,633 after 569 fresh cases of virus were reported today. Following nine more deaths the death toll due to virus reached 1,322.
Srinagar district reported 147 fresh cases of COVID-19 followed by Jammu district 108 cases, Budgam district 48 cases, Baramulla district 42 cases, Anantnag district 35 cases, Poonch district 24 cases, Pulwama district 23 cases, Kupwara and Ganderbal districts 20 cases each, Reasi district 14 cases, Bandipora, Udhampur and Ramban districts 12 cases each, Samba and Kathua districts 11 cases each, Kulgam district 10 cases, Ra... | |
| | | | Hope Article 370 will be restored in J&K with China’s support: Farooq Abdullah | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 11: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Sunday held the Centre’s decision to abrogate Article 370 responsible for the Chinese aggression at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh.
Speaking exclusively to National TV channel, Farooq Abdullah said that China “never accepted” the Abrogation of Article 370, and hoped that it will be restored with China’s support.
“Whatever they are doing at LAC in Ladakh all because of the abrogation of Article 370, which they never accepted. I am hopeful that with their support, Article 370 will be restored in J&K,” Farooq Abdullah said.
“I never invited the Chinese President, it was [PM] Modi w... | |
| | | | Ladakh records 72 new cases, one more death | | | | Agencies
Leh, Oct 11: The union territory of Ladakh reported 72 new coronavirus cases and one more death, taking the total COVID-19 cases to 5059 and fatalities to 64, an official bulletin said on Sunday. With 87 more patients cured of the disease, the number of active cases in the region dropped to 1022 785 in Leh district and 237 in Kargil district, the bulletin released this morning by the directorate of health services said. The latest COVID-related death took place in Kargil, taking the total number of fatalities in Ladakh to 64 38 in Kargil and 26 in Leh, it said. Out of 72 new cases, the bulletin said 67 were detected in Leh and five in Kargil during the past 24 hours. It said 54 ... | |
| | | | LG takes comprehensive review of various NHPC projects in J&K | | 850MW Ratle new joint venture project to become reality soon | |  EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Oct 11: Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha took a comprehensive review of the status of various projects of National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in a meeting at the Raj Bhavan here today.
With the intervention of Lt Governor, modalities have been finalized for the upcoming 850MW, new joint venture Ratle project which will augment the existing generation capacity in the region. The meeting also decided that the... | |
| | | | After alumni found in various terror groups, Shopian school comes under radar | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 11: A religious school in Shopian district of South Kashmir has come under the scanner of investigating agencies after 13 of its students were found to have joined terror groups, officials said here.
The institution’s students include Sajjad Bhat, an accused in the February 2019 suicide attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama that left 40 personnel dead.
The school’s students mainly hail from Kulgam, Pulwama and c districts of South Kashmir, considered by intelligence agencies to be the hotbeds of militancy and breeding grounds for recruitment of locals into various terror groups, officials said.
It also had outstation students from Uttar Pradesh, Kerala ... | |
| | | | Munish Gupta asks government to step in & solve problems of residents | | Sector 7 Lane 8 Guru Nanak Nagar residents pained due to least concern shown by people at helm | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 11: People living in the sector 7 lane number 8 Guru Nanak Nagar are perplexed over the bad condition of roads and lanes in the area. They are also upset with the fact that the garbage is not being lifted from the area thus creating nuisance.
The sector 7 lane number 8 Guru Nanak Nagar is a part of the Gandhi Nagar constituency and it is presenting a sordid tale of absolute neglect from the people at helm. The successive governments have failed the people of th... | |
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