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Losers, failures and turncoats in Cabinet BJP's nearing to its waterloo 10/13/2015 11:49:43 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 13: Jammu is up in arms against its 'nationalist saffron party' (BJP) as it has turned into lame duck. Most people have discarded the party and have started believing that BJP's only aim was to attain power. BJP leaders leaving no stone unturned to appease their Kashmir centric partner has proved the critics right that party has bartered the rights of Jammu people just for the sake of reaping the fruits of power. Not the statistics, logics or any opinion generating reasons are attributed to Bhartiya Janta Party's failure, but the assortment of its bunch in the Cabinet that has brazenly and openly given a strong rationale for Jammuites to believe how the party failed to deliver. "Since the release of agenda of alliance and the party high command's decision to pick up the lot to distribute the ministries to the BJP MLAs, there have been great resentment in the cadre which lamented that party had picked up the failures, losers, turncoats and appeasers in the coalition over the real faces in the party," said one of the senior leader of the BJP wishin...   READ MORE

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Tara Chand, Mian Altaf, Rashpal Singh in soup over recruitment scandal Trio receives SAC notices in response to case filed by RTI activist 10/13/2015 11:49:33 PM Akshay Azad ET Report Jammu, Oct 13: Three Ministers of previous National Conference-Congress coalition Government former MLA Kalakote Rashpal Singh, who enjoyed MoS status, former Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand and former Forest Minister Mian Altaf are in trouble for their alleged involvement in a big recruitment scandal in Urban Local Bodies, as the State Accountability Commission (SAC) has issued notices to all for their involvement. The SAC has issued the notices to all the former Ministers in a complaint filed by an RTI activist who was also former senior vice president of National Conference Dr. Rehmatullah Khora. In the complaint filed by Dr. Rehmatullah before SAC, he has subm...   READ MORE   SVO asked to go whole hog against ex-Ministers, MLAs 10/13/2015 11:49:24 PM ET Report Jammu, Oct 13: The PDP-BJP coalition Government has directed the State Vigilance Organisation (SVO) to vigorously pursue the cases of corruption against some former Ministers and MLAs. According to sources, the Government till now was not sure of pursuing these cases as it would have sent a message that the regime believes in political vendetta. But after a series of incidents allegedly involving some mainstream politicians, which had the potential to affect law and order in the State, the Government has now decided to go whole hog after the cases. "Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had a detailed discussion with the senior leadership of the BJP. The police briefed them abou...   READ MORE   JU's HGRCC falls prey to administrative incompetence Rs 1.54 cr lapsed, Rs 70 lakh unutilized 10/13/2015 11:49:17 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 13: Blame it on incompetence at top level, funds to run Human Genetic Research Cum Counseling Centre (HGRCC) at University of Jammu, available with Department of Science and Technology have lapsed. Well placed sources in Science and Technology Department divulged that the funds lapsed because of ineligible persons who were made Centre coordinators. "Those who were made coordinators for the Centre, after retirement of Dr Subash Gupta, department of Zoology, were not eligible for the post, as per the criteria fixed by the J&K Council for Science and technology. So the funds, amounting Rs 1.54 crore remained unutilized with funding agency", sources claimed. The...   READ MORE   MLA Pahalgam faces embarrassing moments Gets avoided by PDP President, R&B Minister during official function 10/13/2015 11:48:56 PM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Oct 13: National Conference's legislator from Pahalgam Altaf Ahmad Wani faced some embarrassing moments during a function in South Kashmir after Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President and MP Mehbooba Mufti and R & B Minister Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari avoided him and did not listen to his repeated pleas. Altaf who has been criticizing the State Government like anything could be seen pleading for having a talk with Mehbooba, but the later turne...   READ MORE   Most Kashmiris like Mushtaq are Indians Separatists, hate mongers should close their shops, see the writing on the wall 10/13/2015 11:48:26 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 13: As the legislators in Jammu and Kashmir were locking horns with each other over beef issue and other controversies and a few miscreants were hoisting flags of the terrorist outfit IS, a forty five year old Kashmiri sportsman, Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar, who was representing India in Asia Power lifting championship at Sultan Kaboos Stadium Oman Muscat, bagged the gold medal making India and Jammu and Kashmir proud. Mushtaq became the first Kashmiri to bag an interna...   READ MORE   100,000 posts vacant, Govt to fill 4,000 only 10/13/2015 11:47:54 PM Peerzada Ummer Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Oct 13: J&K is fast becoming a job starved State as out of more than one lakh vacancies in various departments, the PDP-BJP coalition Government has referred mere 4,313 posts to various recruitment boards since it assumed office. Most of the vacant posts are in the vital departments like education, health and public works. There are 5250 gazetted vacant posts while the number of non-gazetted vacant posts has swelled up to 35,694. Besides, there are 11,350 Class IV vacancies, sources said. The Government has also not filled 43,000 vacancies of daily wagers. Though the Finance Ministry has assured the aggrieved daily wagers of a comprehensive...   READ MORE   After banning RSS Shakha in campus, "pro-BJP" VC of Jammu University declares ABVP as "outlaw" 10/13/2015 11:47:46 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 13: After banning "communal" RSS Shakha in the campus of Jammu University, the over-smart Vice Chancellor of Jammu University, Prof R D Sharma also denied permission to the "fundamentalist" ABVP-student wing of Sangh Parivar, to organise a non-political function in the University campus. It is first time in the history of Jammu University that ABVP, which is largest student organisation of the country, is denied permission to organise purely a function related to students. ABVP had announced to organise a function to function in which newly elected president of the Delhi University Student Union (DUSU) Satinder Awana and other senior leaders were invited. Thi...   READ MORE   Beg speaks Omar's language, says J&K has acceded not merged with India Will BJP speak? 10/13/2015 11:47:38 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 13: PDP spokesperson and former NC MP and ideologue Mehboob Beg on Monday challenged the political status of J&K vis-a-vis New Delhi and stated that J&K never merged with India. "J&K 'acceded' to India and had not 'merged' with it," he said while welcoming the view of the J&K High Court Bench that Article 370 was sacrosanct and could not be repealed. "We welcome the judgment and it underlines our constant stand on the subject, PDP has always said that Article 370 is indispensable and forms the very basis of the relation that the State shares with the rest of the Country…J&K 'acceded' to India and had not 'merged' with it," Beg was quoted as saying. What Beg ...   READ MORE   Power hungry BJP raises hands to stay in power, adjusts humiliated Seth in BCCI The beef Issue 10/13/2015 11:47:24 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 13: That the BJP was a party to the decision on unceremonious dismissal of Additional Advocate General, Jammu, Vishal Sharma, and Deputy Advocate General, Jammu, Parimoksh Seth, was what the people of Jammu province by and large believed in and repeatedly said so through statements and press conferences. Sharma and Seth were fired by the PDP-BJP coalition Government on September 15 from their respective positions - a decision that was widely welcomed in Kashmir. Their crime was that both the law officers defended Sections 298 A, B, C and D of the Ranbir Penal Code (RPC), which bans slaughter of bovine animals, including cow, sale of beef and consumption of bee...   READ MORE   As Jammu flourishes, memorial of its founder faces apathy, decay 10/13/2015 11:46:48 PM Kunal Shrivatsa Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 13: Call it irony of misfortune, the memorial constructed in honour of the person, who is believed to be the founder of Jammu city is in shambles, courtesy-the lack of concern being exhibited by the authorities concerned. The commemorative, just a stone's throw away from the Civil Secretariat, was raised in the memory of Raja Jambu Lochan viz a viz the rare view of a lion and goat drinking water together from the same stream which ultimately prom...   READ MORE   Revealing names of officials may lead to blackmailing: SIC 10/13/2015 11:06:17 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Oct 13: The State Information Commission (SIC) in first of its kind order has directed the Executive Engineer (XEn) R&B division Kupwara not to disclose the names of the officials / engineers who prepared an estimate for a road construction work in Halmatpora village of Kupwara. According to SIC's order said revealing names may lead to blackmailing of the officials. Details available with Early Times reveal that one Tanveer Ahmad Khan S/o Mohammad Hashim Khan R/o Halmathpora Kupwara filed a 2nd appeal under J&K RTI Act 2009 before the State Information Commission (SIC) on 03.09.2015 stating that he approached R&B Division Kupwara for seeking information...   READ MORE   Business community of state threatens to pursue financial indiscipline, not to pay taxes Demand return of NHPC projects, proper operation of cross LoC trade 10/13/2015 11:05:33 PM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Oct 13: The business community of the state today threatened to stop paying of taxes saying that the traders are being un-necessarily harassed by the commercial taxes department and sales tax authorities of the state. Addressing a joint press conference with Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), President Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) Rakesh Gupta said that the businessmen and traders are the honest tax payers, but still then they are being harassed by the concerned authorities. "It is quite unfortunate that despite being honest tax payers the business community of the state is being victimized by the commercial...   READ MORE   Mufti bats for quality education, better teaching methods 10/13/2015 10:54:31 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Oct 13: Outlining the importance of quality human resource, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said the youth today must get excellent education as it would determine empowerment of nations in the future. The students must be accustomed to modern methods of teaching to cope with greater challenges ahead in the field of academics, Sayeed added. "The technology has shrunk world into a global village where competition is becoming tougher ...   READ MORE   Police counter Hizb propaganda on social media Get indoctrinated youth back to mainstream 10/13/2015 10:53:53 PM Early Times Reoprt Srinagar, Oct 13: The police have started to counter Hizbul Mujahideen propaganda aimed at indoctrination of youth on the social media. And, as per claims the police have succeeded in bringingback some of the `indoctrinated' youth to the mainstream. Sources said in the wake of rise in incidents of youth taking to arms, the Jammu and Kashmir Police has intensified its online surveillance by keeping track on what youth on social media like Facebook, where videos or pictures of Burhan or other militants, are often shared. The results have been fast. In the past around a month alone, the police have succeeded to bring back over two dozen youth ,who were about to join mili...   READ MORE   Coalition Govt keen to restore Valley's composite culture 10/13/2015 10:53:45 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Oct 13: The PDP-BJP coalition government led by Mufti Mohammed Sayed is trying its utmost to restore the composite culture of the State. According to highly placed sources the Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed has taken a personnel initiative in this regard and has sought all help and cooperation from the Central Government in this regard. Sources said Sayeed has stressed on taking immediate steps for restoration of pluralistic character of the Kashmir Valley which has been constantly dented after the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Valley in 1989-90. Sources said the State Government is discussing the modalities for return and rehabilitation of di...   READ MORE

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