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Terrorists turn their guns towards common Kashmiris | Burn handcarts of vendors, hurl grenades at people, smash vehicles to create fear | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 13: Pakistan-sponsored terrorists are making all possible attempts to sabotage the attempts of the government to restore normalcy in Kashmir where life has come to standstill since August 5 when centre reorganized Jammu & Kashmir.
Soon after the J&K administration announced that mobile phones will start functioning oin Kashmir from Monday onwards, the terrorists hurled a grenade at Hari Singh High Street at heart of the Srinagar city injuring 7 people. "The grenade was thrown at the street vendors and the common people. They were targeted to send a message that terrorists won't allow the normal life to resume," said an analyst.
It is in place to mention here that few days ago the terrorists hurled a grenade at street vendors in South Kashmir's Anantnag town. In the explosion more than 14 civilians were wounded.
In August month, the terrorists had shot dead a shopkeeper in Srinagar outskirts for defying their diktat to keep his shop closed. Terrorists had also attacked a family of an apple trader in North Kashmir's Sopore area for carrying on with ... | |
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Ex babu to 'disband' his party after former JNU leader parts ways with him | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 13: A political party that was floated by a former IAS officer earlier this year is likely to be "disbanded" in the coming days as one of his key colleagues in the party has already called it a day.
A former leader of the Jawahar Lal Nehru University quit the party floated in Kashmir, allegedly due to strained relations with the party founder.
Sources said the former student leader, who is also an activist, was not happy with the party founder since the day FIR was filed against her for writing tweets that had accused the Indian Army.
Sources said she was expecting that her party especially its founder, a former IAS officer and the party cadres would come... | |
| | Farooq plays proverbial `good boy' yet again | Can he save 80-yr-old NC from imminent doom? | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 13: True to its traditions, the National Conference leadership has carried forward the legacy of playing the proverbial `good boy' at difficult times yet again.
With people accusing him of a `sellout', the three time Chief Minister and patron of the largest political party in the state will find it difficult to uphold his integrity and credibility in the coming days, it is believed.
According to his own party men, Farooq is not like his father and Kashmir too has changed drastically especially in the past three years. "People are serious, mean business and expect seriousness from the leaders. They cannot be lured by hollow slogans any more," they... | |
| | Academic calendar issued by DSEJ thrown to dustbin by DIET offices | Instead of scheduled time, exams announced in Mid-October | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 13: The Academic calendar issued by Directorate of School Education Jammu (DSEJ) for government schools has been thrown to dustbin by District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET) offices, which have announced exams for various classes in mid-October, instead of mentioned scheduled in mid-November. Sources informed Early Times that the DSEJ had issued Academic-Calendar for government school according to which the teachers and masters have been asked to follow the calendar strictly and covered syllabus in classes 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th and do other academic works as per the calendar.
The DSEJ had also constituted monitoring teams, comprising o... | |
| | State with highest accident deaths has no critical ambulance | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 13: Ten years on, the state with the highest number of accident death desperately awaits critical care ambulances. There are a few such ambulances but for VVIPs, sources said adding for lesser mortals there is no such facility
The government, it merits a mention here, has set up five trauma centres at various locations but for want of proper ambulances, these centres have not been serving the desired purpose. Secretariat archives reveal that a proposal for air ambulances was moved in 2009. No action was taken and the proposal has been gathering dust for quite some time now.
It has also come to fore that the government had shown some interest in air a... | |
| | Errors in transfer/posting order issued by RD&PR | 'SE to look after XEn's works, XEn in Tourism Deptt transferred as AEE (REW) from Akhnoor to Sunderbani' | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 13: Apparently an un-checked transfer and posting order issued by the department of Rural Development & Panchyati Raj (RD&PR) left the department embarrassing, as in-charge Superintending Engineer (SE) Rural Engineer Wing (REW) Kashmir 'demoting' has been made in-charge Executive Engineer (EXn), despite sufficient number of EXns in the department.
Moreover, in another blunder, as engineer who has been promoted as EXn and shifted in PW R&B a month back, is trans... | |
| | Azad's statements on Art 370 likely to prove costly for Cong in Haryana, Maharashatra | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 13: As expected abrogation of Article 370 is dominating campaign of Maharashtra and Haryana assembly polls because all BJP leaders all raking up this issue to corner opposition parties especially Congress.
Rule played by Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad during debate after abrogation of Article 370 is going to costly dearly to the Congress party in assembly polls of these two states. All BJP leaders, from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to chief ministers of Haryana and Maharashtra are raising issue of Article 370 to educate the people about 'negative' role played by Congress leaders when this Article was abrogated.
Although after faci... | |
| | SI again get choicest posting with blessing of seniors | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 13: An influential Sub Inspector, who is posted in Jammu Kathua Samba range- again felicitated with the choicest posting in the home District with the blessing of her Godfather and it has become the talk of town.
If highly placed police sources are to be believed, the said SI had been transferred to District Police Line (DPL) Jammu but within short time the officer approached with senior officers of the Police department and become in-charge of a Police post located in Jammu city.
"But, again the said officer was transferred in other Police post in the Jammu city but the office was not happy with the new assignment, the SI had used his link for transf... | |
| | 70 KV Solar Power Plant Project still in limbo in DH Kathua | Union Minister, former MLA inaugurated 3 years back with fanfare | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 13: The Union government of BJP is patting its back over the development issues by providing 70 KV Solar Power Plant at District Hospital Kathua, the project of worth crore is still in limbo.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy had sanctioned Rs 50 Crores for installation of solar power plants at four District Hospitals viz Samba, Poonch, Rajouri and Kathua and its sub-district hospitals under the centre sponsored scheme Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) when Dr Farooq Abdullah was central minister of ministry concerned.
Sources further said that under the same scheme, the union ministry alloca... | |
| | Mismanagement galore in PDD Poonch, business community suffers | | | Rajesh Tandon
Early Times Report
Poonch, Oct 13: The mismanagement of Power Development Department Poonch can be well gauged from the fact that despite advance notice of power cuts, the department continues to make prolong power cuts defying the scheduled timing as result business community of the Poonch district has been facing huge loss.
Sources told Early Times that these days PDD has been carrying out some repairing and maintenance works in the town and for that it has been taking power shut down by issuing notice to the public through social media but the timing mentioned in the notice is not being followed by the department.
"The Executive Engineer (XEn) Poonch has forwarded a mas... | |
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