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| CM’s intervention likely as ABVP controversy widens, mistrust between JU VC, DyCM | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 14: The high voltage controversy over ABVP event on the campus, which led to closure of the Jammu University for a day, has further widened the mistrust between Vice-Chancellor Prof RD Sharma and the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh.
In private, both of them are holding each other responsible for the un-necessary controversy and consequent events, which were unprecedented in the history of Jammu University as well as the ABVP. Even as DyCM was neither invited for the event nor he was among the organizers, sources said that the Vice-Chancellor RD Sharma has the impression that ABVP activists were instigated by Dr Nirmal Singh to create trouble on the campus by insisting for holding the Student Leaders Conference in Jammu University only.
However, on the other hand, Dr Nirmal Singh has also come to know from some reliable sources that the Vice-Chancellor Prof RD Sharma refused to grant permission to ABVP for holding the event, particularly to send a message to the Dy CM that being head of an autonomous institution, he could not be cowed down. I... | |
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| Forest land diverted in 136 cases without certificate from concerned DCs | | | | Arun Singh
ET Report
Jammu, Oct 14: Giving damn to the set norms for transferring the alternate land for Compensatory Afforestation purposes, the State Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority in 136 cases diverted 303.80 hectares of forest land for non-forest purposes without obtaining certificate from the concerned Deputy Commissioners.
Sources told Early Times that the Jammu and Kashmir (conservation) Act 1997 envisages that all efforts should be made to identify equivalent non-forest area for Compensatory Afforestation.
"The Act further reads that in case of non-availability of non-forest land for Compensatory Afforestation has to be accepted only on the ce... | |
| | | | HC stays eviction of ex-Minister Dr Romesh | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 14: In a major development, High Court stayed the Government order in which ex-Minister Dr. Ramesh Chander Sharma had been directed to vacate the Government accommodation allotted to him.
In the writ petition filed before Justice Bansi Lal Bhat, court issued notice to the State Government while asking the concerned Estates department not to operate the Government order seeking vacation of the Govt. Bunglow No. 7 located in Ghulami Bagh area of Jammu city. Justice Bansi Lal Bhat stayed the Government order after listening to Advocate Ashish Sharma appearing for the petitioner Dr. Romesh Chander Sharma and Adv. Seema Shekher who represented the State Governm... | |
| | | | Committee formed to regulate private hospitals, nursing homes under cloud | | One of the members indirectly involved with un-registered nursing home | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 14: Health Minister Chaudhary Lal Singh believes more in rhetoric and less in action since the un-registered hospitals and nursing homes continue to function in the summer capital of the State. This is despite the fact that a committee has been formed in this regard.
Valley Ortho Craft Nursing Home located in the Bishember Nagar area is functioning without any registration for the past six years or so. The registration of this nursing home had expired in 2009 and since then the registration has not been renewed. However, despite the expiry of registration the nursing home is carrying out its functioning without any directives from the con... | |
| | | | On Minister's intervention Police Inspector's range changed | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 14: On the repeated intervention of a Minister, the range of a police Inspector has been changed from Rajouri-Poonch to Jammu. While he wished to be posted in Jammu, he was transferred to Samba district.
According to police sources, he was now trying to change his district from Samba to Jammu where he expected to be posted as the SHO of a police station. He had already given to the concerned officer the choice of the police station, the sources added.
He was fed up with the attitude of his senior in Rajouri and had been taking rounds of the Minister's residence for a posting in Jammu. The SHO has also called on a senior officer in Jammu and told him that ... | |
| | | | BJP fooling Ladakhis like they fooled people of Jammu to garner votes | | Leh Council polls | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 14: Convinced that the people of Leh district of Ladakh region were not very happy with the BJP and its performance during the past 7 months and 15 days, the BJP leaders from Jammu and Punjab, including Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh and J&K BJP Prabhari and BJP national Vice-President Avinash Rai Khanna, have started fooling, misleading and hoodwinking them by taking recourse to a strategy they used in the 2014 Assembly elections in Jammu province. On Tuesday, they addressed a rally at Khalsi and held out a commitment that the BJP, if voted to power in Leh, will end injustice with the people of the region like the BJP did in Jammu.
The people of Leh dis... | |
| | | | Key positions in Jammu Police continue to remain vacant | | BJP leadership in Govt. unmoved | |  Sumit Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 14: The head of the State Vigilance Organization and various other top posts are lying vacant for months which indicates that either BJP-PDP coalition Government is least bothered on improving policing in the State or BJP has failed to affect reshuffle in Police Department in Jammu.
The Vigilance Organization, an anti graft body, became headless on June 30 after its Director Shaikh Owais Ahmad attained superannuation. The vacant post for a long... | |
| | | | Forcibly admitted in psychiatric hospital, administered heavy dose of medicine | | BSF soldier fears for life | |  Avinash Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 14: A Border Security Force (BSF) solider has expressed apprehensions to his life at the hands of his senior officers who allegedly forcibly got him admitted in psychiatric hospital Jammu and even got him administered a heavy dose of medicine, meant for patients suffering mental ailments.
BSF Constable Naresh Kumar of 33 Batallion, based in Akhnoor, who is now under treatment in psychiatric hospital Resham Ghar Colony, alleged that under a planned c... | |
| | | | Minister unhappy with his distt SP | | All set to press for his transfer in next Cabinet meet | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 14: A Minister, who is unhappy with his district SP, is all set to press for his transfer in the next State Cabinet meet and the posting of his favourite police officer as SSP in his place.
The present SP of his district is an upright officer and is stated to have refused to fall in line with the Minister's "unlawful" desires. "This has caused irritation to the Minister and he wants his immediate replacement with an officer of his choice so that he gets control of the police apparatus in his district," police sources said.
He was prepared to take up the matter in the next Cabinet meet, sources informed.
The leader, who has become a Minister for the secon... | |
| | | | CEO Rajouri suspends 3 teachers for absenteeism | | School remains closed since July | | |
Early Times Report
Rajouri, Oct 14: Acting tough against habitual absentee teachers, the Chief Education Officer (CEO) Rajouri has suspended three teachers of Khud Patheri Mobile Primary School as the school was closed when he paid a surprise visit there last week.
Following repeated complaints against the school staff, the CEO Chowdhary Altaf Hussain along with Nagesh Kumar, HoD at DIET, and Tanveer Ahmed Mir, principal of Saj higher secondary, paid a surprise visit to Mobile Primary School on October 7. The school, temporarily situated at Khud Pathri pastures in Pir Panajal mountain range, has been set up for the children of nomads.
Two teachers namely Rubina Shaheen and Abdul Hamid... | |
| | | | Man lodges complaint against wife her Inspector brother | | Court summons SSP for non-compliance | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 14: The Judicial Magistrate 1st class Munsiff, Jammu has asked SSP Rajouri-Poonch to appear in person in the court for non-compliance of orders for investigation against a police officer and his sister for hatching a conspiracy to secure a government job.
The court ordered that SSP should appear in person in the court on October 20. The SSP allegedly has failed to investigate or lodge an FIR after delay of over 5 months. In the complaint it was alleged that both the accused have committed offence under sections 420, 467, 668, 471 and 120B of RPC but no action has been taken against them.
Documents in the possession of Early Times reveal that the complainant... | |
| | | | Omar's plunge into campaign not to fetch NC any gains in LAHDC polls | | Cong position dented by NLM, fissures between Jora, CEC Spalbar | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 14: In the high altitude campaign for LAHDC polls, even as former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has plunged as a last ditch effort to lend some support to the party, his presence against the campaigners of ruling regime will not fetch any gains to NC nor would his canvassing improve party's prospects in the desert region. On the contrary, Congress may spring some surprise in terms of retaining a sizable number of seats, notwithstanding the fact that party's position has been considerably dented by New Ladakh Movement as also the friction between the two local leaders Rigzin Jora and Rigzin Spalbar , Chief Executive Councillor of LAHDC.
Sources said though riv... | |
| | | | BJP awakes to pay homage to 'Altaf laptop' | | Asks CM to raise a memorial in his honour | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 14: After remaining silent for nearly ten days and skipping the funeral of a police officer Altaf Ahmed alias Altaf laptop who was killed while chasing militants near north Kashmir's Bandipora town earlier this month, the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) woke from deep slumber on Tuesday appealing the Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed to set up a memorial in Altaf's honour.
The BJP's Kashmir spokesman Khalid Jehangir issued a statement stating: "Altaf's death has created a void in Police department and it can never be filled. His contribution towards fighting militancy has been immense. The government should recognize his contribution, besi... | |
| | | | Revenue Minister takes on Financial Commissioner | | Cancels transfer orders of 14 Patwaris, asks bureaucrat to explain his position | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 14: The Revenue Minister has snubbed the Financial Commissioner Revenue for transferring over 14 Patwari's from parent districts to other districts of the state contrary to the order issued by the government in March this year.
The government has ordered immediate cancellation of the order issued by the Financial Commissioner Revenue vide order No. FC(Adm) 239 of 2015 Dated 4-09-2015.
As per the details available with "Early Times", Minister for Revenue Javed Mustafa Mir took a strong note of the order issued by Financial Commissioner Revenue and directed Secretary to Government Revenue Department Muhammad Afzal to issue immediate order fo... | |
| | | | Wide use of internet by militants in J&K worries security grid | | Facebook, YouTube likely to come on Home Ministry radar | | |
Peerzada Ummer
Srinagar, Oct 14: The Union Home Ministry is likely to monitor social networking sites, particularly Facebook and YouTube, in J&K. General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the army's Srinagar-based Chinar Corps, Lt Gen Satish Kumar Dua, said the youth in Kashmir Valley, who join militant ranks, get their training from the internet. "The local militants haven't gone across for training. They are not trained well and most of their training is on-job. Rest of the training they pick up from the internet," Lt Gen Dua told reporters in Awantipora on Tuesday. The army commander's statement came in the backdrop of investigations launched by various security agencies in Kashmir about ... | |
| | | | Medicine shops shut against online sale of drugs | | People subjected to huge inconvenience | | 
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 14: Jammuites in general and patients in particular had to face great inconvenience Wednesday as over 22,000 drug and chemist shops across Jammu province joined nationwide strike against online sale of medicines under the aegis of Jammu and Kashmir Chemist and Druggist Association (JKCDA).
Lakhs of patients and their attendants across the state had to shuttle from one place to another for medicines but due to strike of medical shops, they were forced to fac... | |
| | | | Babus, mantris violate SC's directive on using HSRP | | |  Arun Trisal
Early Times Report
Kathua, Oct 14: Ministers, bureaucrats, police and traffic officials, name anyone, and you will see all of them brazenly violating the Supreme Court directive about using High Security Registration Plates (HSRP) on vehicles.
In a series of directives, the apex court had asked all states including J&K to abide by its directions passed vide February 7, 2012 order. The Supreme Court had made clear that installation of HSRP was a statutory command which is not ... | |
| | | | Three army men injured in grenade attack in Kupwara | | | | S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
KUPWARA, Oct 14: Militants hurled a grenade at an army bunker this afternoon injuring at least three soldiers while causing damage to five vehicles including an armoured army vehicle.
A top police official told Early Times that at least three army soldiers sustained minor splinter injuries after suspected militants hurled a grenade towards the army bunker guarding the office of Town Commander of 41 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) on Haihama road in this district today in the afternoon.
The police official said that it was a low intensity explosion and the all the injured soldiers are stable. He said that four civilian vehicles and an army armoured vehicle su... | |
| | | | Kasuri on break-India mission in India | | But PM Modi is already pursuing Vajpyee line on J&K | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 14: Former Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri was in Mumbai on Monday to release his book "Neither a hawk nor a dove". His visit to Mumbai was facilitated by former aide to BJP veteran L K Advani and Officer on Special Duty in the PMO during the time of Atal Vihari Vajpayee, Sudhendra Kulkarni, whose face was blackened beyond recognition by Shiv Sainiks before Kasuri could release his anti-India book under tight security. Two days before, Kasuri released his book in Delhi in a function which was attended by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani, former Foreign Minister Yaswant Singh, former J&K CM Farooq Abd... | |
| | | | RS Pura hospital runs without life saving fluid | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 14: Despite repeated claims by fire brand leader of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) and Minister for Health and Medical Education that State government was committed to provide basic medicines and intravenous fluid (glucose) to all health institutions but the Community Health Centre (CHC) has been running without life saving fluid since couple of days.
Source informed Early Times that owing to acute shortage of intravenous fluid (glucose) at RS Pura's CHC Hospital has forced the patients to purchase the glucose from open market at high rates, especially during emergency.
He further said that however, few month back, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court had directed ... | |
| | | | Centre to soon release package for flood-hit' | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 14: Jammu and Kashmir Chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has been -reassured by the central government that financial package for the people affected by 2014 flood would be announced soon.
Mufti was "also assured that in addition to the package for flood-affected people, another package for major boost to development would also be linked to it, sources told Early Times.
On Wednesday, the Chief Minister reached New Delhi to meet senior ministers in the central government with regard to the announcement of the financial package.
"The state government is getting some sort of difficult in getting the package cleared on account of wrong and miscalculation of ... | |
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