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2 yrs on, SAC probe into ULB scam goes nowhere 10/28/2015 1:12:12 PM Javaid Naikoo Early Times Report Srinagar, Oct 27: The State Accountability Commission's probe into illegal appointments in the department of Urban Local Bodies (ULB) is going nowhere even after more than two years. In May 2013, the SAC had started an enquiry into the alleged role of then deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand in the illegal appointments in ULB. Accordingly, a division bench of the Commission comprising chairman Justice (retd) Y P Nargotra and Justice (retd) Hakim Imtiyaz Hussain directed for a regular enquiry into the allegations of misuse of official position by Tara Chand. Ironically, in June 2011, Tara Chand had himself chaired a meeting to discuss the recruitment scam. In the meeting then Principal Secretary, Housing and Urban Development, Suresh Kumar, had asked then Director, Local Bodies, Mohammad Afzal Bhat to attach few executive officers. But the order was soon revoked after the intervention of two top politicians who according to sources themselves had earlier directed the executive officers to recruit their kin. Reports say the ULB made more than 1...   READ MORE

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Omar may not get invite for PM's functions in J&K 10/28/2015 1:11:52 PM Omar may not get invite for PM's functions in J&K Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 27: J&K's former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is unlikely to be invited to any function of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his visit to the State next week. The PMO has finalized the itinerary of the PM on his visit to the State and also the list of the guests included, sources told Early Times. They said the PMO has categorically stated that Omar should not be included in any of the functions to be held during the PM's visit. It's not for the first time that Omar has fallen out with Modi. Even when he was CM, Omar was not invited to a function of the hydro project in the Kishtwar, and in the subsequent fu...   READ MORE   Modi to visit Srinagar, skip Jammu on Nov 7 'BJP has failed winter capital' 10/28/2015 1:11:30 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Oct 27: Prime Minister, Narendra Modi who is scheduled to address a mega rally in Srinagar on November 7 during his daylong visit of the State is likely to skip Jammu City. Sources said the PM Modi has been persuaded to address a mega rally in Srinagar. BJP leaders have not shown any enthusiasm to convince the Prime Minister to visit the winter capital, which voted his party to power in Jammu and Kashmir. Insiders in the BJP said the party has miserably failed to come up to the expectations of the people of Jammu and that the biggest embarrassment has been the failure of the Central Government in the establishment of much-needed AIIMS in the region. Ti...   READ MORE   Ex-Minister gets PHQ order cancelled to retain PSO 10/28/2015 1:11:00 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 27: An ex-Minister and Congress leader has managed to get a PHQ (police headquarters) order cancelled to retain his "trustworthy" PSO. He headed a powerful ministry in the erstwhile NC-Congress regime. Since he now ceases to be a Minister, PHQ withdrew his PSO, a havaldar, as per order No 1677 which was issued on June 17 last, according to police sources. The Minister, however, did not let the PSO go. When the PHQ exerted pressure on the PSO and asked him to join his duties at a new place, the ex-Minister was compelled to take up the matter with it. After he spoke to the senior officers at PHQ, his PSO's transfer order was withdrawn. Now, he is again th...   READ MORE   Ajatshatru still an outsider in BJP? 10/28/2015 1:10:41 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 27: Despite him joining the saffron brigade last year and getting nominated as MLC, former Minister in then Farooq Abdullah Government and scion of erstwhile Dogra rulers, Ajatshatru Singh is still considered an outsider in the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party. This became evident during the BJP function on the eve of Accession Day at Jammu as the party went to the extent of not even inviting Ajatshatru Singh in the said programme, which was organized especially near the life-size statue of Maharaja Hari Singh near Tawi Bridge. According to the sources in BJP circles, the organizers of this programme were allegedly directed by some senior leaders of the part...   READ MORE   Bharat Ratna for Maharaja Hari Singh Why Ajatshatru remained calm over years? 10/28/2015 1:10:28 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 27: The demand made by BJP MLC and grandson of Maharaja Hari Singh that the former deserves to be given Bharat Ratna posthumously and the Jammu airport be named on his name besides declaring Accession Day as a Gazetted holiday in the State has not augur well with some political parties and social organizations of the State. Ridiculing the statement of Mr Singh the leaders of these organizations asked Mahraj Kumar that what his dynasty has been doing all over these years when his father was on important position in Congress which ruled the country for over five decades and when he was the Sadar-e-Riyasat of the State. Had been the family so sincere in gi...   READ MORE   Decades on, Hr Edu deptt fails to transfer influential college professors from GDC Kathua 10/28/2015 1:10:04 PM Akshay Azad Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 27: Transfer of influential college professors has become a Gordian knot for Higher Education department, whose alleged premeditated helplessness could be gauged from the overstay of nearly two dozen professors of Government Degree College Kathua, who have been taking pleasure at their choicest place of posting for the last many years, in sheer contravention of transfer policy. Sources informed Early Times that top among the overstaying college professors in GDC Kathua, was Dr. Anita Kiran of English subject, who has been overstaying for the last nearly two decades. In the last almost two decades, Dr. Anita Kiran was reportedly transferred tw...   READ MORE   Will BJP honour its commitment, end discrimination with Leh? Jammu being ignored, humiliated 10/28/2015 1:09:35 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 27: The BJP has been celebrating its victory in the Leh Council elections since October 23. There are legitimate reasons for it to celebrate its victory. After all, it won 18 of the 25 seats it contested and decimated the ruling Congress and it will be in the driving seat, for the first time, in the region, on or before November 7. In the meantime, BJP national vice-president and in-charge J&K affairs Avinash Rai Khanna said, "The BJP had gone to the people of Ladakh with an agenda of development and providing a corruption-free administration. Voters showed faith in our party and rejected the Congress, which only provided lip service, but did nothing in p...   READ MORE   8 months on, BJP Ministers yet to learn tricks of the trade 10/28/2015 1:07:58 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Oct 27: Even after passing of eight months, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Ministers are finding it hard to fit themselves in the system. Many junior Ministers of the saffron party are unaware about how their ministries are being run. The Minister of State for Finance Pawan Kumar making an honest assertion that he has never been taken into confidence since the day he has assumed the office has proved the critics right that BJP Ministers are nothing more than second fiddles. Highly placed sources told Early Times that officials also don't take BJP junior Ministers seriously. "Officials directly report to the senior Ministers and don't even bother to apprise ...   READ MORE   8 Accession day Mir adds to Congress woes in Jammu 10/28/2015 1:07:40 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 27: The Congress leaders from Jammu province had been trying hard to recapture the political space their party lost in the region to the BJP in the 2014 general elections as well as Assembly elections by exposing what they called "BJP's anti-Jammu credentials and policies". During the past nearly eight months, the Congress leadership from Jammu region held a number of anti-BJP demonstrations, including the one recently held in front of the BJP headquarters (Pt Prem Nath Dogra Bhawan), burnt the effigies of the BJP Ministers and also extended overt and covert support to the activities organized by other groups, including the now-defunct and unpopular AIIMS...   READ MORE   Is Health Minister inherently against women folk….? All controversies he raked up involved only women…..! 10/28/2015 1:07:23 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 27: Is J&K Health Minister inherently against women….? Habitual of courting controversies, his acts and the behaviour always involved women whom he hit one way or the other. It may be just a matter of coincidence , yet the fact remains whenever he created controversies post assuming the charge as PDP-BJP alliance Government's Health Minister, the issues were linked with the women folk, the latest one being his statement on sex determination tests, which is a shocker for the women folk. Health Minister remained in news many times during NC-Congress coalition Government over a host of issues. In the present dispensation too he could not resist the temptatio...   READ MORE   MD JK Cements allows Illegal revision of Rs 5 cr 10/28/2015 1:06:46 PM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early Times Report Srinagar, Oct 27: The J&K Cements Limited's Managing Director has, in violation of the rules, allowed illegal revision of Rs 5 crore to a New Delhi-based company. According to details available with Early Times, the previous National Conference-Congress Government had decided to install a grinding-cum-packaging unit with a capacity of 300 tons per day at Industrial Growth Centre Samba. Later, the project was approved at a cost of Rs 26.80 crores, which was funded by State Government in the shape of equity. The Government then decided to call tenders for installation of required machinery, and accordingly the rates of Delhi-based company M/s Ashoka G...   READ MORE   BSF, Pakistan Rangers hold flag meeting 10/28/2015 12:39:36 AM early times report Jammu, Oct 27: A flag meeting between commanders of the Border Security Force (BSF) and Pakistan's Rangers is currently underway to discuss recent incidents of cross border firing in Suchetgarh in RS Pura, Jammu on Tuesday. The BSF, represented by DIG BS Kasana, strongly protested the recent incident of "unprovoked shelling" from across the border in Samba, Hiranagar, Ramgarh and Kathua sub sectors since October 23. Wasim Jaffar Bhatti will represent Pakistan's Rangers. One civilian was killed and over a dozen others injured on the Indian side in cross border firing in the last seven days, officials said. Pakistan has also claimed five civilians were killed on their s...   READ MORE

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