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| Autumn session to begin today, beef ban can set JK legislature on 'fire' | | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 2: As the autumn session of the Legislative Assembly gets underway on Saturday all eyes are focused towards speaker Kavinder Gupta as how would he deal with the 'tricky' issue of the discussion on beef ban in the state.
Gupta, who is a legislator of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), has over the days given contradictory signals with respect to the discussion on beef ban in the state. While as in the first instance, the Speaker had decided not to allow discussion on the matter, he has of late seemed to have changed his mind and decided to allow the discussion.
However, his decision of allowing the discussion on the 'tricky' matter may not go well with the legislators of his party. The BJP has already made it clear that it will not hesitate to resort to violence if any discussion is held on the issue of beef ban in the state. The party has also voiced concern if the beef ban is revoked in the state.
Since Gupta who is the Speaker of the House has almost decided to allow discussion on beef ban issue, it remains to be seen what would b... | |
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| 'Additional CCTV cameras installed in and around Assembly complex' | | Security beefed up | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 2: Tight security measures have been put in place for the autumn session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislature beginning tomorrow.
" Para-military forces are being deployed for security duties in and around the legislature premises apart from the specials squads of the police," one of the senior police officer told Early Times.
He said that as part of measures, additional CCTV cameras are being installed to keep a close watch on movement of every person in the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly.
He added that Police personnel in civvies have also been posted at several places to keep track on the movement of suspicious pe... | |
| | | | Will coalition boat sink or survive? | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 2: A big test awaits PDP-BJP coalition government as the autumn session of Assembly begins on Saturday in Srinagar.
The beef ban issue will dominate the session as both the coalition partners have different stands on it.
While the BJP is in favour of implementation of the ban on beef sale and wants the law to be strengthened, the PDP is in a dilemma. PDP's constituency, Kashmir valley, from where they get maximum seats, want to scrap the beef ban law and allow Muslim population to eat whatever is permitted in their religion.
Both BJP and PDP leaders have been issuing contradictory statements, and sacking of Assistant Advocate General and Deputy Advocate Gen... | |
| | | | Former 'failed' CM talks about irrelevant UN resolutions | | Forgets JK's Accession to Union of India is final | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 2: The former Chief Minister and National Conference Working President Omar Abdullah these days is busy advising India and Pakistan how they can improve their relations, but his suggestions has no takers.
When Omar was the Chief Minister he was snubbed on many occasions by the national leadership for poking his nose into the affairs which don't fall in his domain.
It seems he has forgotten that as a Chief Minister he proved to be disaster and failed on all the fronts. During his tenure all the developmental works came to a grinding halt. He remained busy in raking up controversies like revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from the st... | |
| | | | PoK protests leave separatists, 'intellectuals' red faced | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 2: The protests in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir against Pakistan have stunned the separatists and the self styled intellectuals. According to the intelligence agency sources, the protests in the PoK and Gilgit Baltistan have made separatists red-faced as it has exposed the long held truth about the real situation in the PoK, It has also exposed the myth created by a section of intellectuals in the Kashmir to paint India in wrong colours.
" Not only separatists but even intellectuals and especially the columnists, who are paid by the Pakistan through different agencies, have suddenly gone silent. They haven't spoken anything about it and even the media in t... | |
| | | | Swachh Bharat Abhiyan a photo-op for BJP leaders | | Mahatma's pic finds no place in BJP billboard | |  Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 2: A large billboard with photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders in Main Stop area of Jammu city, just behind a filthy drain and garbage pile, mocks at the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Ironically, photo of Mahatma Gandhi, on whose birth anniversary the campaign was launched last year, finds no place in the billboard.
On Friday morning, Jammuites found two large hoardings in the Main Stop area, one raised by BJP and another by a local... | |
| | | | Old Women Cell building turns Whorehouse | | SI facilitating safe haven to bigwigs into flesh-trading | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 2: No sooner the Women Cell that used to function at Canal Head road shifted to Gandhinagar police station, the vacant building behind has been left not less than a red light zone for flesh trading.
It may sound bizarre, but the building that once housed a cell looking after the women care, now openly and brazenly providing sojourns to sex-hungry high-ups who have made it a brothel protected under the cops' cover in the dead of night.
"It has become a safe haven for the sex-mongers who bring their haul to the building while greasing the palms of a sub-inspector and spend enjoyable hours without any ado," said one of the police official in the lower rung wh... | |
| | | | Has J&K BJP president read agenda of alliance? | | Ignorance always dangerous | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 2: J&K State BJP president and Lok Sabha MP, Jugal Kishore Sharma, has defended the BJP alliance with the PDP and asserted that the coalition government has been working well. Besides, he commended the PDP-BJP agenda of alliance and declared that the agenda of alliance formed the basis for the formation of the PDP-BJP government and that both the parties were committed to follow it and implement it. He aired these views while interacting with BJP workers from Udhampur at the party headquarters, Jammu. One can understand why BJP leaders like Ram Madhav and the BJP ministers like the Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh commend the alliance and its agenda, whic... | |
| | | | More eulogizing ceremony for Health Minister, nightmare for patients | | Peculiar Gandhi Jayanti celebrations in GMC | | | Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 2: The Gandhi Jayanti celebrations in Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) Jammu on Friday turned into a nightmare for hundreds of patients as OPD was closed for organizing programme, which was more eulogizing ceremony for Health Minister and less a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi as there was no space for a portrait of Father of Nation which were overshadowed by hoardings of BJP in the function.
Paying little heed to the comfort of patients despite the fact that hospitals are generally a silence zone, loudspeakers were used in function organized by Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), while walls of OPD hall of the GMC were pasted with large h... | |
| | | | BJP not to raise ‘Jazya’ issue in LA | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 2: Even as speculations are rife that J&K Legislative Assembly will allow discussion on bill seeking revocation of ban on sale of beef in Jammu and Kashmir, the Bharatiya Janata Party will not raise the issue of imposition of tax on Mata Vaishno Devi pilgrimage during the upcoming session here.
Highly placed sources said the BJP leadership has issued a "confidential whip" to its lawmakers not to pick up the issue of taxation on the revered pilgrimage during the legislative session as it would send a "wrong signal."
"In the general interest of the smooth functioning of the coalition, it has been unanimously resolved that none of us will raise any questi... | |
| | | | One month on, DyCM yet to fulfil his assurance | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 2: Exactly one month back, when Finance Minister Dr Haseeb Drabu had issued an order to impose 12.5 percent service tax on the pilgrims of holy cave shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi, Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh was first to react against this decision- which was widely perceived as "Jaziya" by the Hindu groups.
As Hindu groups were up in arms against this unilateral decision of the Finance Minister to impose tax on pilgrims, the Deputy Chief Minister had assured these groups and civil society of Jammu that this "Jaziya" will be withdrawn within a day or two. Exactly one month has passed but Deputy Chief Minister's assurance is yet to be fulfilled. So... | |
| | | | Rs 25,000 allegedly taken as bribe to release "innocent" mechanic | | He was picked up by police for buying "stolen" mobike from a trash dealer | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 2: A bribe of Rs 25,000 was allegedly taken by police from a two-wheeler mechanic who was picked up by them for buying a stolen motorcycle from a trash dealer some time back.
The mechanic, who runs a motorcycle repair workshop somewhere at Nagrota, was said to have been apprehended yesterday by the cops of a police station, that falls across the Tawi bridge near Gandhi Nagar, after his name figured in the interrogation of the trash dealer, according to police sources.
Sources alleged that the trash dealer used to buy stolen vehicles from the thieves of two-wheelers active in the city and suburbs at cheaper rates and then sell them to different people on h... | |
| | | | Now, BJP plans to hoodwink Ladakhis | | Leh council elections | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 2: State BJP general secretary (organization) Ashok Koul, who should normally remain busy with organizational activities, on Thursday took an extraordinary step by releasing the party's manifesto for the October 17 Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Leh, elections at Leh. He released what he called "nine-point agenda", which, among other things, talked about the long-standing demand of the people of Ladakh for Union Territory status.
Releasing the agenda, Ashok Koul, who, according to insiders, "wanted to become Deputy Chief Minister", said that the "nine-point agenda includes to streamline development plans and the planning process in th... | |
| | | | Bridge, road to Juthana routed through forest | | |  Arun Trisal
Early Times Report
Kathua, Oct 2: Union Ministry for Environment and Forests organizes several awareness camps and programmes to save Forests especially green trees but ironically despite of having knowledge of Forest Acts, Public Works Department & Jammu and Kashmir Projects Construction Corporation JKPCC, a government owned company have rerouted construction work of road/ bridge from Dodala - Juthana at the project cost of 46 crore to Dodala via Forest beat specifically Closu... | |
| | | | Park turns into residential plots, Registrar Coop orders inquiry | | |  Sumit Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 2: In an alleged encroachment, the park sanctioned for the Tawi Vihar Colony residents by the Housing Corporation has been allotted as plots for the residential purpose.
The park was inaugurated by the former deputy Mayor Rani Billowria. Protest erupted in the Tawi Vihar Colony after two persons, one of which is the former Town Planner and other is the owner of the palatial hotel in Jammu claimed that they have been allotted plots by the Housing Co... | |
| | | | In Valley, private clinics, labs thrive on ailing public health sector | | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 2: Kashmir Valley boasts of major government hospitals, but the patients have to rely on private clinics and laboratories.
According to information gathered by Early Times from patients, hospitals' staff and other relevant quarters, most of the patients visiting public hospitals like SMHS, JVC, LD, JLNM are advised to see specialist doctors at their private clinics and get tests done from particular labs outside.
Thousands of patients, including many from adjoining as well as far-flung areas, visit these Srinagar hospitals every day.
Sources said that around 70 percent of the private laboratories where the patients are referred by the spe... | |
| | | | 3 illegal saw mills seized in Kathua after ET report | | |  Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 2: The Forest Department has woken up from slumber and seized three illegal saw mills in Jastora forest range, a fortnight after Early Times carried a report the issue.
In its September 12 edition, this newspaper had reported that more than a dozen saw mills were operating illegally in district Kathua.
Acting on the report, sources said a joint team of Forest Department and Forest Protection Force (FPF) carried out a raid in Jasotra range and seized... | |
| | | | Students forced to work as bonded labourers | | |  Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar Oct 2: In a shocking incident of forcing the school children's to work as bonded labourer, the students of Higher Secondary School Sounder in remote Dachhan area of Kishtwar district were asked by his own teacher to act as a laborer for shifting some personal material to the house of the said teacher.
As per the details available with "Early Times" the incident was reported yesterday when the local staff member directed the students to accompany hi... | |
| | | | Army finally softens stand on vacating JU land | | Can Mattoo- Nirmal team mitigate JU's woes? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 2: Several years later, Jammu University, the premier centre of learning in the region and entire state, which is asphyxiated for pressing constraint of space, is hopeful of getting back the crucial chunk of land that is under the occupation of the Army for decades.
With Dr. Nirmal Singh, JU's alumnus and professor in History in the Dy CM's chair and former VC Prof. Amitabh Mattoo's writ carrying stamp of the CM, University fraternity is hopeful of redeeming its legitimate holdings which it has been deprived for such a long time.
JU has become a mad house of traffic with vehicles being parked on either side of the narrow roads in the absence of a modern park... | |
| | | | Intake capacity 300, but only 135 students join SMVDU | | | | Sumit Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 2: Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU) is failing to attract students as out of the intake capacity of 300, only 135 students have joined this year, raising questions about the efficiency of administration.
Further, the varsity authorities have admitted a student in the five-year integrated course of M Sc Economics even as she had not qualified the Class 12 exams.
The girl namely Apoorva Jamwal was declared re-appear. She took admission in the university provisionally on the plea that she had applied for the re-evaluation. Sources said the re-evaluation established that the girl had indeed failed.
If the sources are to be believed, the... | |
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