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| Govt trying to divert public attention from bigger issues | | Advancing of budget unrealistic, unfruitful exercise …! | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 30: As the PDP-BJP government has decided to advance presentation of budget presentation to January for next fiscal year, this move is not going to make any difference at all for whatever reasons and arguments it entails. The financial decisions are correlated to availability of funds about which the state government won't be having idea before the Union government passes its own budget, which will happen not before March end next year.
This is not the criticism of the announcement which the government made few days back , instead an observation of the insiders in the ruling allies itself. High level bureaucrats in the J&K administration too are of the firm view that advancing of budget will make no difference as to what the Finance Minister is seeking to achieve. Highly placed sources in the administration said this move is ostensibly not just unrealistic but impossible as the state budget and its figures are dependent upon what the state gets from its share of central budget. Since they (centre) so far have not changed their calendar for presenta... | |
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| Govt denies funds to PDD for electricity maintenance | | J&K set to witness worst power scenario this winter | | | Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
srinagar, Oct 30: Contrary to claims of the government about adhering to the power curtailment schedule, darker days are in the offing for the people of J&K this year.
Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh, who also holds the vital portfolio of Power, hasn't reportedly allotted sufficient funds to the Power Development Department (PDD), which could have ensured proper electricity during the winter.
Sources said PDD top brass has already apprised the government about the outcome of not releasing funds for rectification of the system.
Apart from urban areas of the state including Jammu and Srinagar cities, the rural belts would face the worst ever brunt... | |
| | | | 'Hostile VC' forces Prof Mattoo to cancel JU visit | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 30: Purported hostility of Jammu University Vice-Chancellor, Prof R D Sharma allegedly led to cancellation of the scheduled visit of Chief Minister's Advisor, Prof Amitabh Mattoo to the campus where the latter was invited as chief guest at a function on Wednesday.
Despite his formal nod for participation in the event Jashn-e-Riyasat, sources said that Prof Mattoo cancelled his scheduled visit at the eleventh hour following reports of JU VC's alleged displeasure shown to organizers of the programme.
If sources are to be believed, Prof Mattoo was at Srinagar Airport for taking his scheduled flight to Jammu on Wednesday morning when he received a call from t... | |
| | | | Why is BJP govt not declaring Pakistan a rogue state? | | Charity must begin at home | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 30: The other day, the state unit of the leaderless, directionless and issueless BJP urged the international community to take cognizance of what former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf said about the Pakistani role in Kashmir and in Pakistan to promote religious terrorism against India and declare Pakistan a rogue state. Musharraf had said that "Taliban Haqqani, Osama Bin Laden, Zawahiri, Hafiz Lakhvi are heroes of Pakistan" and Pakistan promoted and funded religious terrorism in Pakistan to hurt and bleed India and annex Kashmir.
"The recent admission of Musharraf that Pakistan trained and sponsored religious terrorism in Kashmir and acceptance ... | |
| | | | 'Missing' Rana surfaces, talks of Nagrota's development | | Residents reject his claims as joke | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 30: Conspicuous by his long absence, National Conference's Provincial President Devender Singh Rana claimed on Fridaythat development of Nagrota Assembly constituency forms core of his agenda.
Rana, according to a statement, was interacting with the people during his inspection of various ongoing development schemes across the constituency.
Rana's sudden appearance has taken many people by surprise in this winter capital of the state, where he does not spend most of his time.
Since last year's Assembly elections, Rana has maintained a meaningful silence on a host of issues related to Jammu and Jammuites.
Be it the issue of beef ban or any other issue dear... | |
| | | | Doctor booked by VOK enjoys political patronage in every regime; Medicos seek CM's intervention | | Private practitioner to be member of SKIMS Governing Body | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Oct 30: A senior doctor at SKIMS Soura here who is infamous for indulging in private practice and has many cases filed against him is all set to be member of the Governing Body of this prestigious hospital in Kashmir.
This doctor, from Department of Surgery, despite various complaints of misconduct registered against him, was promoted by the previous Omar Abdullah government. Now he is set to be more powerful by becoming the member of the decision making body of SKIMS.
The "influential doctor", as per the hospital insiders, is so much into private practice that after consultation at his private clinic, he facilitates the surgeries of his private patients at ... | |
| | | | Mufti persuaded Modi to visit JK, announce financial package | | BJP leaders not taken on board for PM's Srinagar rally | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 30: The BJP ministers in Jammu and Kashmir were reportedly not taken on board before Prime Minister Narendra Modi planned his forthcoming visit to Jammu and Kashmir, sources told Early Times on Friday.
They said the Prime Minister was persuaded by the Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to visit JK on November 7 and announce the financial packages for the people. "Since the day PDP-BJP have attained power in Jammu and Kashmir, none of the BJP ministers have even made an attempt to approach the Prime Minister's Office to seek an appointment with him to invite him to state," sources revealed.
They said, "This time around PM was persuaded by the Chief Min... | |
| | | | Dinesh Gupta's acts of "omissions & commissions" as CCB Chairman under scanner | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 30: The alleged acts of omissions and commissions of Dinesh Gupta, former Chairman of the Citizens Cooperative Bank Ltd, are under the scanner of Reserve Bank of India and Registrar Cooperative Societies.
According to highly placed sources, a secret inquiry into the alleged irregularities committed by Gupta during his tenure as CCB chairman, has been initiated. The secret probe would ascertain the facts about a series of allegations of frauds committed in the bank during the last two years of the outgoing Board of Directors.
Even as complaints of similar nature have also been forwarded to the State Vigilance Organization and Crime Branch, sources said that ... | |
| | | | Party leaders projecting police officer involved in bovine smuggling | | BJP's double standard on Beef ban | | | ET Report
Jammu, Oct 30: Double standard of BJP-self-styled pro-Hindu political party, has been exposed on beef issue because leaders of this party has recommended positing of controversial police officer, who was allegedly involved in bovine smuggling.
This controversial police officer has been posted on a very important and prestigious position in Jammu region despite being the fact that he was earlier suspended on the charges of encouraging bovine smuggling from border areas of Jammu and Kathua districts.
Credible sources revealed that higher-ups in the police department were not ready to transfer this controversial office on such a sensitive and important position because his track r... | |
| | | | Not a word of sympathy for victims of fanaticism | | Peace groups or gangs of secessionists | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 30: A number of so-called peace groups came into being in the Valley and outside after 1989, when the secessionist and communal movement gripped Kashmir. These peace groups or civil society groups or champions of human rights have never ever said a word of sympathy for those who were abused, tortured, insulted, persecuted and hounded out of Kashmir in the early 1990.
Nor have they ever spoken a word for India, which has always given a preferential and differential treatment to Kashmir and to the Valley leadership belonging to a particular religious sect that has been at the helm of affairs in the state since October 1947.
But more than that, these groups ha... | |
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