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Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 3: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates in various municipal wards are facing problems due to non performance of sitting MLAs.
Sources said that these candidates while canvassing face volley of questions from various wards of JMC about the three years performance of sitting MLAs and promises made by the party in 2014 assembly elections.
At some places voters straightway tell party candidates that they have no personal animosity with them but they are not satisfied with the role of their respective MLAs.
This is becoming a headache for both BJP leadership and its candidates who are unable to convince the people on this account as senior leadership o... | |
| | | | Former militant becomes BJP's trump card in ULB elections in Valley | | |  Early Times Report
srinagar, Oct 3: In the restive Jammu and Kashmir, BJP is all set to field a former Pakistan-trained militant who has spent seven years in jail after he crossed over to the neighbouring country for arms training.
Mohammad Farooq Khan, a reformed militant, is one of the hundreds who'll be contesting the upcoming urban body elections, but his profile is one of the few that stands out.
He was still in college when the decisive 1987 elections changed Kashmir after it was rigge... | |
| | | | NC, PDP, Pak stooges sail in same boat | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 3: As the stage is set for the first phase of the municipal polls in Kashmir, the so-called Joint Resistance Leadership comprising Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Hurriyat dove Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik have called for a shutdown on October 8 to disrupt the polling during the first phase.
It's not for the first time that separatists have called for a shutdown on the polling day. They have been doing it for the past three decades.
"These Pak stooges want people to stay away from all those exercises which are aimed at empowering the people and to help them out to stand on their own feet," said an analyst.
He said that history stands testimony t... | |
| | | | No takers of party's promises on sanitation | | Residents mock at BJP's manifesto | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 3: BJP's manifesto for the forthcoming Urban Local Body elections has turned out to be a laughing stock as people are questioning it as a document of electoral hypocrisy.
Party's promise to streamline garbage collection, Solid waste management and sanitation in Jammu City if it made the Municipal Corporation has brought BJP under scanner as people are questioning as to what did the party do while it was in coalition government for more than three years. People ar... | |
| | | | School Edu officials under scanner for not celebrating 'Surgical Strike Day' | | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Oct 3: The authorities of School Education in J&K have come under the scanner for not celebrating the 'Surgical Strike Day'.
Schools across the state were directed to celebrate 'Surgical Strike Day' on September 27, 28, and 29, with strict instructions to heads of all educational institutions to submit proof of the celebrations in the form of pictures and video clippings.
The three-day events were to organised based on directions of the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry which had asked the Education departments in all states to ensure maximum participation of students in the events by organising a wide range of activities.
A circular from the minis... | |
| | | | JU's DDE victimises students of BA first semester | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 3: The very concept of facilitating students seeking admission in Directorate Distance Education (DDE), Jammu University, is being openly obliterated with impunity, with undergraduate students' semester first badly suffering due to lackadaisical approach of DDE.
Sources said that due to gross negligence of DDE and its concerned coordinator, students of BA first semester could not get their mark sheets and the academic future of these students is hanging in balance.
Sources further divulged that due to inefficiency of DDE, the Controller examination wing of university slapped fine of Rs 23 lakhs and the then VC Ramji Dass Sharma also constituted a committee c... | |
| | | | Cop killings, arms loot in Shopian put police in tight spot | | New Delhi-Raj Bhawan meeting likely soon | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 3: With no let up in killing of cops and snatching of weapons in Shopian, the Jammu and Kashmir Police have come under tight spot for their failure to bring situation under control in the south Kashmir district.
Sources said New Delhi is shocked to know that in the last four odd months, at least nine cops have been killed by militants and around dozen weapons were snatched whereas militancy continues to be on rise in the district.
Official sources said the Union Home Ministry has been keenly tracking the developments that are taking place in the district which is also famous for apples.
It was reliably learnt that the Union Home Ministry will be picking up ... | |
| | | | NC-PDP alliance phone call away | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 3: The much-awaited alliance of PDP and National Conference is now jus a phone call away, with the NC patron and president Dr Farooq Abdullah reportedly waiting for the PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti to call him so that things could be given a final shape.
So far the alliance was being viewed by many as a captious entity fraught with severe consequences. However, it seems to have been dawned upon the leadership that in order to survive in Kashmir's political landscape, the bonhomie is inevitable.
As per reports, Farooq Abdullah has reportedly expressed much interest towards the idea of his party joining hands with the PDP and jointly fighting the emergence of the... | |
| | | | Rohingya influx in Jammu continues unabated | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 3: The people of Jammu had been demanding deportation of Rohingyas since month, saying their presence in the City of Temples constituted a grave threat to national security and the demography of the region. They held several protest demonstrations in Jammu during the period. The brewing anger in Jammu against Rohingyas settled near Army camps, in Sunjuwan-Narwal-Bathindi area and near Army camp at Nagrota and within the city's such localities as Talab Tillo had its impact on the Union Government.
It was under the pressure of the Union Home Ministry that the Mehbooba Mufti-led coalition government set up a Cabinet Sub-Committee headed by a senior BJP minister ... | |
| | | | Opposition in Kashmir to Ladakh politically motivated | | More powers to hill councils | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 3: On September 26, the State Administrative Council (SAC) under Governor Satya Pal Malik took a major decision aimed at making autonomous hill councils in Ladakh's Leh and Kargil districts more powerful. That day, it approved landmark draft Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (Amendment) Bill, 2018. The objective behind the Bill was to make autonomous hill development councils in Leh and Kargil powerful and enable them to exercise administrative and financial powers. The basic objective was to create a regime that would ensure their unhindered functioning and enable them to address the concerns, requirements and aspirations of the people living in th... | |
| | | | Government orders minor reshuffle in middle rung bureaucracy | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 3: The state government today ordered for a minor reshuffle in the middle rung bureaucracy in the state.
Zahoor Ahmad Mir, KAS, Executive Director, Rehabilitation Council, Social Welfare Department, is transferred and posted as Additional Deputy Commissioner, Bandipora, relieving Mohammad Qasim Wani, KAS, ADDC, Bandipora of the additional charge of the post.
Rifat Arif, KAS, Special Secretary to the Government, Social Welfare Department shall hold the additional charge of the post of Executive Director, Rehabilitation Council, Social Welfare Department, till further orders.
Mohammad Tanwir, KAS, Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Mendhar, is transferred and... | |
| | | | Re-emergence of militancy in Srinagar poses tough challenge to police, other security agencies | | With municipal elections round the corner security beefed up across summer capital | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 3: With the first phase of municipal elections just few days' away security has been beefed up across the Srinagar city with personnel of Jammu & Kashmir Police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) maintaining a strict vigil in the summer capital of the state. Police has established check points and nakas at many points in the city and the passersby are being checked although randomly. Vigil is being maintained on the people who cross such check points and nakas with special focus being laid on the movement of motorcycles, scooters and scooties.
Nakas and check points have been set up at places like Sanat Nagar, Baghat, Lal Mandi, ... | |
| | | | Far flung villages rue lack of basic amenities, accuse successive Govts of neglect | | |  S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
KUPWARA, Oct 3: Seven decades after independence, many areas of the border districts of the state are still without basic amenities like drinking water, road, electricity and medical and educational facilities, putting a serious question mark on the future of the young generations of these areas.
Scores of villages in Hyhama area of Kupwara including Manigah Halqa-C, Behak Sabaya, Chattwan, Breenbal, Haji Naka, Sonawali, Tana and other adjoining forest... | |
| | | | Kulgam family appeals son to return home | | |  Early Times Report
Kulgam, Oct 3: A distressed family from South Kashmir's Kulgam district has came forward to make an appeal to their son, whose photo with a gun is being circulating in the social media, to come back home.
Shoib Ahmad Lone, an engineering student, who hails from Burath Village of Kulgam district, had gone missing and last week his photograph with an assault rifle on social media sites. The youth, family and police authorities believe, to have joined militant ranks. Lone'... | |
| | | | Former Health Minister ignores his own home town | | Residential quarters in DH Ramban still incomplete | | | G S Asgotra
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 3: Former Minister Bali Bhagat who was on inauguration spree of health buildings across the state forgot building in his own which was sanctioned under his tenure.
Sources informed Early Times that the Health Department had sanctioned residential quarters of Medical Officers and Paramedical Staff in District Hospital, Ramban in financial year, 2015- 2016 at a cost of Rs 621 Lakhs and work of the construction was allotted to Jammu and Kashmir Project Construction Corporation (JKPCC).
"During the allotment of the work, the health department had announced the deadline of completion in 2017-18 but the executive agency failed to complete work i... | |
| | | | Ahead of winter, forces directed to remain on high alert to counter infiltration | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 3: With the reports that infiltration activities may be heightened from now till winters along Line of Control (LoC), the Defence Ministry has directed forces to remain on high alert and stop infiltration so that situation could be saved from getting worse in coming months.
Sources told Early Times that the Defence Ministry has said that two months are crucial till end of November. "Militants will try to infiltrate massively. If we manage to curtail it, then next year will be easy, so the forces have to remain on high alert," the Defence Ministry has said.
Sources said that most of the infiltration takes place in the northern areas of the valley.
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| | | | Head Assistant enjoys attachment at CEO office Kathua sans post | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 3: An influential Head Assistant for whose adjustment the then Chief Education Officer (CEO) Kathua had shifted a post from Deputy CEO office Billawar has now started working at CEO office Kathua without any sanctioned post.
Early Times had carried a series of reports quoting several official communiqués between Additional Deputy Commissioner Billawar and CEO Kathua along with communications between CEO Kathua and Director School Education for the transfer of the post.
A clerk, who had been working at CEO office for the last many years, was promoted to the post of Head Assistant, but there was not any sanctioned position of Head Assistant in the CEO offic... | |
| | | | Coaches, sports officials may face heat for inefficiency | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 3: The inefficiency on part of coaches and officials to train players well is affecting the overall sports of Jammu and Kashmir.
This has been apparently mentioned in a Sports Policy Draft framed by Jammu and Kashmir State Sports Council.
As per the draft, a copy of which is with Early Times, the system shall be devised to make sports officers and coaches accountable.
"The Sports Department shall issue annual calendar of activities ahead of the start of new financial year, which are required to be carried out by coaches and sports officers. Targets shall be fixed for every sports officer and coach and their performance shall be evaluated accordingly,"... | |
| | | | With single Commissioner in place; appeals, complaints piling up in SIC | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 3: In the absence of Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) and another Information Commissioner (IC) ,the appeals and complaints are piling up at State Information Commission (SIC) and appellants and complainants are not able to get justice under Right to Information Act (RTI).
Details available with Early Times reveal that single Information Commissioner Mohammad Ashraf Mir has been hearing complaints and appeals in the State Information Commission (SIC) from last 3 months as Khusrhid Ahmad Ganai resigned from the post of Chief Information Commissioner (CIC). Sources have told Early Times that Information Commissioner Mohammad Ashraf Mir is working overt... | |
| | | | Govt to set up restrooms, changing rooms for women at public places | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 3: The Jammu and Kashmir government today directed authorities concerned to take immediate steps for setting up basic facilities for women at pubic places.
The move is aimed at securing women's right to privacy and interests of newborn babies and their mothers in light of the Section-22 of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, a circular released by Secretary at the Social Welfare Department Farooq Ahmad Lone said. "It is impressed upon all the stakeholders including executing agencies like municipalities, development authorities, Public Works Department, Gardens, Parks and Floriculture Department, Rural Development Department, district administrations... | |
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