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| Karra, Hari Om on same page for different reasons | | PDP-BJP alliance | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 10: Monday witnessed PDP leader and Lok Sabha MP Tariq Hameed Karra and Prof Hari Om, former political advisor to J&K BJP president, issuing statements against the PDP-BJP coalition. Both warned their respective high commands that the coalition between the two was undesirable.
Karra asked his high command to appreciate the Bihar verdict and break ties with the BJP. "The results of the Bihar Assembly elections were a wake-up call to his party (PDP) as the door had been closed 'on communal forces'. Knock knock PDP. Still time to wake up. Door closed on communal forces. Window of opportunity opened for secular forces. Knock knock PDP," Karra said in a series of ... | |
| | | | As strike calls fail, separatists change strategy | | Desperation at its peak! | | | Give ‘chalo calls’ to disrupt normal life
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 10: Separatists are leaving no stone unturned to keep the pot boiling in Kashmir and want disturbance to prevail so that normal life remains disrupted and their bosses sitting across the Line of Control (LoC) remain happy.
As people have stopped paying heed to the frequent shutdown calls given by the separatists and have turned them irrelevant, now separatists have changed their strategy and have started calling for marches (chalos). To make his presence felt the Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani has called for Zainakote chalo on Wednesday to ensure that Government takes precautionary measures and life comes to ... | |
| | | | An honest view of Delhi-based commentator on PM Modi's package | | Plight of Jammu, Ladakh | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 10: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi's November 7 package, which was announced at Sher-e-Kashmir Stadium, Srinagar, has not only evoked a negative response from Jammu, but also from some leading Delhi-based commentators and J&K-watchers. One of the well-known commentators Sandhya Jain has described as disappointing the PM's package as far as Jammu and Ladakh are concerned.
Jain on Monday said: "Discontent has been simmering in Jammu and Ladakh regions after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Srinagar on November 7, where he bestowed a gigantic Rs 80,000 crore development package, as the feeling spread that he had mainly addressed the valley rather than t... | |
| | | | Housing Ministry shields officials who skipped Modi rally | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 10: Officials of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) had embarrassed the Government by staying away from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Srinagar on November 7. But instead of taking action against them, senior BJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh has allegedly come to the rescue of erring officials "to please a PDP Minister."
Insiders said Singh, who also heads the Housing Ministry, has not sought any disciplinary action against the erring SMC officials following the intervention of the PDP Minister.
Sources in Civil Secretariat said the Commissioner Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Department has been asked to "silen... | |
| | | | Allocations shrinking, only few get 100 days guaranteed work | | MGNREGA dying slow death | | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 10: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) which had invited strong criticism from Prime Minister Narender Modi, is dying a slow death in J&K as not even half of applicants got work this financial year. More surprisingly, not even one percent of those get job complete 100 days' job, guaranteed under this scheme.
According to the data available, there is decline in allocation of funds to all the State and in Jammu and Kashmir, a total of 211472 households had demanded employment under MGNREGA scheme but merely 103307 have so far been provided employment, which accounts for 48.85 percent.
Moreover, out of 103307 ap... | |
| | | | Was PSA record damaged in floods? CIC seeks evidence from HC | | | | ET Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 10: J&K's Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) G R Sufi has sought evidence from the High Court to substantiate the plea of Public Information Officer (PIO) of the court that vital record about quashing of orders issued under Public Safety Act was damaged in last year's floods.
Details available with Early Times reveal that an RTI applicant Abdul Manan Bukhari had sought information from the PIO of the High Court on 27-01-2015 about the total number of PSAs quashed by the court from 1988 to December 2014.
Bukhari had also sought the following information: Total number of PSAs against women quashed by the court from 1988 to December 2014, excluding the PSAs quashed... | |
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