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| 'Inaccessible' BJP Mantris leave party workers in lurch | | Enjoy power, without delivering! | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 11: It has been a week when Durbar reopened in the winter capital but BJP ministers have been playing 'hide & seek' game with the workers of the party, not to speak of common masses for whom they are simply inaccessible and unapproachable by all means.
'Unreachable and difficult to catch' tag which was seen earlier and the standoffish attitude has remained unchanged with almost all the BJP ministers, despite occasional reprimand from the central leadership for their conduct.
Sources in the party said that workers and even senior functionaries of the organization who were keenly awaiting arrival of Durbar Move to Jammu are distraught and disappointed for all their struggle to have access to mantris. Their attempts to reach them have borne no result. The workers have been making frenzied rounds between the office chambers of ministers in the Civil Secretariat and their official residences in Jammu to meet them but it has proved to be a difficult task, as ever, sources said adding that during the last five working days in the Secretariat, even thou... | |
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| Friday politics becomes headache for common man | | Kashmir Unrest | | | Separatists look for dead bodies to keep pot boiling
Early Times Report
srinagar, Nov 11: Friday in Kashmir has become the most difficult day for the people as separatists leave no stone unturned on this day to foment trouble and create confusion across the Valley.
They (separatists) try to take the advantage of the congregation prayers, which are offered in different mosques across the Valley. Clashes breaking out after the Friday prayers have become a routine and these have intensified since the day present unrest has broken out in Kashmir.
Sources told Early Times that on every Fridayhenchmen of separatists orchestrate street protests soon after the congregation prayers ... | |
| | | | Govt mulls major crackdown | | | |
Early Times Report
srinagar, Nov 11: In a bid to restore normalcy, the state government is contemplating to go for a major crackdown on miscreants who have been hell bent to keep the pot boiling in restive Kashmir.
Sources said apart from plans to arrest around 3,000 more youth, the government may detain some of the civil society faces in Kashmir, where agitation is on since July 8 when militant commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani and his two colleagues were killed.
Sources said the police has started discussing scope of the major crackdown in the wake of failure of the separatist-"stakeholders" meeting held on November 8, something which has dashed the hopes of softening of the protest cal... | |
| | | | Fed up with Hurriyat, Kashmiris look for alternative leadership | | | | Early Times Report
srinagaR, Nov 11: Though the separatist Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani has extended the strike call in the Valley till November 17, the ground situation is totally different.
A common Kashmiri is disillusioned with bandh and strike calls, which have paralysed the Valley for last four months since the killing of dreaded Hizbul Commander Burhan Wani on July 8.
According to sources, the majority of people in the Valley are opposed to the bandh calls but are helpless as the civil society is not mustering courage to come openly against the separatists and terrorists.
Sources said various small organisations and their leaders who are fed up with the role o... | |
| | | | While working for CID, he passes on info to other officer | | A mole in CID | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 11: There is a mole in the CID wing of police in Jammu district. While he is supposed to keep secret all the information, which he gathers from his field staff or which flows to him from other sources, he shares it with a senior officer of executive police on regular basis. This is a case of 'professional misconduct'.
After his posting in CID some time back, the Inspector was allotted Jammu district. Before his transfer, he was posted in Jammu where he headed two to three police stations as their SHO.
"Being in CID, all the information about Jammu district flows to him. He shares this information with the senior officer every evening. He even updates the off... | |
| | | | 'Tortured' by SHO, poor dishwasher forced by BJP workers to work without wages | | | | Early Times Report
RAJOURI, Nov 11: Life has become hell for this dishwasher hailing from Sunderbani here as the poor man is being harassed by some workers of the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) who want him to work at their homes free of cost.
For Joginder Pal son of Paras Ram of Barnara, who ekes out two square meals a day by working as domestic help who cleans utensils for some families in the area, life took an ugly turn on July 22, 2016, when after day of hard work he had reached his humble cottage to have meals.
"I had just started eating my meals when the door banged and police rushed in. I was even not allowed to complete my meals or wear slippers but was instantly whisked awa... | |
| | | | Demonetisation gives sleepless nights to Govt employees in JK | | | | Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 11: Chaos prevailed across the country since Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes were withdrawn by the Centre in a sudden move on November 8. In J&K, the move is giving sleepless nights to doctors and other government employees.
Official sources told Early Times that few doctors of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) Jammu and its associated hospitals have 'disappeared' after the Centre announced demonetisation of the currency notes.
"Like many other government employees, these doctors are also worried and went missing from the hospital. They are probably finding way to save their black money," said sources.
"It's rumoured that some... | |
| | | | RS Pura, the Basmati bowl of Jammu, worst hit by border clashes | | | |
GS Asgotra
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 11: RS Pura and its adjoining tehsils, which are basmati bowl of Jammu, are the worst sufferers of continuous Indo-Pak border skirmishes, as migrant labourers are refusing to harvest paddy crop.
The basmati growers of RS Pura, Suchetgarh, Bishnah, Akhnoor and other areas are a disgruntled lot as they are finding it difficult to harvest the full grown crop of paddy, which is famous for its aroma.
The indiscriminate firing and mortar shelling by Pakistani Rangers have so far claimed many lives while several others have been injured. Besides, thousands of villagers have been forced to take shelter in relief camps set up by district administration.... | |
| | | | IT clamps down on jewelers accepting old notes at 40 pc discount | | Sab Gool Maal Hain! | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 11: As part of their clamp down on jewelers accepting banned Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes across the country on 40 pc discount, the investigation units of Income Tax department today carried out search and survey operations on 25 leading jewelers in Jammu, Samba, Kathua and Udhampur districts.
All the 25 jewelers in bullion trade. Their premises were searched following inputs that they were discounting the banned Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes at 40 per cent.
They wer... | |
| | | | 2009 recommendations gathering dust, yet NAAC granted JU A+ | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 11: Having got A+ from NAAC team which was headed by tainted ex-Vice-Chancellor of Goa University, University of Jammu has preferred maintaining complete silence over the recommendations of the committee which granted it A grade during the 2009 assessment.
What makes the higher grading suspect is the fact that of many recommendations, only a few have been accepted and implemented. Many of the recommendations have not been implemented in toto yet the team headed by tainted ex-VC of Goa University found the University fit for being upgraded from A to A+. The team did not ask administration of Jammu University (JU) for taking too much time in reforming the s... | |
| | | | Why JK's 'ailing' health sector needs major revamp | | | | Saqib Ahmad
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 11: Despite government claims of uplifting the health care system in J&K, the poor health sector, which has been ignored by the successive regimes, is craving for a major revamp.
It took government two years to terminate 100 doctors for remaining away from duties unauthorisedly, which shows authorities' lack of seriousness in uplifting the health care sector. Two years ago, government had sent notices to 300 medicos who were working abroad. Of them, 30 have joined duties in J&K and 100 were then terminated from the service. Despite the Health Department facing shortage of doctors and craving for major revamp, it took government two years to i... | |
| | | | BJP takes no action against its own MLA but criticizes govt | | Terming mountain a Valley | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 11: Something is patently wrong with the local BJP leadership. It is confused and adopting two approaches on the one and the same issue. The case in point is the PDP-BJP government's stand on the erstwhile Doda district, which was trifurcated into Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban districts during the regime of Ghulam Nabi Azad in 2007. The official handouts and the PDP ministers call the mountain region in which Ramban, Kishtwar and Doda districts are located. The official handouts and PDP ministers and NC leaders also call the mountain region of Pirpanjal as Pir Panjal Valley.
On Thursday, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti visited Kishtwar. Thereafter, two official han... | |
| | | | Census report or DC: Whom to believe on Jammu population? | | | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 11: The Census 2011 shows the population of Jammu city as nearly 15 Lakhs but surprisingly the District Development Commissioner (DDC) office Jammu has the figure of 17.75 Lakhs, creating trouble for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution department, which had been supplying ration to dealers as lists issued by DC Office.
Sources in the department informed Early Times that during the implementation of National Food Security Act (NFSA) in Jammu and Kashmir the District Development Commissioners were entrusted with the responsibility to finalize the lists of ration card holders, which were later forwarded to CAPD department in the month of Ju... | |
| | | | Students, Parents paranoid over school torching incidents, security of Exam centres | | Chaos, Confusion casts cloak over Board Exams in Kashmir | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 11: As incidents of school torching in restive Kashmir Valley are witnessing a serious surge, parents and children appearing in Class 10th and 12 annual exams are petrified with concerns mounting about their security in the examination centers.
Ironically, the JKBOSE has set up several examination centres in volatile areas including downtown Srinagar's Nowhatta and adjoining places. Wards of kids while expressing serious concern over the absence of any normality in the overall situation in Valley have asked the government to understand the complexity of the situation from their perspective and from the perspective of the innocent kids. "You are coercing ... | |
| | | | Shopping complex along Jammu-Pathankot highway gathers dust | | SICOP fails to maintain, utilize its property | | |
Vinod Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 11: After lapse of more than one and half decades, the shops constructed by Small Scale Industries Development Corporation Limited (SICOP) in Hatli Morh industrial area of district Kathua have been unutilized so far, raising finger over the competency of officials concerned.
A retired official of SICOP informed Early Times that over one dozen shops were constructed by the SICOP in the industrial area, for giving them on rent basis and to generate revenue, but these remained shut, since they were constructed.
"Huge funds were spent on the construction of shops after remaining unused for the last many years, the shops have now on verge of ... | |
| | | | PDP workers ask CM to act against ministers | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 11: In the presence of Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti workers of PDP today complained against party ministers who are least concerned about problems being faced by the workers. PDP leaders during their meeting with Mehbooba Mufti regretted that party workers in Jammu are feeling ignored and neglected by the ministers depiste the fact that braving Modi wave in 2014 assembly polls, they had worked for the party in this region.
Credible sources said that during their meeting with Mehbooba Mufti, PDP workers complained that party ministers are giving importance importance to influential persons at the cost of genuine workers, who have been associated with the p... | |
| | | | Influential doc stays at DH Rajouri, sans order | | | | Avinash Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 11: An influential anaesthetist is illegally staying at district hospital Rajouri while on papers her place of posting is sub-district hospital Nowshera.
The Block Medical Officer (BMO) Nowshera, Dr Suresh Gupta, has repeatedly informed higher authorities about illegal stay of Dr. Nahida Akhter (anaesthetist) at DH Rajouri under the patronage of Chief Medical Officer, Rajouri.
"Dr Nahida was posted at sub-district hospital Nowshera for the last seven months, but using her influence she did not join the duty and has been staying put at DH Rajouri without any order of attachment", sources said.
They said that due to absence of an anaesthetis... | |
| | | | Renaming road from Tral to Awantipora after Burhan a dangerous signal | | Talibanisation of Kashmir | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 11: Things are not normal in Kashmir. Things appear abnormal. It appears that Talibans are ruling roost in parts of the Valley and playing havoc with the history and culture of Kashmir.
Some of them have gone so perverted that they are creating Afghanistan-like situation in the Valley. On Wednesday, they took an extreme step and renamed the road from Tral to Awantipora after Burhan Wani, Hizb terrorist, who was killed by the security forces on July 8 as he carried on head a reward of Rs ten lakh.
A report from Srinagar in this regard said local people of Dadsara and adjoining villages "unanimously decided to name the road from Tral to awantipora via Nawad... | |
| | | | Revenue extracts destroyed, SIC intervenes | | Old KP lady in search of Justice? | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 11: An elderly Kashmir Pandit lady has been moving from pillar to post in search of justice as the Revenue officials in Pahalgam have allegedly destroyed revenue extracts of land belonging to her husband late Jagar Nath Bhat hailing from Sallar Pahalgam presently living as a migrant in Roop Nagar area of Jammu. The case was recently heard by State Information Commission (SIC) which directed Deputy Commissioner Anantnag to investigate into the matter…..
Details available with Early Times reveal that a complaint was filed by Raj Dulari Bhat R/O Sallar Pahalgam at present living in Roop Nagar Jammu regarding non response of her application submitted to F... | |
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