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Mehbooba 'to replace Mufti as CM on Nov 17' BJP sets conditions for change of Guard in State 11/13/2015 12:21:29 AM Muhammad Mukaram Early Times Report Srinagar, Nov 12: Ruling PDP's president Mehbooba Mufti is all set to replace her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as Chief Minister of J&K on November 17, top sources told Early Times on Thursday. "Hectic discussion is going on between PDP and BJP over the issue. We are finalising the formalities for the change of guard with our coalition partner," said a senior PDP leader wishing anonymity. A BJP leader confirmed to Early Times that Mehbooba was replacing her father. "We have no problem with that but our only condition is two more portfolios for our party. If they agree, then we will agree over Mehbooba's appointment," he said. However, there is serious resentment brewing in the PDP as many leaders are against surrendering two key portfolios to the BJP, said sources. They said the BJP wants R&B and Finance Ministry as well. Notably, Mufti is reportedly suffering from some disease and has been advised to undergo a surgery. "It is because of illness of Mufti that he was accompanied by his daughter in public gatherings in last several months. M...   READ MORE

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H&M Edu Deptt "violates" Apex Court's ruling 'portraying VVIPs' 11/13/2015 12:21:08 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 12: The State Health and Medical Education Department, in utter violation of the Supreme Court direction as regards the government ads to portray VVIPS (with some exceptional cases), has issued an advertisement, glorifying the minister for health and medical education. The minister is admired because J&K has received the No 1 state award in health sector in the country. Here it needs to be mentioned that SC has banned the use of photographs of politicians, includ...   READ MORE   Keeps old Zero bridge closed for public to extend easy access to Nawa-e-Subh R&B Minister's largesse to Opposition NC 11/13/2015 12:20:35 AM Early Times Report srinagar, Nov 12: While general public in Srinagar is getting weary of vexed traffic jams, R&B Ministry led by Altaf Bukhari has kept old Zero bridge closed for general public, reportedly with a purpose of extending undue ease and access to National Conference headquarters Nawa -e-Subh. Sources divulged that despite spending crores over the renovation of the old Zero Bridge in Srinagar, the R&B Minister has decided not to open it for vehicular movement as the site is located closer to the NC headquarter and the Minister is more concerned about NC's safety than the hardships being faced by the general public due to turbulent traffic chaos. Reports divulge that at a tim...   READ MORE   Mirwaiz takes lead with Joint Protest Programme on November 18 Separatists cooking up another agitation in Kashmir 11/13/2015 12:20:23 AM Javaid Naikoo Early Times Report srinagar, Nov 12: Separatist factions in Kashmir are engaged once again in formulating a strategy to devise a cycle of strikes in which moderate separatist leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq while taking lead proposed a joint protest programme on November 18. Mirwaiz who heads his own separatist faction (M), in a press conference here today said that "there is no option left with separatist leaders except issuing protest programmes to tackle what he said "Oppressive tactics" of the administration. Hinting a fresh cycle of Protests in Kashmir, Mirwaiz said that he has called for a Joint Protest programme on November 18 in which all other separatist leaders will...   READ MORE   JU trashes rules, appoints ineligible teacher as Coordinator 11/13/2015 12:20:11 AM Early Times Report jammu, Nov 12: Jammu University has the dubious distinction of violating its own rules and decisions to extend undue benefits to the blue eyed. In another case of this kind that surfaced in the Directorate of Distance Education, an ineligible and incompetent teacher of the rank of Asstt. Professor has been appointed as Coordinator Hindi in gross violation of University Calendar 2010. A document of University Calendar which is in the possession of Early Times enshrines that "The Directorate of Distance Education JU shall organize P.G. course in Hindi with such teaching and Ministerial staff as may be needed for the introduction of the course. The Directorate will be a...   READ MORE   J&K Police harasses commoners; fails to contain rapes, kidnappings, abductions Conviction poorest in J&K 11/13/2015 12:20:03 AM Syed Junaid Hashmi Early Times Report jammu, Nov 12: Jammu and Kashmir police which claims of being people friendly but misses no chance to harass commoners has been unable to bring down crime against women, is battling increasing number of rape cases and has failed to stem kidnappings and abductions. These figures have not come from non-Governmental organisations or private agencies nor are they result of some survey conducted by university or department but have been unveiled by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in its report based on the cases registered by police across the country including Jammu and Kashmir in the year 2014. Hence, figures reported or the conclusions drawn from...   READ MORE   His kin runs school on State land worth crores Senior politician's name figures in land grab 11/13/2015 12:19:51 AM Early Times Report srinagar, Nov 12: A senior politician has landed in trouble following revelations that his family has encroached upon over 50 kanals of prime land worth crores of rupees at Humhama on the outskirts of Srinagar and is running a leading school there. The issue came to fore earlier this week when land brokers started altercation over a piece of land adjacent to the private school. One group of brokers had to sell off two kanals of land to a private party but another land broker claimed proprietary rights over the land which was supposed to be the road link to the land being sold. This led to heated arguments between the groups of land brokers, who on failing to reach a c...   READ MORE   Salary statement is personal document, can't be given under RTI: SIC 11/13/2015 12:19:38 AM Early Times Report srinagar, Nov 12: The State Information Commission (SIC) has said that salary statement is a personal document of a public servant and hence cannot be provided under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Details available with Early Times reveal that an appeal under the RTI was filed before the SIC by one Jahangir Abdullah Dar, a resident of Zabgulla, Beerwah in central Kashmir's Budgam district on 08.09.2015. The RTI was filed against the First Appellate Authority (FAA) of Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK), PIO/Chief Education Officer (CEO) Budgam, and Zonal Education Officer (ZEO) Beerwah. The appeal States that the appellant had filed an RTI application ...   READ MORE   Doctors' posts in Kathua hospital kept vacant for Minister's blue eyed Patients' sufferings nobody's concern 11/13/2015 12:19:32 AM GS Asgotra Early Times Report jammu, Nov 12: Health Department has left no stone unturned to adjust blue eyed doctors of Minister concerned at choice postings by not filling the vacant posts of doctors since long time in District Hospital Kathua. Source in department said that three posts of surgeons are sanctioned in District Hospital Kathua, but only a single surgeon, Dr Rakesh Gupta is manning the surgery department and as a result DH is becoming merely a referral centre to refer patients to Government Medical College & Hospital Jammu. "The reason behind not filling the vacant posts is that the Minister concerned has directed the department to oblige his blue eyed doctors either by ...   READ MORE   28 Inspectors available, but SIs heading Police stations in Jammu 11/13/2015 12:19:18 AM Sumit Sharma Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 12: There are as many as 28 Inspectors available in Jammu district, yet Sub-Inspectors (SIs) are operating as Station House Officers (SHOs) of different police stations in this winter capital of the state. As per details gathered by Early Times, Jammu district has a sanctioned strength of 20 Inspectors (Executive Cadre), but there is actual strength of 28 Inspectors. Surprisingly, despite availability of eight more Inspectors, the district police have engaged four SIs as SHOs. If the sources are to be believed, barring one SI, who is known for being a thorough professional in the police department and is posted somewhere under SP Headquarter, t...   READ MORE   After 'betraying' Jammu, BJP ditches Ladakh UT election plank was just a 'jumla' 11/13/2015 12:19:08 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 12: The BJP is not true to any one. It garners votes by raising issues the people hold very dear, captures power and after assuming it, it betrays, cheats, humiliates and leaves them in the lurch. In 2014, it got the national mandate and adopted policies which negated the promises it held to the nation and the result was that it suffered massive defeats in Delhi and Bihar. So much so, on November 10, on the eve of Diwali, four BJP veterans openly revolted against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP national president Amit Shah. The same year, the BJP sought a massive mandate from Jammu in the assembly elections. It won no less than 25 seats out of 37, formed...   READ MORE   RSS happy with the BJP's performance in J&K Digging its own grave 11/13/2015 12:18:54 AM Early Times Report jammu, Nov 12: Reports appeared at regular intervals suggesting that the Jammu-based RSS leadership was not happy with the functioning of the BJP Ministers in the PDP-led Kashmir-centric coalition Government. Reports suggested that "Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh and a couple of other BJP Ministers had disappointed the RSS leadership owing to their failure to deliver" and that "they could be thrown out" of the Government and other "competent" BJP MLAs will be inducted in the Government. That these reports were not really authentic and that the RSS, in fact, was very much impressed with the working of the BJP Ministers became clear the other day. Two senior RSS func...   READ MORE   BJP MLC inaugurates repaired transformer in Anantnag 11/13/2015 12:18:26 AM Early Times Report Anantnag, Nov 12: BJP MLC Sofi Yousuf on Wednesday inaugurated a repaired transformer in this south Kashmir district, surprising one and all. Sofi turned up at his native village Srigufwara along with some party workers for a meeting. However, the legislator stunned everyone in the village after he asked his workers to fix ribbon around the transformer that was installed by the Power Development Department. Once ribbon and flags of BJP were fixed around the 250 KV tran...   READ MORE   2 years on, digital documentation of forests remains a distant dream 11/13/2015 12:18:08 AM Arun Singh Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 12: Brushing aside the directions of the Steering Committee issued more than two years ago, the digital documentation of the forest area before taking up Compensatory Afforestation on forest land remains a distant dream. Sources told Early Times the Steering Committee in 2011 had decided that before taking up area of forest for Compensatory Afforestation, its coordinates in terms of latitude and longitude was to be recorded and the existing condition of the area was to be documented in terms of photography/ videography as well as satellite imaginaries but despite lapse of two years, the department did not take any step to comply with the dire...   READ MORE   Deputy Director CAPD transferred, posted Deputy Secretary CAPD It happens only in JK 11/13/2015 12:17:58 AM Mohd Irfan Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 12: Despite getting transferred, an influential deputy director of the CAPD has not been relieved by the Director and has been appointed as Deputy Secretary CAPD. His predecessor is posted as SDM Tral in Pulwama district. “This influential official is again being given a prize posting in the CAPD department. A report was published in Early Times on October 30 titled `Influential CAPD Deputy Director defies cabinet order’. It has been reliably learnt that the official used his good offices and managed the deputy secretary post in the CAPD. An official said it was unusual that an officer awaiting orders of posting in Div Com’s office gets depu...   READ MORE   Abu Mosa is new Kashmir Chief of LeT 11/13/2015 12:17:44 AM Early Times Report Anantnag, Nov 12: Militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba appointed Abu Mosa alias Hafiz it’s new Chief in Kashmir region. In an issued statement to Early Times, the militant outfit which is trying to re-group and recruit more and more educated youth in Northern and Southern parts of Kashmir, also threatened to revenge the Killing of Udamphur militant attack mastermind Abu Qasim. “Abu Mosa alias Hafiz is appointed as new Chief in Kashmir,” Dr Abdullah Ghaznavi quoting Lashkar Chief Mehmood Shah disclosed in a press statement. He said that all the militants active in Kashmir have been directed to obey the orders of new Chief for ‘liberating’ Kashmir. Lashkar-e-Toiba has al...   READ MORE   Was PSA record damaged in floods? CIC seeks evidence from HC 11/13/2015 12:17:34 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Nov 12: 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 ...   READ MORE   Two militants surrender to police LeT receives major setback 11/13/2015 12:17:25 AM Majid Nabi Early Times Report Srinagar, Nov 12: Dreaded militant outfit Lashker-e-Toiba received a major ‘setback’ in Srinagar when two of its militant’s surrendered before the police in Harwan a few days ago. Reliable police sources confirmed that two newly recruited upper ground militants both belonging to New Theed Harwan have surrendered before the police while intensive search operations by the joint team of Police, SOG and army was conducted in the area. Sources said that there is good activity of LeT militants in upper Harwan and Dachigam forests convincing local youth to join militant ranks. “Parents of the duo who surrendered had filed a missing report in police station H...   READ MORE   Control fringe elements, CM to BJP, RSS 11/13/2015 12:17:08 AM Early Times Report jAMMU, Nov 12: The Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had told the BJP and the RSS to control fringe Hindu organizations to maintain communal harmony . The CM had reportedly said that though the BJP was not involved in any act after the formation of the government but some fringe organisations are giving twist bordering ‘communal’ politics. According to the sources, the CM has made it known to the senior central leadership of the both the BJP and the RSS that certain incidents have been reported in the Jammu where some fringe Hindu organisations tried to foment trouble which could create communal tension . The CM had cited the incident of march in the Jammu cit...   READ MORE   Modi’s silence on agenda of alliance hurts coalition 11/13/2015 12:16:54 AM Peerzada Ummer Early Times Report Srinagar, Nov 12: Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s silence on ‘agenda of alliance’ is hurting the coalition, political experts believe. It has been learnt that Modi stays informed about the agenda being undermined by the ruling coalition. “Modi is much aware about the ground situation of the state and its present performance. The reality is that the BJP high command and the union government are dismayed about the way the government is being run by the helmsmen in JK,” sources within the coalition divulged. It has been learnt further that though there was no approval accorded to the agenda of alliance by the Prime Minister’s office or by the union Fi...   READ MORE   Dilapidated, incomplete PMGSY roads irk locals 11/13/2015 12:16:18 AM Ashwani Sharma Early times report Udhampur, Nov 12: The work on road connecting Sunari with Kasnareh in Udhampur started under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) has failed to complete in scheduled time due to poor tendering. But in documents, the work has been completed and even the payment has been made to the contractor. Ram Lal—a local said that the work on said road was started in the year 2013. The villagers many times visited the office of PMGSY with the problems due to dilapi...   READ MORE   Contractor-department nexus ruins road from Makol to Barnada 11/13/2015 12:16:01 AM A B Sharma Early Times Report Sunderbani, Nov 12: The one KM road from Makol Mandir to Barnada in district Rajouri, tehsil Sunderbani that was taken up for repair work and had got completed just few months back has caved in giving nightmarish time to the commuters. The road has sunk nearly one foot down with many depressions having surfaced on its entire length which apparently show the sub-standard material used by the contractor to make the road. As per the requirement , the crushed sto...   READ MORE   State Government not ready to learn any lesson from September 2014 flood Maternity & Child Hospital to come up in flood prone area 11/12/2015 11:48:53 PM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Nov 12: The Jammu & Kashmir Government has not learnt any lesson from September 2014 flood and it is going ahead with the construction of some important buildings in the areas that bore brunt of nature's fury. The State Government headed by chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed recently gave its nod for the construction of Maternity and child hospital in the Bemina area on the Baramulla-Srinagar-Jammu national highway. The Bemina area turned out to be one of the worst hit areas in the last year's flood. The entire Bemina area remained in the flood water for weeks together, but still then the people at helm are not ready to learn any lesson wit...   READ MORE   PM package breakup ‘precluded' by J&K Govt, changes being worked out at PMO Rejig in Rs 80,000cr package to favour State projects now 11/12/2015 11:48:42 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 12: The economic package announced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for J&K last week is being reworked at Prime Minister's Office following State Government's concerns over what it stated to be inadequate allocations for certain heads as earmarked in earlier breakup of the figures. The final break up is being prepared and it would be given a conclusive shape in a couple of days. Highly placed sources in the PDP-BJP Government while confirming this said that even though the package was conceived to be huge and projected by the alliance government as more than satisfactory, it has now sought certain changes in the package to accommodate more expenditures un...   READ MORE   2 disgruntled PDP MPs spew venom against party Beigh levels alienation charges, Karra sounds wakeup call 11/12/2015 11:48:32 PM Javaid Naikoo Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 12: Two disgruntled PPD leaders are openly spewing venom against their own party. They have levelled charges of mistrust among common masses due to the PDP-BJP coalition and sounded wake up call for the party leadership. Not for the first time though, senior PDP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of the State, Muzaffar Hussain Beigh today alleged that PDP-BJP coalition Government is creating mistrust, alienation and cynicism among common masses of the state. Talking to media persons, Beigh while expressing fear over the functioning of PDP-BJP Government said that "it will lead to its (PDP's) annihilation." He said he assumed that Prime ...   READ MORE   JU's lazy admin fails to continue BEd course 11/12/2015 11:48:22 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 12: The careless administration of Jammu University has failed to continue the B.Ed course, leaving thousands of aspirants in the lurch. Sources informed Early Times that the course for session 2015-16 at JU was hanging in balance due non-seriousness of the varsity administration. "JU administration was aware of new guidelines fixed by the University Grants Commission, and the eligibility criteria as per new rules was deliberately not fulfilled by the university," sources said. They said that as per new rules, new eligibility was to be fixed for admission to B. Ed and minor changes were to be made in the existing syllabus. "As we know, already two year B.Ed...   READ MORE   Now, Omar uses Kashmiri card in his latest theatrics 11/12/2015 11:48:12 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 12: J&K's former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, in a desperate attempt to get into the power, is now trying to appease the ruling PDP by his 'pro-Kashmir' statements. In one of his recent statements, Omar said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had snubbed Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed during his address at a rally in Srinagar on November 7. The National Conference working president said in his tweet, "Prime Minister snubbed an elected Chief Minister during his Public Meeting in Srinagar when the Prime Minister said he did not require anyone's advice on the Kashmir Issue after the Chief Minister's speech." Obviously, the former CM is apparently trying to se...   READ MORE

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