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Patwari turns whistleblower, unveils murky 600 kanals 'VVIP Nandni' land deal Will the Govt act tough? 11/1/2016 11:28:15 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 1: Within a day of Early Times exposing a murky land deal involving a high-profile PDP politician, a retired officer and serving officials of revenue department, more shocking details have come to the fore. Early Times has accessed a letter written by the whistleblower Patwari to the District President of Patwar Association (PA) Jammu Raman Raj Sharma. The whistleblower Patwari has talked about threat to his life and said that the PDP politician alongwith a business tycoon tried his level best to threaten and force him to dance to their tunes. He has claimed of having resisted pressure but added that his higher-ups alongwith an officer of Divisional Commissioner Office (Jammu) ensured that the title of land is not only changed but later, land is transferred to the business tycoon. According to the letter, Naib-Tehsildar JhajjarKotli Mohammed Rashid Ahmed mentally tortured, harassed, humiliated and threatened him of dire consequences if he did not bow to his dictates. The whistleblower Patwari has alleged that Naib-Tehsildar Jhajj...   READ MORE

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'Kashmiri youth should not play in national, international events' After gutting schools, Geelani's evil eye targets Sports 11/1/2016 11:28:04 PM Abodh Sharma ET Report JAMMU, Nov 1: After jeopardizing the career prospects of the Kashmiri children and youth, by burning over two dozen schools and not allowing educational institutions across the state to open for the last four months, the pro Pakistan separatist hawk Ali Shah Geelani has now turned his evil eye to sports. In a statement, issued the previous day, Geelani said that the participation of kashmiri sportspersons in the national and international events representing India weakens the 'freedom struggle' and hence they should refrain from participating in these events. Geelani's latest dictate is being seen as his latest bid to stifle the youth of Kashmir further and push ...   READ MORE   Students slam Edu minister for leaving them in lurch 'We don't have admit cards, centre notices, roll no. slips' 11/1/2016 11:27:45 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Nov 1: The verbal duel between separatist leader Yasin Malik and Education Minister Naeem Akhtar Andrabi continues with allegations and counter allegations dominating the scenes amid the turbulence faced by the perturbed student community over date of exams. As the government issued date sheet for Class 10th and Class 12th and declared first date of exams as November 15, the Education Ministry is yet to declare how much syllabus the students have to cover. There is also no word about the issuance of admit cards and roll number slips. The centre notices too haven't been issued till date due to which the student fraternity and parents at large are in a fix a...   READ MORE   Bukhari's failed 'Evothermal' idea taxes exchequer of crores 11/1/2016 11:27:31 PM Saqib Ahmad Early Times Report srinagar, Nov 1: Former Roads and Buildings Development department Minister Altaf Bukhari may have received applause when he announced that macdamization process will continue even during winters in Kashmir by using 'Evothermal' but his hyped idea has fallen flat in Kashmir. In October last year, Altaf Bukhari who was then Roads and Building Development department Minister announced that special chemical was being imported for the first time which would enable the government to continue with the macadamisation work even during the harsh winter period in Kashmir. "This technology is normally used in Europe and America. We are using it for the first time i...   READ MORE   DC stops kerosene supply to Samba on instructions of BJP Minister Div Com's orders fails to break ice 11/1/2016 11:27:10 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 1: Holding district development meetings is only a ritual for politicians, who usually are totally unaware about the issues, confronted by people of particular area. It once again came to fore recently, when Member Parliament (Lok Sabha) Jugal Kishore Sharma convened a meeting of District Development and Monitoring Committee, Samba but was caught unaware that the kerosene supply in the district had been stopped for the last nearly four months and that too reporte...   READ MORE   'Blue-eyed' officer posted as distt SP on senior's recommendation 11/1/2016 11:24:52 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 1: A 'blue-eyed' officer is alleged to have been posted as SSP of a district on the recommendation of a 'senior' police officer. To ensure his posting, the senior officer had himself spoken to some ministers and the home department authorities, police sources said. Before his placement as the district SP, he held an important post in the administrative section of the senior officer's office. He remained quite controversial during his stay there for allegedly violating norms while managing good postings of his nears and dears. No one in the department ever dared to object to the orders issued by him, sources said. Sources said though his senior could not...   READ MORE   Congress shames Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary Two former Ministers fail to gather even a dozen people 11/1/2016 11:24:33 PM Akshay Azad Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 1: Death anniversary of former Prime Minister of India and one of the tallest leaders of the Indian National Congress, Indira Gandhi embarrassed the state Congress to the hilt when two former ministers failed to gather even a dozen people in a ceremony organized to pay homage to the departed leader. The huge differences among the factions of Congress party once again came to fore when a separate function was organized by two former Ministers Dr. Mano...   READ MORE   BJP ministers won't allow any genuine person to meet RSS chief 11/1/2016 11:23:45 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 1: Chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Mohan Bhagwat is visiting Jammu on November 13 and 14 to review activities of Sangh Parivar but the BJP ministers in the coalition government are working overtime to make it sure that RSS Chief could not meet with any genuine citizen of Jammu. There is a feeling among BJP ministers that in case RSS chief interact with any genuine person in Jammu all their misdeeds and corruption would be exposed so they are trying to lure local leaders of RSS that they should arrange meetings of Mohan Bhagwat with only those sychopants who will hail their performance and keep RSS chief in dark. BJP ministers have reportedly ...   READ MORE   Kashmir legislators maintain silence to appease separatists Lack courage to call spade a spade, condemn burning of schools 11/1/2016 11:23:34 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 1: As the miscreants are leaving no stone unturned to burn the educational institutions across Kashmir, mainstream politicians and legislators barring a few are not mustering courage to condemn such actions, and call spade a spade. "Since the day unrest broke out in Kashmir, the politicians from mainstream parties are maintaining a low profile and have taken a break. They have not visited their constituencies, nor have they made any attempt to reach out to the people who voted for them," said an analyst. He said that despite separatists fomenting trouble in Kashmir and making desperate attempts to keep the pot boiling, mainstream politicians have not made a...   READ MORE   'Injured Leopard' impels closure of Raika Environment Park for Public 11/1/2016 10:54:30 PM Avinash Azad Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 1: After spotting injured Leopard, the Raika Environment Park situated in Maha Maya hills was closed for public on Tuesday. As usual, locals as well as tourist from outside the state today visited the park, but they found gate closed. "I visited the environment park, two years back, during my current visit in Jammu, I planned to visit the park once again", said Anuj Raina from Ahmadabad. Raina, a Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) volunteer himse...   READ MORE   Police arrests 21 allegedly involved in 'schools burning', SIT constituted Chip fitted weapons in place to evade weapon snatching, DIG South Kashmir Range 11/1/2016 10:53:41 PM Saahil Suhail Early Times Report Anantnag, Nov 1: Deputy Inspector General of Police, South Kashmir Range on Tuesday said that police has arrested as many as 21 culprits for burning schools in three south Kashmir districts and has framed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for probing these incidents. DIG, SKR Nitish Kumar briefing media in Anantnag today, said that police has so far booked 21 culprits for burning schools in Anantnag, Kulgam and Shopain districts in South Kashmir. He informed that Police have also detained as many as 20 more people who are said to be involved in school burning incidents. "21 culprits have been booked and more 21 have been detained for questioning," he s...   READ MORE   Stakeholders in Kashmir: BJP playing to the gallery News Analysis 11/1/2016 10:53:29 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 1: BJP leadership feels that it can fool the nation and the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus. That perhaps is the reason its leaders are making statements which are contradictory and mutually exclusive. In fact, they have mastered the art of speaking differently at different places - a trait the Kashmiri leaders are known for. Kashmiri leaders say one thing in Kashmir, another in Jammu and exactly to the contrary in Delhi. In fact, they play to the gallery. The power politics has also educated the BJP leaders to behave in a similar fashion so that they address the different constituencies in a fashion that could appeal them and made them believe that the ...   READ MORE   Mehbooba to chair party meeting before moving to Jammu Amid 'insecurity' in PDP ranks 11/1/2016 10:53:10 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Nov 1: Amid reports of insecurity among the ranks of her party, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has decided to chair a meeting of the PDP before moving for Jammu in connection with the biannual darbar move. Sources said the meeting likely to be held later this week at the residence of Mehbooba would be attended by all party leaders including ministers and Member Parliament Muzaffar Hussain Beig, while attendance will be "must for all." Sources said in the wake of recent attacks on the houses of some PDP leaders in south Kashmir and torching of their vehicles, some of its cadres were apprehensive of their future in the party. The party cadres are understood to ...   READ MORE   JK Cements resorts to open market coal purchase, incurs loss of Rs 87 lakh Company defies orders, reduces coal procurement 11/1/2016 10:44:37 PM Peerzada Ummer Early Times Report Srinagar, Nov 1: An extra expenditure of whopping Rs. 87 lakh was incurred by the JK cements due to the non-procurement of coal under e-auction and purchase of coal from open market instead. Official documents in possession of the Early Times reveal that the JK Cements entered into the two fuel supply agreements with a firm namely M/S Eastern Coalfields Limited Kolkata for the allocation of the 24000MTs of coal for old plant and 26000MTs for the new plant. However, the shortfall in supply of coal under Fuel Supply Agreement ranged between 31 percent and 51 percent during the year 2010-11 and 2014-15. Documents divulge that despite the shortfall, the...   READ MORE   Contempt proceedings against SHO in case of alleged rape, impersonation Directions issued to appear in person on Nov 3 11/1/2016 10:44:21 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 1: Sub-Registrar Court (JMIC) Jammu today issued notice against Sajjad Haider, Station House Officer, Channi Himmat, seeking his personal presence on November 3, 2016 for allegedly committing contempt of Court in the matter of Complaint titled "Major Harnam Singh V/S Mandeep Kour alias Manpreet Kour dated 17.10.2016 forwarded to SHO Police Station Channi Himmat , Jammu under Section 156 (3) Cr.P.C for registration of FIR under the relevant sections of RPC for impersonation allegedly committed by Mandeep Kour in the complaint that she had filed in the police station Channi Himmat 26.09.2016 against the son of Major Harnam Singh and allegedly implicated him ...   READ MORE   Despite promise by people at helm border residents of Jammu region not shifted to safer places BJP, PDP play politics on humanitarian issue 11/1/2016 10:44:10 PM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Nov 1: Civilian casualties that are taking place in some of the districts of Jammu division due to the shelling from across the border could have been avoided had the central and state governments acted on time. In 2015, a senior minister of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government led by Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) announced that people living in the border areas of Jammu, Kathua and Samba districts would be shifted to safer places. The minister belonging to Jammu region said that the move would ensure that no harm whatsoever is caused to people living in the border areas. Following this a chunk of land measuring 80 kanals was iden...   READ MORE   CBI delays probe into multi crore JKCA scam 11/1/2016 10:43:58 PM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early Times Report Srinagar, Nov 1: The Central Bureau of Investigation probe into a multi crore scam in the Jammu Kashmir Cricket Association is going at snail's pace despite the High Court directions to the investigating agency to complete the probe within three months. The CBI was handed over the investigation after the court had pulled up J K police for carrying out the investigation in a casual manner saying despite the lapse of three years the investigating agency could not even verify or authenticate the amount released by BCCI to JKCA. Underling the reasons for handing over the probe to CBI, the court had held that then President of JKCA is a "Tall political ...   READ MORE   Sluggish JU admin fails to continue BEd course 11/1/2016 10:43:43 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 1: The incumbant dispensation of Jammu University has the dubious distinction of stopping two postgraduate courses in Distance Education Department with no effort for their restoration, but it too utterly failed to continue B. Ed. Course for students despite its ample scope available for the same. Sources said that it is the basic responsibility and legitimate duty of any university to open new vista of opportunities widening the scope in different disciplines in the field of education, but university of Jammu instead of following this ambitious pattern has preferred to remain unmoved to impress upon its own Directorate of Distance Education to continue B....   READ MORE   1-yr on, MC Katra brazenly ignores SIC's order Info of works not available in public domain 11/1/2016 10:33:18 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 1: It is now almost one year since the State Information Commission (SIC) directed Municipal Committee Katra to make public the details about works executed by it. But the committee is yet to make the details available, violating the State RTI Act. The Executive Officer of MC Katra had last year failed to provide information about various developmental works executed in Katra town to an information seeker under Right to Information Act (RTI). The SIC then took the matter seriously and issued penalty notice against the officer who is also the Public Information Officer (PIO). But till date the requisite information is yet to made available in public domai...   READ MORE

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