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| Politician roped in caretakers of religious body to turn 'black money' into white | | Apna Sapna Money, Money! | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 22: A "powerful politician" has reportedly exchanged his "hard earned money (black money)" worth lakhs by striking a deal with the caretakers of a religious institution, sources told Early Times.
They said the politician has deposited his "hard earned" demonetized notes with a religious body and in exchange has ostensibly received notes of Rs 50 and Rs100 for the half of the amount he deposited with the body.
Credible sources said that when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced scrapping of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes, this "dynamic" politician had lakhs of rupees with him in cash. "As it was not possible for him to exchange such a huge currency notes from banks, he approached office bearers of a religious body and struck a deal with them. After the deal was finalized, the politician through his close aide sent his entire "hard earned" money to the body and in exchange received half of the amount in shape of Rs 50 and Rs 100 notes," credible sources said.
They said the religious body has promised the "powerful politician" that his old currency notes... | |
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| No money with separatists, terrorists | | Surgical Strike on black money | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 22: Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre with the support of the Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP_BJP coalition government has, it seems, finally broken the backbone of of network of separatist leaders.
According to insiders, "in the separatist camp even the elite Hurriyat leadership was searching for an opportunity to resume normal activity". Ever since the state police had announced crack down against the troublemakers in the Kashmir valley the law and order situation had started showing signs of normalcy since mid October.
Even in the absence of any incidents of stone pelting the majority of population was adhering to the hartal calendar. Sudden change... | |
| | | | Yasin Malik makes no bones of his proximity with militants | | | | Raj Sandeep
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 22: Clandestine visit of Yasin Malik to Tral giving slip to security forces and eulogizing slain militant Burhan Wani there in public domain openly exposes his sympathetic tendency towards militant cadres operating in Kashmir.
Media reports appearing in press reveal that Yasin Malik leading JKLF organization stealthy drove to Tral village at night which is a native village of slain militant commander Burhan Wani. As carried in media reports, he addressed a group of people there chanting pro-freedom and pro- Burhan Wani slongans and provoked local youth emotionally with impunity referring to Burhan Wani to support the shutdown calendar for co... | |
| | | | Malik's new mission | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 21: The so-called chief of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Yasin Malik after coming out of jail is leaving no stone unturned to glorify terrorism and terrorists in Kashmir. Addressing a gathering at Tral in south Kashmir on Monday, Malik said, "Burhan was a smart fighter with a political approach.
He shook entire India even after his death through his messages on social networking sites."
A Kashmir watcher said, "It seems after plunging Kashmir into quagmire of uncertainty for more than four months, now Malik and his associates have been assigned the job by their masters to provoke the youth to take up the gun. Malik is working on the new assig... | |
| | | | Pulwama shopkeeper critical after stone attack | | People defying protest calendar targetted | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 22: A shopkeeper was critically injured after some miscreants attacked him with stones for violating the shutdown call of separatists and opening his shop at Nikas village of south Kashmir's Pulwama district.
The miscreants attacked the shopkeeper Muhammad Altaf Ganaie, son of Abdul Hameed Ganaie, with stones when he was at his shop.
"The stone-pelters resorted to heavy stone pelting in which Altaf was badly injured. They attacked him for violating the shutdown call by the separatist leadership," sources said.
Altaf was critically injured and was removed to a local sub-center at Rajpora where from he was shifted to SMHS Srinagar in critical condition.
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| | | | British soldier's death anniversary observed | | People object to dumping of mulba inside cemetery | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 22: Observing a British soldier's death anniversary, people have objected to the dumping of mulba inside the Sheikh Bagh cemetery near here.
A function held here Tuesday in connection with the death anniversary of Robert Thorpe, a British soldier, who was buried at the Sheikh Bagh cemetery in 1868.
When some people visited there, they found heaps of garbage in a corner of the compound wall, which is close to a security picket, guarding an MLA's house.
Official sources said when the visitors asked the person responsible for the cemetery's maintenance who had thrown the garbage, he signalled at a neighbour. He alleged that the neighbours had also develo... | |
| | | | Minister flouts own order, attaches BLW to favourable posting | | | | Early Times Report
Rajouri, Nov 22: Even as the ruling coalition boasts of improving services offered to the rural people, a minister has a got a Block Level Worker (BLW) transferred from staff-starved Kalakote to a place where there was no such vacancy, only to please a political party.
Of the nine posts of BLWs in Kalakote, four are vacant. However instead to taking measures to fill up the vacancies in the tehsil, the minister got one of the BLWs transferred to a more favourable posting. Officials said in doing so the minister has violated his own orders of banning any attachment. "A year ago he had issued orders that no attachment would be spared. Now to keep the political worker in ... | |
| | | | Backdoor posting 'industry' thrives in Forest Deptt | | Jungle main mangal | | | Avinash Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 22: The Forest Department has accommodated over 300 grade-II Range Officers against the sanctioned 106 posts of grade-I Range Officers across the state.
Well-placed sources in the department told Early Times that junior most grade-II ROs have been posted against the sanctioned strength of grade-I ROs.
"In Jammu, 150 grade-II ROs are holding the charge of grade-I ROs, while in the Valley, the number goes beyond 200," sources said, adding that there are over 10 wings in the department where unabated posting of grade-I ROs is being done with impunity.
"Territorial, Wild Life, Social Forestry, Environment and Remote Sensing, Soil & Water Conserv... | |
| | | | Mantris, babus enjoy security, lower rung employees face public ire | | | | Saqib Ahmad
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 22: While ministers and bureaucrats carry a posse of policemen along with them and hardly anybody dares to raise voice before them, it is the lower officials who have to face the backlash from the public for not doing their work.
The ramifications of any public policy which apparently seems annoying to the public are usually faced by the lower rung employees who face public wrath to the extent of being manhandled.
This could be gauged from the figures of the police department. Two cases of assaults on public servants get reported on an average every day in the state and most of the people at the receiving end are lower rung officials.
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| | | | Unani, Ayurvedic doctors prescribing Allopathic medicines to gullible patients | | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 22: Scores of Unani and Ayurvedic doctors are allegedly prescribing Allopathic medicines in the hospitals of the state, at the cost of the heath of gullible patients and there seems to be no check in place to curb this mal practice.
Sources revealed to Early Times that the Unani and Ayurvedic doctors posted in several hospitals of the state especially in the rural areas, who are authorized to prescribe Unani and Ayurvedic medicines are allegedly prescribing the Allopathic medicine even as they have no training or knowhow of the allopathic system of medication.
Sources said that these doctors prescribe allopathic medicines even to the ... | |
| | | | 28 officials including 7 officers found absent from duties in Verinag | | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, Nov 22: In a bid to ensure attendance of employees in Government offices, Sub-Divisional Magistrate Dooru on the directions of Deputy Commissioner Anantnag paid surprise visits in at least fourteen offices on Tuesday. According to official sources, 28 employees including seven heads of different departments were also found absent.
A report received by Deputy Commissioner Anantnag, Dr Syed Aabid Rasheed this evening from SDM Dooru Asalam Choudary mentions that offices of AEE R&B Dooru, AWE PDD Dooru, office of the Floriculture department in Verinag, Zonal Education Officer Verinag Tehsil Verinag, TSWO Dooru and office of the Verinag Develop... | |
| | | | HC restrains JKPSC to declare result of interviews for Chemistry, Geography posts till Nov 28 | | Geology, Botany interviews stayed | | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 22: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has reportedly directed Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) not to complete the process of interviews for the posts of Assistant Professors for Government Colleges, advertised for the subjects of Chemistry and Geography. Moreover the interview process for the posts of Geology and Botany was also postponed, due to stay from court.
Sources in JKPSC informed Early Times that some candidates from district Rajouri, who were not shortlisted for the interviews in the posts of Chemistry and Geography, had appealed before Jammu and Kashmir High Court, seeking permission to appear in the interviews.
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| | | | Organic, inorganic basmati getting same price, farmers feel cheated | | | | G S Asgotra
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 22: Though the former Chief Minister late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had laid thrust on organic farming, the organic rice growers have been feeling cheated as there is hardly any difference in price of organic and inorganic rice crop.
Pertinently, when the incumbent coalition government of PDP- BJP assumed power in 2015, it had announced that three border villages including Suchetgarh, Vidhipur and Kotranka Khurd would be developed for organic farming on the pattern of Gujarat. The government had also made announcement for giving special aid to the farmers, who have been producing organic basmati in the said villages.
"But ironically, now the bas... | |
| | | | Pre-empt Pak moves before it is too late | | Pervez on Pak plans | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 22: Undeterred by the surgical strikes carried out by the Indian Army in September as retaliation to the Pakistan sponsored terrorist attacks at Pathankot and Uri, Pakistan is planning more such terrorist attacks against India, according to Pervez Musharraf, former president of that country. Musharraf also blamed India for aiding the "secessionists" in Balochistan which he claimed as an integral part of Pakistan,
According to Musharraf, "what India does in Kashmir is a repetition of what it did in East Pakistan in 1971 which culminated in the formation of Bangladesh". He has claimed that "the attacks carried out against India by the Pakistani terrorists ... | |
| | | | Selected 5 months back, VLWs yet to get appointment orders | | | | Early Times Report
kishtwar, Nov 22: Though the selection of village level workers (VLWs) was made about five months back by the J&K Service Selection Board (JKSSB), the rural development department (RDD) is yet to issue their appointment orders. This puts a question mark on the government's 'fast track' recruitment process.
Some of the selected VLWs are on the verge of attaining overage. They are worried mainly because they apprehend that at some level something 'wrong' could be done to their selection list.
According to official sources, although JKSSB declared the result of selected candidates for the posts of VLWs after one month of their interviews, several other job aspirants wh... | |
| | | | H&TM course in Jammu polytechnic on verge of closure | | | | Bijay Charak
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 22: Realizing the importance of tourism, former Chief Minister Late Mufti Mohammed Sayeed in his first tenure had launched Hospitality and Tourism Management (H&TM) course in the polytechnic colleges of Jammu region. But now the course is on the verge of closure. The course was started on July 21, 2004 and it was called as Diploma in Travel and Tourism. Initially a large number of youth opted for the course but after getting the diploma in their hands, they had no option to pursue higher education in tourism in the state. A diploma holder Rakesh Menia said that not a single youth has been absorbed in government sector so far. The H&TM course... | |
| | | | Mass promotion to ruin JK's education system: Experts | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 22: Academic experts and parents have questioned the logic behind govern-ment's decision of mass promotion from Class 1 to Class 9 and warned that such measures would destroy JK's educational system.
They said that this was second time when the Education Minister issued orders of mass promotion to all government and private run educational institutions of the state.
One order was issued after the BJP-PDP formed the government in the state in March 2015. The Education minister, in the backdrop of floods, had issued the order of mass promotion to all classes excluding Class 10.
Parents while expressing anguish over such a decision have said that it will... | |
| | | | People suffer as work on flyover continues to remain suspended | | Unrest takes toll on developmental projects across Kashmir | | |
Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 22: More than four month long unrest in Kashmir valley has virtually led to a standstill in the developmental activities and people are suffering due to dilapidated condition of roads and absence of other basic facilities.
With work on two and half kilometer long Jehangir Chowk-Rambagh flyover remaining suspended since July this year people of Kashmir valley are facing numerous difficulties in reaching various destinations located in Central Kashmir. People are upset that they would have wait for long enough before the project is completed.
"We were expecting that the work on flyover would be over by March 31, 2017, but that is not ... | |
| | | | 3 soldiers martyred near LoC, 2 terrorists killed in Bandipora | | Intruders mutilate martyr's body; Retribution will be heavy for this cowardly act, says Army | | 
S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
Kupwara, Nov 22: Terrorists martyred three soldiers and mutilated the body of one of the martyrs near Line of Control in Machil sector in Kupwara district, while two terrorists were shot dead by the security forces in north Kashmir's Bandipora district, officials and reports said on Tuesday.
A top army official said the terrorists resorted to indiscriminate firing near the LoC fence in Machil sector, and tried to intrude into this side but alert sol... | |
| | | | Open manhole at Jogi gate posing grave threat | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 22: An open manhole in the middle of Jogi Gate Cremation Ground is posing a serious threat to the people, who come in large number to perform the last rites of their near and dear ones.
Despite several incidents where people have fallen in this manhole and suffered injuries, the J&K Sewa Samiti has not paid any heed to cover it up.
"One has to be careful as anyone can fall in the open manhole and suffer serious injuries. If someone is inattentive, there is eve... | |
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