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Deadwood, corrupt get sleepless nights as Lt Governor means good governance! | GC Murmu's speed, dynamism, style of working surprises JK babus | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 6: With GC Murmu visiting Civil Secretariat in Srinagar and starting his office work within hours of assuming the office as the first Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory on October 31, the alleged deadwood and corrupt in the system have started getting sleepless nights.
Sources said after the Lt Governor visited Civil Secretariat in Srinagar and held meetings with the Commissioner Secretaries, the effect of his maiden interaction with the official machinery was such that most of the officials were busy looking into official files till late at night.
To everyone's surprise the very next morning, on November 2, Murmu travelled from north to south of Kashmir, a distance of over 200 miles, holding meetings with the administrations of Ba... | |
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Kathua School teacher shown porn clips to minor girl, arrested then released | Investigating agencies come into action, collects details of involved officials | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 6: The investigating agencies have started investigation and collecting details in the case involving a school teacher, who was arrested for showing porn clips to minor girl in Kathua, but was later released without any punishment after paying hefty money.
Early Times in its edition of November 1 had published a story titled, "School Teacher shown porn videos to minor girls. Arrested then released without punishment, in exchange of huge money". The investigating agencies were unaware about the matter and came to know after publication of the story by Early Times.
According to sources, investigating agencies including Central agencies have taken cognizan... | |
| | Terrorists spilling blood of innocents to carry forward Khan's agenda | Pak designs exposed | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 6: Pakistan sponsored terrorists not leaving any stone unturned to keep the normal life in Kashmir disrupted has exposed the nefarious designs of the neighbouring country.
An analyst while talking to Early Times said, "The reports reaching from the Valley revealed that common man in Kashmir wants to resume his daily chores as he is facing immense hardships due to the continuous shutdown being enforced by the terrorists."
He said, "People who are defying the threats of terrorists are being targeted and intimidated. The recent grenade blast at Hari Singh High Street in Srinagar in which a non-local vendor was killed and 40 others sustained injuries was a cle... | |
| | Political leaders to remain incarcerated for time being, not to be released soon | Broadband services, SMS to start in phased manner in Kashmir | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 6: The resumption of broadband services in Kashmir valley is likely to take place over the next few days, but in a phased manner. This would be done along with the resumption of short messaging services (SMS) on all the post paid mobile phones operational in the valley.
Early Times has learnt from sources that the union government has decided not to release the leaders of different political parties in the near future. This means that these leaders belonging to the various mainstream political parties would have to spend some more time in incarceration in the jails as well as subsidiary jails. "The review security meeting convened by H... | |
| | Rajouri Admin-Labour Deptt on loggerheads over land acquisition issue | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 6: The face-off between District Administration Rajouri and Labour Department seems to be continued over the alleged attempt by the former in occupying Labour Department's land for construction of Election Office.
Sources told Early Times that the incident took place last month, when local administration unloaded building material at Labour Department Office for construction of Election Office without taking Labour department on board.
"No legal procedure was followed for acquisition of land by the administration before unloading the building material. The decision was taken on the part of administration in hurried manner which irate the Labour Departm... | |
| | CT scan machine of GMC Rajouri lying defunct for two years | Private diagnostic centers minting money | | Rajesh Tandon
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 6: It seems very shocking that Government Medical College Rajouri, which has been set up just few years ago but the CT scan in the hospital, has been lying defunct for the last two years due to which patients have been suffering a lot and were forced to get CT scan done from private diagnostic centers.
Sources told Early Times that the Rajouri being hilly district, is an accident prone area where numbers of cases of accidents are reported on da... | |
| | Kashmir situation will not be solved till BJP is in power: Azad | | |
Agencies
New Delhi, Nov 6: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday slammed the BJP-led NDA government's handling of the Jammu and Kashmir issue saying as long as party in power, the situation would not improve there.
Azad, a former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, said even he could visit J-K only with the permission of Supreme Court, recalling his first visit after the Centre scrapped special status to it under Art 370.
"This government has internationalised Kashmir issue, they don't allow their own MPs, media and NGOs and tell MPs of foreign countries to go. That too, right wing MPs…," he told reporters here.
If someone still says that situation in J-K was alright, ... | |
| | Director Information reviews functioning of Deptt | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 6: Director Information & Public Relations (DIPR) Dr. Syed Sehrish Asgar on Wednesday took stock of the functioning of the department as it resumed work here after bi-annual move from Srinagar.
The Director inspected various wings of Joint Director Office Jammu and interacted with the staff. She inspected the working of news room, advertising section, PR section, photo unit, cultural wing etc. While interacting with the staff and senior officers, she asked ... | |
| | Let's make a new beginning: Munish to people | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 6: Editor, Early Times, Munish Gupta, on Wednesday expressed dismay over many areas in Jammu being without basic amenities.
Carrying forward his mass contact programme in Shastri Nagar, Munish said, "It is unfortunate that the successive regimes ignored Jammu and its people during the past seventy years."
"The areas which I have visited during the past six months are without the basic amenities of life. These amenities are important for people to survive.
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| | Will distribute my salary among needy' | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu: Editor Early Times, Munish Gupta, has said that if he wins the forthcoming Assembly elections from Gandhi Nagar constituency he would distribute his monthly salary among the needy people in his constituency.
"It's my promise to you people that besides carrying out development work, I would distribute my salary among the needy people.
I assure you that I would not take any money from anyone, nor would I remain inaccessible. Whenever you need me I will be available," Munish said. ... | |
| | Rain in Srinagar, snow in upper reaches of valley | Gulmarg records 7 inch snow | | Wajahat Shabir
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 6: The fresh snowfall and rain has brought down the temperature in entire plains of Kashmir giving a sigh of relief to the residents from the month long dryness.
The weather in valley late Tuesday night changed the mood and the rain started in most parts of the state which continued to remain intermittent throughout the night.
In Srinagar and adjoining areas, there were strong winds and rain overnight. The weather conditions worsened in the we... | |
| | Electricity craved Kashmir lacks infrastructure for augmentation of power supply | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 6: Kashmir is unlikely to witness any improvement in power supply during this winter as the valley lacks the required electricity infrastructure for augmentation of power supply.
The electricity scenario deteriorates in Kashmir during the winter months when the power demand reaches over 2000 MWs against the availability of 1200 MWs.
However, there won't be any improvement in power supply in the coming winter.
"We provide 1200 MWs of electricity to consumers in Kashmir and the demand during winter months reaches to 2000 MWs. Like the previous years, there won't be any improvement in the power supply," a senior official of the Powe... | |
| | Absenteeism galores in BDO’s office | | |
M S Nazki
Early Times Report
Poonch, Nov 4: Employees of several government officer particularly in remote areas mostly remain absent from duties perhaps knowing that no one is going to take any action against then but the fact is that people suffer a lot any there is no one to feel their pain and office of BDO Mendhar is glaring example among such offices where absenteeism galores, sources said here today.
People said that they have been coming from far flung areas for seeking the help of the office for their day today works but after reaching here we find no one in the office which is irony and un wanted practice. There must be some sense among these officials who enjoy parties of e... | |
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