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Chain represents India in World Olympics; JK Govt doesn't know him Jammu's unsung hero 12/10/2016 11:29:58 PM Peerzada Ummer Early Times Report JAMMU, Dec 10: Chain Singh, 27, must be cursing his luck for having born in Jammu region. Had he belonged to Kashmir Valley, separatists, mainstream politicians, journalists and activists would have written praises for him. No one knows him here despite being JK's first sportsperson to represent India at World Olympics this year. Hailing from Doda, Chain, son of a farmer, represented India in World Olympics held in Brazil this year in sharp shooting. He happens to be the first person in JK's history to take part in World Olympics. However, neither the Sports Council, nor the government knows about him. It is surprising that this star who has participated in 22 shooting World Cups till date hasn't got a single recognition from the state government. ...   READ MORE

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Mehbooba's proposal could have by-passed union home ministry 12/10/2016 11:29:22 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 10: The proposal of the Home department, headed by the chief minister, to have non-IPS officers as IGPs of the state is part of the PDP's policy to give a semblance of the autonomy to the state especially with respect to the All India cadre posts, sources told Early Times. They said the former CM late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had always insisted that more state cadre officers be induced in the IAS to the level of brining them at the parity. The chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, according to the sources, had moved this proposal at the cabinet meeting last evening in line with this reasoning of the former CM. The crucial point was having KPS officers to get ...   READ MORE   Conflict between CM, BJP 12/10/2016 11:29:17 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Dec 10: What happened in the first cabinet meeting after the reopening of the Durbar Move offices in Jammu was not an ordinary political development in the state. It was a major, major development of far reaching political importance. It could even force either of the two parties - PDP and BJP - part ways. For, the issue which brought the two parties face to face with and made Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti left the meeting halfway was very dear to her and the BJP has to choose between her or power and national policy governing appointment of Indian Police Services (IPS) officers in the states of the Union. Mehbooba Mufti wants at least 25 per cent positions at ...   READ MORE   Terrorists looting banks to survive Demonetization Aftermath 12/10/2016 11:29:07 PM Financial institutions seek security, mull engaging private agencies Early Times Report JAMMU, Dec 10: The demonetization move has left the terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir high and dry. To overcome the financial crunch terrorists have started looting the banks and during the past few weeks many banks have been targeted. Sources told Early Times Prime Minister Narendra Modi scrapping Rs 500/ and Rs 1000/ notes have put the terrorists in a tight spot and they are finding it hard to run their operations and sustain. "There are reports that many over ground workers and locals have deserted the terrorist outfits due to shortage of funds," they added. Sources said that to overcome the fin...   READ MORE   GMC Sgr bypasses JKMSCL, makes purchases from market Rules are for Jammu only! 12/10/2016 11:28:50 PM Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report JAMMU, Dec 10: It seems rules and regulations laid down by the Health Department are meant only for Jammu, not for Srinagar. For example, despite availability of Jammu and Kashmir Medical Supplies Corporation Limited (JKMSCL), which is meant for purchasing drugs and other things for hospitals across the state, the Government Medical College Srinagar is making purchases from open market. "This decision to purchase medicines from open market exposes the mismanagement prevailing in the Health Department. There are separate rules for Jammu and Srinagar", sources said. "It also reflects hostile relation between JKMSCL and GMC Srinagar, as since the Corporat...   READ MORE   Edu Deptt caught in red tape, courtesy minister Files gather dust in mantri's chamber 12/10/2016 11:28:37 PM Akshay Azad Early Times Report JAMMU, Dec 10: The working of Higher Education Department has been virtually caught in red tape, as several important files have been gathering dust in the chamber of the minister concerned for months together. The Public Service Commission (PSC) had completed interview process for appointing principals for government degree colleges nearly three months back. The PSC had forwarded the file to the Higher Education Department for the Minister for Higher Education's nod. But till now, the minister hasn't spared time to decide the fate of that file, sources told Early Times. An incharge college principal regretted that few of the professors, who were intervie...   READ MORE   Oops! Amid poor visibility in frozen Dal lake, Tourism Deptt hosts water sports Participants, invitees shiver in cold 12/10/2016 11:28:25 PM Early Times Report srinagar, Dec 10: At a time when most parts of the word famous Dal Lake have frozen and Srinagar shiverinh at minus 4.5 degree Celsius, the Tourism department on Saturday held "water sports festival" in the waterbody here drawing flak from participants and invitees, alike. Many of the participants were seen shivering in cold, sneezing and coughing while same looked true for many of the invitees, who said it was an "odd hour" function held to misguide the "people in general". Official sources said the Tourism department is showing an expenditure of over Rs 10 lakhs on the "5th National Canoe, Polo and Dragon Boat Championship", which was flagged off by the Chief Mini...   READ MORE   Slams JDA, Revenue deptt for failing to retrieve land from encroachers SVC for increasing internal vigilance 12/10/2016 11:28:13 PM Saqib Ahmad Early Times Report srinagar, Dec 10: The State Vigilance Commission has come down heavily on the Revenue Department and Jammu Development Authority for failing to retrieve land from encroachers in Jammu district. In its recent report, the SVC says that Commission received a good number of complaints regarding alleged encroachment of JDA land. "While dealing with these complaints the Commission observed that in most of the areas the JDA has not taken physical possession of the land transferred to it by the Government, mainly because no demarcation of the land has ever been conducted by the Revenue Department in association with the Jammu Development Authority. Similarly encro...   READ MORE   Centre to get inputs from intelligence agencies Allegations against BJP ministers 12/10/2016 11:28:02 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 10: While as some BJP and Sangh leaders are trying their best to hush up alleged corruption charges on BJP ministers and their family members, Union Government is reportedly seeking inputs from the intelligence agencies about the corrupt deals of BJP ministers in the coalition government. Sleuths of intelligence agencies have been asked to keep a watch on activities of BJP ministers, their supporters and family members. Credible sources said that sleuths of intelligence agencies have already sounded their higher ups that instead of taking serious note of the allegation of corruption against their own ministers, senior BJP leaders and some other leaders of San...   READ MORE   J&K 'non-serious' in reducing mounting AT&C losses: CAG 49 percent still without meters, tampering common 12/10/2016 11:27:52 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi Early Times Report JAMMU, Dec 10: Jammu and Kashmir has not taken even a single significant step towards bringing down the Aggregate Technical and Commercial losses (AT&C). R-APDRP scheme which was aimed at reducing AT&C losses to below 15 percent on a sustainable basis has not been rolled out completely in the state. Losses are mounting and there is no chance of Jammu and Kashmir being able to either tap these losses or bring them down significantly. Despite having been launched in the year 2008, the centrally sponsored scheme has failed to change the power scenario of Jammu and Kashmir. Theft of power continues to be as high as it was in the year 2008 when the schem...   READ MORE   JU's VC left embarrassed after Guv skips function 12/10/2016 10:55:33 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 10: The Vice Chancellor of Jammu University had to face 'humiliation and embarrassment' after Governor N.N. Vohra skipped second annual North Zone Inter University Declamation Contest. According to sources within the University, the Governor, who happens to be the chancellor of the university, skipped the function, wherein he was invited by the Vice Chancellor, Prof RD Sharma. "On December 8, the university issued a circular marked as most urgent/immediate, requesting Dean, Registrar, Controller of Examination, all Rectors, HODs, Directors, convenors Board of Research Studies and Officers upto the rank of Joint Registrar to ensure their presence on the occas...   READ MORE   Separatists can't mislead people anymore Setting the record straight 12/10/2016 10:55:26 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Dec 10: For those who are ignorant, the ideology of the Hurriyat Conference (a conglomerate of over two dozen Pakistan-funded outfits) is that "Jammu & Kashmir is a disputed territory and India's control of it is not justified". It supports the Pakistani claim that Kashmir is the "unfinished agenda of Partition" and needs to be solved "as per the aspirations of the people of Jammu & Kashmir". And don't forget that the Hurriyat includes the J&K Liberation Front of ex-terrorist Yasin Malik with which Farooq Abdullah, NC president, is alleged to "have been links with". The unstated "logic" behind the Hurriyat argument is that "just as India itself was partitioned ...   READ MORE   Villagers nab timber smugglers, police fails to act 12/10/2016 10:54:35 PM Early Times Report Budgam, Dec 10: During the intervening night of 8th and 9th December as many as five timber smugglers along with smuggled timber loaded on six horses were caught red handed by some villagers of Branwar in Doodh Ganga forest range of Budgam but the said smugglers are yet to be arrested by the Police and Forest officials. Details available with Early Times reveal that some whistleblowers of Branwar village laid a trap deep inside the forests of Branwar near Yusmarg during t...   READ MORE   Influential doctors manage attachments in city hospitals Worst state of affairs in J&K's Health Services 12/10/2016 10:53:45 PM Early Times Report KISHTWAR, Dec 10: The shortage of doctors and para medical staff has added to problems of patients coming for treatment to District Hospital Kishtwar from different far flung areas of the district. Despite the tall claims of the Government to fill up the vacant posts of doctors and para medical staff in the hospitals and health centres of the State, many hospitals are still facing the shortage of doctors as the influential doctors and para medical staff manage their postings in city hospitals. There has been such a nexsus between some doctors and paramedical staff with authorities that though posted in far flung areas they mange their attachments in city hospitals or m...   READ MORE   DC Kupwara's transfer leaves scores of deptts headless 12/10/2016 10:53:27 PM Mohammad Sarfaraz Early Times Report KUPWARA, Dec 10: After the transfer of Deputy Commissioner Kupwara, scores of departments including ADDC, ACD and ACR are headless from past few months causing inconvenience to common masses . A reliable source told Early Times that, "the day the Deputy Commissioner Kupwara, Kumar Rajeev Ranjan (IAS) was transferred no other DC has shown willingness to join here as head of the district administration. Recently the Deputy Commissioner Kupwara, Kumar Rajeev Ranjan (IAS) was transferred and posted as Additional Secretary to the Government, Tribal Affairs Department vide government order no: 2160-GAD of 2016 dated 18/11/2016. While as Bashir Ahm...   READ MORE   Div Com directs UEED to make STP at Pahalgam functional within 7 days 12/10/2016 10:53:19 PM Saahil Suhail Early Times Report Anantnag, Dec 10: Waking up from deep slumber, authorities have now directed UEED to make operational the Rs. 10.58Cr Sewerage Treatment Plant functional at South Kashmir's famous tourist resort Pahalgam. Early Times, a few days ago had carried a report titled Rs. 10.58Cr worth Sewerage Treatment Plant at Pahalgam goes dysfunctional. "Divisional Commissioner Kashmir summoned the officials of UEED and representatives of Mumbai based firm 'Khalidi' that has bagged the contract of constructing the Sewerage Treatment Plant at Pahalgam and were asked to make it operational within a week," sources told Early Times. They said that Divisional Commissioner Kas...   READ MORE   Since India & Pakistan do not want to live in hostility, which side then wants to lead a hostile living ? 12/10/2016 10:53:12 PM Early Times Report Jammu,Dec 10 : While the LOC and the IB in Jammu and Kashmir continue to be tense because of frequent ceasefire violations by Pakistan and the retaliation by the Indian troops,the two sides have issued statements indicating that both New Delhi and Islamabad wish to end this hostility.Neither side wants to live in perpetual hostility. Asserting that it acted in interest of national security in expelling a Pakistan High Commission official in October, India has said it has no intention to add to the strain in ties with Pakistan caused by Islamabad's continued policy of cross-border terrorism. Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh, replying to a question in Ra...   READ MORE   Rajouri: Teachers busy in tuition centers, admin silent 12/10/2016 10:50:10 PM Early Times Report Rajouri, Dec 10: In brazen violation of the norms, government schools' teachers here are busy holding private tuition while the authorities concerned are silent over the issue. A delegation of students of some government schools in areas like Sunderbani and Nowshera complained that the teachers don't teach them properly as they are always in a hurry to rush to tuition centers. "We are not taught properly in classrooms as the teachers concentrate more on their private tuition centres. We are poor and cannot afford to pay the fee at the private centers," the students said. That said even though the matter was brought into the notice of Chief Education Officer and the ...   READ MORE   Residents of Talab Tillo protests against traffic department 12/10/2016 10:49:58 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 10: The residents of Talab Tillo area today staged a protest demonstration against the traffic department and blocked road near Gole Pulli, demanding strict action against erring drivers. Irate residents castigated the traffic department of not taking erring drivers seriously. They said that drivers in Jammu city, especially on Talab Tillo road, violate all the traffic norms and they have no body to ask. "The erring drivers yesterday crushed a minor to death an...   READ MORE   College prof denied bail in sedition case 12/10/2016 10:49:33 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 10 : Principal sessions Judge, Kathua, Vinod Chatterji Koul has rejected the bail application of a government college professor who was booked by Bani police in a sedition case. Accused Shah Nawaz, son of Mohammad Latif Dar of Dogripora near Awantipura in Pulwama, Kashmir, was booked by police in a sedition case on the basis of investigation into a written complaint lodged against him by his students. According to the police case, the written report was made with Bani police station on November 30, 2016 and a copy of the report was sent to the district magistrate, Kathua, for filing a formal complaint. Nawaz was arrested and after obtaining the complaint f...   READ MORE   SSP directed to produce director school education before HC 12/10/2016 10:49:24 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 10 : In a contempt petition, a high court division bench of Chief Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar and Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur today directed SSP, Jammu, to secure the presence of director school education (DSE), Jammu, before the court. The bench ordered the SSP to produce DSE before the court on December 17, 2016. Earlier, the bench observed that on the request of counsel for the respondents, the court had on November 25, 2016 granted two weeks' time to report compliance. It was specifically mentioned in the order that if compliance order was not produced, DSE would appear in person, the court said. The counsel for the respondents submitted that inspite...   READ MORE   Farooq's remarks expose his double standard: PK 12/10/2016 10:49:16 PM Early Times Report Jammu Dec 10: Lambasting former Chief Minister and President National Conference Dr Farooq Abdullah for his mischievous statement lending direct support to Hurriyat, Panun Kashmir today said the Dr Abdullah is responsible for mess in valley and his recent utterances have exposed his double standards. In a press statement Panun Kashmir Convenor Ravinder Jalali today reminded Dr Abdullah that the Kashmir problem is not a political problem as projected by him and Hurriyat but is a communal problem based on the extension of two nation theory. Jalali stated that Abdullahs by giving such flaring statements are only toeing the same line. Pnnun Kahmir leader Jalali stated A...   READ MORE   DySP peels off tinted film from KU VC's car 12/10/2016 10:48:54 PM Early Times Report Udhampur, Dec 10: A probationary DySP peeled off tinted film from the windows of SUV of Kashmir University (KU) vice-chancellor (VC) after minor altercation with him here today. During checking of vehicles at Jakhani naka, probationary DySP Adil intercepted a SUV which was on its way from Jammu to Srinagar. The SUV belonged to KU VC, Prof Khurshid Iqbal Andrabi who himself was travelling in the vehicle, police sources said. When he noticed black film coating on the SUV's ...   READ MORE   Clerical employees protest, seek removal of pay anomalies 12/10/2016 10:48:41 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 10: On the call of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh All Departments Clerical Staff Association, the clerical cadre of J and K State on Thursday held a strike across the State. In all the districts headquarter of Jammu Province, the clerical cadre from different departments gathered and held demonstrations in protest against non-implementation of Pay Anomaly Committee Report constituted vide order No.67-GAD of 2012 dated 16th January 2012 regarding removal of pay anoma...   READ MORE   Women thieves strike at boutique in Gandhi Nagar 12/10/2016 10:48:25 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 10: Residents of the Gandhi Nagar locality are having sleepless nights with sudden increase of theft incidents in the area. A gang of thieves has been active in the locality for quite some time now. The area, it seems, is turning unsafe for the residents and shopkeepers. The irony is that the local police officers have turned a blind eye to the situation and are still unmoved to identify and book the thieves and cheaters. Latest in this series, a gang of four ...   READ MORE   SC sets aside regularization of 209 daily rated workers Pulls up govt for ignoring requirements of state judiciary 12/10/2016 10:47:59 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Dec 10: The Supreme Court of India has set aside the Jammu and Kashmir high court's order on 1 December last year, directing en masse regularization of 209 daily rated workers in high court and sub-ordinate judiciary. Disposing of an appeal filed by the J&K government, a division bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice TS Thakur also pulled up the state for neglecting the requirements of the state judiciary for a long period of time. "Since the issue of regularization is a matter with which the state government is seized with, we are of the view that at this stage it would be appropriate and proper to set aside the impugned order of the High Court wh...   READ MORE

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