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| Eyeing disputed land in state, Cabinet Minister turns broker | | Puts henchmen on job to strike deals | | | PS Bali
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 1: Further inviting embarrassments for the state government, a senior Cabinet Minister has apparently turned broker to settle cases of land disputes falling under the department of his ministry by using henchmen to convince second party, sources told Early Times.
According to sources, the cabinet minister has adopted a novel modus operandi to possess disputed land, falling in the department under his ministry by breaking the deals.
"The cabinet minister has put his henchmen on job to convince the parties in dispute to sell the land on low rates," said sources, adding that being the cabinet minister, the person in question has all the knowledge regar... | |
| | | | 2 Senior BJP ministers summoned by party high command | | Illegal cash transaction matter | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 1: Two senior ministers of BJP have been summoned by the party high command in New Delhi in connection with the matter of illegal cash transaction and its transportation in Jammu few days back. The matter came to open after media reported that a vehicle carrying cash belonging to two BJP leaders was intercepted by the Police.
Sources said after the news created flutter in political circles, the state unit of BJP notwithstanding having come in defense of the duo, party leadership has been under pressure to disclose the news in public. Though the BJP leaders who allegedly indulged in cash transaction recently have been identified, the matter continues to be u... | |
| | | | GMC goes behind mentioned time to declare result | | MBBS Examination 'scam' surfaces | | |
Avinash Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 1: Alleged MBBS examination scam surfaced in Government Medical Collage (GMC) Jammu as faculty took three months to evaluate answer scripts and declare the results.
According to sources final semester examination of MBBS students began in July and concluded in August 2016, but the results were declared in November.
"Theory and practical exam of MBBS students were concluded in August, and as per University's statutes the results were to be declared within 15-20 days, but the results declared on November 2, 2016", sources said and added that it took almost two and half months to declare the results.
"It smells something fishy cooks in evaluati... | |
| | | | 'Wildlife engages machinery of blue-eyed contractor without tenders' | | Work in proposed modern zoo under scanner | | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 1: The Jammu and Kashmir Wildlife department has reportedly engaged earthmovers and other machinery of a contractor, who is close to a firebrand cabinet Minister, without inviting tenders, which is mandatory as per the repeated directions of government and other agencies.
Pertinently, the foundation stone of Rs 150-crore zoo-cum-safari project was laid in the month of September this year by Minister for Forest, near the Khanpur area of Nagrota and the zoo is proposed to be developed in an area of 10,000 Kanals.
Sources alleged that works to the tune of more than Rs. 10 Lakhs were so far executed by Wildlife department without inviting tenders. "... | |
| | | | Pay SHO for any illegal act in hotels | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 1: The SHO of a police station in the winter capital city is nowadays alleged to have attained notoriety for allowing hotliers to do all sorts of illegal activities in their business establishments in lieu of the huge bribe money he has been getting from them every month.
In Jammu district police circles, he is termed as the blue-eyed of many senior police officers. These officers had got him posted at an important police station in the winter capital city, police sources said.
Soon after his posting here as SHO, he got tough with the hotliers in his jurisdiction, sending them a clear message that no unlawful activity would be tolerated in their business c... | |
| | | | Seniors push subordinates to collect money for sports event | | Promoting corruption JKP style | | | K Koushal
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 1: In a staggering revelation, the senior officers in police department are allegedly pushing subordinates to arrange money from businessmen for the upcoming sports event, thus encouraging corrupt practices.
According to sources, the senior officers, who are reportedly in direct contact with the businessmen and have already taken money from them, but their greed for money does not stop here and they have allegedly instructed every Station House Officer (SHO) to arrange money from the same party for the event.
If sources are to be believed all the Station House Officers (SHOs) and In-charge Police Posts are being pressurized to collect money from i... | |
| | | | 89 Security men lost lives, 200 injured in anti terror operations | | 2016 witnesses serious rise in JK's militancy | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Dec 1: The sudden rise in militant activities in Jammu and Kashmir has again made the security grid in the state to remain on tenterhooks with fresh measures being made to foil any such incidents in future.
According to reports, the year 2016 witnessed a sudden rise in the militant activities in Jammu and Kashmir which again is turning out to be a major cause of concern for both the state government as well as of the security establishment at large.
With latest Nagrota incident, 89 security personnel have been martyred in action in Jammu and Kashmir this year. On November 29, seven Army personnel were martyred and many, including BSF personnel, were injured ... | |
| | | | Police declines to register rape case, asks accused to marry victim | | Teesri Adalat! | | | Early Times Report
rajouri, Dec 1: In brazen violation of norms the Station House Office of a Police Station here has allegedly declined to register a rape case, asking the accused to marry the victim.
Sources said around a fortnight ago a girl's family approached the police station to file a case of rape of their daughter.
Sources said the family gave a written complaint to the police station begging before the cops to file the case. The police, however, dilly-dallied the registration of FIR on one pretext or the other.
Infact, the sources said the SHO ended up playing a "self-styled court of law" which pronounced the "judgment" in the case by asking the family of the accused to get th... | |
| | | | Nagrota attack: Security, intelligence agencies losing sleep | | |  Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 1: With seven of India's brave hearts martyred in bloody encounter at Nagrota the previous day, questions are being raised on the security forces for their failure to plug the perforations and check the repeated incidents of infiltration from across the border.
Despite cameras, sensors and generators backed light towers installed on the fence, locals living close to the border say that the security forces still rely on beer bottles tied together on ... | |
| | | | GMCH abandons poor patient to die, admitted after ET intervention | | |  Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 1: In a shocking incident, Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) Jammu has abandoned a poor patient and left him unattended for the last two days to die.
Pertinently, two medical social workers working in the hospital, who are responsible to coordinate with the treating doctor and look after such patients, were both absent.
After Early Times reporter brought the matter to notice of Medical Superintendent, he took swift action an... | |
| | | | India giving more to Pakistan than taking: Former NSA | | J&K is India's neck | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 1: Former National Security Advisor MK Narayanan has virtually contested the New Delhi's Pakistan policy and said time has come for it to "define the nature and scope of its conflict with Pakistan". "We should do so before it defines us and perpetuates the India-Pakistan hyphenation," he has said.
He has said in the past, Indian Prime Ministers, like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had reached out to their Pakistani counterparts, hoping to find a solution to problems that eluded their diplomats, and added that the Indian side at times had been over-generous (the Simla Agreement in 1972 between Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar ... | |
| | | | Govt Deptts disposing unserviceable items in contravention of norms | | | | Saqib Ahmad
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 1: A massive scam has come to the fore that officials in various departments had sold government items at the lower rates then the market value which had caused huge losses to the government exchequer.
Official sources said that it has been found that some departments had sold obsolete and unserviceable items at 'lower prices' causing heavy losses to the government. Now authorities have directed departmental heads not to sell such items without approval from a competent committee. Various officials who had sold such items over the years are under now scanner and action may be taken against them for causing heavy losses to the government.
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| | | | Crores to go down drain as Govt decides to start development works in Kashmir during winter | | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 1: Crores of rupees are all set to go down the drain since the state government has given enough hints that it is going to restart the developmental activities across the length and breadth of Kashmir valley.
Despite the fact that winter season has already set it in Kashmir, the people at helm are keen for taking up the developmental activities in the valley. Although, the developmental activities are usually not taken up in Kashmir during winter, but still then the people in the government want to score brownie points in this regard.
The Roads and Buildings (R&B) department and other agencies entrusted with the development and maint... | |
| | | | Courtesy NHAI: Jammu-Srinagar all weather road still a distant dream | | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 1: The construction of four-lane Srinagar-Jammu national highway would have been all-weather road and the passengers would not have often been stranded due to blockade of the national highway, had the authorities completed the vital project on time.
The Srinagar-Jammu national highway, the only road link to outside world, gets blocked often during winter. To upgrade Jammu-Srinagar road into four lanes for all weather route, the authorities started a project several years ago and the project was to be completed in 2013 and later its deadline was extended to December 2014.
However, the project has missed several deadlines due to "lack... | |
| | | | KPs at cross roads, growing inter -caste marriages worries community | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 1: Kashmiri Pandits are at the cross roads of history as the rich culture and traditions which was a unique identity of the community is getting eroded day by day with the younger generation getting delinked from its roots. This has been a cause of concern among the community people who are leading anexiled life for last 27 years in other parts of country and Jammu as Kashmir has been made out of boundd for them after the separatists launched an anti India movement way back in 1989-90 and made the Pandits their main target after labelling them Indian agents and nationalists by core.
The 27 year exile and failure of Government to rehabilitate the Pandit... | |
| | | | Enquiry implicates DC office Kishtwar employee of embezzlement | | | |
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Dec 1: Nearly a month after Deputy Commissioner Kishtwar Ghulam Nabi Balwan ordered for constitution of three member committee to probe the bungling in purchase of various items for official use in his office , three member inquiry committee headed by Tehsildar Headquarter Majid Jahinger Najjar implicated Nazir in its interim report submitted by him to Additional Deputy Commissioner.
As per reports , the interim report submitted by Tehsildar Headquarter vide No. DCK/HQA/1094/16 found various lacuna in the purchase of stocks as well as missing of stock kept in the safe custody of the said employee.
The inquiry committee was constituted on the direction... | |
| | | | Bani College episode exposed how anti-India elements manage to sneak into Edu sector | | | | Early Times Report
Kathua, Dec 1: Arrest of lecturer of Degree College Bani from the hilly area of Kathua district has once again established the fact that fear among anti-national forces have been disappeared after formation of coalition government in J&K in which "ultra nationalist" BJP is equal partner. Anti-national forces in Jammu region have realized that so-called nationalist ministers in the BJP are weak enough to give directions to the administrations so they are taking advantage of the situation. It is really a matter of concern that one contractual lecturer, who teaches History in Government Degree College, Bani-which is stronghold of nationalist BJP, has allegedly dared to p... | |
| | | | Govt's claim to promote Tourism in JK an eye wash | | 60% posts of TOs and 50% posts of Asstt. Director Vacant in TD | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Dec 1: The promotion after qualifying the services as per rules is the right of Employees but it is the other way round in department of Tourism in Tourism rich state of Jammu and Kashmir commonly referred to as "Paradise" on War.
As per the details available with "Early Times" almost decade long pending Departmental Promotion Cases (DPC) have irked the employees posted in Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Department. The reliable sources informed the "Early Times" that the process started in 2012 for DPC headed by the then Director Tourism Kashmir beside Director Tourim Jammu and other senior officials of the department as its members.
The sou... | |
| | | | ‘e-governance’, digital functionality still a distant dream in J&K…! | | IT deptt's service rules finalized years after in Oct cabinet meeting | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 1: J&K's IT department, in contrast to its counterparts elsewhere, is still in the infancy stage, thanks to an oblivious government and those at the helm who are taking their time in making it fully functional and a robust wing. Sluggish pace in getting it fully established is albeit serving other departments which are shy of adopting e-governance mode a 'desired' purpose.
Sources said while the IT department came into existence five years back, it has not been able to keep its pace in delivering and serving the very purpose of its establishment due to a deliberate approach and reluctance of some officials at the helm of affairs over the years. Surprising... | |
| | | | Govt Hospitals procure drugs without obtaining Analytical Reports | | Negligence raises risk of spurious drugs | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 1: Despite the laid norms that on every purchase of drugs, the concerned department has to obtain Analytical Reports of the drugs before giving them to patients, the primer Hospitals of the state are making local purchases without obtaining any such reports.
Sources told Early Times that the department is required to ensure that Analytical Reports of drugs/ disposables are received with each lot /batch of drugs/ medicines at the time of receipt of supplies so that medicines/ drug of standard quality are procured.
"Astonishingly, the department received Analytical Reports on the medicines/ disposables procured against rate contracts but no such reports was... | |
| | | | Congressmen hold PCC president responsible for poor Aakrosh rallies | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 1: Embarrassed over extremely poor response of general public as well as the party activists to Aakrosh rallies against demonetization move of the Modi Government, Congress leaders in Jammu and Kashmir have held the PCC president G A Mir responsible for the same.
According to the sources in Congress circles, the party high command has taken cognizance of negligible strength in the Aakrosh rallies across the State and expressed displeasure over the same. However, on the other hand, sources said that the State leaders have held the PCC president G A Mir responsible for the same as he did nothing to rejuvenate the party at ground level.
While elaborating, so... | |
| | | | Presence of 80m tunnel along IB with Pak cause of concern | | National security | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 1: Just a day after the seven brave hearts of the Indian army, including two young Majors, laid down their lives while rescuing hostages inside army's artillery unit in well fortified Jammu's Nagrota based 16 corps headquarters, BSF jawans early Wednesday morning found a 80-metre long tunnel in Ramgarh sector of Samba district, 40 kms from Jammu. Immediately after the revelation was made by the Director General of BSF KK Sharma, the entire security establishmen... | |
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