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| 'PM alone can save crumbling PDP-BJP coalition' | | Ignoring Jammu to placate Valley | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 20: Only Prime Minister Narendra Modi can save the crumbling PDP-BJP coalition. This is what most of the reports post-Mehbooba Mufti and Ram Madhav at Srinagar on Wednesday meeting have said.
The reports have been manifestly lop-sided - PDP and Kashmir-centric. Jammu and Ladakh hardly figured in any of the reports, which were based either on sources close to PDP president or on what BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav said at New Delhi on Thursday, a day after he held discussions with Mehbooba Mufti on Government formation.
That Jammu and Ladakh will be conspicuous by their absence from these reports, mostly from Srinagar and New Delhi, was not altoge... | |
| | | | 'Delhi's K-policy responsible for JNU anti-India episode' | | Mirwaiz, ISIS terrorists thank JNU students | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 20: The February 9 Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) anti-India event has triggered massive nationalist protests across the country and exposed the pro-separatist credentials of the Congress, the Left parties and similar other Left-leaning parties such as the JDU and the AAP.
In fact, the nationalists and the anti-India forces and their supporters in the Congress, including its top leadership, the Left parties and many pseudo-secular parties have been face to face with each other ever since that day, when New Delhi witnessed anti-India, pro-Pakistan and pro-Azadi slogans on the JNU campus on an unprecedented scale.
The situation has climaxed to the point tha... | |
| | | | SP's wings clipped, turns mail dispatcher | | | |
Harish Chander
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 20: The wings of an additional SP, posted in a district of Jammu region, have been clipped by his senior who is said to have divested him of his 'powers' and given him the job of dispatching mails and other official documents.
The district SP and SP's boss is an IPS officer, who has strictly asked him not to interfere in the working of police stations. In the past, whenever he tried to intervene in the working of police stations in the district, he was reprimanded by the SSP, police sources said.
The SSP had given him the job of dispatching mails and other official documents, depriving him of his powers, the sources added.
Sources said tho... | |
| | | | What is common between Rahul Gandhi and Omar Abdullah? | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 20: What is common in Omar Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, and Rahul Gandhi, vice president All India Congress? If the two belong to top political parties that is history. If the father and the grandfather of Rahul Gandhi and Omar Abdullah have been great political leaders, that is part of history. If Omar's Grandfather and father happened to be Chief Ministers and Rahul Gandhi's grandmother and Father were Prime Ministers, it is part of history.
Then what binds the two politicians together. It is their habit of commenting or voicing their feelings on issues and non-issues. While Omar Abdullah makes use of Twitter Rahul Gandhi is there... | |
| | | | Inspector gives 'tension' to SSP | | | |
Vikas Gupta
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 20: A police Inspector, who wants to be posted as SHO of a police station on the highway in a district of Jammu region, has become the cause of tension of the SSP concered.
While the Inspector is at present attached with the concerned DPL, he asks his acquaintances - politicians and senior officers - to influence his SSP for a better posting, according to police sources.
"The SSP is so fed up with the frequent telephone calls he receives, recommending the name of Inspector for a posting in any of the highway thanas, that he has started feeling harassed," sources said.
The Inspector had virtually become the cause of SSP's tension, the sources... | |
| | | | Omar gets stinging replies for his 'pro-Kashmir concerns' | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 20: Former Chief Minister and National Conference working president Omar Abdullah got critical views when his word of words on the twitter with the BJP leader started on the virtual world.
NC leader hit out at Ashok Pandit who had demanded interrogation of JNU students union vice-president Shehla Rashid Shora, who incidentally is from Kashmir.
"Now being a Kashmiri Muslim is crime enough to warrant interrogation. BTW (by the way) it's Shehla not Sheila but what the hell!" Omar texted on Twitter.
Omar had in the past also tried to come up for the 'cause' of the Kashmiri people-read Muslims. However, the general response on the virtual world was not as pos... | |
| | | | Local admn, police was kept in dark about Madhav's 'secret' visit | | | |
Hyder Ali
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 20: In a major embarrassment for the local administration including police and the civil authorities, the official machinery was allegedly kept in dark over the "secret visit" of BJP general secretary and point-man on Kashmir, Ram Madhav, for secret talks with PDP president Mehbooba Mufti over government formation earlier this week.
Official sources told Early Times that it was, most probably, for the first time in the past over 25 years that the administration was not formally informed about the visit of the high profile dignitary who landed in the summer capital on the evening of February 17 in an private airliner when the normal business wa... | |
| | | | Threatens voters, who brought his master into power | | Chamcha acts more loyal than the king | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 20: After attaining power, the arrogant BJP leaders and their supporters are not treating peaceful citizenship as equals. Instead of fulfilling their aspirations of the people who had voted for them, chamchas of BJP leaders are threatening the hardcore BJP supporters and are trying to gag them.
Some days back, chamchas of a senior BJP leader misbehaved with residents, when they tried highlighting the problems being faced by them.
The helpless residents had tried to draw the attention of the BJP leader, who is also their MLA, towards unending civic problems in their area. The BJP leader was about to respond but in the meantime one of his chamcha tried to beco... | |
| | | | 'Not naming anyone in FIR wake up call for India' | | Pathankot Terror Attack | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 20: Pakistan Police not naming anyone in the FIR lodged in connection with Pathankot terror attack and giving a clean chit to JeM terrorist Moulana Masood Azhar has once again proved that Pakistan cannot act against the terrorists responsible for unleashing and promoting terror.
Pakistan Police have made it clear that it failed to establish the role of Moulana Masood Azhar and the mobile phone numbers which were passed on to Pakistan by India are untraceable.
The recent developments have made it clear that Pakistan is clearing the ground to close the case. "The probe carried out by Pakistan investigating agencies was nothing more than a cosmetic exercise. It... | |
| | | | Flood, irrigation funds embezzled in Poonch | | | | Avinash Azad
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 20: An alleged scam of several crores has surfaced in Poonch district, where more than two dozens of canals are redundant; however, Flood Control and Irrigation Department has spent several crores on the so-called restoration of the canals.
According to documents available with Early Times under State Disaster Relief Fund (SDRF) payments of more than Rs eight crore have been spent by I&FC department Poonch. "Information obtained by Sitara Welfare Society Poonch, from office of District Treasury Poonch under RTI revealed that Flood Control and Irrigation Department Poonch under SDRF has spent Rs 7, 83, 33, 573 during 2014-15", the documents read.... | |
| | | | SSB, BOSE test on same day | | ** Candidates demand cancellation of BOSE test | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Feb 20: Candidates have demanded postponement of BOSE test for posts of junior assistants on February 21, 2016, saying the date clashes with that of test for 10+2 pattern posts going to be held tomorrow across the state.
Junior assistants' posts were advertised by BOSE on August 20, 2013. The SSB test would be held in the morning and that of BOSE from 2 to 3 pm on the same day. The BOSE test time was earlier from 1 to 2 pm but it was rescheduled following the SSB test in the morning.
The candidates said the holding of the test on the same day would only help the candidates of Jammu and Srinagar while others were likely to suffer.
The Kis... | |
| | | | 13 Bijbehara villages reel under darkness | | | | Saahil Suhail
Anantnag, Feb 20: As many as thirteen villages in Bijbehara assembly constituency of this southern district are reeling under darkness since from last one week as Power Development Department has failed to replace damaged transformer in a Receiving Station feeding the villages.
Official sources told Early Times that on last Thursday (11th of February) newly installed transformer having capacity of 6.3 MVA got damaged due to a technical fault and since then the department hasn't installed a new transformer in Dupatyar Receiving Station which feeds as many as thirteen villages of Bijbehara assembly segment including Kanelwan villages that ranks third position in terms of pop... | |
| | | | Illegal timber seized in Kupwara | | | | S.Tahir-ul Haq
KUPWARA, Feb 20: Officials of the Forest department on Saturday seized five scants of Deodar here in Kupwara district of North Kashmir. According to sources, the Forest Division Kehmil seized 236fts of Deodar from the house of Mohammad Aslam Khan S/O Muhammad Sidiq Khan R/O Dedikote Kupwara. The accused had earlier sought permission to chop two scants from his own land but after officials granted him permission he felled five scants thereby was seized by the authorities, sources told Early Times. Meanwhile a senior police official said that, a case has been registered in police station Welgam vide FIR no 13/2016 under section 379/6/ forest act against the accused Mohammad ... | |
| | | | HM militant arrested in Magam | | |  S.Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
BUDGAM, Feb 20: One militant of Hizbul Mujahideen was arrested and an AK-47 has been recovered from his procession during an operation in Makhama area of Budgam district in central Kashmir today.
According to sources that, "on Friday late evening there was a moment of some unidentified gunmen's in Peth Makhama village, after which security forces cordoned few suspected houses in Makhama area.
Sources said that the search operation was suspended late las... | |
| | | | Two CRPF personnel, one civilian killed in encounter with militants at Sempora-Pampore | | Militants take refuge in EDI building | |  Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 20: At least two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed while as nine others sustained injuries during an encounter between the militants and security forces near Sempora in the Pampore area on Srinagar-Jammu national highway. An employee of Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) was also killed in the shoot-out.
Following the shoot-out the militants took refuge in the building of EDI where they are engaged in a g... | |
| | | | Tourism infrastructure worth crores created by KDA goes waste | | Bring picturesque tourist spot Burnayan on Tourism Map: Butt | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Feb 20: President Youth Volunteers Welfare Association (NGO) Kishtwar, Touseef Iqbal Butt today demanded that the tourism spot of village Pochhal namely Buranayan , district Kishtwar which is just 2.5 kms away from District Headquarter be brought on tourism map of the country and steps be taken to promote Pochhal village as tourism destination. While talking to "Early Times" President, YVWA, Touseef Iqbal Butt, said that Kishtwar has many tourism spots but government is least concerned to develop the infrastructure so as to give face lift to all these spots including Burnayan which is the easiest reachable tourist spot of district Kishtwar... | |
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