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Would Anna help in lifting curbs over JK press? 2/26/2015 1:09:16 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Feb 25: Crusader against corruption, Anna Hazare has won accolades for fighting corruption. In fact, he must get the credit for changing Delhi's destiny in the recently concluded Assembly elections. But Hazare has ignored a vital institution during his campaigns i.e. fourth estate. The fourth pillar of democracy even after 67 years of independence continues to face dictations and threats. Newspaper organizations which refuse to fall in line have to face intimidation and harassment. The former Prime Minister of India late Indira Gandhi unilaterally had a state of emergency declared across the country on June 25, 1975 until its withdrawal on March 21, 1977. The order bestowed upon the Prime Minister the authority to rule by decree, allowing elections to be suspended and civil liberties to be curbed. For much of the Emergency, most of Gandhi's political opponents were imprisoned and the press was censored. Several other atrocities were reported from the time, including a forced mass-sterilisation campaign spearheaded by Sanjay Gandhi, the then Prime Mi...   READ MORE

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Director Information turns 'dictator' Asks employees to windup operations by 5'o clock 2/26/2015 1:05:02 PM Fazal Khan Early Times Report Srinagar, Feb 25: As the PDP and BJP have decided to form the new dispensation in Jammu and Kashmir many officers who were appointed by the ousted NC-Cong regime are on tenterhooks, one among them is the Director Information, who was given the coveted post just a few days before the Model Code of Conduct was imposed in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of the 2014 Assembly polls. The incumbent Director Information, who was appointed by the National Conference to help its cause in the recently held Assembly elections, in which NC faced a humiliating defeat, according the sources, is reluctant to pack his bags as he "believes" that some of his well wishers would come...   READ MORE   Where are tourists? 'Beat The Chill...Join Winter Carnival 2015 at Patnitop' advt a mere formality 2/26/2015 1:04:17 PM Bharat Bhushan Early Times Report JAMMU, Feb 25: February is generally the best month for tourist arrivals in the valley and at Patnitop and most of the hotels at these two places would be full of domestic crowd and foreign tourists but, this time, tourism is at its lowest ebb which is contrary to the erstwhile Omar government's claims that "all is well". If everything was actually good, where are the tourists? The low tourist arrivals are mainly because the government and its tourism wing actually lacked the will to promote J&K on the tourism map of India. It did not take pains to project J&K as a global tourist destination. It did not even participate in travel marts in the country whe...   READ MORE   NRHM amplifies Swine Flu scare Ambiguous advertisement adds to peoples' dilemma 2/26/2015 1:03:42 PM Abodh Sharma Early Times Report jammu, Feb 25: At a time when deadly H1N1 has gripped the state and people are in the state of panic over increasing cases of swine flu, an advertisement issued by the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) Jammu and Kashmir has further exaggerated the apprehensions and confusion for the people who are pouring in at the Government Medical College Hospital with apprehensions of deadly Swine flu. Though late, the advertisement was issued with a pertinent motive of helping people differentiate between common flu and fatal Swine Flu; but lack of objectivity in representation of facts has increased the confusion rather than setting them at rest. The advertisement...   READ MORE   Terror fades away, cancer on rise in J&K 2/26/2015 1:03:16 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi Early Times Report JAMMU, Feb 25: With terror incidents waning away, Jammu and Kashmir is now witnessing rise in cancer cases at an exceptionally alarming rate. From 11,052 patients who reported in the year 2011, the figure has reached 11, 815 by the end of December 2014. Though this is just an increase of 673 patients in the last three years but the number has consistently remained around 11,000 patients during the last three years which is not only painful but alarming since this peaks in volumes about failure of government in tackling this menace. They have cared little about disseminating information about this killer disease and remained more concerned about cou...   READ MORE   Case registered against Additional Resident Commissioner Sexual harassment of KAS officer in New Delhi 2/26/2015 1:02:46 PM Early Times Report NEW DELHI, Feb 25: Delhi police has registered an FIR against Asif Hameed Khan, Additional Resident Commissioner in J&K House, New Delhi, for sexually harassing a junior KAS officer for over a year. Initially at the time when the victim filed the complaint, the police appeared reluctant to register an FIR, possibly succumbing to the political patronage enjoyed by the accused officer. It was only after the victim approached Suhail Malik, J&K's Deputy Advocate General in New Delhi, seeking justice for her, when heads began to roll. Malik filed a Writ Petition in the Delhi High Court against the officers of Delhi Police seeking contempt proceedings for violation of Supre...   READ MORE   Why action has not taken against BJP leader who tried to shield top "tainted" bureaucrat? 2/26/2015 1:02:16 PM ET Report jammu, Feb 25: A day after registration of FIR against him in the Vyapam scam, Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram Naresh Yadav resigned from the office on Wednesday due to direction given by the Centre but why Union Government has adopted double standards in another similar case of corruption and nepotism. A top former bureaucrat, who was sacked on the charges of shielding of a former Minister, was unsuccessfully shielded by a senior BJP leader, who is enjoying important position in the Union Government. The senior BJP leader made every attempt to protect that officer by using his influence but till date no action has been taken against him. The ex-top bureaucrat has been sacked for ...   READ MORE

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