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All eyes on Azad’s March 20 meeting in Jammu 3/17/2022 3:28:45 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 16: Amid infighting in the Congress after the humiliating debacle of the party in five states, rebel leader Ghulam Nabi has called a meeting of his supporters on March 20 at Jammu to devise a future course of action. This meeting is significant because the party high command has not listened to Azad’s suggestions in the recently held Congress Working Committee meeting. After being completely sidelined by the high command, Azad-former leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha, is visiting Jammu on March 20 to hold interaction with his supporters. A senior leader of Congress, who owes his allegiance to Ghulam Nabi Azad, said that the dissident leader will take a final decision after holding interactions with his supporters at Jammu on March 20. “Messages have been given to all loyalists of Azad, across Jammu and Kashmir, to attend the meeting and give their suggestions regarding the future course of action”, he said, wishing anonymity and disclosed that Azad loyalists have already started the exercise to prepare lists of their supporters at grass-r...   READ MORE

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3 LeT militants killed in Srinagar gunfight 3/17/2022 3:28:38 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Mar 16: Security forces shot dead three Lashkar-e-Toiba militants in a gunfight in Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday. Police said the slain militants were involved in the killing of a Sarpanch, Sameer Ahmed Bhat last week. They said the gunfight erupted on the outskirts of Srinagar at Nowgam when security forces launched an anti militancy operation around midnight following an input about the presence of militants in the area. “We got an input last night that three to four terrorists are hiding in Nowgam. After this Police, Army and CRPF laid a cordon in the area. The exchange of fire started at 2 am. The operation was put on hold till civilians were...   READ MORE   AIVPP bid to gherao Raj Bhavan foiled; president Bali detained Protesters reiterate demand to regularize, re-engage SPOs 3/17/2022 3:28:34 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Mar 16: Police on Wednesday foiled the protest march of All India Voice of Poor People (AIVPP) to gherao Raj Bhavan here which was part of its agitation to press for the demand of regularization of Special Police Officers (SPOs) and other issues concerning them. President AIVPP, Sewa Singh Bali, who was leading the march along with few other activists of the organization were detained by a strong contingent of the police while they were trying to move towards Raj B...   READ MORE   Surankote: 2 months on, ZEO absent, locals demand inquiry 3/17/2022 3:28:16 AM Rajesh Tandon Early Times Report Poonch, Mar 16: All is not well in the office of Zonal Education Officer Surankote in Poonch district and ZEO is absent from office for more than two months and teachers, locals are suffering a lot. Zonal Education Officer is allegedly voilating all norms of the department and have attached some blue eyed teachers as per their their own choices and have made huge fraud in appointment of EVs in various Dhoks in Surankote area. Many genuine EVs who were working as seasonal teachers in many institutions have been dropped whereas some blue eyed EVs with some personal interest have been appointed in these institutions, a report said. Sarpanch Haji Moh...   READ MORE   Education Deptt leaves 550 terminated RMSA teachers in lurch 3/17/2022 3:28:04 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 16: Highly qualified youth appointed under the centrally sponsored Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) scheme are running from pillar to post to seek their reappointment in the Education Department. The contracts of these teachers were terminated after the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, but they were assured that once the schools reopen their contracts will be renewed. “The minimum qualification for RMSA teachers was fixed as MA (Bed) and most of ...   READ MORE   India’s Covid vaccination strategy world’s largest: PM Modi 3/17/2022 3:27:43 AM Agencies New Delhi, Mar 16:Asserting that India's Covid vaccination drive is science-driven and people-powered, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the country is in a much better position to fight this deadly pandemic but people must keep following all precautions. PM Modi noted that today is an important day in India's efforts to vaccinate its citizens as now onwards, youngsters in the 12-14 age group were eligible for vaccines and all those above 60 were eligible for precaution doses. "I urge people in these age groups to get vaccinated," he said in a series of tweets. PM Modi asserted that India's vaccination drive, which is the largest in the world, is science-driven. ...   READ MORE   COVID-19: J&K reports 17 new cases 3/17/2022 3:27:36 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Mar 16: The Government today informed that 17 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 08 from Jammu division and 09 from Kashmir division, have been reported today, thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 453493. Moreover, 39 more COVID-19 patients have recovered and been discharged from various hospitals including 22 from Jammu Division and 17 from Kashmir Division. The Bulletin also informs that no new case of Mucormycosis has been reported today, thus the total number of confirmed cases remains 51 across J&K. On COVID vaccination, the bulletin informs that 19,809 doses of COVID vaccine have been administere...   READ MORE   Kashmir Files ‘bold representation of truth’: Amit Shah 3/17/2022 3:25:24 AM Agencies New Delhi, Mar 16: Union House Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday termed The Kashmir Information “a daring illustration of fact” during which the Kashmiri Pandit group was compelled to depart their very own houses within the nation. The House Minister met with The Kashmir Information casting workforce as we speak and stated that the reality of sacrifice, insufferable ache and battle of Kashmiri Pandits have come to the discover of the entire world via this movie. Taking to Twitter, Shah stated, “#TheKashmirFiles is a daring illustration of fact. It can work to make the society and the nation conscious on this route that such historic errors will not be repeated. “Met with as w...   READ MORE

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