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| Amid threat from terrorists, ET Editor's security withdrawn | | Early Times only newspaper in J&K to lose security | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 23: Despite repeated threats from the terror outfits, the Jammu and Kashmir government has withdrawn security from the Editor-in-Chief of the daily Early Times thereby jeopardizing his life. The development has taken place at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi taught a lesson to the terror outfits across the border and has pledged to fight terror with full might. But the government in Jammu and Kashmir seems to be working against the vision of the iconic PM who enjoys massive public support in his fight against terrorism and corruption.
Official documents reveal that Early Times is the only newspaper from Jammu whose security has been withdrawn, raising eyebrows over the intentions of those who implemented the controversial orders, which have put to risk the life and property of a media house, essentially fighting for the cause of victimized Dogra community as the nationalist voice.
The withdrawal of security that comprised of mere two Personal Security Officers has come at a time when this Jammu based-newspaper had been receiving threats fr... | |
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| Subversion of democracy in J&K; Omar Abdullah has forgotten 1951, 1987 | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 23: NC Vice-president Omar Abdullah is seething with anger. The reason is that he wanted simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly elections in J&K so that he could recapture the state government on his own strength or in alliance with the Congress, its age-old ally and also source of its strength, but the Government of India and the ECI dashed all his hopes to the ground by deferring the assembly elections. The ECI deferred assembly polls in the state for security reasons. It needed at least 70,000 security forces personnel to ensure free, fair and peaceful assembly polls, but the Union Government expressed its inability to station 70,000 additional security for... | |
| | | | 'Now Kohli becomes ex-MLA' | | Who will construct Siot-Kalakote road? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 23: Despite funds provided by Union Government to state government, the former Minister Abdul Gani Kohli, ex-MLA Kalakote, could not fetch monry for Siot-Kalakote road.
Hoodwinking the masses, the Minister however, in April 2016 managed to start repairing work, instead of widening the said road, but could not complete it. "The dilapidated road is a major setback in development of Kalakote, the 22 Killometer stretch that connect Kalakote with main Jammu-Poonch highway at Siot, is in shambles for more than a decade", the local said and added that the governor's administration took many steps to develop the state, but sub-division Kalakote remained untouc... | |
| | | | DEO Kathua dances to BJP tunes: Vikramaditya Singh | | Permits filing nomination Mar 23 but withdraws permission on Mar 22 midnight | | | Jammu, Mar 23: Congress candidate for Kathua-Udhampur-Doda Lok Sabha seat Vikramaditya Singh has alleged that District Election Officer Kathua has been dancing to the tune of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) as after giving written permission for filing nomination he asked to postpone the nomination filing in a midnight call. Singh was schedule to file nomination papers at the office of District Election Office Kathua on March 23 but had to postpone the filing of nomination. "I had called DEO Kathua over phone few days ago and sought permission to file nomination papers on March 23. I got the written permission letter from the office of DEO Kathua on March 22, but it was at around midnight tha... | |
| | | | Congress' Hindu terror theory collapses | | Samjhauta blast | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 22: "All the four accused, Naba Kumar Sarkar alias Swami Aseemanand, Lokesh Sharma, Kamal Chauhan and Rajinder Chaudhary have been acquitted by the court," NIA counsel Rajan Malhotra said on Wednesday. The blast in the India-Pakistan train took place near Panipat in Haryana on February 18, 2007, when it was on its way to Attari in Amritsar, the last station on the Indian side. The Samjhauta train blast had left 68 people, mostly Pakistanis, dead in 2007
Before pronouncing the verdict, NIA special judge Jagdeep Singh dismissed the plea filed by a Pakistani woman for examining some eyewitnesses from her country. "The court ruled that the plea of the Pakistan... | |
| | | | Influential Agri officers get choicest posting | | Two officers get modified order within days | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 23: In a glaring example of favouritism, two Sub-divisional level Agriculture Officers who were transferred at Samba and Marwah and gets modified transfer order through their influence, within days from their transfer order.
As per the details available with Early Times, Principal Secretary to Government of Agriculture Production Department has published a transfer order with wide order number 61- Agri of 2019 dated 01-03-2019 wherein 18 Sub divisional level officers have been transferred and offered new place of posting but two influential officers at serial numbers 2 and 17.
First they denied to join new place of posting and thereafter gets modificati... | |
| | | | Jolt to DC, HC stays suspension of Dy DEO Kishtwar | | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Mar 23: In another setback to 'controversial' Deputy Commissioner Kishtwar Angrez Singh Rana, the High Court stayed the suspension order of Deputy District Election Officer Masood Ahmed Bichoo as same was issued in arbitrary and illegally while using the power of the Election Commission of India which is the gross violation from DC Kishtwar.
As per details available with Early Times in a petition SWP N0.546/2019 Dated 20-3-2019 filled by the petitioner Deputy DEO Kishtwar Masood Ahmed Bichoo against his illegal suspension which is beyond the jurisdiction and ambit of Deputy Commissioner Kishtwar through advocate Faheem Shokat Butt, Justice ... | |
| | | | Sajad 'divorces' BJP, ridicules scribes for calling him BJP ally | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 23: Former ally of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Sajad Gani Lone is these days doing everything to shun his previous image- sometimes bashing the media persons for calling him BJP's ally and sometimes opposing the decisions taken by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
On Friday while accompanying the Lok Sabha candidate of his party from Baramula parliamentary constituency, Lone was cornered by media persons who asked him questions pertaining to the present political situation of the state. While Lone, otherwise known for his sagacious approach while dealing with the media, was bashing NC, PDP and Congress, he lost his cool when a journo asked him whether... | |
| | | | Govt initiates process against erring officials | | Fund lapsing | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 23: With the current fiscal coming to an end, the government has initiated process to get details about officials responsible for lapsing of funds.
Huge funds get lapsed annually in the state due to non-utilisation within prescribed time. The departmental heads have been directed for timely utilisation of funds and asked to fix the responsibility if funds were allowed to lapse. As few days are left of current fiscal, the government has been collecting details to fix responsibility for lapsing of funds. "The process has already been started. Departments have already been told to give details in few days," an official in Chief Secreta... | |
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