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| Latti Bus accident; Roots lie in strike against shortage of Docs, medicines | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 13: Who would have thought that a strike called by locals in Latti area of Chenani Tehsil in Udhampur district against shortage of doctors and paramedical staff would result in loss of 24 precious lives in a tragic road accident.
Latti locals were agitated over the shortage of staff and medicines in the only Primary Health Center (PHC) available in the area. They were protesting against the inability of the state health ministry in providing them adequate healthcare facilities. If the sources are to be believed, strike had been called by the local social as well as political organisations.
They had announced that there would be no movement of buses on the r... | |
| | | | Major reshuffle in administration on cards | | | |
Bashir Assad
Early Times Report
srinagar, May 13: The Mufti Sayeed led PDP-BJP coalition government is expected to order a major reshuffle in police and civil administration.
Official sources said the state government is expected to reshuffle its civil and police administration in the next cabinet meeting scheduled to be held on May 18 here in Srinagar.
"The government is busy in finalizing the list of the officers to be shifted", sources in the civil secretariat said adding further that PDP president Mehbooba Mufti after receiving various complaints from the party cadres against a minister for which-hunting and creating mass hysteria in the bureaucracy is likely to intervene for the... | |
| | | | Separatists desperate to disrupt Amarnath Yatra | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 13: Separatists are making desperate attempts to disrupt the forthcoming Amarnath yatra by raking non-issues. Hardline separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani has unleashed a propaganda that RSS is trying to disintegrate the State and is trying to incite the people to hit the streets to keep the pot boiling.
Geelani, who was put under house arrest after he held an anti-India rally, recently said that BJP MLAs in the Assembly are very aggressive and are out to change JK's demography.
The separatist leader, who has been spewing venom against the India and finds it difficult to hold any kind of rally in the Jammu, has made these statements deliberately to provok... | |
| | | | Even 'nationalist' BJP skipped wreath-laying ceremony | | Insulting martyrs | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, May 13: Our soldiers and jawans, including CRPF personnel, drawn from different parts of the country, are laying down their precious lives happily for the cause of the nation in Kashmir and secure the lives of the people of the state. Thousands of our soldiers and jawans have sacrificed their lives during all these years of the state's accession to India to defend and promote further the country's sovereign interests in the state. It is the duty of all of us and thos... | |
| | | | Mufti Mohammad Sayeed for setting up hi-tech industrial estates in state | | |  Early Times Report
srinagar, May 13: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today emphasised the need for building a land bank for setting up hi-tech industrial estates to attract investment and absorption of technically-skilled workforce in the state.
"There is a need for establishing high-tech and eco- friendly industries to encourage huge investment...and create ample opportunities of employment for our skilled local youths," Sayeed said while taking stock of ongoing work... | |
| | | | After Omar Govt's prolonged indifference, CS to hold meeting of all deptts on May 21 | | K-Interlocutors' report | | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 13: Following inertness of the previous government headed by Omar Abdullah over report of the Kashmir interlocutors despite repeated requests of Union Ministry of Home Affairs, the Chief Secretary is slated to hold a meeting of Heads of all government departments on May 21 to discuss various recommendation; but three departments are yet to forward their comments to Chief Secretary.
Pertinently, the three-member group of interlocutors comprising journalist Dilip Padgaonkar, former Information Commissioner MM Ansari and educationist Prof Radha Kumar were appointed by Government of India in October, 2010 following the violent summer unrest in Kash... | |
| | | | Jammu pays highest power tariff in J&K | | 30% more than Kashmir | | |
Abdul Majid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 13: Successive regimes could be neglecting Jammu when it comes to demands for improvement in power supplies in the state, but the fact remains that this province pays the highest tariff -more than that collected from Kashmir and Ladakh regions. This is what the latest figures with the Power Development Department (PDD) reveal.
Official documents, a copy of which lies with Early Times, reveal that in the previous 2014-2015 fiscal Jammu paid a grand total of Rs 1,02,171.73 lakhs as tariff towards the state government whereas Kashmir paid only 71,556.17 lakhs, which is 30 % less. Ladakh region, including Leh and Kargil, on the other hand, pa... | |
| | | | JU appoints former VC's favourite as TA | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 13: The Jammu University is again in news for bad reasons. A trusted lieutenant of former Vice Chancellor was given preference over five deserving candidates and appointed as a contractual lecturer in Statistics department of Directorate of Distance Education.
In a response to an RTI application ADM/TW/14/31 dated 16/6/2014, it has been come to fore that Jammu University had conducted interviews for the post of Lecturer/ Teaching assistant in Statistics on contractual basis, in the Directorate Distance Education for the session of 2013-14.
A total of five candidates had applied for the post and all the candidates were invited for the interview during ... | |
| | | | Geelani, Abdullah blame Mufti for BJP entry into Kashmir | | Towards disintegration of State | | | ET Report
Jammu, May 13: Pakistani agent and mercenary Syed Ali shah Geelani and patron of NC and former J&K CM Farooq Abdullah Tuesday spoke in one language and charged patron of PDP and CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed with facilitating the entry of the BJP into the state apparatus. Geelani tore into Mufti while talking to former Chief Justice of Pakistan-occupied-J&K Syed Manzoor Hussain Geelani at his Hyderpora residence and Farooq Abdullah during an interview to a local English language daily. Syed Ali Shah Geelani has been under house arrest since May 5. Strangely, he has been conducting his anti-India activities from his residence through his followers.
Talking to the former Chief jus... | |
| | | | NC President becomes overnight friend of separatists in Kashmir | | Once a votary of bombing Pakistan, Dr Abdullah talks of dialogue | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
srinagar, May 13: National Conference President, Dr. Farooq Abdullah has of late developed love for the separatist leadership of Kashmir and has urged the central government to engage in a dialogue with them to find a solution to the Kashmir 'issue'.
Dr. Abdullah who and whose party National Conference is no more in power these days has asked the central government to shun its 'rigidity' vis-à-vis the Kashmir issue. The NC President has said that dialogue and dialogue alone can solve the problem and for this New Delhi should come forward and invite separatists in this regard.
There is an old saying that politicians change colours like chameleons. The ... | |
| | | | Rendered toothless by previous Govt, SIC expects Mufti to restore its tenacity | | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, May 13: Turned into a toothless tiger by National Conference Government , the State information Commission is hopeful that Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Syed would restore the autonomy of the Information Commission (SIC) head by G R Sufi. For making this to happen the legal experts and RTI activists opine that Government has to repeal the existing RTI Rules (J&K RTI Rules 2012) which were enforced during Omar Abdullah's tenure as Chief Minister in August 2012. The experts say that RTI rules of 2010 which were repealed by the previous Government have to be replaced which will ensure strengthening of RTI regime in J&K and making SIC an autonomous institution. ... | |
| | | | Favoritism in JU: Blue eyed professors bunk classes | | | |
Avinash Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 12: All is not well in University of Jammu, as senior professors in Directorate of Distance Education (DDE) are staying away from the classes leaving students on the mercy of contractual lecturers.
Sources informed Early Times, despite availability of required permanent faculty for various courses offered by the DDE, the administration outsources manpower to conduct classes, PCPs and evolution of assignments.
"Dr Anju Thappa , Assistant Professor, at DDE taught a single course (501) during Personal Contact Programme classes of Post Graduate Hindi, III semester for session 2014-15 begun from September 15, 2014 for 20 days," documents available... | |
| | | | FCD Aknoor violates SDRF guidelines | | Fails to complete works on time | | | KUNAL SHRIVATSA
Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 13: In gross violation of State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) guidelines which require to consume grant released to execute emergent nature of works within forty five days, the Flood Control (FC) Division, Akhnoor could not finish the 132 restoration works taken up after the flash floods of September 2014.
The lapse on the part of Flood Control Division, Akhnoor came to light through a Right To Information (RTI) reply under Reference No FCDA/ 3421, dated: March 17, 2015 wherein the Public Information Officer (PIO) the Executive Engineer of the said Division admitted that only 25 works out of 132 works taken up for reconstruction of both banks... | |
| | | | ‘Revoke transfer orders or face agitation’ | | | |
Asif Iqbal Naik
Jammu May 13: The transfer of three masters from Kishtwar to Ramban district including President of Masters/Teachers Association Mehboob Qazi has snowballed into major controversy in communally sensitive Kishtwar district. National Conference and Congress on Wednesday threatened to launch an agitation if the government fails to revoke the transfer orders.
The President of the association Mehboob Qazi while addressing a news conference in Kishtwar town on Tuesday had alleged that Director School Education Jammu, and Education Minister Naeem Akther and his junior minister Priya Sethi are transferring people in a selective manner and they are targeting members of a particul... | |
| | | | Grenade throwing module busted in South Kashmir, two arrested | | | |
Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 13: Jammu & Kashmir Police today claimed to have busted a module of people involved in a grenade throwing incident in the Tral area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Two persons have been arrested so far and hunt is on for the remaining members of the gang.
Officials in the police department said that Awantipora police along with 42 RR busted a joint module of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) that was involved in a grenade incident of December last year in Tral in which four civilians lost their lives while as 23 others were injured in the incident.
“On December 5, 2014 militants hurled a grenade in a bus... | |
| | | | 250 quarters being constructed for migrants at Vessu camp: CM | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 13: The provide better facilities to the displaced youth appointed in Kashmir Valley under PM’s employment package, the Government has decided to construct 250 more quarters at migrant colony Vessu in South Kashmir district of Anantnag.
This was announced by Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed while addressing a gathering of PM package employees during his maiden visit to Vessu today. The Chief Minister while acknowledging the problems of the displaced employees who were residing in shared accommodations in Vessu and other places today said that to ease out their problems the government will construct more 250 quarters at Vessu. According to sources the ... | |
| | | | ICICI Lombard fails to provide health insurance cards to Govt employees | | Subscribers smell a rat in Govt.’s largesse to private company | | |
Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 13:
ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited, has failed to issue policy documents to hundreds of government employees who were asked to get themselves insured through the company.
Reliable sources informed Early Times that, in 2014 the previous government tied up with ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited and introduced Insurance Policy for all Gazetted Employees on mandatory basis but surprisingly majority of Gazetted Employees have been waiting for policy number and health cards.
“The government had also directed all DDOs to deduct an amount of Rs 6081 rupees on account of annual premium from the salaries of the ga... | |
| | | | GAD reconstitutes General Council for Implementation of ECCE | | | |
Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
Srinagar , May 13
With an intention to provide integrated services for the overall development of children up to the age group of six years, General Administration department (GAD) in its fresh circular has ordered to
‘Re-constitute’ general council for implementation of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy in Jammu and Kashmir. According to an order number 651-GAD of 2015 dated 12/05/2015,the
government ordered sanction to the re-constitution of the general council for implementation of ECCE policy in Jammu and Kashmir with the Composition as the Minister for social Welfare as its President
and Minister of state as Vice President with... | |
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