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| And, now demand for withdrawal from Govt | | BJP under fire | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 18: Things are not moving in the right direction for the BJP in Jammu province. On May 16, many organizations, including the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association (JKHCBA), lambasted the BJP. Almost all of them charged the BJP with selling out the Jammu's legitimate rights and interests to remain in power in the state and some of them asked the BJP ministers to "resign" from the government saying they had no "moral right" to stay in the government after its poor performance in the government and outside.
"The BJP ministers and MLAs have stabbed Jammu from the back. They have surrendered everything to Kashmir. They have caused an affront to its self-respect," they had said, adding that the patience of Jammu was coming to an end and that they will achieve what was its legitimate due share in the polity as part and parcel of the state. More significantly, they had attacked the BJP and the BJP-led NDA Government more than the PDP. They had accused the Union Government of betraying Jammu. "They are just incompetent to safeguard the interests of Jamm... | |
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| For petty personal interests a BJP Minister had questioned feasibility of Artificial Lake project? | | Infighting among BJP ministers creating hurdles in accelerating developmental activities in Jammu | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 18: If sources in the corridors of powers are to be believed, one BJP minister is responsible for raking up of controversy over artificial lake. The said minister has some petty personal interests so he had raised question about feasibility of the lake at the present situation and brought this matter to the notice of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.
Credible sources said that the BJP minister was very much interested that a fresh survey should be conducted and Centre should release more funds for the Artificial Lake so that he should appease his officers who have been working day and night to make him successful.
Credible sources said that some days the... | |
| | | | Silence of Sukhnandan, Khajuria on AIIMS intriguing | | Artificial Lake Project | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 18: The cornered and condemned BJP is desperate to regain Jammu's confidence after it committed several anti-Jammu acts to make common cause with Kashmiri ruling elite. The past two days witnessed five BJP local leaders, including PHE Minister Sukhnanadan Choudhary, MLC Ashok Khajuria, in-charge BJYM Yudhvir Sethi, BJP executive committee member Chander Mohan Sharma and spokesperson Suresh Magotra taking a line which was intriguing and partly inconsistent with the line of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed took on May 15.
The Chief Minister had last week in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Nirmal Singh and MoS Priya Sethi declared that t... | |
| | | | Negligible cases registered by Police, conviction rate zero | | Missing children's number registers alarming rise | | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 18: Durji (36), mother of six, has attempted suicide thrice, in the last two months, as the pain of separation from her only son Bablu (15), has become unbearable for her.
Bablu (15) son of Nand Ram and Durji, a native of Gopalpura Chattarpur, Madhya Pardesh, at present D-block Sainik Colony, had gone for playing on March 3, as usual with his friends, but didn't return home for the last more than two months.
Fearing harassment in the hands of police, Bablu's parents, who are labourers, have pinned their hopes on a soothsayer, who has been assuring Bablu's return within a week but for last two months.
Bablu is not an isolated case which is not r... | |
| | | | When will silver screen return to Kashmir? | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 18: While shooting in Sonamarg for his Bajrangi Bhaijan, Bollywood sensation, Salman Khan expressed anguish that successive state governments had failed to open cinema halls in Kashmir.
Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed seems genuinely concerned about getting Bollywood back to Kashmir. The shooting of Bajrangi Bhaijaan reflects Mufti's campaign has yielded results.
In fact the former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah and his son, Omar Abdullah must own responsibility for failure to throw open the cinema halls.
To trumpet normality, Dr Farooq gave incentives and managed to open three cinema halls, Broadway, Regal and Neelam. The Regal closed down aft... | |
| | | | Wives of village heads getting 'widow pensions', young political activists getting 'old age pensions' | | Open Loot in Social Welfare Department! | | | Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 18: Major scam has surfaced in Social Welfare Department wherein influential people in nexus with concerned officials are receiving old age Pensions, widow fund and monthly allowances under Militancy related victim (MRV) Schemes".
The Documents in possession of Early Times reveals that one Hadeesa Begum, 35, wife of a Village head Ghulam Hassan Dar of village Badibug of Tehsil Pattan is receiving monthly widow pension of rupees 200 in her account number SB-0260040000002372 from Social Welfare office Pattan .
Kulsooma, 35, wife of a Numberdar, namely Ghulam Muhammad Dar of Badibug village is receiving monthly allowance of rupees 400 as ol... | |
| | | | Govt transfers 35 officials including 23 IAS officers | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 18: The Cabinet which met here under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today ordered following transfers and postings in state administration.
Raj Kumar Goyal, under orders of repatriation from the Government of India, has been posted as Principal Secretary to the Government, Home Department, relieving B.R. Sharma, of the additional charge of the post.
Dheeraj Gupta, under orders of repatriation from the Government of India, has been posted as Commissioner/Secretary to the Government, Relief and Rehabilitation Department. He shall also be the Chief Executive Officer, Project Monitoring Unit of the World Bank Project.
Asgar Hassan ... | |
| | | | CM inspects new premises of Directorate of Information, orders immediate repairs, renovation | | 'Refurbished premises to come up as integrated Media Complex' | |  Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 18: Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, today inspected the newly-allotted premises of the Directorate of Information & Public Relations (PR) near Polo View, at Sherwani Road.
The complex was earlier with the J&K Public Service Commission, which shifted its offices to the new Complex at Ram Bagh, last year.
Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Gazzanfar Hussain, Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar, Farooq Ahmad Lone, Director Information, Muneer-ul-Islam and ... | |
| | | | Two years on, Chenab valley quake victims await compensation | | 'UPA Govt dumped Rs 607 Cr relief package forwarded by Omar led regime' | |  Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 18: The quake victims of Chenab valley are still waiting for compensation. On May 1st and May 14th, 2013 quakes shook the Chenab Valley leaving scores dead and thousands homeless.
The victims have accused the government of discriminating against them.
Anchoring their hopes slightly upon the ongoing relief mission in Kashmir valley, the local questioned the different yardsticks adopted by the authorities at the helm of affairs as their unintenti... | |
| | | | Gangyal gun factory workers on indefinite strike to protest 'exploitation' | | |  Arun Singh
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 18: International Labours Day is celebrated across the globe by workers, but Gangyal gun factory owners denied permission to organize any function and hoist flag by workers.
Hundreds of gun factory workers have been observing strike for the last five days, demanding among other things that they should be allowed to hoist flag at their respective establishments.
The agitation began when employees of around 15 gun factories at Ashok Nagar tried to unf... | |
| | | | JKCA scam: Police seeks bail cancellation of two prime accused | | | | Bashir Assad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, May18: The police on Monday sought cancellation of bail of two prime accused in the multi-crore cricket in J&K Cricket Association (JKCA).
The J&K High Court had earlier issued a notice to former Chief Minister and JKCA president Farooq Abdullah in the case involving alleged misappropriation of funds to the tune of Rs 40 crore.
The court had also directed the investigating officer to file a 'proper' status report about the investigation conducted so far into the FIR registered in 2012 by or before the next date of hearing on May 19.
Mohammad Saleem Khan (ex-general secretary JKCA) and Ahsan Ahmad Mirza (ex-treasurer) were earlier booked by ... | |
| | | | Centaur hotel employees waiting for wage revision since 2007 | | LS Petition Committee assures them of 'relief' in near future | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 18: Employees of the Srinagar unit of Centaur Hotel who are waiting for the revision of the wage agreement got a shot in the arm when the Lok Sabha Petition Committee assured them that their genuine demands would be put before the Civil Aviation Ministry.
Javed Ahmad Pandit, President Centaur Hotel Employees Union told Early Times that 15 member Petition Committee arrived here on May 15 and left today for New Delhi. Javed said the committee members carried out deliberations with the employees of the hotel and listened to them with regard to their demand of revision of the wages that are pending for the last eight years now.
"We projected ... | |
| | | | GAD submits list of tainted babus to CM; action likely within days | | | | Peerzada Ummer
ET Report
SRINAGAR, May 18: The Jammu and Kashmir government has prepared another list of the tainted bureaucrats with the dispensation mulling to go for another operation clean up in the state administration.
Sources privy to this development told Early Times that during the past week, the chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had issued directions to the General Administration to speed up its efforts in preparing the list of babus against whom graft charges have been registered in the past and no action was taken by the previous regime. The order was also issued to put the babus in categories about their actions which have proven to be no less than hurdles in ensuring tra... | |
| | | | Omar took hasty decisions after NC scored zero in LS polls | | Left state in mess to make 'life difficult' for new dispensation | | | Fazal Khan
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 18: As the PDP-BJP coalition is about to complete three months in power, it's grappling with host of issues and is trying to put the state back on track. The mess created by the erstwhile NC-Cong regime is not allowing the present dispensation to settle down.
Sources told Early Times that ousted Omar Abdullah led regime has left most projects and other works incomplete. "Many projects were started and then left half way," said a source.
"The new dispensation either has to complete these projects or has to dump these. If these projects are dumped the money which has been spent on these would go down the drain," he added.
Fate of many schemes ... | |
| | | | To settle scores with NC-Cong, PDP-BJP hit Jammu, spare Srinagar | | | | M Hyderi
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 18: To settle scores with rival parties could be part of politics, but in J&K this type of politics is likely to hit Jammu, as the ruling coalition plans to shelve the Tawi artificial lake project while similar projects are executed and encouraged in Srinagar.
Contrary to Jammu deadlock, the infrastructure development projects started by the previous government in the summer capital Srinagar have gained momentum during past two months of PDP led-coalition regime.
The winter capital interests, on the other hand, seem to be a back-burner story. On May 16 while talking to reporters in Jammu, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed hinted at shelving o... | |
| | | | Court raises safety concern over Katra-Banihal rail link | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 18: The 125-km-long Katra-Banihal section of the rail link is likely to be delayed. The Delhi high court has expressed serious concern over the design of the link saying it could pose serious threat to the safety of the passengers, if the project is executed as per the original design.
The court made this observations on hearing a petition filed by Prashant Bhushan for NGO Centre For Public Interest Litigation (CPIL). The court had observed that in case of natural disturbances it could further risk the lives of the passengers.
The CPIL had petitioned that railway authorities are ignoring the concerns raised by the expert committee on this design. The rail... | |
| | | | Fake Delhi based organization fleeces Jammu youth | | In the name of employment | | | G S Asgotra
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 18: On the pretext of prestigious "Swarnjayanti Swarojgar Yojana" a fake Delhi based organization has been fleecing the youth of Jammu by giving bogus appointment letters of Customer Care Representatives (CCR) in Swarnjyanti Cooperative Department, Delhi.
Moreover, without any exam, screening test, this fake Delhi based organization, 'SwarnJyanti Cooperative Department', has been conducting interviews on phone and is providing the job of the customer care, with monthly salary of Rs. 30,500. This scandal is running under the nose of district administration Jammu, but all the security agencies Police, Cyber crime and Crime branch are found in s... | |
| | | | Shortage of staff, poor management in distt hospital bring anguish for patients | | Lal Singh must set his house in order first | |  Arun Trisal
Early Times Report
Kathua, May 18: Despite having the knowledge of poor condition of hospitals across the state, JK Health Minister Lal Singh vows development in Health department, narrates his working style in public meetings and before state/ union BJP leaders but reality differs to his fictions.
Ironically, his native hospital cries for facilities and shortage of staff members including poor management in district hospital Kathua not only bring anguish for patients but als... | |
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