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| Passport row: Geelani ready to 'accept' Indian nationality | | | | Abdul Majid
Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 24: The ongoing row over issuance of passport to separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani is likely to end soon, as the pro-Pakistan hawk has decided to write 'Indian' in the 'nationality' column of the application form.
Geelani, who heads his faction of Hurriyat Conference, had sought a passport to see his ailing daughter in Saudi Arabia. But he had left blank the 'nationality' column in the computerised form, leading to its rejection.
Sources close to Geelani said he is now willing to write 'Indian nationality' in the column, and this week only he would personally visit the office of Regional Passport Officer Srinagar to complete the formalities.
"You have to understand the situation Kashmiris are living in. With presence of eight lakhs troopers, Kashmir has one of the highest military concentrations in the world. India has closed all our traditional routes to neighboring countries and taken over our natural resources. This has made us fully dependent on it for power, water, roads and jobs. We are living in forcible control of I... | |
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| 2 ADGPs, IGPs, distt SPs among 35 IPR defaulters in J&K police | | Home ministry likely to initiate action against them | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 24: Chief minister Mufti Mohammad Syed's anti-corruption initiatives have not deterred 35 of the state's IPS officers of the rank of ADGP, IGP and district SPs to file property returns as mandated by the union ministry of home affairs (MHA).
As per a MHA memorandum, at least 35 IPS officers of J&K cadre had not submitted their IPRs (immovable property returns) in 2015, or failed to stick to the due date of April 30.
The MHA has asked all state governments to ensure that IPS officers should submit IPR for 2015 before the due date. The list of defaulters was likely to be put by MHA on its website.
The MHA crackdown may also affect the promotion prospects o... | |
| | | | 3 M’s to decide KPs’ fate | | Delhi Meet | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 24: Three M’s on Saturday met with a handful of Kashmiri Pandits at J&K House, Prithvi Raj Road, New Delhi, to discuss and decide the political future of the internally-displaced community.
The three M’s, who played crucial role in the meeting, included Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, BJP national general secretary (incharge J&K) Ram Madhav and Mattoo (Amitabh), former vice-chancellor of Jammu University.
It was Deputy Chief minister Nirmal Singh who, according to Ram Madhav himself, was to represent BJP in the meeting but suddenly it was decided to replace him with Ram Madhav, who was one of the architects of the agenda of alliance, which is being... | |
| | | | Dy CM rewards 'tainted' engineer | | BJP's war against corruption: | | | Avinash Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 24: Abusing the mandate given by the people for fighting corruption , the Deputy Chief Dr Nirmal Singh has given prize posting' to a tainted engineer, who has misused official position for vested interest and also 'tampered' his date of birth in his service book.
Documents in possession of Early Times reveals that on April 21, under government order number 136/HUD-2015 Jugal Kishore Sharma Technical Officer, Commissioner Secretary to Government, Housing and Urban Development Department transferred and posted as Executive Engineer in Urban Local Bodies Jammu.
Though, the engineer was removed from service on August 23, 2013, however, th... | |
| | | | MOS Education to visit ailing BGSBU on May 26 | | Scholarship scam comes to fore | | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 24: Lashing out at the administration of Baba Gulam Shah Bhadshah University (BGSBU), wherein a scholarship scandal has come to core , Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) vice president and Member of Legislative Assembly Vibodh Gupta today said that there was complete mess in the varsity, which needed immediate and complete overhaul.
Speaking to Early Times, the MLC said that Minister of State for Education, Priya Sethi is scheduled to visit Rajouri on May 25 evening, and is expected to pay a visit to the varsity on May 26.
He further said that there was complete mess in the University and it needed immediate overhauling. "There is shortage of staff... | |
| | | | Party MP demands IIT, IIM for Valley | | Now, PDP plays to the gallery | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 24: The BJP-PDP coalition government has been hit, yet again, by another controversy. In a politics of competitive regionalism, the PDP has now demanded setting up of an Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management in Kashmir Valley.
PDP's MP, Traiq Hamid Karra, has said that while Jammu region is in its right to ask for another AIIMS for the region, the people of Kashmir have also a right to press for setting up of institutions like IIT, IIM and IIMC which have been exclusively established in Jammu.
Karra made this statement after another call of Jammu bandh has been given on the issue of setting up of AIIMS in the Jammu region.
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| | | | CID prepares list of assets, including benami property | | Fate of corrupt babus hangs in balance | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 24: Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed is all set to take stern action against the officials who have amassed huge wealth and whose assets are disproportionate to their known sources of income, sources told Early Times.
They said that list of corrupt officials has been prepared by various agencies and Chief Minister would take a final call over their fate. "Soon after Mufti took over the reins of the state he asked the state's top investigating agencies to prepare a dossier against the officials against whom corruption cases were registered and no action was taken due to many of them enjoying political patronage," sources added.
They said many off... | |
| | | | Sangh Parivar uses Maharana Partap Jayanti to give veiled warning to arrogant BJP leadership | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 24: Function to mark 475th birth anniversary of Maharana Partap, which was organised this evening by the pro-RSS organisations, was used as a mean to give a veiled warning to BJP leadership against selling Jammu’s interest for the lust of power.
Although the function was organized by a social organisation in which representatives of all social and religious organisations were present, it was turned to be platform to give warning to BJP ministers to mend their ways otherwise people will not forgive them.
Credible sources in the Sangh Parivar said that speeches in today’s function was discussed before beginning because the organisation, which had organised t... | |
| | | | Nirmal for modernising Srinagar, has no plans for Jammu? | | Dy CM to contest election from Langate | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 24: BJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh has turned out to be a "great asset for Kashmir". This is what the people of Jammu, including many in the BJP, have come to believe and say. During the past more than 80 days, Nirmal Singh has behaved as if he represents Kashmir in the Cabinet, in the Council of Ministers and in Jammu and that he has forgotten the constituency in Jammu that brought him, nay the BJP, into power in J&K.
It was Nirmal Singh who condemned the NC and the Congress for the so-called transfer of power projects to the NHPC/Delhi and has repeatedly asked New Delhi to return the NHPC-run and managed power projects to the J&K Govern... | |
| | | | Medicos turn goons, threaten information seeker of dire consequences | | CMO Budgam abuses RTI applicant, shields 'tainted' medical officers | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 24: At a time when Right to Information (RTI) Act has gathered momentum across India the people who file the applications to seek information from the government departments continue to face harassment from people at helm and non-state actors.
In a latest case, Chief Medical Officer Budgam, Dr. Mahmooda Kar abused an RTI applicant after he met him in person with some complaint. The RTI applicant had reservations over the information provided to him and as such he approached the CMO, but only to receive abuses from the concerned officer.
On April 8, 2015, Mohammad Maqbool filed an RTI application before CMO Budgam's office seeking inform... | |
| | | | Not coalition of compulsion, but with ideological dissimilarities: Patra | | Controversies are democratic norms for good governance | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 24: BJP on Sunday admitted that being in ideological dissimilarities with the coalition partner PDP in Jammu and Kashmir, it is likely to come face-off with many controversies.
Its national spokesman Samvit Patra who was in the town to elaborate BJP’s one year’s feats in the centre said the party had no option , but to go with the ideologically opposite PDP for government formation as the mandate given to the party had to be respected.
Patra, however denied ‘coalition of compulsion’ and said that alliance has been formed for delivering good governance to the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The party’s national spokesman, when quizzed circuitous... | |
| | | | Police not to allow anti-India rallies, to act tough against trouble mongers | | Separatists trying to provoke forces by hoisting Pak flags | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 24: The Jammu and Kashmir Government not allowing chairman of the moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq to address a rally at Eidgah in Srinagar's old city on the 25th death anniversary of his father late Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq, who was shot dead by gunmen at his Nageen residence in city outskirts in 1990, has sent a strong message to the separatists that anti-India activities won't be tolerated. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who was not allowed by the Police to venture out of his Nageen residence either on May 21 (Thursday) or on May 22 (Friday), according to the sources, had directed his men to ensure that they should stage protests and caus... | |
| | | | RDA takes GMCH admn head on | | 'Essential drugs unavailable for patients, available for VIPs' | | | Nitesh Sangral
Jammu, May 24: Taking the Government Medical College (GMC) and Hospital Jammu, administration head on, the Resident Doctors Association (RDA) has questioned the inaction of administration over drip reaction cases for the last two years. Moreover, they have also cornered the administration for non-availability of essential drugs for common patients but available for VIPs and VVIPs and close ones and relatives of ministers and bureaucrats.
In the backdrop of suspension of a doctor over alleged negligence, which led to death of a patient, RDA president Dr Neeraj Sharma told Early Times that frequency of Drip reactions has markedly increased over the last 2 years and it has ... | |
| | | | Forest department's offensive against Drug Mafia | | Cannabis cultivation on 100 kanals destroyed | | | Early Times Report
Kupwara, May 24 : Forest Department in its offensive against drug mafia in North Kashmir's Kupwara district has freed more than 100 kanals of forest land from illegal encroachment and the cannabis (charas , bhang) cultivated in the said land has also been destroyed by the officials of the department in Lolab Kandi. Cannabis (Bhang) cultivation has been going unattended in Kupwara and the drug mafia have encroached hundreds of kanals of forest land in several areas of this North Kashmir district particularly Lolab belt to undertake cultivation of this banned crop. Usually the cannabis cultivation is cultivated in plain regions , but from the last many years this ... | |
| | | | Now militants attack cell phone towers in Sopore | | | | S.Tahir-Ul Haq
Early Times Report
BARAMULLA, May 24: Panic gripped Sopore town when unidentified persons lobbed two grenades towards a mobile tower during the preceding night.
One grenade exploded in air and another was diffused later by Bomb Disposal Squad. The attack came days after the militants had directed the proprietors of land where these mobile towers are erected to shut the operations within seven days.
According to reports during the intervening night of May 23-24 some unidentified persons lobbed two grenades towards Airtel mobile communication tower in Kralteng area of Sopore town which created panic among the general public.
One of the grenades exploded in air and an... | |
| | | | Betab valley outsourcing: PDA invites tenders, 4th time in a month for 'favourite' contractor | | | | Saahil Suhail
Anantnag, May 24: In blatant violation of the norms, a top official of the Pahalgam Development Authority (PDA) have floated tenders for outsourcing of the famed Betab valley four times during last one and a half month to accommodate a 'blue-eyed' contractor. Sources said the chief executive officer, PDA, Riyaz Ahmad Wani, a close relative of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, who was in once jailed in the multi-crore Kishtwar food scam, has floated tenders for the scenic spot at least four times after assuming the charge last month."This was done by the tainted officer to accommodate his favourite contractor, the owner of a reputed private school of Anantnag," the sourc... | |
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