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| BJP again betrays refugees in Jammu | | Land rights to refugees from Pak in Maharashtra | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 2: The BJP-led Government of Maharashtra with the approval of the Government of India the other day gave freehold of land rights to refugees from Pakistan living in Maharashtra since 1947. The decision will provide the refugees the right to sell their houses or opt for redevelopment without any interference from the state government, which is the owner of these properties.
The Maharashtra Government has decided to bring all such properties under Class 1 (A) category of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966.
In Maharashtra, there are around 31 such colonies where refugees from West Pakistan have been residing since partition in 1947. Compensation land pool was made and plots were allotted to these refugees – most of whom migrated from Sindh and Punjab provinces of the then West Pakistan – according to the Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act of 1954.
It needs to be underlined that the refugees from Pakistan living in Maharashtra exercise all the rights, including the right to vote, right to education, right to job and... | |
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| Shopian incident: What is Govt’s take on Maj Gogoi and Aditya now? | | | Abodh Sharma | 5/3/2018 2:00:56 AM |
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Early Times Report
Jammu, May 2: The terrible incident of stone pelting on a school bus in Shopian on Wednesday has left the state government red faced and those who shouted at top of their voices before the entire nation seeking sentences for Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi and Maj Aditya Kumar have lost their speech.
Besides the Kashmiri politicians in the government as well as those in the opposition, the entire Kashmiri society has been taken aback by this gory attack by the stone pelters on innocent school children and many who mobbed encounter sites to afford escape routes to the militants trapped by the security forces are in state of complete dismay.
The incident has deepl... | |
| | | | Stone pelters return, PDP’s amnesty decision backfires | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 2: Stone pelters attacking tourists at Aishmuqam near Pahlagam in south Kashmir on Tuesday is an ample proof of the fact that decision of the PDP-BJP government to grant amnesty to stone-pelters has backfired.
An analyst while talking to Early Times said, “Granting amnesty to stone-pelters was a wrong decision. It has encouraged them. Now they are openly targeting tourists and students as they know it very well that no action would be taken against them.”
He said the ruling Peoples Democratic Party took a decision to grant amnesty to 9000 stone-pelters in a hurry as it wanted to appease the separatists and the Paksitani stooges present in the Valley.... | |
| | | | Stone pelters attack school bus , 2 students hurt | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 2: A student was injured after a school bus came under stone pelting in south Kashmir's Shopian district on Wednesday.
SSP Shopian, Shailendra Mishra told that some youth pelted stones on a school bus of Rainbow International School at Narapora area of Shopian this morning.
He said there no security forces vehicle was moving in the area.
"The school bus was moving on the road and came under stone pelting. The miscreants pelted stones on the bus from a height," Mishra said.
The incident comes a day after all the shops and business establishments were closed in Kashmir Valley, on a call by the separatists to protest against the killing of a civilian ... | |
| | | | Rassana Case: CCTV footage eye opener for CB officials | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 2: The CCTV footage aired by national news channel about one of the accused in the infamous Rassana rape and murder case, Vishal Jangotra standing in a queue inside an ATM kiosk at Meerapur in Muzzaffarnagar, where he was pursuing his studies, has put a question mark on the investigation in the case carried out by Crime Branch of Jammu and Kashmir Police.
The date and time recorded by the purported CCTV footage have put a question mark on the claims made by CB in the chargesheet, wherein it has reported that the accused was in Rassana on the said date at the same time.
An analyst while talking to Early Times said, "The footage aired by the Zee News... | |
| | | | Punished for reporting facts | | |  By choking the advertisements the government wants Early Times to stop reporting the facts. On Tuesday ET reported that 7 tourists were injured by stone-pelters at Aishmuqam. On the very next day advertisements were reduced to mere 70-cms. But for us "facts are scared" advertisements hardly matter. In J&K only ET carried the news story about the attack on tourists.
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| | | | JWAM demands CBI probe in Rassana case | | |  Early times Report
JAMMU, May 2: Sunil Dimple President Jammu West Assembly Movement held a protest demanding the resignation of the chief minister Mahbooba Mufti and burnt her effigy and her resignation from the home port folio, for mishandling the Rassana murder case, created communal tension among the different communities, in the religions, regions and in all over the Jammu Kashmir state by playing the Rassana murder case card. Addressing the protestors Sunil Dimple serves one week ulti... | |
| | | | Rassana Case: ATM's CCTV footage shows Vishal withdrew money in Meerapur on Jan 12 | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 2: Though the Crime Branch has named him as one of the accused in the charge sheet of infamous Rassana rape and murder case but the CCTV footage of another ATM, which has surfaced now, showed that the college going student, Vishal Jangotra, was in Meerapur, Muzaffar Nagar on January 12. It is pertinent to mention here that Vishal is studying in Aakanksha College of Muzaffar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh.
The CCTV footage of Corporation Bank's ATM has disclosed that V... | |
| | | | Sparing officials involved in SFCS scam, JKEDI puts old wine in new bottle | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, May 2: The J&K Entrepreneurship Development Institute (JKEDI) has launched Youth Start-Up Loan scheme under Sher-e-Kashmir Employment Welfare Programme for Youth (SKEWPY), but without addressing the serious issues it is not more than putting old wine in a new bottle.
It seems that state government has failed to take any lesson from embezzlement of funds and scam committed in the SKEWPY scam by the officials of JKEDI. One such component under the SKEWPY scheme was... | |
| | | | Govt interlocutor completes 6 months in office | | Difficult state, heterogeneous people | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 2: Government of India's Special Representative for J&K, Dineshwar Sharma, has completed six months in office. It's time to examine what this former Intelligence Bureau Director achieved during all these six months.
Appointed by the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to hold talks with "all stakeholders in J&K" on October 24, 2017, Sharma started the work the same day, though he publicly admitted that he was not very sure about his mandate.
He made this statement after MoS in PMO Jitendra Singh said in Jammu that Dineshwar Sharma was not an interlocutor, but "spokesperson" of the Narendra Modi Government, thus indicating that the PMO and HM were not on ... | |
| | | | Doda man begs for Rs 80k for surgery | | | | Ashwani Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 2: A poor man from remote village of Doda district is awaiting proper treatment at Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu.
Suffering from a spinal disease, the elderly man has spent approximately two and half months in GMC Jammu.
Talking to Early Times, the man's son, Amrik Singh, said that now the doctors have suggested them a surgery which may cost around Rs Eighty thousand.
"But we cannot afford the amount. We contacted our area's MLA Shakti Singh Parihar of the BJP, but he gave us just Rs 3000. Now we are collecting money from the people in the ward and elsewhere," Amrik said.
He said they have collected Rs. 7000 only so far and re... | |
| | | | SMC's dumping site 99% filled, no idea about new sites | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 2: As Srinagar Municipal Corporation's (SMC's) landfill site at Achan is 99% filled, sources say by end of this year there will be no space left in this 650 kanal garbage dumping site. The authorities have not yet identified an alternate site and this will lead to severe crises from 2019 onwards.
Details available with Early Times reveal than cell 3rd at Achan landfill site is 99% filled and it can hardly accommodate the garbage for another 7 to 8 months. The SMC, on the other hand, has no clue what is to be done after the existing landfill site is full. Sources in the SMC said that waste-to-energy programme is a distant dream as nobody is coming forwar... | |
| | | | Babus revoke ban on Kashmir coaching centers mysteriously! | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 2: The controversial ban on coaching centers in Kashmir has been suddenly revoked by the Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) raising eyebrows over the "mysterious" decision.
Vide a formal government order, the DSEK has revoked the ban on over a 100 coaching centers in Kashmir but allegedly without taking the new Education Minister Chowdhary Zulfikar Ali into confidence.
Officials said given the fact that the 90-day ban was imposed last month on the directions of Ali's predecessor, Syed Altaf Bukhari, the decision couldn't be revoked without the orders of the minister concerned.
But sources said Ali is "totally unaware of as to how the ban was in... | |
| | | | Schools without buildings add to woes of students | | 972 schools operate from rented accommodation | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 2: Falsifying the tall claims of the state government of providing better educational infrastructure at the door steps of the far flung areas, around one thousand schools including Primary, upper primary and even middle schools sanctioned for cities and towns of the districts are running without buildings in Jammu Province.
Sources in education department informed Early Times that there were 972 schools of 10 districts of Jammu division running from rented buildings.
"Out of these schools, 227 in Rajouri , followed by district Kisthwar with 184 schools running from private accumulation, Reassi 114, Ramban 113 , Doda 100, Kathua 93, Poonch 71, Jammu 47 , Samb... | |
| | | | DF&SS demands fresh probe into Rassana case | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, May 1: Dogra Front & Shiv Sena today said that the action taken by the Apex Court is the most appropriate and a fair one in the Kathua Rape case.
President, DF&SS Ashok Gupta said that an accused name Vishal Jangotra who has been arrested for raping the girl on the certain fixed days as on the contrary to the Police report he was in Meerut giving exams as the evidence of his presence has been recorded in an ATM CCTV from where he withdrew money.
The DF&SS today took... | |
| | | | NSF Signature campaign for CBI enquiry in Rassana case continue | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, May 2: Understanding the importance and genuineness of CBI enquiry National Secular Forum (NSF) initiated the signature campaign in Rassana murder case. The campaign which was initiated in response to the primary demand of the local people for CBI probe in the matter entered in 8th day and got a healthy response from the university campus.
More than seventy five hundred people from all walks of life reached the venue to pen down their signatures. Addressing the gathe... | |
| | | | JKNPP seeks CBI probe in Rassana case | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, May 2: With new revelations coming to fore through investigative journalism by a national media that one of the prime accused in the infamous Kathua child homicide case was in Muzzafar Nagar in UP on the fateful day when the said accused according to the charge sheet filed by the Crime Branch of J&K Police in the District court had abandoned the corpse of the child victim in the Rassana forests, the case has taken a new twist altogether. The justification of the peopl... | |
| | | | Zee News exposes Crime Branch investigation into Rassana Case: Shri Ram Sena | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, May 2: Shri Ram Sena today once again demanded CBI enquiry into Rasana murder case. Addressing a press conference in Jammu, Shri Ram Sena State President Rajiv Mahajan citing recent expose by ZEE news strongly emphasised for CBI enquiry into the case adding by now it is now almost clear that justice without CBI enquiry into the case is almost impossible.
Adding further Mahajan said that some of the startling revelations by a TV channel report has now raised some seri... | |
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