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Early Times Report
srinagar, June 25: Two middle rung KAS officers of state administration posted in Budgam district of Kashmir Valley have not submitted annual property statement to the competent authority, in brazen violation of the government orders.
Details available with Early Times reveal that Assistant Commissioner Revenue (ACR) Budgam Abdul Hamid Zargar and Assistant Commissioner Development (ACD) Fayaz Ahmad Fayaz have failed to submit their immovable and movable property statements for the year 2017.
The last date of submission was December 2017, but even after six months the details have not been submitted yet.
ACR and ACD Budgam are not the only defaulters, as there are al... | |
| | | | Info deliberately sleeps over housing colony for Jammu journos | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 25: Department of Information and Public Relations in Jammu and Kashmir, which is supposed to be custodian of working journalists in the State, is accused of biased approach towards scribes working in Jammu region. Despite the repeated announcements regarding various welfare measures for the working journalists made by the successive State Governments, the Department of Information has been working to sabotage rather than facilitate such initiatives.
No progress on establishment of `housing facility to the media persons, both at Jammu and Srinagar notwithstanding provisioning of Rs 85 crores in the 14th Finance Commission, is a glaring example of the treac... | |
| | | | Guv's directions to ensure punctuality in offices lead to 'encouraging' traffic movement in Srinagar | | |  Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, June 25: It seems the directions issued by Governor Narendra Nath Vohra to the officers manning the different departments to ensure punctuality have been adhered to since a huge rush of vehicles both public and private was seen on Srinagar roads today.
Early Times has learnt that movement of public transport was more than encouraging in most of the civil line areas of the summer capital of the city. Although, the movement of public transport was m... | |
| | | | Both parties wash dirty linen in public, blame each other for failures | | 'Corruption, nepotism thrived during PDP-BJP regime' | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 25: Peoples Democratic Party and Bharatiya Janata Party washing their dirty linen in the public has brought to fore how the coalition functioned during the past three years.
An analyst while talking to Early Times said, "The leaders and ministers of both the parties had their own agendas. They did not follow the people's agenda. It's a known fact that how the nepotism and corruption thrived during the erstwhile regime."
He said, "The transfer industry got the boast during the PDP-BJP regime as Ministers of both the parties were seen busty in accommodating their blue-eyed boys at the plum positions."
He said, "Most ministers both in Jammu as well as in Kash... | |
| | | | Mehbooba Mufti asked to leave Delhi residence | | Govt gives one week notice | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, June 25: In yet another embarrassment for the "ousted" Peoples Democratic Party, former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has been asked to evict her official residence in New Delhi.
Sources said a formal evacuation notice was served to Mehbooba Mufti this morning with a notice of one week to take away her personal belongings from the villa.
5 Akbar Road in the plush capital happens to be the official residence of the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
Sources said i... | |
| | | | Jaise Karni Waisi Bharni! | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, June 25: In July 2016, the Jammu and Kashmir government had asked Delhi High Court to evict former CM Omar Abdullah's estranged wife Payal Abdullah because the then Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti needs a house in Lutyens' Delhi. Omar Abdullah was alloted the VIII category house by the Ministry of Urban Development, when he was MoS for Commerce and Industry. Recently the Delhi High Court (HC) had stayed the eviction order of Payal. Payal has two sons and they had been... | |
| | | | Mufti rule gone, but Tassaduq Mufti is still Tourism Minister! | | Official websites yet to be updated | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, June 25: The PDP-BJP coalition regime in Jammu and Kashmir is gone but websites of many government departments still show ministers holding portfolios.
Ashok Sharma, a travel agent, said that on opening the website of Directorate of Tourism Jammu, one can notice that it has not been updated as it shows Tassaduq Hussain Mufti as Minister for Tourism while Shakti Raj Parihar is Minister of State for Tourism.
"The department spent crores rupees on road shows in differ... | |
| | | | HODs' reluctance makes Aadhar mandatory for biometric attendance | | | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, June 25: Though the latest direction of government has made biometric attendance compulsory (not Aadhar based) for all government employees, the reluctance shown by the heads of the departments, is ultimately making Aadhar mandatory for biometric attendance.
Moreover, the state government has no such software available which could provide options to employees to mark their biometric attendance rather than Aadhar cards.
Most of the government employees, who have been marking their attendance on JKattendance portal informed Early Times that on this portal there was no option of marking attendance rather than Aadhar. The front page of portal reads A... | |
| | | | Lack of will to constitute fast track courts leaves rape victims dejected | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, June 25: The inordinate delay in disposal of rape cases due to huge pendency in different district courts of the state by successive coalition governments has left many rape victims on mercy of God.
The nonchalant attitude of hitherto successive governments can be corroborated from this fact that before assuming these dispensations had made repeated announcements that the fast track courts would be constituted to deliver justice to rape victims but ironically after... | |
| | | | 'Intimate' photograph of MLA with a girl goes viral on social media | | The girl gives 'clean chit' to lawmaker | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, June 25: A day after family of a girl staged a protest against a BJP lawmaker for allegedly kidnapping their daughter an 'intimate' photograph of both (MLA and the girl) has gone viral in social media.
A BJP leader pleading anonymity said, "Such behaviour of the MLA is condemnable and his actions have embarrassed the party. BJP should take action against such persons who are defaming the party." "I went to take my daughter on 21-06-2018 on the summer vacation ... | |
| | | | Stake holders seek fresh probe | | Backdoor appointments in Corporations | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 25: With successive governments having failed to probe and initiate action against those blue- eyed officials who over the years were illegally appointed in various state owned corporations, mostly by the politicians, it will be interesting to see whether the new government will order fresh probe and set the wrong which have been done, right.
Sources told Early Times that though over the years many probes were initiated to look into the illegal appointments made by the politicians in the corporations, but no action was done in this regard.
Sources said that even various probe committees constituted by the elected governments were yet ... | |
| | | | Mental healthcare completely neglected in State | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, June 25: No measures have been taken to improve the mental healthcare facilities in the state and the government has failed to establish crisis teams to combat increasing psychological illness in the state. It was the recommendation of the Medicine Sans Frontiers to establish crisis teams in the state.
An official said that the idea hasn't been implemented yet as the health department left its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the RCP, London, underutilized.
"It was much needed in current times as we see rise in incidents of suicide and mental issues among the people here," the official said.
The objectives to enhance mental health care in rural are... | |
| | | | Sunderbani town overloaded with illegal ACs | | | | A B Sharma
Early Times Report
Sunderbani, June 25: The administrative works in tehsil Sunderbani have been always under the scanner as none of the department is free of corrupt practices that has put public to great hardships.
For instance, recently Power Development Department has taken many by surprise as the formal orders of installing air conditioners in the tehsil town and the actual installed ACs have a big difference.
As per the official record of the billing of the payment of units charged from the AC users, the amount is billed against only 30 to 40 in the PDD knowledge while the town is running at a capacity of nearly 200 ACs installed in various households, offices and sh... | |
| | | | Ramban molestation: Police 'harassing victim, sparing accused' | | |  Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, June 25: A 22-year-old Ramban girl attempted suicide following her molestation on the Eid day last week.
The girl (name withheld) filed a written complaint before the Station House Officer Ramban stating that a youth named Iqbal Shah, son of Mohammad Altaf, of Ramban, had started her harassing mentally and physically, forcing her to leave the Jammu University where she was studying.
She stated that even after she reached her home, the youth ... | |
| | | | HM Rajnath endorsed pernicious agenda of alliance | | Mehbooba makes a startling revelation | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 25: The collapse of the "unholy" PDP-BJP alliance on June 19 was a boon for the nation and a good riddance. Its very formation was mind-boggling, intriguing and against the very cardinal principles of democracy in the sense that both murdered the mandate to stitch an alliance. The PDP had got the mandate from Kashmir and the BJP from Jammu. Both contested the elections on mutually exclusive poll planks.
However, PDP was the gainer and the BJP was a loser. The BJP was a loser because it got nothing in lieu of what it offered to the PDP on a platter, including the coveted office of CM for all the six years. The BJP was also a loser because it lost its face t... | |
| | | | Farooq Abdullah pitching for LS ticket to 'paratrooper' | | Party functionaries in a fix | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 25: If all goes well, the opposition National Conference is soon going to nominate a young lady as its candidate for Srinagar parliamentary seat during the Lok Sabha polls slated to be held next year in April.
Sources within the party divulged that the party president Dr Farooq Abdullah is pitching for the nomination of the lady in question who has already been in the limelight for projecting communist ideology at the national level.
She has been quite vocal during television debates and on social media against the PDP-BJP bonhomie in the state and was in the forefront in criticising the BJP led government at the centre.
On Monday, she hinted at her pr... | |
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