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BSF may replace CRPF; bunkers to come up at strategic locations Kashmir returns to 1990-like situation? 6/30/2016 12:07:32 AM Early Times Report Jammu, June 29: Taking a strong note of attack on the convoy of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at Pampore on Jammu-Srinagar highway last week, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is mulling to replace paramilitary CRPF with Border Security Force (BSF) in volatile areas across Kashmir. Sources told Early Times the MHA has directed all the security agencies to submit a detailed report about the measures and steps which could be taken to prevent militants from carrying out major strikes in volatile Kashmir Valley. "One of the proposals which is making rounds is replacing the CRPF with BSF. The CRPF is basically a Police force which is trained to tackle law and order situation, while as BSF is a trained force which can handle insurgency related incidents and can prove lethal for the militants," said a source. He said, "Besides replacing CRPF in volatile areas, another proposal which is making rounds is to once again set up concrete bunkers of the security forces in the areas which are turning out to be the hot bed of militancy. Absence of bunkers is proving to be...   READ MORE

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Hafiz Saeed's son-in-law behind Pampore attack 6/30/2016 12:07:19 AM Asif Iqbal Naik Early Times Report Srinagar, June 29: Security agencies dealing with anti-militancy operations suspect the hand of Lashker chief Hafiz Saeed's son-in-law behind the Pampore terror attack. Sources said Saeed's son-in-law Khalid Waleed is suspected to be the mastermind behind the Pampore attack while two of his associates identified by security agencies as Hanzla Adnan and Sajad Jat also acted as handlers to two militants who were killed in security forces retaliation fire. Besides handling the two fidayeen, the trio also arranged local logistic support for carrying out the successful attack. "Without local support, such big terror strike is not possible--- we are workin...   READ MORE   Cornered BJP takes refuge in blatant lie Says, RSS didn't host any iftar party 6/30/2016 12:07:11 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 29: The ideology of the BJP and the RSS is being question by all in the country, barring, of course, the hardcore members of the Sangh Parivar. Everyone is attacking both the BJP and the RSS and their argument is that the Sangh Parivar has completely deviated from the path it used to tread till recently. The attack on the RSS and the BJP became sharper and bitter after at least Union Ministers - MoS External Affairs VK Singh and Harshvardhan, besides a number of senior BJP leaders, including Sanjay Joshi, attended the Iftar party hosted by Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit the other day in New Delhi within the premises of the Pakistan High Commission...   READ MORE   Talks with Pak to continue: PM An interview that disappointed nationalists in J&K, elsewhere 6/30/2016 12:06:56 AM ET Report Jammu, June 29: When on June 25 Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked the CRPF bus at Pampore and killed eight of our dedicated jawans and injured two dozen others, the country had hoped that the Narendra Modi Government would refashion its Pakistan policy as well as Kashmir policy and order stringent action against Pakistan to assuage the hurt feelings of the people of the country. The hope had further stemmed from what Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit said the same day on the gory incident. Basit taunted, abused and insulted not only the killed jawans but the entire country when he instead of expressing solidarity with the bereaved families and condemning the att...   READ MORE   Cost of JMC Safai karamchari's life is Rs 75000! 6/30/2016 12:06:42 AM Akshay Azad Early Times Report Jammu, June 29: The lives of poor workers are very cheap for Jammu Municipal Corporation, which has a policy of paying a meager amount of Rs. 75,000 as compensation to the family of Safai karamcharis, who dies on duty. Moreover, the JMC has maximum of casual Safai karamcharis while its counterpart Srinagar Municipal Corporation has maximum permanent employees, which reflects upon failure of JMC authorities to provide legitimate benefit to its Safai karamcharis. According to the documents furnished by Housing and Urban Development department, Safai karamcharis of JMC have been covered under Aam Aadmi Bima Yojna (AABY) of LIC, worth 75 thousand rupees. ...   READ MORE   Manpower shortage hits Fire Service deptt Selection list withheld since 2014 6/30/2016 12:06:33 AM Saqib Junaid Early Times Report srinagar, June 29: Despite witnessing a surge in the number of fire incidents across the state, 1700 sanctioned posts are lying vacant in the Fire and Emergency Services (F&ES) Department thereby affecting the fire control and other emergency operations across the state. Official sources said that the department at present has shortage of about 50 percent of sanctioned strength for man power. The department has a sanctioned strength of about 3600 posts of which almost 1700 posts are lying vacant. Official sources said that over the years many new stations came up but are not able to function due to paucity of staff. "There are 176 fire stations which are...   READ MORE   Rs 100 cr earmarked for old Srinagar's facelift; BJP forgets Jammu 6/30/2016 12:06:12 AM Arun Singh Early Times Report Jammu, June 29: The drum beating of BJP for ending discrimination with Jammu has come to a naught with Historic Old City of Kashmir getting Rs 100 crore for its facelift ignoring Old city of Jammu in which BJP could not find any historic value. Sources told Early Times that it was an appreciable step of Government to announce Rs 100 crore from the Prime Minister's Package for developing the Old City of Srinagar in view of historic importance but at the same it was disheartening for Jammu to find no mention of any such financial support for upliftment of historical points in the city particularly Raghunath Bazar. Pertinently the previous Governments raised ...   READ MORE   I wipe my dirty hands with newspapers, says BJP MP Height of arrogance 6/30/2016 12:06:03 AM A B Sharma Early Times Report Sunderbani, June 29: While the Bhartiya Janta Party in the governance has already presented its unethical picture to its public, particularly to its voters in Jammu, it has also embarked upon filthy tricks to dupe its men by presenting wrong promises and making the mockery of its pupil. A BJP MP is one such example of adamancy and selfishness that has left the people aghast over his frequent misconducts. The MP also took media for a ride when he answered to one of the persons namely Rajinder Kumar Sharma when the latter said that a particular issue should go into media. "After my morning breakfast, I wipe my dirty hands with newspapers and throw into the du...   READ MORE   Keeps his boss happy, wants friendly ties with Pak Rana challenges Farooq's ideology 6/30/2016 12:05:47 AM Early Times Report Jammu, June 29: Former Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah's Friday man, Devender Singh Rana has taken the bull by its horns by challenging the ideology of the National Conference patron Dr Farooq Abdullah, who has always advocated bombing of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) to finish terrorism once for all. Rana on Tuesday practically challenged the policy and ideology of Dr Farooq Abdullah by lashing out at Bharatiya Janata Party for demanding that PoK should be bombed. He accused the BJP state leadership of indulging in jingoism for demanding surgical strikes against Pakistan. Rana said, " War hysteria being generated by the BJP affects thousands of the people living alo...   READ MORE   CM launches e-file tracking system in Sectt 6/30/2016 12:05:34 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 29: In a major e-Governance initiative in J&K, the Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti launched the new Workflow based e-File Tracking System in the Civil Secretariat here today. Minister for IT and Youth Services & Sports, Moulvi Imran Raza Ansari, Chief Secretary, B R Sharma, Financial Commissioner, Planning & Development, B B Vyas, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Navin Kumar Choudhary and all administrative secretaries were present on the occasion. The new IT-enabled file-tracking system implemented by J&K e-Governance Agency (JKeGA) is aimed at automating file, correspondence and document tracking within government offices. Chief Executive Offic...   READ MORE   IAS officer's attempted suicide: CM takes note of Deputy Speaker's direction 6/30/2016 12:05:23 AM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early Times Report srinagar, June 29: With the Deputy Speaker Legislative Assembly Wednesday asking the government to present detailed report about action taken against the senior IAS officer linked to the suicide attempt of another IAS officer, the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti Wednesday called the concerned IAS officer to her secretariat and sought first hand information to know the merit of the case. Official sources informed Early Times that soon after the Assembly session was over the IAS officer received a call from the CM's secretariat, and a closed door meeting was held between the Chief Minister and the concerned IAS officer allegedly linked to a suicide attempt...   READ MORE   Employee draws salary from JKPCC, works at MD's residence 6/30/2016 12:05:16 AM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early Times Report srinagar, June 29: In a brazen violation of norms, an employee of J&K Projects Construction Corporation (JKPCC) Ltd, who works as domestic help at the residence of, Managing Director, marks his daily attendance in the office registry. Source told Early Times the employee, working as helper is practically serving as a cook at the Jammu as well as Srinagar residences of the MD. "Who also used to move with the camp office during Annual Darbar move, marks his daily attendance in the office registry but remains invisible since he never performed either in office or in the field. He is permanently discharging his duties as a cook for," they said. "The duty...   READ MORE   Hiranagar admin fails to provide justice to poor family 6/30/2016 12:04:41 AM Raj Sandeep Early Times Report Jammu, Jane 29: It may sound absurd but it is shocking that local administration of Hiranagar tehsil utterly failed to provide justice to a poor family of Kootah still running from pillar to post with encroacher of their shop threatening them of dire consequences. A judicial document in possession of Early Times reveals that Balkar Singh of Kootah had given his shop located at Kootah Morh to Balbir Singh R/O Badholi Hiranagar on rent basis on 15th Sept 201...   READ MORE   Community Facilities Centre illegally occupied 6/30/2016 12:04:16 AM G S Asgotra Early Times Report Jammu, June 29: Community Facilities Centre (CFC) and a Shopping Complex constructed by Rural Development Department, allegedly being occupied by some locals for past nine years, paradoxically the department seems helpless to retrieve the property. Source in department informed that in financial year, 2005-06, the RDD had started construction of the buildings and completed in 2007. "Since the day, when the building were completed, are under illegal possession of some influential people of the area", the complexes were raised under model village scheme. Sources said that due to unholy nexus between the occupants and RDD officials, the buildings have n...   READ MORE   Gaddi Sippi hostel still lacks basic amenities 6/30/2016 12:04:11 AM Early Times Report Jammu, June 29: Several months back, Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) had inaugurated Gaddi Sippi hostel building at Government Degree College Udhampur but astoundingly the hostel still lacks basic amenities. Moreover, Social Welfare Department has not handed over the building to college administration. Reliable sources informed Early Times that in the fiscal year 2011 Department of Tribal Affairs, Government of India had sanctioned only Giddi Sippi hostel for Jammu and Kashmir at an estimated cost of Rs 2 crore. The state government decided to construct the hostel building at district Udhampur on the recommendation of Special Task Force ...   READ MORE   Guv returns file: SHRC chairman, members' selection to start afresh 6/30/2016 12:04:06 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 29: With the Governor returning to government the file, which had been sent to him for putting his seal on the names of SHRC chairman and its members, the whole process would now be started afresh and the 'headless' commission would be becoming operational at a time later than that first scheduled. This has come as a big jolt to the state government. The select committee members would now meet again to decide about the names of SHRC chairman and its members, but a formal date of their meeting was yet to be decided, official sources said. Assembly Speaker Kavinder Gupta said the whole exercise would have to be started in a new way now. Official sources sa...   READ MORE   SHO Kanachak transferred 6/30/2016 12:04:01 AM Early Times Report Jammu, June 29: The Establishment Board District Police Jammu today ordered the transfer of Station House Officer (SHO) Kanachack. As per official order issued from the establishment board meeting, Inspector Rajesh Sharma has been transferred from District Police Lines (DPL) Jammu and posted as SHO Kanachack replacing SI Rakesh Singh who has been sent back to District Police Lines (DPL) Jammu....   READ MORE   Militant killed in Lolab 6/30/2016 12:03:55 AM S Tahir-ul Haq Early Times Report KUPWARA, June 29: An unidentified militant was killed on Tuesday late evening in a gunfight with security forces in Warnou forests of Lolab area in Kupwara district. A senior army official said that, "acting on specific information about the presence of militants near the forest area at Lolpora in Lolab area, a joint team of police and army cordoned off the area and launched a search operation on Tuesday late evening. As the forces were conducting the search operation, the militants fired upon them, leading to an encounter, the official told Early Times. The official said that so far one unidentified militant has been killed in an ongoing encounter...   READ MORE   Pampore attack: Govt to give statement today 6/30/2016 12:03:50 AM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 29: The state government was today caught napping by the opposition legislators over the prevailing security scenario in the Assembly. The continuous pressure forced the government to eat a humble pie and it agreed to give a statement on the issue on Thursday. As the House was busy with the zero hour, National Conference legislator stood up and raised the issue of war 'hysteria' created by the legislators of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) following the militant attack at Pampore in last week. The NC legislator said that state government is non-serious on the issue and they are not issuing any statement on the security scenario in the st...   READ MORE   Allow inspection of service records: SIC to CEO Pulwama 6/30/2016 12:03:45 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, June 29: A master grade teacher working in Education Department was denied access to inspection (under J&K RTI Act) of his service records by the Chief Education Officer (CEO) of Pulwama, has got a relief when State Information Commission (SIC) came to his rescue by directing the CEO to allow the same without any delay. Details available with Early Times reveal that one Abdul Qayoom (Master) a resident of Brein Nishat Srinagar filed Second Appeal on 19.05.2016 before State Information Commission (SIC) submitting that he requested CEO Pulwama vide letter dated 03.09.2015 under section 2 (i) J&K RTI Act 2009 for allowing him the inspection of his service r...   READ MORE   Inquiry into Humhama land scam may halt halfway Ex-minister, CS among encroachers 6/30/2016 12:03:09 AM Javaid Naikoo Early Times Report Srinagar, June 29: As government after uproar in upper House of assembly over infamous Humhama,Gogoo land scam ordered a high level probe, sources believe that inquiry may halt half way as one former Minister and MLC are among the encroachers. For the first time after 2011 ruling PDP legislator Saifuddin Bhat on Tuesday brought the issue of illegal occupation of state land at Humhama and Gogoo areas outside Srinagar Airport in the notice of government in upper House and demanded a high level probe. The legislator got support from all other legislators demanded constitution of a House Committee to probe the matter. After uproar over the issue Ministe...   READ MORE   Errors mar 10+2 lecturers' exam 6/30/2016 12:02:58 AM Muhammad Mukaram Early Times Report Srinagar, June 29: In a shocking revelation, the question paper set by J&K Public Service Commission, for the post of 10+2 computer science lecturers was shamelessly 100% copy-pasted from two websites namely "PS Exams and India Bix". The aspirants who appeared in the said examination said that PSC had given particular syllabus for concerned paper, but after seeing the question paper, it came to fore that the paper setter in computer science had hardly touched irrelevant topics and bypassed the 90% syllabus. "Out of 120 questions asked in the computer science paper, 104 questions have been copied from "PS Exam website" and 16 questions were copied...   READ MORE   For helping land sharks of Punjab, SHO allegedly gets lakhs 6/30/2016 12:02:52 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 29: A police officer, who is the SHO of one of the main police stations in Kathua district, is alleged to have received the first instalment of lakhs of rupees from the land sharks of Punjab for helping them to forcibly occupy a plot of land worth crores by intimidating their rival party. "There was a dispute between two parties over a piece of land in Kathua district. With the help of the police station karyakhaas, one party met the SHO a few days back and sought his help to occupy the land," police sources alleged. Sources said after the deal was struck, the SHO allegedly started harassing the other party. Though they said they possessed the valid reven...   READ MORE   Digitisation of records, installation of CCTV cameras still a distant dream Govt offices cripple corruption war 6/30/2016 12:02:45 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, June 29: Despite its claims of acting tough against the graft related cases in the state, the government departments are yet to comply with the CM's directives with no action being taken in making necessary arrangements to tackle the menace. On April 16 this year, as per the reports, the government decided to install CCTV cameras at important government offices wherein public dealing is done at large and the corruption related cases are witnessing a surge. However, the project continues to remain in limbo despite directions of the Chief Minister. Sources within the vigilance department revealed that State Government was mulling vital measures for enhancing...   READ MORE   MD suspends, reinstates 23 employees Strange functioning of JKSRTC 6/30/2016 12:02:38 AM Avinash Azad Early Times Report Jammu, June 29: In a mysterious way of its functioning the Jammu and Kashmir State Road Transport Corporation reinstated 23 employees, suspended for their unauthorized absence from duty. Sources in corporation informed Early Times, the Managing Director, JKSRTC going tough against unauthorized absence, suspended the erring officials, but mysteriously, keeping earlier order in abeyance, the MD reinstated all of them. "Including an Deputy General Manager, three Section Officers, seven Junior Assistant, four helpers including other officials were suspended on May 26", sources said, adding instead of proceeding further actions as per norms, the MD reinsta...   READ MORE   CAG report vindicates our stand. DAK ' Substandard drugs were given to patients' 6/29/2016 11:10:26 PM S Tahir-ul Haq Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 29: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that the Comptroller and Audit General (CAG) of India's report vindicated our stand that substandard drugs were used in the health institutions of JK. President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement issued to Early Times said that, "the report validates our stand that substandard drugs were given to patients in hospitals. According to CAG report 50.95 lakh substandard tablets, capsules and injections had been administered to patients. The report says none of the hospitals were checking the potency of drugs and they were ignoring the reports of drug tests. "It is official now that substa...   READ MORE

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