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Amid crisis, PDP ministers leave CM Mehbooba alone Prefer to stay indoors, ignore CM's directions to reach out to people 7/14/2016 11:14:00 PM Saqib Junaid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, July 14: The Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti fighting a lone battle to calm down the tempers in Kashmir has exposed the PDP ministers, who have preferred to maintain silence and stay indoors, despite Kashmir being pushed to the edge. The PDP ministers have come under sharp criticism for remaining indoors amid the unrest in Kashmir and putting in no effort to reach out to the people to cool the tempers. The south Kashmir, considered to be a citadel of ruling PDP, has been the worst hit as maximum killings have taken place in south Kashmir districts. Public representatives (MLAs) have failed to make any efforts to either reach the district headquarters or the people calm down the situation in the first four days. Sources said they ministers didn't help the Chief Minister to defuse the tension as they remained confined within four walls. They (ministers) didn't make any effort to visit any of the hospitals. Even Health Minister and his deputy failed to take the stock of the situation in the health institutions. The Chief Minister, Me...   READ MORE

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From civil secretariat, CM monitors Kashmir situation 7/14/2016 11:13:45 PM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Srinagar, July 14: With no let up in improvement of situation in Kashmir valley, the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday kept monitoring moment to moment situation from the civil secretariat here. Sources told early times that on Thursday the Chief Minister arrived to the civil secretariat early in the morning and was being informed about the overall situation of the valley. "CM issued necessary instructions to Divisional administration and senior officers of police about handling the situation. The Chief Minister reviewed the situation personally till late at night," wishing anonymity one of the top officials of the CM secretariat told Early Times. He said that Ch...   READ MORE   Years on, Govt fails to ensure hassle free yatra 7/14/2016 11:13:38 PM Raj Sandeep Early Times Report Jammu, July 14: The government has failed to ensure hassle free yatra notwithstanding the lessons ut learnt during the past few years. Recapitulating the sad days of Amarnath land row of 2008 leading to more than a month long Jammu Bandh pioneered by BJP leaders , Pt Raj Nath Matoo said that every year the anti national elements still surviving despite lapse of eight years under the garb of separatism start doing spade work much before the on set of Amarnath yatra. He said that since last so many years, lacs of pilgrims hailing from different cloners of the country visit state to have darshans of Baba Barfani with full zeal and zest via Jammu and nume...   READ MORE   Amarnath Yatris facing hardships thanks to BJP ministers 7/14/2016 11:13:32 PM Early Times Report Jammu, July 14: Notwithstanding tall claims of the BJP, hardships being faced by the Amarnath Yatris multiplying with every passing day due to non cooperative attitude being adopted by the ministers of the BJP, who claimed themselves to the well-wishers of the Hindus. Officers of the departments under BJP Ministers are taking every opportunity to harass Amarnath Yatris because there is no one to check such harassment of the helpless pilgrims. Transport Department is glaring example, which has left no stone unturned to harass the Yatris by imposing one after another fine on the pilgrims, who were stranded at various locations of Kashmir Valley due to on going unrest. B...   READ MORE   HODs of Agriculture deptt ignore directives of higher ups Fail to submit MPRs of CSS, Plan schemes on time 7/14/2016 11:13:25 PM Early Times Report Jammu, July 14: Paying utter disregard to repeated directives issued by higher ups of Agriculture Production Department (APD) for submitting Monthly Progress Reports (MPRs) of various schemes on time, the Head of Department of various divisions have still been submitting tentative reports, instead of complete details. Sources informed Early Times that time and again the higher ups in civil secretariat have been sending directives to Head of Departments (HODs) of various divisions to send Monthly Progress Reports (MPRs) of various Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) and Plan schemes. "It has been noticed that MPRs of various CSS and Plan schemes have not been submitted ...   READ MORE   Stranded Amarnath pilgrims decry official apathy at Pahalgam 7/14/2016 11:13:11 PM Saahil Suhail Early Times Report Anantnag, July 14: Hundreds of Amarnath Yatra pilgrims stranded at Nunwan base camp in South Kashmir's Pahalgam Thursday decried official apathy and hoax claims of state and central government regarding resumption of Yatra. "It is ironic that state and central government claims to have resumed the Yatra but fact is that we aren't being allowed to return back to our states from past four days," a group of Yatris told Early Times. Jai Shanker, a pilgrim said that they are stranded at base camp from last three days. "We have performed the Yatra three days earlier but now administration and police is not allowing us to proceed towards Jammu," he said. H...   READ MORE   AI, HRW interfering in India's internal affairs Kashmir Unrest 7/14/2016 11:06:18 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Jul 14: Pro-separatist, highly communal and anti-India London and US-based human rights organizations such as Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have again joined hands and interfered in India's internal affairs. The case in point is the prevailing unrest in the Valley in the wake of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani's lawful killing at the hands of the security forces and the manner in which the duly-elected government of Mehbooba Mufti has been tackling the situation. The AI and the HRW, which hardly shared the agony of the internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus and hapless and abandoned refugees from Pakistan and POJK, as also the ag...   READ MORE   JK Police likely to use 'Drone Cameras' to control Protests in Kashmir 7/14/2016 11:06:08 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, July 14: To control the protests and increased stone pelting incidents in the Kashmir valley, the Jammu and Kashmir police is likely to make use of drone cameras in the Srinagar city and other towns of the valley. Kashmir valley is witnessing violent protests over the civilian killings since last Saturday. Police sources informed early times on Thursday that police is likely to use drone cameras to keep an eye on the agitation. "The cameras will keep an eye and capture the actual scene and anybody indulging in violence or behind can be identified," the police sources said while quoting top officials. Sources said that policemen posted in the different pol...   READ MORE   Death toll in continued violence in Kashmir reaches 38 One more person succumbs to injuries at SKIMS-Soura 7/14/2016 11:06:00 PM Most districts of valley to remain under curfew today Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, July 14: With one more person succumbing to his injuries at the Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura today in the morning the death toll in the continued violence across Kashmir reached 38. Meanwhile, the authorities have decided to impose the curfew across Kashmir on Friday so as to prevent the people from carrying out protest after the congregational Friday prayers. Pertinent to mention here that violence broke out in Kashmir in the evening on July 8 following the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen Commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani along with his two associates at Bemdo...   READ MORE   Isolated Pak seeks help from super powers Pol status of J&K 7/14/2016 11:05:32 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 14: The unequivocal stand taken by New Delhi and the US that J&K was an internal matter of India have disturbed, alarmed and upset Islamabad. It has upset the Pakistani establishment to the extent that both the toothless Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan Foreign Office have appealed to the international community to intervene so that the Kashmiri Muslims got their right to self-determination. They appealed to the international community to force New Delhi to implement the UN resolutions on J&K. They were so callous, irresponsible, biased and vindictive that they completely overlooked the point that the UN resolutions have become redundant as Pak...   READ MORE   Kishtwar to observe shutdown today, administration kept Army on standby LeT, HM fomenting trouble in JK, want to vitiate peace in Jammu division 7/14/2016 11:05:15 PM Asif Iqbal Naik Early Times Report Kishtwar, July 14: Various organizations including separatists today announced shutdown call for Friday in Kishtwar district over the killings of three dozen civilians in Kashmir post killing of poster boy Hizbul Burhan Wani last week. Keeping in view of shutdown call, district administration has sent a requisition to army asking them to remain on standby in case the administration requires the services of the army in dealing law and order situation in the district. As per the details available with "Early Times" Immam Jamia Masjid Kishtwar Farooq Ahmed Kichloo, Immam Bunastan Masjid Manzoor Ahmed Ganie and separatist leader Abdul Qayoom Mattoo join...   READ MORE   Month long theatre workshop concludes 7/14/2016 10:34:23 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 14: Natraj Natya Kunj, Cultural Society, Jammu concluded month long production oriented Theatre workshop and interaction sessions here at Studio Ranglok, Bakshi Nagar, Jammu. In this workshop participants were given guidance about Theatre Ethics, Theatre Idioms and creation of visuals. Financial assistance for this Workshop was provided by Jammu And Kashmir Academy Of Art Culture And Languages Jammu. With the support of Cultural Academy, Natraj Natya Kunj, provi...   READ MORE   SMA elects office bearers 7/14/2016 10:34:01 PM Early Times Report Jammu, July 14: Shoes Manufacturing Association (SMA) Jammu held general body meeting under the chairmanship of B.D Gupta and elected office bearers. Shiv Ram was elected as President, Ajay Jandial as General Secretary, Ajay Gupta as Vice President, Charanjeet as Secretary, Jagdish Anand as Treasury & Rajan Gupta as Advisor....   READ MORE   IT deptt holds Jewellers Association meeting 7/14/2016 10:32:45 PM Early Times Report Jammu, July 14: Income Tax Department today held a meeting in which they apprised the representatives of Jewellers Association about the ongoing Income Declaration Scheme 2016. According to press release, Income Tax Officer, Katra Dharmender Gupta informed that Income Declaration Scheme launched by the Income Tax Department which started from 01 June 2016 and will remain operational till 30 September 2016 is one time opportunity given to all persons to disclose their undisc...   READ MORE

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