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JK police under HM radar for failure to control protests

7/15/2016 11:35:07 PM

Early Times Report Srinagar, July 15: The Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) has come under radar of the union Home ministry for failing to control situation, which arose in the wake of killing of top Hizb commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani. Highly placed sources said the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh was recently informed by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval that it seems to be primarily the failure of JKP for its inability to contain the protests in the wake of Burhan's killing on July 8. The Home ministry is of the opinion that had the police enforced a strict curfew on Burhan's funeral on July 9, precious human lives could have been saved and that life would come back to normal in ...

Separatists offer lavish life to families, push common people to protests

Is Hamam Mein Sabh Nangay!

7/15/2016 11:33:44 PM

Early Times Report Srinagar, July 15: Even as Kashmir continues to be on the edge, the Jammu and Kashmir police has launched a social media drive to expose how separatist leaders were instigating people to protests whereas their own kith and kin enjoy lavish life outside the Valley. As a part of the social media campaign, hash tagged #HurriyatThugLeaders, police wants the protesters to know they were being used by the Hurriyat leadership. The informative posts, being circulated on Watsapp and Facebook, have triggered a new debate in the society while some said it was a propaganda to defame the separatist leadership. Sources said the police want the protesting youth to know the reality...

Noorani's opposition to PDP-BJP coalition

July 13 martyrs' day or black day

7/15/2016 11:28:27 PM

Early Times Report Jammu, Jul 15: AG Noorani, who championed the Chinese cause for years and has been advocating a solution to the so-called Kashmir problem that is acceptable to Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists, has been opposing the alliance between the PDP and the BJP, saying it has only helped the BJP to create a space for itself in the Valley (which is not a fact) and weakened the Kashmiri cause. What has provoked pro-Pakistan and pro-separatist Mumbai-based Noorani to attack the PDP was the absence of the BJP ministers from the official function organized on July 13 in the memory of 21 traitors, called martyrs in Kashmir. A BJP MLA had described July 13 as Black day and the BJP,...

An Indian UN statement that rattles Islamabad

Kashmir and 'Black day in Pak'

7/15/2016 11:28:14 PM

Early Times Report JAMMU, Jul 15: Pakistan Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif today chaired a special Cabinet meet. Kashmir was on its agenda. The meeting was called in the wake of the strongest ever statement made by any Indian representative in the United Nations on Kashmir - a statement that rattled Pakistan. Sharif talked about Kashmir and the prevailing situation in the Valley in the wake of the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, whom he hailed as "fighter for freedom" and "martyr". The cabinet, as was expected, sung the same song: alleged human rights violations in Kashmir; will continue to extend moral, material and diplomatic support to Kashmiri freedom fighters; a...

'Tainted employees filing tailored statements'

Property statements submitted by government employees remain unchecked

7/15/2016 11:27:57 PM

Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early Times Report Srinagar, July 15: Though there are strict instructions to the employees from state government to submit timely property statements, the process remains unchecked and confined to files. According to the official sources there is a huge default in the submission of the property statements by the state government employees who are bound under the government ruling to submit property statements to the respective departments and GAD. Official sources told early times that property statements, if submitted from the employees, are not being put under examination and even more no check and balance have been maintained by the government. There are certai...

Besides a volatile Valley, Mehbooba faces heat from within

7/15/2016 11:27:05 PM

Early Times Report Srinagar, July 15: Grappling with her first major administrative challenge after the killing of terrorist Burhan Wani, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is confronted with opposition rather than support from within her party at such a crucial time. PDP MP and former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Beigh has said that standard-operating-procedures (SoPs) in encounter with the Wani, in which he was killed, were not followed. According to reports, he had quoted the statement of an army official who had said that operation to kill Wani, was completed in just three-minutes. Another PDP MP Tarriq Hamid Kara had according to the reports termed the death of Kashmiris i...

Varsity extends undue patronage to Dr Rao

Deadwood flourishes in JU

7/15/2016 10:53:24 PM

Raj Sandeep Early Times Report Jammu, July 15: Strange are the ways in University of Jammu where the inefficient and deadwood are shielded while the hardworking and deserving are taken to task by none other than the present administration headed by its own faculty member who has failed to live up to the expectations of varsity stakeholders. The sources informed Early Times that going by the punch line especially pasted by the Vice Chancellor of the University on the homepage of varsity website, "Do not seek favour from any quarter but have confidence in your merit", one is at a loss to understand the hitch which is blocking the university authority for taking to task Dr.V.V.V.Na...

Shutdown, protests spill over to Kishtwar , Rajouri

7/15/2016 10:53:15 PM

Asif Iqbal Naik Early Times Report Kishtwar, July 15: The ongoing protest over the killings of over three dozen civilians post killing of Hizb militant Burhan Wani in an encounter with security forces last Friday today spilled out to Kishtwar and Rajouri districts of Jammu division. As per the details available with ET, Majlis-e-Shora committee Kishtwar called for the Kishtwar shutdown on Friday, which largely passed off peacefully. The business community of Kishtwar pulled down their shutters from early morning and the streets of Kishtwar wore deserted look while the transport remained off the road throughout the day. The educational institutes including schools and coaching inst...

Govt initiatives to plug pilferage in K-oil distribution draw flak

7/15/2016 10:52:56 PM

Early Times Report Jammu, July 15: In bid to check pilferage in Kerosene Oil distribution and to ensure that the fuel is being supplied to genuine consumers, the state government had recently issued directions to district heads that detailed account of the total kerosene oil required to be distributed should be sent to Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department but the same has drawn flak from the concerned quarters especially the dealers. Such a system has been put in place in order to make the allocations of Kerosene Oil stock as per the exact requirement in respective districts so that those consumers who are dependent only on Kerosene Oil and have no other alternate fuel ...