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Out of 198 body scanners, AAI gives seven to Srinagar airport, none to Jammu Discrimination is in Air! 7/20/2020 11:47:53 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 20: Airports Authority of India (AAI) has once again left the Jammu airport unattended as seven body scanners will be deployed at the Srinagar airport and none at Jammu. This is once again when discrimination has been meted out to the Jammu region with high tech facilities being made available at Srinagar alone while as Jammu remains a non-existent entity for the authorities. As per the reports, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has decided to procure 198 body scanners for 63 Indian airports that will replace the existing door frame metal detectors and hand-held scanners, besides pat-down searches of passengers to detect metallic objects. Seven such body scanners will be deployed at the Srinagar airport while as for Jammu, there is not even a single one in the pipeline. Procurement of night-landing equipment was already done by Airport Authority of India and presently installation work is under progress. Threadbare discussions were held regarding operational feasibility like high mast lights for funnel area, approach lights, surveillance, wa...   READ MORE

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PDP shuts its office after Jammu based secular leaders, workers desert ‘communal’ party 7/20/2020 11:47:42 PM Early Times Report Jammu, July 20: Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP has shut-down its office of Jammu as workers from this part of the UT are hesitating to work for the party after PDP leadership has decided to pursue separatist agenda by brazenly abandoning Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s progressive and secular policies. Credible sources said that Jammu office of PDP, situated at Gandhi Nagar has been locked after direction from the high-command. Pandemic COVID-19 is not the cause of shutting the office but party leadership is facing problems because none of the mature and credible leaders from Jammu region is ready to work for the party. Credible sources said Jammu based leaders have realized that ...   READ MORE   Are Jammuites paying price to wholeheartedly supporting BJP? Jobs nowhere in sight, developmental works stalled, get toll plazas instead 7/20/2020 11:47:33 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 20: The Jammuites are appeared to be paying the price for wholeheartedly support the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), who have been bestowed with another gift of toll plaza at Lakhanpur, while the development works in Jammu province have stalled and the promised jobs are nowhere in sight. If go by the claims of BJP leaders after the abrogation of Article-370, a new era of development would usher in Jammu and Kashmir. “The Article had kept the J&K isolated for long and didn’t allow its development. The abrogation will lead to growth and employment and private investments in education, health and tourism. The removal of restrictions will create more jobs an...   READ MORE   Travel of non-local laborers to Kashmir risks Jammu, caution experts 7/20/2020 11:47:22 PM Early Times Report Jammu, July 20: Even as hundreds of non-local laborers from outside J&K are travelling to Kashmir by road, such movement poses risk to Jammu, which has largely maintained discipline in fighting Covid-19. With construction activities having picked up in Kashmir, the demand for non-local laborers has picked up. Sources said the laborers are travelling to Kashmir on the request of Kashmiri builders and contractors. Such laborers are travelling to Kashmir in fleet of busses which take route obviously through Jammu district. Reports suggest that such laborers are not being put to any test or quarantine on entering Jammu province via Lakhanpur while such travelers hav...   READ MORE   Social distancing norms go haywire at RTO office Jammu People in large numbers without wearing face masks throng premises 7/20/2020 11:47:22 PM RAJESH TANDON EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 20: Even as the administrative hierarchy right from the Lieutenant Governor to various Advisors and senior bureaucrats are making fervent and continuous appeals to the general public to follow and respect the social distancing norms but it seems the crowds of people pouring at Regional Transport Office, Jammu have nothing to do with the COVID-19 pandemic and the guidelines issued to contain its spread. Not only the people assembling in large n...   READ MORE   Munish Gupta asks government to step in & solve problems of residents Sector A Jeewan Nagar residents pained due to least concern shown by people at helm 7/20/2020 11:38:42 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 20: People living in the Sector A Jeewan Nagar are perplexed over the bad condition of roads and lanes in the area. They are also upset with the fact that the garbage is not being lifted from the area thus creating nuisance. The Sector A Jeewan Nagar is a part of the Gandhi Nagar constituency and it is presenting a sordid tale of absolute neglect from the people at helm. The successive governments have failed the people of this colony and they are suffering li...   READ MORE   COVID-19 death toll reaches 254 in JK as 10 more die, record 751 fresh cases reported Positive cases 14650, active positive 6122, recovered 8274 7/20/2020 11:37:43 PM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, July 20: The death toll due to the Corona Virus in the union territory of Jammu & Kashmir reached 254 as 10 more people died due to the virus in the past 24 hours. In the meantime, record 751 cases of COVID-19 were reported in the union territory today. Reports said that Baramulla reported three deaths followed by Srinagar, Kupwara and Pulwama two deaths each and Jammu one death. In the Kashmir valley 234 people have lost their lives due to the Corona Virus while as in Jammu 20 people have died due to the virus. Srinagar tops the list with 63 deaths. Reports said that Srinagar reported 171 cases of COVID-19 followed by Pulwama 111 cases, B...   READ MORE   Ditches, potholes come on road developed without tendering in Pouni tehsil 7/20/2020 11:37:30 PM Ajay Sharma Early Times Report REASI, July 20: The process of e-tendering was introduced in Jammu & Kashmir in order to bring about transparency in the system but still then some of the works were carried out without tendering and the quality of work was also compromised. Sources told Early Times that a Junior Engineer of R&B department namely Rakesh Kumar Saini in connivance with then Executive Engineer R&B, Reasi and then Superintending Engineer R&B, Reasi in 2018 allotted a work to a con...   READ MORE   52 fresh positive, 26 recovered; 73 deaths till date in north Kashmir Fine imposed on Covid-19 violators 7/20/2020 11:33:30 PM S TAHIR-UL HAQ Early Times Report KUPWARA, July 20: Out of 751 positive cases, Fifty Two fresh positive cases were reported today, there are 1131 active positive cases, cumulative cases crossed over 3005, whereas 26 have recovered and 73 deaths have occurred so far in north Kashmir as on date. According to the district wise positive cases that are available as on July 20, 2020 (Monday), In Baramulla district, 40 fresh positive cases that were reported today, there has been an increase in the cumulative cases that have gone up to 1623, and active positive cases that stands at 664, and cumulative recovered cases are 906 including 10 as on date, while as 53 deaths, next highest after Srin...   READ MORE   Seven years on, Katwalt-Goundi road’s earth work yet to complete 7/20/2020 11:33:14 PM ASHWANI SHARMA Early Times Report UDHAMPUR, July 20: Believe it or not, the construction of Katwalt-Goundi road in Panchayat Kossar was started seven years back but the agency has failed to even complete the earth work associated with the project in a satisfactory manner. Sources informed that the road work was started in the year 2013 but nothing significant has been done so far. “Drains at the proposed road are in worst condition and there is nothing which gives it a look of a road,” locals informed. The area has thousands of residents but all of them are suffering in the absence of poor road connectivity. In the year 2013, an initiative from PMGSY was taken and work on the road w...   READ MORE

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