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| J&KEDI employees fraudulently withdraw excess salaries, travel allowances | | Search begins for ‘backdoor appointees’ | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 22: In violation of norms, a group of employees working at Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute (J&KEDI) have fraudulently withdrawn travel allowance and excess salaries , Early Times learnt on Wednesday. The authorities, according to the sources, have also initiated a process of identifying those employees who have managed their appointments through backdoor in violation of norms.
Official sources revealed that a group of employees have withdrawn excess salaries without the approval of the competent authority.
“The excess drawls runs into Lakhs of rupees,” they claimed, adding the employees have also withdrawn travelling allowances in violation of the norms.
“The drawl of travelling allowances in favor of employees of the Institute at the rates applicable to the employees of the UT, J&K is in contravention to JKEDI Organizational Structure, Strategic plan, Services and Recruitment rules 2013, as such recoverable,” order issued by the Director JKEDI G M Dar reads. A copy of the order issued vide No. ED... | |
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| BJP top brass visit became ‘game-changer’ for SMC elections | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 22: Even as the Jammu and Kashmir government deferred the elections for Mayor of Srinagar Municipal Corporation citing the prevalent Covid-19 situation, the role played by the Bharatiya Janta Party top brass is not being ruled out.
Sources said the recent visit of the BJP top brass including Ram Madhav and Dr Jitendra Singh, flanked by other senior party leaders remained a game-changer for the SMC elections that were otherwise scheduled to be held on July 14.
Sources said during their brief halt in the summer capital, the issue of the elections for SMC was picked up with the BJP leaders, including party’s JK president Ravinder Raina.
Sources said M... | |
| | | | KFC food outlet functioning in open violation of unlock-2 | | District Admin Samba sleeping? | |  Gurdas Kumar
Early Times Report
Samba, July 22: Although all eatable outlets in Samba district have been declared closed but the KFC food outlet has been allegedly found functioning in violation of the norms and silence of concerned administration on this violation has been drawing flak from all quarters.
Sources told Early Times that District Administration in its unlock-2 guidelines has strictly denied permission for opening of all food outlets which serves cooked food items like resta... | |
| | | | Poonch: Former SHO ‘facilitated’ encroachment of Govt land? | | | | Rajesh Tandon
Early Times Report
Poonch, July 22: It might sound bizarre but it is a fact that the Flood Control Department Poonch has literally failed to save its land from encroachment. More shocking part of this serious issue is that a former SHO in the district was allegedly involved in facilitating the encroachment during his tenure.
Sources told Early Times that the Flood Control Department showed its total helplessness in stopping encroachment as well as in retrieving its encroached land. The Executive Engineer Flood Control Department said that he had written several letters to concerned SHO to file FIRs against the encroachers, but no action was taken.
Giving references of... | |
| | | | RDD officials threaten poor family of dire consequences after they refuse to ‘surrender’ | | |  Ajay Sharma
Early Times Report
RAJOURI, July 22: The officials of Rural Development Department (RDD) surpassed all the records since they threatened a resident of a Panchayat of this district of dire consequences if he did not sign an affidavit brought by these people along with the local Sarpanch. Ramesh Kumar, a resident of Balshama Panchayat had few days talked to Early Times alleging that a village level worker (VLW) had taken Rs. 10,000 for including his name in the list of beneficia... | |
| | | | Munish Gupta asks government to step in & solve problems of residents | | Sector B Jeewan Nagar residents pained due to least concern shown by people at helm | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 22: People living in the Sector B 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 B 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... | |
| | | | COVID-19 death toll in JK reaches 273 as 10 more die, 453 new cases reported | | Positive cases 15711, active positive 6831, recovered 8607 | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, July 22: The death toll due to the Corona Virus in the union territory of Jammu & Kashmir reached 273 as 10 more people died due to the virus in the past 24 hours. In the meantime, 453 fresh cases of COVID-19 were reported today.
Reports said that Srinagar, Baramulla and Bandipora districts reported two deaths each while as a death each was reported from Kulgam, Anantnag, Budgam and Ganderbal districts respectively. In the Kashmir valley 253 people have died due to COVID-19 while as in Jammu the number of casualties is 20.
Reports said that Srinagar reported 165 fresh cases of Corona Virus followed by Kulgam 62 cases, Baramulla 58 cases, R... | |
| | | | Sgr worst hit Covid district in JK, ‘3283 positive cases detected until Tuesday’ | | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 22: Srinagar is the worst district across Jammu and Kashmir where 3283 positive cases were detected until Tuesday. In comparison, Jammu district has reported 651 positive cases with 199 active positive cases and 440 recoveries.
As per the official figures, 15,258 positive cases have been reported from Jammu and Kashmir till Tuesday of which 6540 are active positive and 8455 have recovered. Jammu and Kashmir has also reported around 270 deaths by the deadly virus.
As per the figures, Srinagar has 3283 positive cases with 1961 active positive, 1253 recovered, 69 deaths until Tuesday. A doctor at SMHS Hospital said Srinagar has become a m... | |
| | | | Seventy four fresh positive, 54 recovered, seventy nine deaths till date in north Kashmir | | All business establishments shall remain closed till July 27 | | | S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
BARAMULLA, July 22: Out of 453 positive cases, Seventy four fresh positive cases were reported today, there are 1173 active positive cases, cumulative cases reached over 3168, whereas 54 have recovered and 79 deaths have occurred so far in north Kashmir as on date.
According to the district wise positive cases that are available as on July 22, 2020 (Monday), In Baramulla district, 58 fresh positive cases that were reported today, there has been an increase in the cumulative cases that have gone up to 1709, and active positive cases that stands at 704, and cumulative recovered cases are 948 including 26 as on date, while as 57 deaths, next highest after... | |
| | | | Police, CRPF deployed at RTO Office Jammu | | ET Impact: | |  Rajesh Tandon
Early Times Report
Jammu, July 22: Early Times daily newspaper published a news in it’s edition of Tuesday 20th of July. After taking serious notice SP South Deepak Dingra, SDPO Vikram Bhagat deployed police and CRPF Jawans at the gate of the office of Regional Transport Officer Jammu. Locals hailed the coverage of Early Times and praised it’s reporter for such a wonderful reporting during Pandemic of COVID-19 and hope it will publish same in future too.
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