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155 private houses allocated to Govt officers at exorbitant rents Former legislators, political workers also enjoying luxury at Govt expenditure 7/30/2016 11:26:42 PM Peerzada Ummer Early Times Report Srinagar, July 8: Lack of norms for allotting private houses as official accommodations to government officers has resulted in unwarranted pinch to the state exchequer, brunt of which is born by the common tax payer. Reports reveal that the government has not formulated any rules for the admissibility of private houses to be allocated to the government officers as official accommodation, which has resulted in the gross violation of rules and draining of the state's exchequer Posh private houses were allotted to no less than 37 officers of the state government that too in accordance with their own choice and without following the tendering process. The rents were fixed at their own will while the money was being paid out of the state exchequer. Reports also inform that these officers were ineligible for such posh accommodations however norms and rules were ignored in the entire process. The document reveals that the government had only invited offers from the interested private owners and what is more ironic is that the rent was fixed by the ...   READ MORE

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Nirmal Singh says, accident; Sat Sharma says SF had full knowledge about his presence Burhan haunts BJP! 7/30/2016 11:26:33 PM Early Times Report Jammu, July 30: The two senior leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday issued contradictory statements over the killing of Hizbul militant Burhan Wani in an encounter with security forces in south Kashmir's Kokernag area earlier this month. The Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh toed the line of the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and termed Burhan's killing as an "accident", while the state president of BJP Sat Sharma said security forces had the knowledge about Hizbul terrorist Burhan Wani's presence at the encounter site. The Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh while talking to the reporters said that killing of Burhan Wani was an accident. Sing...   READ MORE   Police Inspector manages six transfers in 7 months 7/30/2016 11:26:21 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 30: A 'powerful' police Inspector, who has managed his six transfers in the past seven months, has now got himself shifted from Jammu to his home district with the hope of getting posted there as the SHO of some big police station. He was in December last year shifted from a wing of J&K police to the executive police and allotted Jammu region. After that, he was posted in JKS range. Using his connections, he later got himself adjusted in Jammu district, where he remained attached with the district police lines (DPL), police sources said. Despite his best efforts and recommendations of senior officers and his other influential contacts, he was not posted a...   READ MORE   BJP MLA lodges complaint against functioning of party MoS Tall claims of good governance punctured 7/30/2016 11:26:12 PM Early Times Report Jammu, July 30: A senior BJP leader and Member of Legislative Assembly has complained against the Minister of State of his own party raising a question mark on style of functioning of the latter because of alleged pick and choose being adopted by the officers of the Department under this MoS. According to the reliable sources, the said MLA has complained to the Deputy Chief Minister and also the Cabinet Minister from PDP, under whom the erring junior minister is a MoS. The MLA is learnt to have also conveyed the party high command about his anguish against the MoS, who was allegedly ignoring the party functionaries. This is for the second time that a BJP legislator ...   READ MORE   Former Secretary Sports Council accused of 'stealing' record of his misdeeds 3 suspended for extending help 7/30/2016 11:26:00 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 30: Tainted and shamed former secretary of the State Sports Council has been accused of fleeing away with files of official record from the Council secretariat that could have revealed his shady deeds and misappropriations committed during his tenure. The accusation has been made in a written confession by none other than his own aides in the Council. Sources in the Council divulge that three officials of the Council secretariat were suspended the previous day for assisting the former secretary in his alleged bid to sweep his muck below the carpet. As per reports, the former secretary who was shown the door by the Government following repeated complaints of ...   READ MORE   Now militants openly support Hurriyat over unrest in Kashmir 7/30/2016 11:25:50 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, July 30: In an alarming situation, which has put the security agencies on tenterhooks, Hizbul Mujahideen and other militant outfits have come out in open to support separatist camps to lead the ongoing unrest in Kashmir. While till now the separatist leaders including Hurriyat-G, Chairman Syed Ali Geelani, his Hurriyat M counterpart Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Chairman, Muhammad Yasin were claiming to be leading the ongoing agitation, the Pakistan-backed militant groups have openly extended support to the united Hurriyat. The militants have released formal posters at public places, asking the people to religiously support the ...   READ MORE   Overstaying on deputation, official manages top post in JKCL 7/30/2016 10:59:47 PM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early Times Report Srinagar, July 30: Instead of giving the charge of Managing Director Jammu and Kashmir Cements Ltd to some eligible official, the government has appointed an officer who is overstaying on deputation for years together to administer the corporation. The government's move has not gone well with the senior officers of the Corporation, who have now approached the court in this regard. Sources said that the post of MD JK Cements fell vacant in January this year, when its Managing Director, was attached by the government to the General administration department and was subsequently demoted. "Accordingly as per the government order no 01-IND of 2016, the go...   READ MORE   Life continues to be paralyzed across Kashmir valley due to curfew, restrictions, strike Naeem Akhtar gets trapped in stone pelting at Sumbal, escapes unhurt 7/30/2016 10:59:38 PM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, July 30: For the 22nd consecutive day normal life was paralyzed across Kashmir due to the enforcement of curfew and restrictions by the authorities and the continuance of the strike the call for which has been given by the separatists. Reports said that protests broke out in some of the areas in the Kashmir with the intensity of the same being very less as compared to the past few days. The state government imposed curfew in some areas of Srinagar city and at least three districts of South Kashmir. In the Srinagar district curfew was imposed in areas coming under the jurisdiction of police stations of Nowhatta, Khanyar, Maharaj Gunj, Raina...   READ MORE

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