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Security forces gun down Hizb poster boy Burhan, 2 others Separatists call for shutdown, authorities to impose restrictions in parts of Kashmir today 7/9/2016 12:49:24 AM Early Times Report Srinagar/Jammu, July 8: The Hizbul-Mujahideen self styled commander-Burhan Wani-- who had threatened to bombard the separate townships for Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley, was killed in an encounter with the security forces in south Kashmir on Friday. Officials said that acting on specific input, special operations groups (SOGs) of police from Srinagar and Anantnag and Army's 9 RR cordoned off Bumdoora village of Kokernag. Sources said minutes after the forces approached the HM hideout, Burhan's one accomplice fired a few shots and hurled a grenade. He was instantly killed by the forces in retaliatory action. Eyewitnesses said the house in which the militants were hiding was razed to ground by the forces. Both Burhan and his another accomplice were also shot dead b...   READ MORE

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Omar warns of more terror activities 7/9/2016 12:48:59 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, July 8: By asserting that top commander of pro-Pakistan terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) Burhan Wani, who was killed in an encounter in south Kashmir today, was not the first to pick up the gun and he won't be the last, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah has indirectly warned against more terror activities in the Valley. Although Omar Abdullah has not stated anything about Buhran, he mentioned that Buhran would not be the last youth to pick up gun was a veiled warning to the Indian State. Omar Abdullah said that National Conference (NC) has always maintained that a political problem needs political solution. "Alas Burhan isn't the 1s...   READ MORE   Miscreants attack KP camp 7/9/2016 12:48:55 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, July 8: A few miscreants attacked the camp of Kashmiri migrant Pandits at Hall near Shopian in south Kashmir after the news about Burhan's killing spread in the area on late Fridayevening, sources told Early Times. They said a few miscreants pelted stones on the camp and broke the windowpanes of a few quarters. When Early Times contacted Police Control Room, an official on duty said, "Situation is under control" and dropped the phone. ...   READ MORE   Amnesty to stone-pelters: Home Ministry asks JK to review cases 7/9/2016 12:48:49 AM Early Times Report Jammu, July 8: The Union Home Ministry has asked the state government to once again review the cases of stone-pelters who were given amensty by the state government two days back. The Home Ministry has said each case should be reviewed strictly before going ahead with it. "The government has to doubly sure that the cases who were given amnesty are genuine and the state government is convinced that there is not an iota of doubt that they will not indulge in such incidents again. Unless it will prove counter productive," said a senior office of the home ministry. The sources said the home ministry hold the view that FIR are not registered were not just for the heck ...   READ MORE   Final settlement for POJK refugees: Rs 5.5 lakh against 30 lakh proposed 7/9/2016 12:48:43 AM Akshay Azad Early Times Report Jammu, July 8: The refugees of Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (POJK) of 1947 along with refugees of 1965, 71 will get only Rs. 5.5 Lakh rupees as full and final one time settlement, against the proposal of Rs. 30 Lakh sent by state government to Union government. Sources informed Early Times that out Rs. 2000 Crore was earmarked for giving relief to refugees out of Rs. 80,000 Crores Prime Minister Development Package (PMDP) announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his visit to state. "Out of the money earmarked by Union government, it had asked the state government to send the list of refugees except West Pakistani Refugees", sources said...   READ MORE   'White paper on funds allocation to Jammu, Kashmir' BJP's betrayal 7/9/2016 12:48:32 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 8: An impression has gained ground in Jammu province that its people got only peanuts in the budget which was approved in the just concluded budget session of the J&K Legislature. It is a different story that no Jammu lawmaker informed the public of Jammu province as to what they got and what Kashmir got. However, sources close to two Jammu-based MLAs reveal that the budget for the year 2016-2017 virtually excluded Jammu province and allocated funds to Kashmir more than what it deserved. Sources say that the PDP-BJP government earmarked substantial amount for the Kashmir water bodies and Srinagar city and virtually left the otherwise decaying water bo...   READ MORE   2 DSPs get choice postings 7/9/2016 12:48:24 AM Early Times Report JAMMIU, July 8: At least two of the 46 DSPs, whose transfer orders were issued Thursday, have got choice postings with the blessings of senior police officers. Both of them had maintained a close contact with their seniors at the PHQ from the time it had started making the transfer list of DSPs, police sources said. Both are KPS and prior to their transfer yesterday, they held postings in Jammu region. "They have again been adjusted in Jammu region, but PHQ this time has changed the wing of one and the district of the other," the sources added. The one, who was DSP (DAR) in a district of Jammu region nearly three years back, was now adjusted against another post in t...   READ MORE   Most colleges run by adhoc staff from school buildings Poor state of higher education in periphery 7/9/2016 12:15:59 AM Early Times Report rajouri, July 8: The grim state of affairs in the department of Higher Education especially in the peripheral districts can be gauged from the fact that out of six Government Degree Colleges operating in Rajouri district, only two including Post Graduate College at Rajouri were operating from their own buildings and the remaining colleges are being run in school buildings with 4-6 rooms since their inception till last Academic Session. Not only these colleges have inadequat...   READ MORE   Collapse of new power infrastructure by windstorm punctures Govt claims Newly erected poles break down, 20 yrs old remain intact……! 7/9/2016 12:15:32 AM Early Times Report Jammu, July 8: PDP-BJP government is once again under severe attack of opposition, this time albeit for an apolitical reason- massive damage to thepower infrastructure and consequent breakdown of electricity supply wrought by windstorm preceded by heavy downpour two days back. The opposition uproar is more for a fact that the electric poles so broken and damage inflicted to infrastructure including the cables were laid recently under a project financed under the Central gove...   READ MORE   Mafia grabs land on Eid day in Srinagar 7/9/2016 12:15:10 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, July 8: When people were busy celebrating Eid festival on Wednesday and Thursday, a strong lobby of land grabbers active in Srinagar's old city encroached another piece of Govt land in General Bagh area of Kathi Darwaza of Srinagar's old city. Large area of state land has already been encroached in this area by land grabbers, but till date authorities have not even dared to touch these people. As per details available with Early Times, more than 70 kanals of Gov...   READ MORE   CAG finds fault in Health dept's tendering system 7/9/2016 12:13:10 AM Saqib Junaid Early Times Report Srinagar, June 8: The tall claims of Jammu and Kashmir health department of bringing transparency in the tendering process of hospital supplies has been exposed as the astounding deficiencies related to supply orders from 2010-11 to 2014 brought in limelight by the Comptroller and Audit General (CAG) of India. The CAG in its latest report has blamed authorities of having approved some blue-eyed firms to supply items which lacked the eligibility to qualify in the tendering process and offered higher rates as compared to other genuine firms, deliberately overlooking genuine firms in brazen violation of purchasing procedures. As per the CAG report there i...   READ MORE   Misappropriation, frauds galore in CAPD: CAG 7/9/2016 12:13:01 AM Saqib Junaid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, July 8: A massive scam has surfaced in the consumer affairs and public distribution department with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India having identified the frauds and manipulations done by department officials in selling wheat bran to the millers resulting in a heavy loss worth crores of rupees. In its latest report, the CAG report says that CAPD department had sold 2.06 lakh quintals of wheat bran to the millers during the period from April 2013 to March 2015, Considering the fact that in Srinagar rates were fixed at Rs 1500 per quintal in March 2013, the department as per the report sustained loss of Rs 15.45 crore on sale of 2.06...   READ MORE   Floriculture deptt fails to set up cold storage facility at Tulip Garden despite lapse of 7 years CAG says that deptt resorted to wasteful expenditure of more than five and half crores 7/9/2016 12:12:51 AM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, July 8: Failure of the Department of Floriculture to establish cold storage facility at the Tulip Garden and the subsequent purchase of tulip bulbs has put a financial burden of more than five and half crores on the state ex-chequer. In its report for the year ending March 31, 2015, Comptroller and Auditor (CAG) of India has said that the Department of Floriculture failed to set up the cold storage facility which was proposed by the Director of the department around seven years back. "Failure of the departmental authorities to identify an agency for establishment of cold store at Tulip Garden Srinagar resulted in blockade of funds to the ex...   READ MORE   Stationed for decades at police chowkis in Rajouri, munshis, chowki officers making hay 7/9/2016 12:12:38 AM A B Sharma Early Times Report Rajouri, July 8: The ways of the police department are quite unique despite the fact that seldom this force in the state has ever done any good to humanity except ripping the gullible off their money whenever any case is clawed by them. There are many instances which are daily reported in the media about this aw enforcing agency in the state which seldom is seen to be enforcing the law and instead breaking the law at every nook and corner. The striking examples of police department's fallacious myth is apparently seen broke in district Rajouiri where many of the police post which are run by lower grade officials have turned the hub of corruption while the...   READ MORE   Cong leaders divided over amnesty for stone pelters 7/9/2016 12:12:30 AM Javaid Naikoo Early Times Report Srinagar, July 8: The Congress leaders of Jammu and Kashmir units of the JKPCC are at loggerheads over amnesty granted to stone pelters by the Government as Congress leaders of Kashmir have rejected statements of Jammu based leaders on the issue. In an astonishing move a Congress leader from Jammu earlier today while condemning the announcement of Amnesty for youth booked under charges of stone pelting termed the government move as "compromise with national security by BJP." "We strongly condemn the suo moto release of stone-pelters without scrutinizing the harshness of their offence." General Secretary of JKPCC and former Minister, Manohar lal Sharma...   READ MORE   Kashmir politics: Congress no more a mainstream party 7/9/2016 12:12:19 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 8: The Congress, which was responsible for creating Kashmir problem by involving the NC in the accession process and giving a fillip to communal and separatist politics in Kashmir, has completely deviated from its path in J&K and has become B-team of Kashmiri parties, be it the ruling PDP or the main opposition NC. It, like the BJP, now no more talks about the people of Jammu province with whose support it enjoyed power in the state for decades; it only talks about Kashmir and endorses all that the Kashmiri separatists and parties like the NC and the PDP recommend or vouch for. It now no more says that J&K's accession with India is final and irrevocable....   READ MORE   Forest deptt removes BO Chandanwari SaahilSuhail Looting Yatra funds 7/9/2016 12:12:09 AM Early Times Report Anantnag, July 8: A day after Early Times exposed how blue-eyed officials are looting Yatra funds on the name of providing firewood to pilgrims, Forest department today acted swiftly and removed one of the erring officials involved in the scam. Mohd Akbar Ganie, In-charge of Chandanwari base camp was attached with the divisional officer. A government order (29/2016) in this regard was issued today. Confirming the development, Divisional Forest Officer Lidder Division Bijbehara said that they have taken a serious note of the Early Times report. "I assure no one involved in this will be spared," he said. DFO said that he himself will conduct an internal inquiry to acce...   READ MORE   BJP 'admits' its ministers pursuing anti-Jammu, anti-women policies 7/9/2016 12:11:54 AM Early Times Report Jammu, July 8: A day after party's rebel leader, Pawan Gupta has exposed double standard of the BJP's representatives in the cabinet, party today indirectly admitted that their ministers in the government are pursuing agenda of anti-national and anti-Jammu forces in the government. Spokesman of the state BJP, Brig (Retd) Anil Gupta's direct attack on Congress and National Conference for supporting Amendments to Transfer of Property Act and Alienation of Land Act was actually an indirect attack on own party ministers because these two bills were first approved by the State Cabinet in which "pro-Jammu and self-styled nationalist" BJP ministers were very much present. B...   READ MORE   BJP leaders attitude towards Jammu more harmful than natural calamities: Sham Lal 7/8/2016 10:23:42 PM Early Times Report akhnoor, July 8: Senior Vice President and Former minister Sham Lal Sharma said due to recent thunderstorm and heavy rains, the houses of Akhnoor area has been heavily damaged and also damaged crops in the area resultantly the poor farmers have suffered massive losses. Addressing Monthly Meeting of Block Congress Committee at Akhnoor, Sham also expressed his concern over the power and water supply which has been heavily affected due to thunderstorm has not been restor...   READ MORE

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