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| Kashmir centric leaders maintain silence on Independence Day | | Official Twitter accounts turn mute, leaders sank into oblivion | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 14: The Kashmir centric parties have maintained complete silence on the eve of country’s Independence Day with their official Twitter accounts that used to remain abuzz with nonsensical debates suddenly turning mute.
NC, PDP and other Kashmir centric parties haven’t come out with a single message of felicitation this year on Independence Day, raising questions about which elements of the society they are desperate to appease.
“This is quite unnatural that such scenes are being witnessed in Kashmir wherein so called mainstream political parties and their leaders have remained mute on the Independence Day of the country. The nation that has given them anything is being given frighteningly a wide berth by them,” says a political activist here.
Meanwhile, the hallmark of these political parties has mostly been the appeasement of those elements which are inimical to the peace and stability of the country.
Even a sitting MP from National Conference, Akbar Lone raised pro-Pakistan slogans during an election rally in north Kashmir ahead of 2019 parl... | |
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| BJP leaders’ silence over “abolishing SHGs” explains their implicit support to anti-youth decisions | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 14: The stoic silence, so far, maintained by the so called champions of Jammu cause over the decision of government to abolish “Self Help Groups”, has signaled towards their implicit support to anti-youth decisions as well as translation of developmental claims into action in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Union Territory administration vide order No. 752-JK(GAD) of 2020, dated 10-08-2020 had decided to abolish 30 percent quota of the Self Help Groups of unemployed engineers in J&K UT. The decision is likely to affect over 15000 engineers who have been earning bread and butter in the state.
Most of the political parties have expressed their reservations over the d... | |
| | | | PHC Sandhar in ‘acute sickness’ for 12 yrs | | |  ASHWANI SHARMA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
KATHUA, Aug 14: Believe it or not, a Primary Health Centre (PHC) situated at hilly hamlet of Sandhar in tehsil Basohli of district Kathua itself is ‘ailing’ badly for the last about 12 years as the health institution lacks even the basic facilities to call it a health centre in a real sense.
Not only that the PHC Sandhar is inadequately equipped and having a poor infrastructure but it is also struggling with the shortage of staff.
The staff strength in ... | |
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