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Mufti makes his cabinet colleagues fall in line 8/22/2015 1:01:59 AM Early Times Report  Srinagar, Aug 21: Two days after coordination committee of PDP-BJP failed to reach on the consensus over transfers in administration and police department, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed played a “masterstroke” on Friday and overhauled the administration. However, no transfers and postings were ordered in the Police department. Sources told Early Times that Chief Minister took a strong exception to PDP-BJP leaders failing to break the ice over transfers and postings in the administration during the Coordination Committee meeting which was held earlier this week on Tuesday. BJP leaders, according to the sources, during the CC meeting had demanded that be allowed to prepare the list of the officials from Jammu region and PDP should take care of the Kashmir province. However, consensus eluded the CC meeting and leaders failed to finalize the agenda of the cabinet meeting which was held on Wednesday. Pertinently, the cabinet meeting which was held on Wednesday ended without taking any major decisions. “Soon after the cabinet meeting ended on Wednesday rumour...   READ MORE

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Cabinet overhauls admin 8/22/2015 1:01:52 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Aug 21: The Cabinet which met here today under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed approved the following transfers and postings in the administration. Ashok Kumar Parmar, IAS, awaiting orders of adjustment in the General Administration Department has been posted as Commissioner/Secretary to the Government, Tribal Affairs Department, relieving Saurabh Bhagat of the additional charge. Shailendra Kumar, IAS, Commissioner/ Secretary to the Government, Tourism & Culture Department has been transferred and posted as Commissioner /Secretary to the Government, Labour & Employment Department, vice Shahid Anayatullah. He shall also l...   READ MORE   Prof Amitabh Mattoo is CM's advisor 8/22/2015 1:01:43 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Aug 21: Noted academician and former Vice-Chancellor of the Jammu University, Prof Amitabh Mattoo has been appointed as Advisor to the Chief Minister with the status of a cabinet minister, an official spokesman said. ...   READ MORE   New dispensation endorses what the previous one has done, goes one step further Transfers of engineers 8/22/2015 1:01:35 AM Early Times Report srinagar, Aug 21: Some engineering departments, particularly R&B and PHE, have come under sharp criticism over the alleged unmindful transfers of top engineers in the last five months. When the PDP-BJP coalition government assumed office in March this year, people were upbeat that it would make even 'kaam chor' to work as was done by the PDP-led government from 2002 to 2005. Soon, hopes pinned in new dispensation ended and people got disappointed which even the ministers in both the camps admit privately. What was even more shocking was that the "top" officers developed sense of insecurity not because the new dispensation was tough on corruption but because the powerful...   READ MORE   Waives 100% surcharge on outstanding electricity bills, Electricity duty reduced by 12% Cabinet approves Amnesty Scheme for power consumers 8/22/2015 1:01:23 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Aug 21: The Cabinet which met here today under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, approved rationalization of the electricity duty by reducing the existing rate of 22% to 10% in respect of all consumers w.e.f the date of notification. The Cabinet also approved waiver of 100% surcharge on outstanding electricity bills as on 1st August 2015, provided the domestic consumer makes the outstanding payment by or before 31st March 2016, in maximum of four equal installments. The domestic and agriculture (excluding government) categories of consumers who have fully paid their bills shall not be eligible under this scheme. It also asked PDD to o...   READ MORE   Investigations intensified into Udhampur attack, focus on Kashmir NIA wants JK police to be proactive 8/22/2015 1:01:07 AM Abdul Majid Early Times Report Srinagar, Aug 21: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) which recently shifted the captured Pakistani militant Mohammed Naved to Srinagar for further investigations has called upon the State police to be "proactive" so that Udhampur like incidents could be averted in future. Highly placed sources said Director General, NIA, Sharad Kumar, who recently visited Kashmir asked the police to be proactive so that militant attacks could be avoided. "He told the State police that the sudden spurt in militant attacks in the State speaks about police negligence on some fronts of vital importance," said a police official asking not to be named. Kumar, during his Kas...   READ MORE   And, now J&K BJP charges India with breaching IB, LoC Resolution on ceasefire violations 8/22/2015 1:00:51 AM Early Times Report jammu, Aug 21: The J&K unit of the BJP has, it seems, gone totally perverted. Its leaders are making highly deplorable statements indicating hatred towards Jammu region and India as a whole. On April 24, a senior BJP leader snubbed the people of Jammu region for demanding a full-fledged All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). "No power on earth could snatch AIIMS from Kashmir and it will not be established in Jammu," he said in Jammu itself on the day the people across the region observed a complete bandh on the issue of AIIMS. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had announced AIIMS for Jammu while delivering his second budget speech in the Lok Sabha on February...   READ MORE   Was ReTs- Govt tussle a drama? Akhter shelves scrutiny of files 8/22/2015 1:00:38 AM Peerzada Ummer Early Times Report srinagar, Aug 21: The Education Minister, Naeem Akhter has shelved the screening of degrees of the ReTs, an issue that forced the teachers to come out of the classrooms to demonstrate their anger on the roads. Following agitation by the teachers, the Government declared to scrutinize the 'suspicious' degrees of ReTs. But merely 10 days after, the proposal to verify the degree certificates of ReTs has been put under the carpet. The candidates with fake degrees are happy. Top sources within the Education Department revealed that no order has been issued by the incumbent Education Minister to scrutinize the degrees of the ReT teachers in Jammu ...   READ MORE   Defying curfew restrictions, protestors clash with police at Samba Army conducts flag march 8/22/2015 1:00:06 AM Early Times Report jammu, Aug 21: Situation remained tensed in Samba district after protesters clashed with police at several places for the second consecutive day today, defying curfew restrictions. While curfew was lifted and Jammu-Pathankot national highway was thrown open to vehicular traffic, prohibitory restrictions under Sec 144 od CrPC remained imposed along the highway. Since last night, around a dozen people including six civilian, and five police officers have been injured in stone...   READ MORE   BJP sees a role model in Yasin Malik for separatists to emulate 8/22/2015 12:58:49 AM Early Times Report srinagar, Aug 21: Failing to have come up to the expectations of the people of Jammu who voted Bharatiya Janta Party to power in the State, the BJP has started hailing separatists of Kashmir. In the latest, the BJP spokesman Khalid Jehangir today hailed senior separatist leader Mohammed Yasin Malik. The BJP spokesman in his Facebook post appreciated that Malik has voluntarily refrained from attending meeting with the Pakistan High Commission in India ahead of the scheduled talks of National Security Advisors of the two countries. "Other separatists should take cue from Yasin Malik for not attending Pak high commissioner's program & not be hurdles," Jehangir posted on...   READ MORE   NC chief's statement on separatists' house arrest a 'drama' Omar Abdullah's hands 'are full of blood,' say Kashmiris 8/22/2015 12:58:38 AM ET Report Srinagar, Aug 21: J&K's former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's 'frustration' after remaining out of power for nearly a year is only growing by the day, prompting him to "indulge in theatrics." That is the impression gaining currency in the Valley, as many Kashmiris reacted to Omar's statement, after the Government placed three senior separatist leaders under house arrest, and released them abruptly, with a grain of salt. Omar on Thursday took to social networking site Twitter-the National Conference president's favourite past time has earned him the sobriquet 'Twitter boy'-to target the PDP-BJP coalition, especially Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. "Shame on Mufti Sayeed f...   READ MORE   Declare Abdul Basit persona non-grata, throw him out of India Separatists only represent themselves 8/22/2015 12:57:57 AM Early Times Report jammu, Aug 21: Uncouth and provocative Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit on Thursday made a ridiculous claim that separatists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik and Shabir Ahmad Shah were "true representatives" of Kashmir and it would be only desirable if their views on Jammu & Kashmir ascertained before the National Security advisor-level talks between India and Pakistan to be held in Delhi on August 23-24. He made this provocative statement after the coalition Government in Jammu & Kashmir ordered the detention of these separatists, who were later on released and allowed free movement so that they could travel to Delhi and meet with the v...   READ MORE   BJP veteran deviates from party stand of setting up Sainik Colony in Srinagar! 8/22/2015 12:57:46 AM Early Times Report jammu, Aug 21: In a surprise deviation from his own party's proposal of setting up a Sainik Colony in Srinagar for serving and ex-servicemen of J&K, a BJP veteran has termed media reports in this regard as "canards", which, he said, were being spread by some vested interests to create confusion among people. He is felt to have made this statement, following stiff opposition to this proposed Government move, if any, by the pro-Pakistan Hurriyat activists in the valley. But how can he take a line different from that of his own party? This question has started haunting not only the people of J&K, but also his own party leaders in the State. Addressing employees, who have ...   READ MORE   Major reshuffle of Assistant professors on cards in Higher Education Deptt Affluent lobbying hard to retain their postings in city colleges 8/22/2015 12:57:38 AM Akshay Azad Early Times Report jammu, Aug 21: A major reshuffle of Assistant Professors working in various degree colleges of state, is on cards as the Jammu and Kashmir Higher Education department is preparing lists while the orders in this connection are likely to be issued in coming few days. The affluent Assistant Professors are reportedly lobbying hard to retain their postings in city limits, despite the fact that majority of them have been serving in city limits for the last more than one decade. Sources informed Early Times that a team of higher officials including Commissioner Secretary, Director Colleges was engaged in preparing the lists of transfers. "All the records pertai...   READ MORE   Nationalist, media pressure forces BJP to eat words on Hurriyat No talks before or after NSA-level talks 8/22/2015 12:57:24 AM Early Times Report jammu, Aug 21: The BJP-led NDA Government has finally told Pakistan that New Delhi would be forced to cancel the National Security Advisor-level talks, scheduled to be held on August 23 and 24, in case the visiting Pakistani National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz stuck to the stand that he would meet with some Hurriyat leaders on August 23 and some others on August 24. Statement to this effect was made by the spokesperson of the Indian Foreign Office and it was similar to the one OF his predecessor had made on August 18, 2014. The issue was the same. The Indian Foreign Office also said that talks with terror, and not on terror, would be against the spirit of the July 10, ...   READ MORE   'Most female Cong leaders merely rubber stamps' 8/22/2015 12:57:14 AM ET Report jammu, Aug 21: A piquant situation was emerged in a meeting, which was convened by the Congress remember former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his birthday anniversary, when a senior party leader took females and youth to task for backstabbing the party. The leader went to such an extent that he remarked that most of the women leaders of the Congress party were virtually rubber stamps in the hands of their husbands. Those present in the meeting were shocked when the veteran leader pointed out a former Corporator of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) and said that she was sitting in the meeting but her husband was standing outside. "They are rubber stamps in the hands of their hus...   READ MORE   Despite ban excavation of minor minerals goes on around bridges 8/22/2015 12:29:57 AM Arun Singh Early Times Report Jammu, Aug 21: A few days after the District Administration Jammu banned excavation of minor minerals from rivers and nallahs in the periphery of bridges and other hydraulic structures, illegal extraction of minerals continues unabated near railway bridge at Greater Kailash. Sources told Early Times that mining took place a few days after the District Administration imposed a ban on mining within few meters from the railway bridge in the lane number of 12,13...   READ MORE   SIC dismisses appeal against High Court Legal opinions, suggestions cannot be obtained under RTI 8/22/2015 12:28:22 AM Early Times Report jammu, Aug 21 : The State Information Commission (SIC) Jammu wing has dismissed an appeal filed under section 16 of J&K RTI Act 2009 against the Public Information Officer (PIO) and First Appellate Authority (FAA) of J&K High Court wherein the information seeker had sought some details about legal opinions and suggestions related to gift deed and lease deed. Details available with Early Times reveal that one are that one Vijay Kumar, S/O Bachan Lal, R/O Shastri Nagar, Jammu moved an application dated 04.04.2015 before the PIO Hon'ble High Court, of J&K at Jammu under the Jammu & Kashmir Right to Information Act, 2009 wherein he sought the following information: 1. ...   READ MORE   Naeem's "seriousness" towards rural education exposed 2 months left for board exams, no lecturer of physics, Math, EVS held in Dessa GHSS 8/22/2015 12:28:08 AM Bijay Charak Early Times Report Jammu, Aug 21: While Education Minister Naeem Akhter has asked government schools to produce better results, Government Higher Secondary School (GHSS), Dessa, in Doda still lacks the essential infrastructure and manpower. The school does not have lecturers of Physics, Math and EVS notwithstanding the fact that only two months are left for final exams and syllabus of these subjects is yet to be touched. Rayees Ahmed, a resident of Dessa, told Early Times that the school was upgraded by State Government in 2003 and had a sanction of 12 posts of lecturers and a post of principal but it "has only eight lecturers -- four permanent and four contractual". "...   READ MORE   Ignoring flood threat Govt goes slow on Jehlum dredging 8/22/2015 12:27:37 AM Muhammad Mukaram Early Times Report Srinagar Aug 21: The Government seems in no mood to respond to possible flood threat that looms large on Kashmir as dredging of Jehlum has not been undertaken even after eleven months of the devastating floods of 2014. By delaying the dredging of the river and small streams, the Government seems to be pushing itself to the brink as just a couple of days of moderate to heavy rains result in flood scare in the valley. The Government has still not made up its mind on when to start dredging despite prods by the Central government. A senior official from the Irrigation and Flood Control (IFC) department had reportedly said that dredging in river Jehl...   READ MORE   Differently abled lack compulsory education in J&K, await opening of DRC 8/22/2015 12:26:30 AM Shiv Dev Thakur Early Times Report jAMMU, Aug 21: The State of Jammu and Kashmir is deficient in providing the education to the mentally retarded individuals owing to the non-availability of any policy or departmental regulation framed by the State Government with regard to inclusive education. The total population of differently abled children in J&K, as per the 2011 census, is 3.067 lakhs out of which 8.2 pc are mentally retarded. Reliable sources rued that there are only 5 schools in J&K, catering to the learning needs of the mentally retarded and approximately 150 students are on rolls and all are studying at the primary grades and even among disabled literates, a significant prop...   READ MORE   Mufti reiterates Govt's resolve to confront political, economic challenges with commitment 8/21/2015 11:51:22 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Aug 21: Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said the present government assumed office amid arduous political and administrative challenges and some of these challenges continue to dodge the Government even today. "The Government is, with the spirited support of all its instruments, firm in its resolve to put the state back on the path of peace, progress and prosperity with accountability, transparency and good governance being the fundamental inputs for its functioning," Akhtar quoted Chief Minister having stated at the meeting. "We are committed and will play our role in the protection and promotion of the political, economic and social well-being ...   READ MORE

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