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| JPDCL officials likely to face action for serving Rs 51 lakh bill to poor auto driver | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 21: Some officials of the Jammu Power Development Corporation Limited (JPDCL) are likely to face action for giving Rs 51 lakh electricity bill to a poor auto driver of Jammu city.
Sources said that senior officers of the JPDCL have taken very senior note of this blunder because this issue has been vociferously taken by various political parties to oppose the installation of smart electricity prepaid meters in Jammu province.
Important to mention here that the non-serious functioning of the Jammu Power Distribution Corporation Limited (JPDCL) was once again exposed after a family living in abject poverty in the heart of the Jammu city received an electricity bill of over Rs 51 lakhs.
This big blunder of the JPDCL provided an opportunity for the opposition parties to pinpoint loopholes in the government’s campaign to install electricity smart meters in the UT to check power theft.
Rajesh Uppal, who is living with his elderly mother Kanta Uppal in the Narayana Mohalla area of Jammu city, is living in a rented accommodation of two rooms.
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| Congress-Azad ‘headhunting’ heats up | | 7 councilors join DPAP, former J&K Chief Minister accords them warm welcome | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 21: A day after the Congress nominated the senior Congress leaders from Kashmir, GA Mir and Tariq Karra into Congress Working Committee, the party rebel and veteran politician, Ghulam Nabi Azad managed to take away as many as seven councilors from the “grand old party” into his Democratic Progressive Azad Party or DPAP in Kashmir.
A former Chief Minister, Azad, hosted an event at his residence in Srinagar to welcome the new entrants into his party from Congress saying the DPAP would work ahead to make all of them win in the upcoming Urban Local Body elections.
Azad told the new entrants that the party would leave no stone unturned for campaigning during th... | |
| | | | Army foils infiltration bid in Poonch, 2 terrorists killed | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 21: Two Pakistani intruders were killed with the Army scuttling an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Monday, an official said.
The bodies of the slain terrorists could not be retrieved as they managed to flee across the Line of Control (LoC) before succumbing to their injuries, suffered during a gunfight with the Army, according to an Indian Army spokesperson.
One AK-47 rifle, two magazines, 30 rounds, two hand grenades and some medicines of Pakistani origin were recovered from the scene of the gunfight in the Balakote sector, he said. ... | |
| | | | Era of ‘corruption and scams’ has ended, now every penny reaches into accounts of poor: PM Modi | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, Aug 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said there was an era of “corruption and scams” before 2014 and the rights of the poor and their money were robbed, but now every penny is reaching into their accounts directly. The data shows an increasing number of people are paying taxes, which shows their faith in the government that their money is being put to good use, Modi said.
He was virtually addressing the training-cum-orientation programme of newly appointed teachers at the CM Rise Government Mahatma Gandhi Higher Secondary School in Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal.
The PM said positive news has started coming up in the first year of “Amrit Kaal” itself, wh... | |
| | | | PM Modi has given us vision of ‘Gram Uday se Bharat Uday’: LG Sinha | | >Addresses inaugural session of 3-day National Workshop on ‘Panchayat with Good Governance’ | |  Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 21: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha addressed the inaugural session of the 3-day National Workshop on ‘Panchayat with Good Governance’ earlier today.
Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Giriraj Singh, joined the conference virtually.
“Meri Panchayat App”- an integrated and unified m-governance platform was also launched on the occasion.
Union Minister Shri Giriraj Singh commended the UT Administration for its efforts in strengtheni... | |
| | | | Supreme Court last hope on Article 370: Azad | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 21: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) Chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday said that the last hope of revocation of Article 370 is on Supreme court.
“Only two can revoke the article 370 either the present dispensation or the Supreme Court”, Azad told media persons in Srinagar on Monday.
However, he said that we could not have expectations from the present government as they have abrogated it.
“There is a last hope from the Supreme Court which could revoke the Article 370”, he added.
He said he had been to Delhi recently where he spent some time with Congress leader and leading lawyer Kapil Sibal who re... | |
| | | | HC quashes FIR against TSO in corruption case | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 21: Justice Mohan Lal of Jammu & Kashmir High Court quashed the FIR NO 28/2017 registered by VOJ (now ACB) against Gain Khajuria.
Justice Mohan Lal after Sr. Adv Rahul Pant with Advocate Palak Sharma for the petitioner whereas Sr. AAG Monika Kohli for the ACB, observed that there is no factual supporting material alleged in FIR which could disclose the commission of cognizable offence against petitioner for the period of 11.05.2013 to 12.02.2014 he remained posted as Incharge TSO Hiranagar, whereas, the allegations relate back to the years 2000,1984 & 2011when the petitioner was not even posted as Incharge TSO Hiranagar. Moreso, there are no allegations of... | |
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