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Impersonation case: Rampal quits; Saroori likely to follow him under "pressure"

8/26/2010 12:17:19 AM

BHARAT BHUSHAN EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 25: In the MBBS/BDS entrance exam impersonation case, while Rampal today resigned as the chairman of SC/BC cell of National Conference, works minister G M Saroori was likely to follow him under mounting pressure from within his own party. As any probe, or action under law against Saroori by the government could have possibly led to the bitterness of relations with coalition partner Congress, the government did the right thing by handing over the case to CBI. Of the seven impersonators held from an examination hall of Jammu University on August 21 last, a girl and a youth had allegedly appeared for Saroori's daughter Huma Tabassum and Rampal's ...

DCI bars IGGDC from making fresh admissions due to delay in principal's appointment

8/26/2010 12:14:33 AM

BHARAT BHUSHAN EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 25: Categorically rejecting Dr Rajinder Singh as the head of Indira Gandhi Government Dental College (IGGDC), Jammu, Dental Council of India (DCI), angered by the inordinate delay in the appointment of new principal of the college, has barred the institution from making fresh admissions. Dr Rajinder, who is Government Medical College (GMC) principal, was given temporary charge of the dental college on August 22 last year in addition to his own duties. A senior officer in general administration department (GAD) said the government's "wrong" decision to allow Dr Rajinder's continuance as the dental college head for over an year had led to the p...

JK Bank manager, his manager wife among 3 killed, 8 hurt in road mishaps

8/26/2010 12:14:15 AM

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 25: As heavy rains lashed the Jammu-Srinagar national highway today, the slippery road conditions and shooting stones took the lives of three persons, including a J&K Bank manager and his wife, who too was manager in the bank. In another road mishap on the Line of Control (LoC) in Sabzian area of Poonch, seven army jawans sustained critical injuries.Police sources said Ravi Koul and his wife Sarita Koul were on their way to Jammu from Srinagar when their Alto car (PB08AH/2412) skidded off the road at Nachlana near Banihal, about 170 km from here, and fell into a deep gorge. In the incident, which occured at about 8.30 am when it was raining heavily, both Rav...

J&K reluctant to empower cooperative bodies, 500 still defunct

8/26/2010 12:13:55 AM

Syed Junaid Hashmi EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 25: Over 500 cooperative bodies including three apex level institutions and five cooperative banks have languishing for years together with no indication of Jammu and Kashmir government especially cooperative ministry planning any immediate political revival package for them. These institutions numbering 562 have been functioning only in name because mandatory elections to these bodies have not been held for last more than 6 years. This has brought the political and administrative independence of these institutions to near extinction and their existence is being maintained with life support system of Adhocism and nomination, both of which ...

Woes of CRPF personnel posted in terrorist infested-Kashmir

8/26/2010 12:13:37 AM

RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 25: Everyone knows that situation in Kashmir is very complex. Everyone, including those in the administration, knows that the CRPF personnel have been exercising utmost restraint despite grave provocation. During the past about two months, about 1,000 CRPF personnel have received injuries, some of them very fatal. In fact, a large number of them have become physically disabled. Despite all this, the CRPF personnel have never been trigger-happy. Had they been trigger happy, hundreds of Kashmiri protestors would have been killed and injured. Hence, to blame the disciplined CRPF for what has been happening in Kashmir since 1947 is as patently wrong as it ...

Cops told to vacate rented accommodation

Aftermath of Bemina incident

8/26/2010 12:12:37 AM

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 25: The Jammu Kashmir Police have been at the receiving end during the on-going agitation. Not only have their police stations and posts been torched by angry protesters but around 600 of them have sustained injuries in stone pelting. And following the Bemina incident, where a constable pulled the head gear of a woman seeking release of his relative, the men in Khakhi have reasons to feel worried. The police were told to vacate from Batmaloo area following death of a 25-year-old girl, Fancy Jan who got killed when a `police man shot her' on July 9. The deceased lived in an area which falls in the close vicinity of Police Control Room, District Police Lines an...

Perverted Barkha & NDTV cannot be allowed to go scot-free

FOURTH ESTATE OR PART OF ANTI-INDIA MOVEMENT -- I

8/26/2010 12:12:17 AM

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 25: It is now almost clear that Burkha Dutt, who, like journalist Kuldip Nayar, has her roots in Sialkot (Pakistan), and her news channel NDTV are part of the ongoing secessionist and communal movement in the Kashmir Valley. Barkha Dutt has been organizing lop-sided, valley-centric and out-and-out anti-India debates on Kashmir at regular intervals not only in her Delhi-based studio but also in Kashmir. She is ensuring participation in such anti-India and pro-separatist debates of only those who are rabidly anti-India and rank communalists and their non-Muslim sympathizers and supporters. She is very careful while selecting panelists. She sees to it that only s...

Two killed in flash floods

8/26/2010 12:11:54 AM

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 25: Two persons were killed in flash floods, triggered by heavy rains, in Rajouri and Kathua areas since last night.Ranjeet Singh of Bajoon in Kalakote area of Rajouri died after flash floods washed away his house last night. Police sources said his body had been recovered from underneath the debris of the collapsed house. In another incident, an unidentified person was swept away by flash floods in Ravi river in Kathua today. His body had been fished out and kept in the hospital mortuary for identification, the sources added....

Child dies of suspected H1N1 in Jammu

8/26/2010 12:11:30 AM

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 25: An infant, suspected to be suffering from swine flu, died Tuesday night in a city hospital here. A one-and-a-half year old baby, who was admitted four days ago in the pediatric ward of the hospital, died last evening due to suspected swine flu symptoms, official sources said. Sources said the blood sample of the infant was sent for the confirmation of the pandemic and the tests were reported to be "positive" but the child died last evening. The authorities in the health department, however, remained tight lipped over the incident.The family members took the body of the child to their native village in Rajouri for the last rites, the sources added....

Three chain snatchers held

8/26/2010 12:11:05 AM

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 25: Three of the four youth, who allegedly snatched a gold chain from a woman at Talab Tillo on August 19 last, were arrested by police today. They were identified as Vinay Kumar alias Chuchu, son of Bishan Dass of Vishal Nagar, Talab Tillo, Sahil alias Shakti, son of Suram Chand of Gole Panjpeer, and Riyaz Khan, son of Rashid Khan of Bhagwati Nagar. The fourth accused, who was evading arrest, was identified as Rakesh Kumar alias Malu. Raids were being conducted to nab him, police sources said. The four accused had snatched the chain from Phooa Dhar, wife of Ayodhya Nath Zuthshi of Priya Darshni Lane, Talab Tillo. Sources said though the actual cost of the...