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J&K Forest Scam Culprits, investigators all making merry at the cost of state exchequer

8/28/2010 12:19:08 AM

Early Times Report JAMMU, Aug 27: Erstwhile Azad's government's "single achievement", the unearthing of forest scam which created a big bang last year ended in a whimper with prosecutors and culprits receiving different dispensations under the new regime. The man notably mentioned in the report R.D. Tiwari is vying to take over as Principal Chief Conservator Forest (PCCF) Jammu and Kashmir. It is important to mention here that action taken report (ATR) of the Kundal Committee Probe maintains that Tiwari has serious charges against him in 13 cases. Moreover, despite recommendations of the probe panel to debar Tiwari from holding positions which have financial involvements and are indep...

Omar getting top lawyers to sue PDP

‘They’ll soon taste consequences of unfounded accusations’

8/28/2010 12:18:50 AM

Ahmed Ali Fayyaz EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, Aug 27: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is hiring the country’s leading lawyers to file and pursue a suit of defamation against the opposition PDP MLAs who had, earlier this week, charged him with accepting bribe money of Rs 500 Crore on account of allotment of 690 mw Rattle Hydroelectric power project. Preparations are expeditiously underway to file the libel suit in Jammu & Kashmir High Court next week. “They (PDP) had been”, Chief Minister told this correspondent, “in the habit of leveling unsubstantiated accusations from day one of my government. Last year, they did it and ate the humble pie within days. This year, we ignored a number of ...

‘An era broken bones, amputated limbs and bruised bodies’

19-month NC-Cong rule

8/28/2010 12:08:13 AM

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 27: Omar led coalition has completed nineteen months in office. Apart from giving a new look to roads in Jammu and Srinagar cities in the initial days of the regime, the coalition government has failed on all other fronts. The much hyped employment package was unveiled by the Chief Minister on the 104 birth anniversary of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah. The Chief Minister intends to address what he called a gigantic unemployment problem in a principled manner. However, the package, Sher-i-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for Youth (SKEWPY) evoked mixed reaction. The unemployed youth rejected it as a cruel joke cracked by the Chief Minister in the name of v...

CM assures more escort vehicles, fuel supply restored to valley

8/28/2010 12:07:14 AM

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 27: Jammu and Kashmir Oil Tankers Owners' Association today decided to restore fuel supply in Kashmir Valley following the assurance given by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah that fool proof security would be provided henceforth to the drivers and cleaners of oil tankers dispatched for Kashmir Valley. Chief Minister's Assuarnce came in a meeting of the representatives of Oil Tanker Owners Association at Srinagar prompting the latter to suspend the day long strike. The fuel supply to Valley had been stopped in protest against the brunt of violence and harassment drivers have been facing at the hands of protestors at various places on National Highway en...

No additional tax on pilgrim vehicles

8/28/2010 12:06:46 AM

EARLY TIMES REPORT NEW DELHI, Aug 27: The Centre today said no additional tax was being levied on the vehicles going to Amarnath and Vaishno Devi pilgrimages in Jammu and Kashmir from outside the state. In reply to an unstarred question in the Lok Sabha, minister of state for finance, S S Palanimanickan said the J&K government was levying a tax of Rs 2000 per day on all India tourist vehicles entering the state from Lakhanpur. While the vehicles carrying pilgrims to the holy cave of Mata Vaishno Devi were being charged the tax of Rs 2000 for a period of 3 days, the vehicles carrying pilgrims to Amarnath yatra were being charged the tax of Rs 2000 for a period of seven days, he added. He ...

RDX, ammunition recovered from militant hideout

8/28/2010 12:06:19 AM

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 27: The deadly RDX, and arms and ammunition were recovered by security forces from a militant hideout in Nar Mankote forests of Mendhar in Poonch today. Police sources said after developing information about a militant hideout in the Nar Mankote forests, police and 37 RR jawans launched an operation in the morning. During searches, the jawans came across a militant hideout carved out in a natural cave, the sources added.Its search led them to the recovery of 2 kilograms of RDX, four AK rifles along with four magazines and 120 rounds, four Chinese grenades, one wireless set, 25 gelatine sticks, four rucksacks, one umbrella and some other items of daily use...

CM's political advisor Gul & Geelani and Mirwaiz on same page

8/28/2010 12:05:54 AM

RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 27: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who has been passing through critical times, facing the greatest political challenge and not getting any support from his own party and bureaucracy in the real sense of the term, has on occasions more than one publicly accused Syed Ali Shah Geelani of Tehrik-e-Hurriyat and Mirmaiz Umar Farooq of All-Party Hurriyat Conference of disturbing peace in Kashmir and creating anarchical conditions, thus making things extremely difficult for the people. This, notwithstanding the fact that only recently one of his political advisors had met Geelani and told him that he was free to organize his anti-India activities, coupled with...

Boy washed away in flash floods

8/28/2010 12:05:28 AM

EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Aug 27: A boy was washed away in flash floods in a river in Rajouri district this morning.A woman and her 11-year-old son Sanjay Kumar were crossing a river in Sunderbandi belt of Rajouri district when flash floods washed away the child, police said.Several locals rushed to the site after hearing the woman screaming for help, they said, adding his body was later fished out three kms away from the spot....

RSS, BJP & DSPMF also anti-Jammu and anti- Ladakh

8/28/2010 12:04:49 AM

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Aug 27: The RSS, BJP-controlled Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Foundation (DSPMF), which is located in New Delhi, arranged on August 17 &18 an interaction between the top BJP leaders like Nitin Gadkari and Sushma Swaraj and hardcore Kashmiri separatists and their supporters, including Vice-Chancellor of the Islamic University, Kashmir, Siddiq Wahid, and four to five activists of Roots in Kashmir, an organization of disgruntled Kashmiri Hindu boys and girls. The theme of discussion was Kashmir. The man who was behind what could be described as an out-and-out Kashmir-centric exercise was none other than Tarun Vijay, who flirts with the likes of Madhu Kishwar, a votary of...