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| After Centre asks state to identify land for AIIMS, CC calls of Jammu bandh call | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 5: Expressing satisfaction over Centre's decision asking the state government to identify pieces of land each to establish AIIMS in both the regions the Coordination Committee, which is spearheading the agitation to seek AIIMS for Jammu, called off the Jammu bandh call with a rider that chain hunger strike would continue till a separate notification will be issued by the Union Health Ministry on setting up AIIMS in Jammu region.
Soon after the Centre asked Jammu and Kashmir government to identify 200 acres of land each for Jammu and Srinagar for "setting up of AIIMS" in the state, the Chairman of the AIIMS Coordination Committee Abhinav Sharma while talking t... | |
| | | | Jammu agitates for AIIMS, BJP Minister's brother attempts to encroach upon Government land | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 5: At a time when entire Jammu province has been agitating against alleged betrayal by Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) a brother of cabinet Minister, has been attempting to encroach upon land on the banks of rivulet, throwing the standing orders of High Court, prohibiting construction works upto 200 meters of river banks.
Sources informed Early Times that already vast stretches of government land in Taraf Majli area, which falls along road starting from Capt Sunil Sin... | |
| | | | Kashmiris' destroy-BJP-mission in Jammu complete | | Master stroke | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 5: It was the long-cherished desire of Kashmiri leaders of all shades of opinion to destroy BJP and its mentor RSS in Jammu region and create a situation in the region where the people would develop an extreme form of hatred for the BJP and the RSS. They finally succeeded in 2015. It was a political master stroke of the PDP when it roped in the willing, power hungry and unscrupulous BJP and formed coalition government with it on March 1.
Why did the Kashmiri leadership want to destroy and discredit the BJP in Jammu region, its core constituency? Why because the BJP used to advocate an ideology that didn't fit in the scheme of things of the protagonists of Kas... | |
| | | | What is truth behind busting of hideout at Billawar? | | Army says explosives seized, police say 'cock and bull story' | | | Sumit Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 5: The busting of militant hideout in Billawar area of Kathua district in June this year stand exposed as police have washed their hands off, terming the incident as a cock and bull story.
An army handout says, "In a joint operation, the Army's Rising Star Corps Intelligence Unit and J&K Police recovered a cache of locally made explosives, alongwith a number of other items which can be used in making Improvised Explosive Devices from the remote village of Jutha near Bilawar in Kathua District."
Based on specific information, the troops of the Army's Intelligence Corps and J&K Police, undertook a joint search of the suspected location. The searc... | |
| | | | `Only 2 bidders show interest in erstwhile palace' | | No guests for `haunted' Hari Niwas | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Aug 5: The Hari Niwas Guest House at Gupkar, which cost around 30 crore to the state exchequer for the last eight years has evoked poor response from bidders.
The government had decided to outsource Hari Niwas Guest House to earn revenue from it and attract high-end visitors to Kashmir. Sources disclosed that only two bidders have expressed their desire to take it on rent for the next five years.
Hari Niwas was turned into dreaded torture centres of Kashmir when armed insurgency broke out in 1990. In 2007, Hari Niwas became the official residence of former chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad who according to official sources renovated it at a cost of 15 crore fr... | |
| | | | Transfer several lecturers against posts of other subjects | | Queer ways of Director School Education Jammu | | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 5: Notwithstanding the tall claims of Education Minister to streamline the department, the Director School Education Jammu has adopted a unique way to adjust some probably influential ones, who have been transferred against posts of other subjects, instead of their own.
The decision of DSEJ will ultimately jeopardize the future of those students, against whose subject's post, lecturer of other subject has been deputed.
A large number of cases can be found in the order number 426-DSEJ of 2015, dated 30/7/2015.
Rajni Sharma of Sanskrit has been transferred from GHSS Kud to GHSS Ramnagar against the post of Statistics, Sushma Dhar (Political Scien... | |
| | | | Fake sports certificates issued to blue eyed stir hornet's nest | | Another JKCA scam knocking Govt door once again | | | Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
srinagar, Aug 5: Amid the uproar about the much hyped JKCA cricket scam, revelations about the association employees' issuing certificates to their kith and kin in order to facilitate their admissions in medical and engineering colleges have stirred the hornet's nest.
Top sources within the association told Early Times that some office bearers of the JKCA holding vital posts have accorded the sports certificates to their relatives, which has helped them to get admissions in medical and engineering colleges of the state. "Even without playing a single game, the certificates were provided by some office bearers to their kith and kin. Such a gross violat... | |
| | | | TD gives misleading info under RTI | | Was R S Golf Course office damaged in 2014 floods? | |  Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 5: The Department of Tourism told an Informer Seeker that the records pertaining to the Royal Springs has golf Course were destroyed in 2014 floods.
Details available with Early Times reveal that one Shahid Ahmad Ronga Advocate J&K High Court Srinagar sought some information under J&K RTI Act 2009 from the Tourism Department Civil Secretariat Srinagar which is the administrative department for RSGC Srinagar.
The said application was forwarded by the Tourism ... | |
| | | | Kashmir's generation next falling prey to drugs | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 5: The ever increasing number of drug addicts in Kashmir may not necessarily reflect the rot in the society but it definitely sounds the alarm bells. Notwithstanding the concern shown by the civil society, law enforcing agencies and the clergy, the Kashmir's generation next is now falling prey to drugs.
The Police Control Room (PCR) at Srinagar which runs the only drug de-addiction centre paints a grim picture of the situation. Most drug abusers fall in the age group of 18-35 years and the patient flow at the said .de-addiction centre is alarming too. Last year, 633 were registered at the PCR, which has gone up to 1,978. While 81% were male, alarming 19%... | |
| | | | I&FC Deptt violates Centre's directive | | Fails to set up monitoring cell | | | Arun Singh
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 5: Not giving a damn about directives of the Centre, the Irrigation and Flood Control Department has not set up any monitoring cell for inspecting the centrally-sponsored schemes in the state.
Sources told Early Times that the inspection of schemes during execution and thereafter forms an important part of the monitoring. "The Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP) guidelines envisage monitoring of the minor irrigation schemes to be done by the state government themselves and the government was also required to ensure establishment of monitoring cells for monitoring of all the schemes," said sources.
They said that it seems that ignorin... | |
| | | | Sarpanch allegedly withdraws Rs 68 lakh fraudulently | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 5: A Sarpanch in South Kashmir is alleged to have fraudulently withdrawn land compensation to the tune of Rs 68 lakh from an account head at the district headquarters against the works executed by Rural Development Department and PDD.
Official sources said a sarpanch of Marhama area in South Kashmir had allegedly withdrawn Rs 68 lakh from an account head established for the compensation of Kahcharai land that has come under the road widening on National Hihway 1 in Anantnag district. Sources alleged that the sarpanch, who was a PDP leader, had so for withdrawn Rs 68 lakh from a particular head against some development works allegedly carried out by other a... | |
| | | | HM's list of 11 recruits "fake" as one of them tells Punjab police he is not militant | | Engineer by profession, his pic has gone viral on social networking sites, showing him as HM terrorist | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 5: A Kashmir youth, who is working in a private company in Punjab as a software engineer and whose photograph has gone viral on social networking sites in the valley and also in Punjab, branding him as a Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militant, today walked to the Model Town police station at Jallandhar and told cops that he was not a militant.
He is one among the 11 Valley youth whose photographs are taking rounds on social networking sites for the past few days. HM has projected all of them as its fresh recruits in Kashmir.
Ahmad Shehroz Khan (26) of Kashmir has been working for the past few years as a software engineer in a company on GT Road which has its head o... | |
| | | | It happens only in J&K: Blue eyed manages job in Handicrafts without PRC | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 5:The credibility of the J&K Handicrafts department came under scanner after one Dev Raj Sharma allegedly managed job without submitting his State Subject certificate (PRC) . The mismanagement in the department came to limelight following the disclosure through the RTI. The department itself admitted the fault on their parts.
Early Times in its edition 26 Feburary published the same following which the senior officers including Saurabh Bhagat, then Secretary, Industries & Commerce Department assured departmental inquiry and further legal action, but despite of the elapse of six months, the outcome is nowhere in sight.
As per sources, a blue-eyed candidat... | |
| | | | Screening test for ReTs: Police thrashes protesting teachers in Srinagar | | 3 dozen injured, over 100 detained; protests to continue | |  Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 5: Around three dozen teachers were injured after police used force on Wednesday to disperse hundreds of teachers protesting against the government decision to conduct screening test for teachers and verify their certificates before regularizing them. The teachers assembled outside Directorate of Education office and started marching towards the Civil Secretariat to lodge their protest against the government's plan, said eyewitnesses.
Polic... | |
| | | | Udhampur terror attack: Stunned security agencies clueless how terrorists reached Samroli | | Captured terrorist said he came to kill Hindus | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 5: Wednesday's terror attack on Jammu-Srinagar national highway has stunned security and intelligence agencies because belt the track from Udhampur to Ramban is considered as safest ever stretch as far as terrorism in concerned but after attack all the agencies, including premier intelligence agency, are clueless.
Aim of the terrorists was, of course, to target Amarnath Yatra which they failed to accomplish their evil designs but this incident have exposed all... | |
| | | | Govt blamed for not appointing board of directors | | Work on 1000 MW Pakal-Dool project delayed | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Aug 5: Work on 1000 MW Pakal-Dool Hydro Electric Power Project to be constructed in Kishtwar district has got delayed after the government failed to appoint board of directors in Chenab Valley Power Project (CVPP) Corporation Limited.
President of the Contractor Association Kishtwar Tanveer Ahmed Mintoo said the people of Kishtwar and its adjoining areas have been waiting anxiously for start of work on the power project as it would provide employment to hundreds of local youth and benefit the area.
He said it has come to the notice of the Contractor Association that Government of India has already approved the construction of the power.... | |
| | | | 4 yrs on, trauma hospital at Chowki Chowra awaits completion | | | | Bijay Charak
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 5: Four years on, the Trauma Hospital at Chowki Chowra awaits completion. The delay has cost many a precious life. The trauma patients are transferred to Akhnoor Hospital and GMC Hospital Jammu many of whom die in transit.
Sources in Health Department told Early Times that the construction work of double storey building Accidental Hospital Chowki Chowra of district Jammu was started in June 2010 at an estimated cost of Rs. 15.3 crore.
The project had to be completed by December 2013.
"The work on the hospital is going on at a snail's pace with only two floors complete at the moment and the work PCC retaining wall on road side, CGI sheet ... | |
| | | | Principal GDC Kishtwar goes tough for work culture | | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Aug 5: For establishing work culture in Degree College Kishtwar, the Principal directed all the staff members including teachers not to leave the college premises during college hours and lock the gates. Similarly the students have been directed not to leave the college before 3 PM.
The Principal Dr Aftab Ahmed Khan vide order No. Kst/Coll/15/889 dated 4-08-2015 directed gate keepers to lock the main gate from inside and not to allow trespassing of visitors or students.
"The visitors are asked to visit college after 2 PM including admission seekers for Distance Education (MANU, IGNOU and DDE). Further, faculty is requested to cooperat... | |
| | | | Rajouri: ZEO retains teacher attached for 6 yrs | | | | AB Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 5: Throwing the government order on detachment of teachers in Education Department to dustbin, a Zonal Education Officer in Rajouri has not detached a teacher who is posted as a clerk in his office for last six years. Governor NN Vohra, taking a serious notice of the deteriorating Education Department in the state, had issued an order on detachment of all teachers to their original posting place early this year.
But in Rajouri, flouting the norms, a teacher Rakesh Kumar is attached in the office of ZEO (Lower Hathal) as a clerk for the last six years and is not detached to his original posting place at Government Middle School Rugga Chani Patat... | |
| | | | ReTs resign, rejoin at will in Trehgam zone | | | | S.Tahir-Ul Haq
Early Times Report
KUPWARA, Aug 5: Throwing norms to winds, a ReT rejoined after four months without any formal order, after tendering his resignation to ZEO Trehgam in Kupwara district of North Kashmir. According to sources, "the candidate namely Pirzada Ghulam Mohammad (Aijaz) S/O Pirzada Shafeeq Ahmad R/O Awoora was appointed as a Rehbar-e Taleem (ReT) under Sarwai Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) at Government Primary School (GPS) Bran Awoora in Kupwara district on 02/03/2004. The ReT gets regularized on 02/03/2009, after which he resigned from the post of Regular Rehbar-e Taleem (RReT).
The said teacher has tendered his resignation to ZEO on 20/04/2015 along with an affidavit... | |
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