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| On I-Day, Jammu industrialists seek azadi from extortionist babus | | Officials demand money for 'holding celebrations'; step taken for the 'national cause', says a top babu | | | Sumit Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 8: The Independence Day reminds Indians about freedom-freedom from fear and harassment. But for the industrialists in Bari Brahmana and Samba, the day inspires fear-fear of babus who extort money from them in the name of I-Day celebrations and justify it in the name of "national cause."
As August 15 is approaching, the industrialists say teams of Pollution Control Board, Labour Department and Industries Department have visited their units and demanded money for "holding celebrations for the Independence Day."
"We have no other option but to give money to the babus, as we have day to day dealing with them," an industrialist told Early Times.
These official teams were carrying slips in the name of "Additional District Magistrate, Samba," said the industrialist.
Deputy Commissioner Samba, Sheetal Nanda, expressed ignorance about any such order from the administration for taking money from the industrialists for holding I-Day celebrations.
But her aide Pawan Kumar said the step has been taken for the "national cause."
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| BJP sees it as an opportunity to crush Akther | | Screening Test Row | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 8: The senior Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader and the Education Minister, Naeem Akther, who has stirred the hornet's nest by announcing that Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) teachers would have to undergo a screening test has reportedly asked his friends in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to rein in its leaders, who have come openly in support of the ReT teachers.
Sources told Early Times the Education Minister is already grappling with problems as all the opposition parties have trained their guns at him and BJP leaders joining the chorus has added to his woes.
The senior BJP leader and MLC Surinder Ambardar on Friday told reporters that government should consid... | |
| | | | Edu Minister's worries multiply as GoI chokes funding | | JK students score lowest rank in India | | | Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 8: There is more bad news for Education Minister Naeem Akhter. Students from J&K have failed to perform at the nation level, according to a recent survey.
Amid the stubbornness of the Education Minister to pacify the aggrieved ReT teachers in the state who accuse the minister of disgracing their services by announcing the screening test to judge their abilities, the survey conducted by the Ministry for Human Resources and Development reveal how much chaotic is state's education sector at present.
The survey reveals that students hailing from J&K have the poorest reading comprehension at an all India level event and hence scored lowest in ... | |
| | | | BJP fails Kashmiri Pandits living in valley, no package announced for them | | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 8: Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has always claimed to be champions of the rights of Kashmiri Pandits. However, the party and its leaders have failed to come up to the expectations of Kashmiri Pandits who did not leave the valley and preferred to stay back.
The handful of Kashmir Pandit families who got internally displaced in the valley is quite aghast over the 'step motherly' treatment adopted by the Government of India towards them. These people are quite upset with the BJP leadership at both the state and centre and say that they have been left in the lurch by the people at helm.
The Kashmiri Pandits who are living in the Kashmir valley... | |
| | | | BJP paying price of unpopularity in Jammu | | Dhanyavaad Rally Or Police Rally | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 8: The immediate fallout of the August 5 decision of the AIIMS Coordination Committee (ACC), which is spearheading movement for the setting up of AIIMS in Jammu, to call off six-day-long bandh, was the decision of the denounced and condemned BJP leadership to take out what it called "Dhanyavaad Rally" (thanksgiving rally) on August 7. It was the same BJP whose ministers, MLAs and small time leaders were at the receiving end with people, cutting across party lines, ridiculing them and terming them "anti-Jammu", "Valley-centric", "ungrateful", "mischievous", "unscrupulous", "cheaters", "bluffers", "power hungry" and what not. So much so, the people confronted th... | |
| | | | Single day expenditure of these hoardings is between Rs 5 to Rs 6 lakhs | | Who will pay for these hoardings? | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 8: Facing severe criticism of the people of Jammu region for bartering their wishes and aspirations to remain in power, the egotistical BJP leaders are not indulged into cheap tactics to befool the masses. Ironically confusion of setting of AIIMS in Jammu is still persist among commoners but the BJP leaders, by abusing power, have flooded the city with hoardings to thanks the Union Government for sanctioning AIIMS in Jammu region. These hoarding comprising picture... | |
| | | | Akther, Bukhari go out of way to regularize daily wager | | | |
Abdul Majid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 8: Education Minister Naeem Akhter Andrabi, who wants screening of Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) teachers before regularisation of their services, has gone out of way to regularise services of a daily wager only because latter's daughter has been meritorious in board exams.
Akhter has been helped in this endeavour by his cabinet colleague Altaf Bukhari. The employee in question-Shabir Ahmed of Tral-a daily wager with J&K Project Constructions Corporation (JKPCC) was regularised on Friday because his daughter Anika Shabir secured first position in the Class 10 exam last year.
Officials said that "honouring the efforts of a girl student, who topped t... | |
| | | | Naveed's ingress, freedom of movement in Kashmir should be an eye opener for security forces | | | | ET Report
Jammu, Aug 8: Mohd. Yakub, father of captured terrorist, Mohammad Naveed feels he is the unfortunate father of Naveed. He tells, on phone to Indian journalists that the Lashkar and the Pakistani Army (fauj) were after Yakub's family.
Yakub was on his phone from his residence in Faisalabad in Pakistan. Still the establishment in Islamabad, particularly Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesman categorically denied that Mohd. Naveed belonged to Pakistan. Their categorical rejection of New Delhi's claim that Naveed had come from Pakistan to kill "Hindus" in Jammu and Kashmir bore resemblance to Pakistan's denial that Ajmal Kasab, who had been captured during the terrorist strike in Mumba... | |
| | | | BJP in J&K a divided house; factionalism causing indecisiveness on major issue | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 8: Contrary to its tall claims of being most disciplined political party, ruling Bhartiya Janta Party in Jammu and Kashmir is a divided house as the saffron brigade leaders here are allegedly involved in affiliating themselves with the factions in BJP on the basis of their background in public life.
According to the sources in BJP circles, the party is divided in four factions with the each group trying to maintain its separate identity from each other on the basis of their roots in the saffron brigade. While the faction having group of leaders with RSS background are having an upper hand in organizational affairs, those who started their career as B... | |
| | | | For OSD's follies, J&K's DyCM pleaded for entry into Parliament | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 8: The J&K's Deputy Chief Minister, Dr. Nirmal Singh had to cut a sorry figure before the security staff at the outer gates of Parliament as he was made to wait in waiting hall to meet the BJP Ministers Arun Jaitely and JP Nadda in the Parliament to get an assurance about AIIMS in Jammu, as there was no prior intimation about his programme and itinerary at Delhi.
The state's Dy CM had to face embarrassing situation, thanks to his personal staff headed by an OSD who is a senior Police Officer. The incident has seriously exposed the working of the office of Dy Chief Minister who many see as virtually political head representing the people of Jammu region.
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| | | | Constructed to enhance Jammu's splendor, Maharaja Hari Singh Park becomes blot on its face | | | | Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 8: Named after the legendary ruler of the state and dedicated to public with great pomp and show by the former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Maharaja Hari Singh Park on the banks of river Tawi has turned out to be a blot on the face of the city of temples rather than augmenting its beauty.
The neglect and apathy that has been meted out to this park by the administration and more particularly by the JDA has not only left the very face of Jammu scarred, but also disgraced the name of Maharaja Hari Singh which is adored and revered by millions of people across the region.
"Besides giving facelift to the city, the park was constructed wi... | |
| | | | Kathua oil industry endangers public life, Supplies sub-standard oil | | |  Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 8: The huge supply of sub-standard mustard oil by a big industry, set up in Kathua has been posing great risk to the public at large.
According to the Public Analyst, the particulars of sample reads as, Trade name-Super Gold, Mustard Oil, M.R.P- Rs. 120, DOP: April 2015, B.No-050, net content 900 ml, Mfd by: Bharat Oil Traders Chak Gota National Highway Kathua.
The sample was sent to testing in the month of June and the report is given by Public... | |
| | | | 2 soldiers injured in Tangdhar gun battle | | | | S.Tahir-Ul Haq
Early Times Report
KUPWARA, Aug 8: Two soldiers sustained injuries in Tangdhar sector near LoC in Kupwara district of North Kashmir after a fierce gun battle broke out between militants and security forces on Saturday evening.
According to senior government official, "acting on a tip off about the presence of suspected militants at Kupaa Gali in Tangdhar sector near Line of Control (LoC) the security forces launched a search operation in the thick woods.
The target area has been cordoned off and a fierce exchange of firing was going on when reports last came in.
The official said that, 'The militants were asked to surrender but they opened fire, adding that the t... | |
| | | | Around Reasi in 80 days, dares ARTO Mohammad Salim | | | | A B Sharma
Early Times Report
Reasi, Aug 8: A yeoman task was eventfully executed when the Assistant Regional Transport Officer hit the milestone by creating a history of sorts.
ARTO Reasi, Mohammad Salim earns a distinct reputation for being the man of action than words when his service record of 80 days as ARTO discloses Rs 9,10,000 realized by him as challan from the traffic violators.
Mohammad Salim who just joined the office some two and half months ago went straight on his job by acting swiftly and swooping on the traffic violators in the district who earlier used to make hay in the alleged absence of administrative check upon them.
" As soon as I joined my place of posting ,... | |
| | | | 'Influential' Doda teacher working at one place for 20 yrsv | | | | Bijay Charak
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 8: An influential master has been working in the same school in Doda for last nearly two decades, belying claims of the government about ensuring transparent transfer policy. The man was selected as a teacher in 1997 and was posted in Government Higher Secondary School Gundana.
"The teacher remained posted in the same school till 2011. And even after his promotion in 2011, he was not transferred anywhere," official sources told Early Times.
"For 18 years now he has been posted in HSS Gundna, and neither Chief Education Officer (CEO) and nor Director Officer Jammu could order his transfer. One can imagine how influential the teacher is," sa... | |
| | | | Regularization of casual, need based workers | | Employees to hit streets from Monday | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 8: The failure of the government to regularize 3660 casual and need base employees of different departments has forced the employees to tread agitational path.
The incumbent Finance Minister, Dr Haseeb Drabu according to casual and need base employees announced regularization of 3660 employees during the budget session of the legislature early this year.
However, terming government announcement a mere eyewash to befool all such poor employees, President Employees Joint action committee (EJAC), Abdul Qayoom Wani today said that they have no option except to come on roads once again against government silence on this long pending issue.
"On the flo... | |
| | | | Valley college accused of violating fee structure | | 'Instead of Rs 38,000, they charged us Rs 75,000' | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 8: Students 0f an engineering college in north Kashmir are up in arms against its authorities, accusing them of violating the fee structure set up by the Union government.
A group of B.Tech students from SSM college of Engineering, Pattan, said as per the order issued by the Union Ministry of Technical Education, the fee structure of students who have joined their respective courses via lateral entry route shall be same as of the CET students, which is Rs 37, 800. But the college, students said, charged them Rs 75,000.
They said the SSM College had published a notification in local newspapers on 26-06-2015, announcing that the tuition fee would be Rs 37... | |
| | | | Set up high-end Clubhouse in Gulmarg for corporates: Mufti | | |  Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 8: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today asked the Tourism Department to set up a state-of-the-art clubhouse in the famous ski-resort of Gulmarg to position it as a premier destination for corporate conventions.
"Moving a step closer in positioning Gulmarg as a premier destination for corporate conventions in the State, the Chief Minister issued directions for setting up of a state-of-the-art clubhouse with all in built modern facilities... | |
| | | | ReTs threaten to boycott electoral revision process | | ADC Kishtwar chairs BLO meeting | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Aug 8: Ahead of special camp day under National Electoral Rolls Purification and Authentication Program (NERPAP) sponsored by election commission of India scheduled to be held in Kishtwar District on August 9, 2015, Additional Deputy Commissioner Kishtwar Mohammad Hanief Malik on the initiative of Nodal Officer NERPAP Raiz Ahmed Butt held a detail meeting with Booth Level Officers (BLO's) of 51-Kishtwar and 52-Inderwal constituency of Kishtwar District and briefed them about the program and listened to their grievances.
The nodal officer delivered a detailed lecture on this program which is aimed to enrol people of 18 years and above in the ... | |
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