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Parvez Rasool, Irfan turn J&K cricket Kashmir centric Drop Jammu based players, prefer blue eyed boys from Valley 9/21/2018 11:27:43 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 21: The Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association has yet again landed into controversy as veteran cricketers are up in ante against dropping of Jammu's ace player in two matches of the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy matches, being played at Chennai. The cricket body faced the wrath of veteran cricketers after a seasoned and experienced player from Jammu, Ian Dev Singh was dropped against Bengal by Kashmir-based Parvez Rasool headed J&K Cricket Association. Mr Singh, who captained the J&K Ranji Trophy squad in 2013-14, was on Thursday dropped from the team, when skipper Rasool, assisted by Indian cricketer Irfan Pathan, preferred 8:3 ratio on the field. ''Skipper Parvez Rasool preferred to accommodate the blue eyed boy from Kashmir over deserving players,'' rued the cricketers. ''Dropping Ian Dev Singh was an astonishing decision. It has really left the cricketers dumbstruck,'' Ashwani Gupta, veteran cricketer and former J&K Ranji Trophy player, here told media. He said not taking Mr Singh into the team in both the matches, was just like a body without...   READ MORE

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Distribution of BJP tickets authenticates Priya Jaral, Mangu Shah's allegations 9/21/2018 11:27:30 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 21: Anger shown by BJP leaders especially women workers against 'selling' of party tickets to unknown persons has authenticated serious allegations earlier leveled by veteran leader Priya Jaral and Kuldeep Dubey alias Mangu Shah. Today a large number of BJP workers, majority of them women have alleged that party tickets were sold and only influential persons have managed tickets for themselves or their family members. There is growing discontent in the BJP over loyal party leaders and workers got a raw deal in the distribution of tickets. Some of the leaders who have been ignored have turned rebels and their miffed supporters have started resorting to prote...   READ MORE   'Giving mandate to new entrants unacceptable' 9/21/2018 11:27:23 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Sept 21: With BJP announcing the names of candidates for 75 wards of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) the rebellion has hit the BJP's women wing as the activists are unhappy over the selection of candidates. According to sources a delegation of Party's Women wing today met State President of BJP Ravinder Raina and expressed resentment over the manner in which the candidates were selected by the party for ensuing JMC Poll. Sources said the Women Wing senior leaders while expressing their resentment told the BJP president that some senior party leaders have betrayed the senior activists, who have been associated with the party for the past many decades. "Party l...   READ MORE   ULB elections: Discontentment over BJP's list of candidates Paratroopers get tickets, seniors ignored 9/21/2018 11:27:15 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 21: The first list of the candidates issued by Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) for Municipal elections- 2018 has generated lot of dissent, with party functionaries alleging corruption, nepotism in the distribution of tickets. Some videos of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) Mahila Morcha office bearers have went online levelling serious allegations against former Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta for giving tickets to some newcomers ignoring some seniors. State Secretary of BJP Mahila Morcha while lashing out at former Deputy Chief Minister alleged, "I have been in the party for the last over 15 years. Five days back, I called on Kavinder Gupta and he assured me th...   READ MORE   KP bodies united on one demand: Separate homeland 9/21/2018 11:27:02 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 21: Carving out of separate homeland for over seven lakh displaced Pandits in Kashmir Valley is gaining momentum in the community, with KP diaspora settled outside the country too supporting the demand now. This has become quite clear during the recently observance of Martyrs' Day by displaced KPs all over globe including various places in India as well Jammu on September 14 to pay tributes to Amar Shaheed Tika Lal Taploo, a towering KP leader and former vice president of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) who fell to the bullets of terrorists on this day in 1989 while daring to call terrorists as cowards "who attack people from hideouts, but by such cowardice act...   READ MORE   No govt can afford to ignore national mood Sushma, Qureshi meet in NY cancelled 9/21/2018 11:26:54 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 21: The Indian nation was in a state of mourning. It was accusing the BJP-led NDA Government of adopting a weak-kneed policy towards Pakistan, which had been bleeding India with a thousand-cut on a daily basis. The reason: barbarous Pakistan Rangers on Tuesday shot and hacked to death an injured BSF head constable in J&K's Ramgarh sector. The body of Narinder Kumar of D Coy 176 Bn was found near the international border late Tuesday evening. There were three bullet wounds in his chest, shoulder and right leg. The barbarous Pakistani rangers had also slit the throat of Narendra Kumar. His body had wounds from bullets fired at a close range. One of the bullets...   READ MORE   R&B Shopain diverts NABARD funds illegally to appease politicain 9/21/2018 11:26:42 PM Saahil Suhail Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 21: The officials of Road and Buildings (R&B) department in Shopain district have fraudulently diverted funds and changed the nomenclature of road allegedly to please a politician. The issue of illegal diversion of funds by R&B department came to fore after the department skipped macadamizing a patch of road approved under NABARD. Vigilant villagers approached the department and district authorities immediately with written complaints and sought reasons for not macadamizing the patch of road. "We got suspicious when they (R&B Department) starting macadamizing other patch of road," Mudasir Ahmad, a resident told Early Times over phone. ...   READ MORE   Pressure on BJP to implement Venkataraman's J&K solution Limiting area of strife to Valley 9/21/2018 11:26:31 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 21: The decision of the Kashmir-based parties, including NC, PDP, CPI-M and Democratic Party Nationalist (DPN) to boycott the upcoming urban local bodies and panchayat elections on the spurious plea that the Government of India and Jammu & Kashmir government linked Article 35-A with these elections has triggered a debate in Jammu and Ladakh, and even in New Delhi. The general view is that by deciding to boycott the upcoming civic bodies' elections, the Kashmir-based parties only tried to blackmail New Delhi to extract more and more concessions so that they could further widen the already rather wide gulf between Jammu & Kashmir and New Delhi and further str...   READ MORE   DPS Budgam charges Rs 93k for admission to kindergarten Valley private schools fleece parents 9/21/2018 11:26:17 PM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 21: Despite the government directing schools in Kashmir Valley not to hike fees for the academic year 2018-19, parents allege many schools are asking them to cough up an enhanced amount in the current admission season. "I went to Delhi Public School, Budgam, to seek admission for my children for class LKG. I was shocked when the school management asked me to pay Rs 93,000 for the admission. Last year we admitted our children in the same school and that time we paid 75,000," said Bilal Ahmad, a resident of Bemina in Srinagar. Another parent, Waseem Ahmad who had gone to various schools to seek admission for his two kids said the situatio...   READ MORE   Private school earns more than two crores in two days; 'loot', 'plunder' in name of education 9/21/2018 11:25:00 PM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Sept 21: With the admission process at its feverish pitch most of the private schools in Kashmir valley are making merry by minting money like anything and the worst part is that there is no accountability whatsoever. Sources told Early Times that a leading school minted more than two crores after it completed the admission process of the nursery and lower kindergarten classes. The admission process was completed in two days and the parents of the kids paid Rs. 90,000 each as admission fee. "Education has virtually been commercialized in the world and how could Kashmir lag behind in this regard. In fact the private schools operating in t...   READ MORE   A J&K team at IPL…. Not too far-fetched! 9/21/2018 11:24:55 PM Abodh Sharma Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 21: The Government of the day has raised hopes of a team from the state playing in the coveted Indian Premier League (IPL) and also the IPL matches being played at the stadia of the state soon. The spade work for the same has already been incepted, if the sources are to be believed. Sources privy to the developments divulged to ET that the Governor Satya Pal Malik during a function at the SKICC in Srinagar recently expressed his desire to see a team from J&K in the IPL and asked his advisor to work in this direction. "IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla had called on the Governor at RajBhawan in Srinagar recently and assured to work out modalities in...   READ MORE   Funds for waste management in J&K: GoI ministries to file affidavit in HC 9/21/2018 11:24:49 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 21: The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir has directed three central ministries to file an affidavit indicating various schemes on waste management and funds allocated to J&K for the same purpose. The Centre through Ministry of Rural Development, Environment, Housing & Urban Development and Agriculture has been asked to disclose the details of the funds which have been made available in last five years to J&K. As reported recently by Early Times, the Chief Justice of J&K High Court while hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on Monday had sought a report from J&K Rural Development Department (RDD) about the status of waste management in rural areas o...   READ MORE   Desperate to derail election process, militants go berserk 9/21/2018 11:24:42 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Sept 21: The killing of three unarmed policemen and attacking panchayat ghars in Kashmir seem to be a new strategy of militants desperate, to put derail the democratic process in the Valley. On Friday, bodies of three policemen with multiple bullet wounds were found hours after they were kidnapped by militants who barged into their homes in south Kashmir. The fourth policeman was freed with the help of villagers. The unarmed policemen, all Special Police Officers (SPO), were dragged out of their homes in Kapran village of Shopian days after Hizbul Mujahideen militants put out a video threatening to kill policemen unless they posted their resignations online...   READ MORE

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