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| Govt gives clean chit to protesting Info Deptt employees | | Strange! Despite being present, they were assumed to be absent | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 29: A day after the employees at Directorate of Information and Public Relations went on a strike against Director Information, Rahul Pandey for "halting their salary", the government has given a "clean chit" to the protesting employees raising eyebrows over the conduct of the official.
On September 28, the employees were left to with options but to protest Director Information's "unwarranted decision" in Srinagar. And, what subsequently came to light within 24-hours hints that the decision to hold the salary had no genuine reason raising questions over the Director's "style of working."
Official documents reveal that the government has withdrawn the orders to halt the salary of the employees.
The orders have vindicated the stand of the protesting em... | |
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| After protests spill over, Director Info takes U-turn | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Sept 29: After facing massive protests from the employees across Jammu and Kashmir, Director of Information and Public Relations (DIPR), Rahul Pandey on Wednesday rescinded the arbitrary order to withhold the salaries of 52 employees.
According to the details available with Early Times the employees locked the district information offices in Kulgam, Anantnag. The employees staged a protest inside the office of Joint Director in Srinagar this morning. Employees also staged protest outside Directorate office and Joint Director's office in Jammu.
As the protests intensified the Director Information decided to rescind the order which had asked the Drawing and ... | |
| | | | How the RSS’s Covid relief campaign helped thousands in J&K, Ladakh | | | 
Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 29: 4,725 RSS volunteers served people during the first and second wave of COVID in J&K, Ladakh. Sewa Bharati-the social service wing of the RSS and its affiliates provided oxygen cylinders, concentrators, and medicines to thousands in need.
Jammu, September 29: Suffixed with the title of Ready for Selfless Services (RSS) for responding at every crucial event, Swayamsevaks of RSS worked round the clock during the first and second wave of deadly Coronavirus.... | |
| | | | Accession of Jammu & Kashmir and role of Ex- RSS Sarsanghchalak MS Golwalkar | | | 
Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 29: Every year October 26 is being observed as Accession Day because, on this historic day, the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir integrated with the Indian Union.
Now Jammu and Kashmir government has declared October 26 as a gazetted holiday.
On this day in 1947, Maharaja Hari Singh, the ruler of J & K signed the Instrument of Accession confirming full and final merger of the state with the Indian Union. However, in spite of this full and fina... | |
| | | | It was memorable moment of my life; Naresh Sharma recalls RSS’s chief visit to his home | | | 
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Jammu, Sept 29: On the eve of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s four-day visit to Jammu, the eminent artist Naresh Sharma recalled his earlier tour in J&K when Bhagwat’s specially visited Sharma’s family.
“It was a memorable moment of my life when RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat Ji visited our home. It was an honour for our family”, Naresh Sharma told The Early Times and revealed that during his earlier visit to Jammu, the RSS chief had decided to have a meal with our family. ... | |
| | | | How RSS Swayamsevaks protected Srinagar, foiled Pak’s nefarious design?”, Balraj Madhok reveals in his book | | Extracts from the book of former RSS Parcharak late Balraj Madhok | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 29: Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh played an important role in Kashmir in that crucial period. I had started a branch of R.S.S. in Jammu in 1940. I was then studying in Lahore. By the time I passed M.A. in History and returned to Jammu and Kashmir State, in 1942, the R.S.S. had picked up in Jammu City under the guidance of Pt. Prem Nath Dogra had been appointed “Sangh Chalak” for Jammu. Within a couple of years of my taking charge, the network of R.S.S. branches ... | |
| | | | 'Sulking' govt employees mull agitation | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 29: Within days after daily wagers and casual workers organized a massive protest in support of their demands, employees organizations are mulling over starting an agitation to get all issues addressed.
Daily wagers and casual workers are mounting pressure on the regular employees to come in support of their demand because those at the helm of the affairs are not taking 'genuine' issues of daily wagers seriously.
Highly placed sources said that representatives of daily wagers and casual workers held series of meeting with trade union leaders and sought their support to get their issues resolved. "Not only daily wagers and casual workers, but there are also ... | |
| | | | JK roads 'unsafe', unfit vehicles move around! | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 29: In a shocking move that has left the roads in Jammu and Kashmir allegedly "unsafe and accident prone", expired vehicles could be moving around in the Union Territory.
The Early Times has got access to the official documents which reveal that the previous governments had been allowing movement of expired vehicles at the "cost of public life and road safety" and that a "big number of such vehicles could still be moving around."
Official documents reveal that during the rule of the "Kashmir based dynasts", around 30,000 private vehicles had been moving around after expiry of their fitness and that owners of such vehicles never even applied for the renewal.... | |
| | | | Businessmen, students, employees all on streets to seek redressal of issues | | Jammu students demand more seats in Cluster University, stage protest | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 29: Some student groups Wednesday staged separate protests against the higher education department here to increase undergraduate seats in all the constituent colleges of Cluster University Jammu. Protesters including activists of the National Student Union of India (NSUI) and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) took to streets at different places and later dispersed off peacefully.
A group of protesting students came out of Government College for Women a... | |
| | | | Annoyed' Azad flexes his muscle, asks Sonia to convene CWC meeting | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 29: A day after Congress leadership faced embarrassment and humiliation following the resignation of blue-eyed boy Navjot Singh Sidhu, senior party leader and former Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad wrote to party president Sonia Gandhi, asking her to convene a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC).
Ghulam Nabi Azad is a part of the group of 23 leaders (G-23), who had written a strongly worded letter to Sonia Gandhi last year, raising questions over the manner in which the party was being led and demanding a complete overhaul.
Ghulam Nabi Azad's latest letter to Sonia Gandhi came moments after another veteran Congress lead... | |
| | | | Qazigund Emergency Hospital sans requisite facilities | | No CT scan, MRI, USG, Otoscopy available in the hospital: Patients | | | Early Times Report
QAZIGUND, Sept 29: The emergency hospital in Qazigund area of South Kashmir's Kulgam has failed to serve its purpose as the facilities available in the hospital are no better than a Primary Health Centre (PHC). The trauma hospital was built at a cost of Rs 13 crore at the Srinagar-Jammu Highway. The foundation stone was laid by senior National Conference (NC) leader and then Health Minister, Dr Mustafa Kamal in 1997. The hospital finally became functional in 2010. "The hospital has failed to serve its purpose as there is no facility of CT scan, MRI, Ultrasonography and Otoscopy," General Secretary Qazigund Development Organization, Muzafar Ahmad Wani said.
Wani said eme... | |
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