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Visionless officials playing with careers of budding players Shame! Deptt of Youth '(dis)Services' & Sports 9/3/2016 11:30:37 PM Abodh Sharma Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 3: Meant to promote and nurture sports in schools, the department of Youth Services and Sports is doing biggest disservice to the promising players with bunch of incompetent and visionless officials misinterpreting rules to extend undue favours to the blue eyed at the cost of deserving young players who aspire to represent the state in the national school games in various disciplines. For more than four decades, the department of youth services and sports has been conducting interschool games at the district, province and state level in manner that spells absolute bankruptcy, utter lack of accountability and complete policy paralysis within the department. The department has no coordination with the schools, has no infrastructure of its own to conduct any competitions, no logistics and qualified man power and no will and vision in its officers to identify and handle budding talent. The competitions organized by the department are cruel joke with the players and their parents who aspire for a career in sports for their wards. Recently, ...   READ MORE

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Geelani, Pak want Kashmir to burn, Kashmiris to die Stay away from APD 9/3/2016 11:30:25 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 3: The All Party Delegation (APD) which would arrive in Kashmir on Sunday may not find it easy to meet the people as the Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani has issued a fresh diktat that no one should meet APD as it has "no mandate" to hold talks. "The Indian parliamentary delegation is coming to Kashmir after passing a resolution that Kashmir is an integral part of India. Therefore this delegation neither has (any) mandate nor intention to resolve the dispute of Jammu and Kashmir. We suggest to all stakeholders to refrain from engaging in this meaningless exercise (of meeting this delegation)," Geelani said in a statement. Interestingly, the Hurriyat hawk...   READ MORE   Separatists in catch-22 situation 9/3/2016 11:30:13 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 3: Pressure is mounting on the reluctant and hardline separatists to hold talks with the All-Party Delegation (APD) which is visiting the Valley on Sunday. But the separatists are caught in a catch-22 situation. The separatists, who have been issuing calendar of hartals and attacking the security camps, have been invited by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to hold talks with the APD, which also comprises of leaders from the Left parties, who have a soft corner approach on Kashmir. The CM who has been accused by the separatists of running the state with an iron hand had set the ball rolling by writing to them and has in fact put the onus on the separatists for ...   READ MORE   Restive Kashmir has no tourists at present Rs 5 cr spent on tourism promotion in 2015 9/3/2016 11:30:04 PM Early Times Report srinagar, Sept 3: What could be seen as the draining out of around Rs 5 crore spent on official visit to various parts of the world and tourism promotion via media during 2015, the tourism industry has been badly hit by the ongoing turmoil in Kashmir with zero tourism activity at present in the Valley. Official figures reveal that government has spent Rs 1.4750 crore on tours of tourism officials for different parts of the world on account of air tickets for participation in national and international travel events. Similarly, government has spent an amount of Rs.312.98 lakh for advertisements in print and electronic media for promotion of tourism during 2015. These a...   READ MORE   Andher Nagari:School uniforms sanctioned last year delivered now 9/3/2016 11:29:51 PM Akshay Azad Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 3: The seriousness of state as well as Union government to increase the students' enrollment in government schools has been exposed as the uniforms meant for students, enrolled in various government schools during last year, are being delivered after lapse of one year. Now the school administrations across the Jammu province have been confronting a peculiar problem of locating the students, who have either left the schools or were dropped out. Sources in Directorate of School Education informed Early Times that under a scheme of Union government, two school uniforms were given to each student free of cost, enrolled in all government schools. ...   READ MORE   Former Mantri uses SHO to settle scores with pavement vendors 9/3/2016 11:29:44 PM Early Times Report srinagar, Sept 3: The recent dismantling of Makkah Market, which was here allotted to pavement vendors by the state government just four months ago, has exposed how politicians use police and civil administration to settle personal scores with the people of their constituency. In May this year, in a surprise development the government allotted prized five odd kanal vacant land near the historic Lal Chowk for construction of market for dislocated pavement vendors of Srinagar City. That time many questioned up as to how come the prized-land, serving as a bus yard of the SRTC, was allotted to the pavement vendors. But the government went ahead with the plan while a MLA ...   READ MORE   Kashmir: Youth killed, PDP leader's house set ablaze 9/3/2016 11:28:53 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 3: A youth was killed and the house of a PDP block president was set ablaze in south Kashmir on Saturday, reports and officials said. A youth was declared dead on arrival at District Hospital Anantnag, the doctors said. They said that Basit Ahmad Ahangar, son of Ghulam Muhammad Ahangar, resident of Vessu, was injured during clashes with forces in Vessu village of Qazigund in south Kashmir's Anantnag district. Meanwhile, a police handout said 12 incident of stone pelting were reported from across the Valley. According to a statement issued by the Zonal Police Headquarters Kashmir, curfew was lifted from Anantnag, Pulwama, Kulgam, Shopian and Baramull...   READ MORE   Non local youth found dead 9/3/2016 11:28:46 PM Srinagar, Sept 3: Police on Saturday said that an unidentified male body was recovered from river Jehlum here this evening. "The body appears to be of a non local non Muslim person. Anybody having any information about the deceased whose photograph is given may please contact Police Station Shaheed Gunj on 9596770862, 9596770746 or Police Control Room on Dial 100," a police spokesman said....   READ MORE   'Karyakhas' ASI not relieved even after 9 months of transfer 9/3/2016 11:28:41 PM JAMMU, Sept 3: A 'karyakhas' ASI, who is alleged to be quite close to his SHO and the concerned 'senior' officer, has not been relieved even after nine months of his transfer to some other place. Before his elevation as ASI, he was the driver of his SHO. He is posted in the police station which is in the neighbourhood of Samba police station. His place of residence is also in the same area. Sources alleged that being a local, he had been the main source of unlawful earnings for his SHO and the senior officer. He was said to be posted at the police station for the past several years. "He is so close to his SHO that whenever the latter proceeds on leave, he is given the charge of the police...   READ MORE   Worried Rajouri students await subject teachers As half of session ends 9/3/2016 11:27:30 PM Early Times Report Rajouri, Sept 3: Students studying in the higher secondary schools in Rajouri district are worried about their future as the department has failed to provide subject teachers as half of the academic session is over. Recently during an inauguration function of a government degree college at Nowshera , Naeem Akhter , Education Minister had claimed that they have provided teachers in every school and now their focus is to provide permanent faculty in the colleges. But Kartar Singh, Naresh Kumar resident of Sundernbani tehsil said that many high and higher secondary schools in their area still facing shortage of subject teachers. "On one hand government have been cla...   READ MORE   BJP supports Ladakhis demand for UT, opposes statehood in Jammu 9/3/2016 11:27:23 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Sept 3: There is something fundamentally wrong with the BJP, which sought and got votes in the 2014 Lok Sabha and assembly elections in the name of Jammu and which is now showing thumb to them in its desperate bid to please its new political masters in Kashmir and remain in power at whatever cost, even at the cost of the national interest. On the contrary, the BJP has an altogether different point of view as far as Ladakh is concerned, notwithstanding the fact that the BJP could not win a single assembly seat from the region. That the BJP has dual approach and that the BJP has little or no regard for the sensitivities of the people of Jammu region could be se...   READ MORE   Living 50 mt from CM's residence, 700 families get filthy water So near, yet so far 9/3/2016 11:27:08 PM Avinash Azad Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 3: They live barely 50 meters away from Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's residence but are forced to drink filthy water. The 700 families have been left to fend for themselves after some water pipes were damaged nearly two years ago. The residents of the colony say that supply lines of some influential people have been changed, but the department has adopted pick and choose policy to change the line. "Several people are getting water from Church...   READ MORE   Works executed by RDD in Ramban: Voluntary disclosures yet to be made 9/3/2016 11:26:29 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 3: The Ramban district administration violated the orders of State Information Commission (SIC) as it has failed to make voluntary disclosure of all the works which have been executed by the Rural Development Department (RDD) in the district from last several years. The SIC had directed the then Deputy Commissioner Ramban to make voluntary disclosure of information about the various works executed by Rural Development Department under different centrally sponsored schemes. The SIC had issued the order while hearing an appeal against the Block Development Officer (BDO) Assar district Ramban in February 2016. Details available with Early Times reveal tha...   READ MORE   RDD official withdraws Rs 39.48 lakh fraudulently, booked 9/3/2016 11:26:22 PM Saahil Suhail Early Times Report Anantnag, Sept 3: An official of Rural Development Department has been booked for fraud, who allegedly has withdrawn a huge amount from the official account of District Panchayat Officer Anantnag. Official sources identified the official as Abdul Rashid alias Rashid Fighter. Rashid is working as a clerk in the department of Rural Department and is posted in the office of District Panchayat Officer Anantnag. They said that accused official has forged the signatures of District Panchayat Officer Anantnag and withdrawn Rs 39.48 lakh from his official account. Fraud surfaced during a preliminary investigation, initiated by Deputy Commissioner Anantnag, ...   READ MORE   People suffer as 'influential' ZEO plays hide-and-seek Away from office but present on attendance register 9/3/2016 11:26:14 PM AB Sharma Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 3: Zonal Education Officer(ZEO), Sunderbani, Shamsher Singh is always present on the attendance register whereas actually he rarely visits his office here more than twice a week. This is due to the political patronage he allegedly enjoys. Prompted by complaints of general public that the ZEO is never present in his office, Early Times team visited the office regularly this week, at least four times. Though the official was never present at the office during working hours, mainly between 10:30 AM and 12:00 AM, his initials were present on the official register to record attendance. When this reporter asked the office staff where the ZEO w...   READ MORE   Term separatists as real representatives; discredit themselves Opposition undermining democracy 9/3/2016 11:26:03 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 3: Kashmir's mainstream parties are out in the open, discrediting none but themselves by declaring separatists as the 'real stake holders' of the Kashmiri people, putting a question mark upon democratic principles of fair play and justice. National Conference, Congress, CPI (M), PDF and several others have been rhetorically terming separatists as the major stakeholders and emphasizing upon holding talks with them. Such statements have put a question mark over the entire democratic and electoral process in which the people here risked their lives to exercise their franchise. Amid unrest and current wave of violence being fuelled by the separatists in...   READ MORE   BSNL's 2G mocks at subscribers Private players provide 4G services 9/3/2016 11:25:55 PM Vinod Sharma Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 3:At a time when private telecom service providers are providing 4G services in Jammu and Kashmir the public sector run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is running the pace of turtle as its 2G services are not running properly, even in heart of the city areas. Pertinently, a private telecom operator has recently started 4-G telecom services in the state, which has got a very good response from the customers, which is evident from the long rows of customers, seen outside the dealers' shops across city areas. A resident of Panjthirthi Raj Kumar while criticizing the services of BSNL said that most of private telecom service providers hav...   READ MORE   Ahead of APD visit, leaders of divided Cong meet party high command 9/3/2016 11:25:46 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 3: Confused over taking a specific stand on Kashmir before the All Party Delegation, which is visiting the State for two days from tomorrow, the top leaders of State Congress have rushed to New Delhi seeking directions. According to reliable sources, the PCC president G A Mir and senior vice-president Sham Lal Sharma were in New Delhi today finalizing the party stand over prevailing unrest in Kashmir Valley, where 71 people have been killed so far and thousands of others got injured in clashes between protesters and security forces since the killing of Hizbul militant Burhan Wani on July 8. Both the leaders met the party high command and discussed the Kas...   READ MORE

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