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Former DSE attaches “Swift Dezire” , driver with Secretary School Education Misuse of power ? 9/7/2016 10:53:56 AM Akshay Azad Jammu, Sept 6: Call it misuse of official power or extending helping hand to the office of Secretary School Education department, which probably had been in dire need of a vehicle, which was fulfilled by former Director School Education Jammu, who kept a “Swift Dezire” car along with driver, at the disposal of Secretary. The office of Secretary School Education reportedly kept the car for nearly two years and in this time span, the vehicle used 4535 liters of fuel along with six liters of mobil-oil, 3 liters of break-oil and 2 liters of coolants. Moreover, a laptop of Directorate of School Education of Jammu is still with former Director and DSE has so far failed to retrieve that laptop. As per the request letter forwarded by incumbent Director Smita Sethi to Yasha Mudgal (IAS) Ex. Director School Education, who was posted as Deputy Commissioner Baramullah and then transferred to New Delhi. “While going through the records and ledger of Store keeper, it has come to my notice that a Laptop ENVY-TS 15 is lying with you, which is property of DSEJ. As such ...   READ MORE

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Stepping down will prove suicidal, PDP leadership tells Mehbooba 9/7/2016 10:51:34 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sep 6: A day after the All Party Delegation’s visit to restive Kashmir valley failed to yield any result, speculations galore about Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti stepping down. However, her party has suggested her against resigning. “If the opposition wants anything from her (Mehbooba), it is her stepping down. They want to fish in the troubled waters. If she succumbs, it will be detrimental for the party,” a senior PDP leader said, wishing anonymity. There were reports about Mehbooba contemplating the option of resigning in the backdrop of failed visit of the APD to Valley. Prior to the visit, she was optimistic of some breakthrough in the current unrest...   READ MORE   Property statement of KAS officers accessible, not readable GAD website conceals more, reveals less 9/7/2016 10:49:48 AM Avinash Azad Jammu, Sep 6: The website of General Administration Department (GAD) conceals more and reveals less, as the property details of KAS officers, made public by the GAD, is accessible but not readable. Interestingly, the property statements of bureaucrats was made available on its website by GAD following intervention of State Information Commission, under Right to Information Act. According to sources, the information regarding property of IAS officers available on the website can be accessed easily, while the property statement disclosed by most of KAS officers is not readable. “There are property statements of 85 IAS officers on the website, and one can easily access and ...   READ MORE   Tara Chand ditches dissidents 9/7/2016 10:48:19 AM Early Times Report Former Dy CM Tara Chand once again ditched the dissident faction when he along with Balwan Singh secretly left for Srinagar to join the Congress team for meeting All Party Delegation. Despite a unanimous decision taken by the dissident faction, during their meeting four days back at a banquet hall near Kunjwani in Jammu, that no one from them would go to Srinagar for joining PCC president G A Mir to meet the All Party Delegation, Tara Chand and Balwan Singh left Jammu yesterday morning. During the last week meeting of dissidents, wherein decision to avoid G A Mir was taken, both Tara Chand and Balwan Singh were also present and they had agreed to remain ...   READ MORE   17-yr old girl challenges writ of separatists 'I was Indian, I am Indian, will remain Indian' 9/6/2016 11:57:25 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Sept 6: A 17-year-old girl from central Kashmir has stirred a hornet's nest by hoisting tricolor atop her residence in Budgam. "I was an Indian, I am an Indian and I will remain an Indian," said Shabroza who is a class 12 student. Some people including her friends have threatened her to take down the flag but Shabroza is adamant and says that she will die but she will not take down the flag. "People tell me that I should take down the Tricolor. But why should I ...   READ MORE   Sincere people punished, corrupt promoted JU sidelines architect of UIET programme 9/6/2016 11:56:53 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 6: Jammu University's administration, often in news for wrong reasons, has now sidelined a competent professor who was earlier assigned the task of establishing a University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) programme. A document in possession of Early Times reveals that in 2013, the university authorities nominated Prof. Naresh Padha as Coordinator of the UIET programme vide notification 13/July/Gen/24 issued under endorsement No:F.CD/1/13/3332-42 Dated 8-7-2013. "He was assigned the duties of coordinator during the tenure of the then Vice Chancellor of Jammu University for doing spade work and working out all nitty-gritty related to this pro...   READ MORE   Victimized girls, whistle-blower say police under pressure; cops agree Despite public outrage over PM scholarship scam, Govt averts probe 9/6/2016 11:56:44 PM AB Sharma Early Times Report RAJOURI, Sept 6: Despite massive public outrage over alleged duping of poor girls here under a scholarship program launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the state government is reluctant to order an inquiry. Sources in police said some politicians from the ruling BJP have been pressurizing the department not to hold any inquiry come what may, or else "heads will roll." One of the main complainants Sham Lal, a panch at the of Block Laite Panchayat, who has been the whistle-blower in the multi-crore scam said he shot letters to senior officials of the rank of DIG and SP seeking inquiry, but that the concerned even failed to file an FIR. As already reporte...   READ MORE   Tainted Officers 'planted' in premier investigation agency Bid to scuttle ongoing inquiries 9/6/2016 11:56:31 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 6: A senior police officer has allegedly succeeded in getting his 'karyakhas' inspector transferred to a premier investigation agency of the State where inquiry into cases against the senior police officer is going on. Interestingly, the said inspector is also facing multiple inquiries of corruption by the same premier investigation agency of the State where, ironically, he has been recently transferred by the PHQ raising serious question mark on the functioning of PHQ itself. The said tainted inspector attained notoriety during his posting in one of the fertile wings of J&K Police where he would collect share from monthly proceed from all his colleagues in...   READ MORE   Police officer manages 3rd posting in same distt 9/6/2016 11:56:18 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 6: Having allegedly developed a nexus with the 'corrupt' officials of a revenue generating department located in a district of Jammu region during his earlier postings there, a police officer has managed his third posting in the area. He remained posted there as a DSP in executive police, then as a DSP of vigilance organisation (VO) and now as an additional SP, according to police sources. He developed contacts with the 'corrupt' officials of the particular department during his posting in the district as DSP. Later, when he was transferred to VO, he again managed to get himself posted in the district. He, however, earned a bad name when he started visiting...   READ MORE   Technical snag in GMC elevator; attendants, patients stuck 9/6/2016 11:42:12 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Sept 6: Nearly 14 to 15 persons were on Tuesday afternoon were stuck in an elevator (lift) for half an hour due to a technical snag in Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) Jammu. As per information, these persons were rescued by technical staff and others who were available in the hospital. Officials of Government Medical College (GMC) said that they got information around 12 Pm, that the elevator near cafeteria was stuck and technical staff and adminis...   READ MORE   Withdraw all facilities to separatists: APD leaders tell Govt "Situation may worsen if hard steps are not taken" 9/6/2016 11:40:21 PM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 6: As recommendations of all-party delegation are likely to be finalized in the meeting to be chaired by Home Minister in New Delhi tomorrow, ET has learnt that the dominant view of the delegation was that the centre and state government must stop the facilities meted out to the separatist leaders. Reliable sources informed early TIMES on Tuesday that the ideas floated in the delegation after returned to New Delhi was that the centre and the state government must stop facilities to separatists including, air tickets, hotel and taxi services during foreign tours, medical treatment, among other things. Sources said that some leaders...   READ MORE   8 yrs on, lack of infrastructure and faculty still haunts students at GDC Budhal 9/6/2016 11:40:12 PM Early Times Report rajouri, Sept 6: Government Degree Colleges in the Rajouri still are grappling with the major problem of limited building infrastructure for conducting classes besides the teaching faculty. Citing a glaring example, the Rajourities lamented that Government Degree College (GDC) Budhal in Rajouri district was inaugurated in 2008 with fanfare but just in five rooms of Government Higher Secondary School ironically the GDC since then it is being run at the same location as the successive governments have failed to provide building for this college. More than 400 students have taken admission in the current academic session and college administration but are reportedly fac...   READ MORE   Husband seeks reasons of his Wife's death through RTI SKIMS denies Info despite SIC's order 9/6/2016 11:39:26 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 6: Sher I Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Srinagar has failed to adhere to the orders of the State Information Commission (SIC) by not providing the certified copies of the documents to an information seeker, who wanted to know the reasons of his wife's death in the hospital earlier this year. A husband had sought to know the reasons of the death of his wife in SKIMS earlier this year. As SKIMS authorities denied the information, the State Information Commission (SIC), directed the SKIMS authorities to provide the certified copies information to the information seeker, it is alleged that information is yet to be provided to the informati...   READ MORE   Kashmiriyat, Jamhooriayt, Instaniyat and Rajnath No takers for Vajpayee's formulation 9/6/2016 11:39:15 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Sept 6: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who led all-party delegation to J&K, on September 5 returned to Delhi as a disillusioned and broken-hearted person. There were many reasons for that. One was the failure of his mission and his inability to rein in the members of the delegation. Most of the members had their own agendas and they worked on them. However, what shocked and disappointed the Union Home Minister was the manner in which separatists like Geelani, Yasin Malik and Mirwaiz treated CPI-M MP Sitaram Yechury, CPI MP D Raja and JDU MP Sharad Yadav. They on their own or as per the strategy adopted by the Union Home Ministry tried their best to meet t...   READ MORE   Clashes claim another life in Anantnag, toll rises to 76 IGP blames crowd 9/6/2016 11:39:05 PM Saahil Suhail Early Times Report Anantnag, Sept 6: With the killing of another youth in Seerhamdan area of Anantnag district on Tuesday, the number of causalities in the ongoing unrest has risen up to 76. Reports said that this morning thousands of people assembled on Khanabal-Pahalgam road at Seerhamdan and held protests against the nocturnal raids. According to eye-witnesses, soon after the villagers started protesting, a contingent of police and CRPF arrived in the village to foil the protest march. They, according to villagers fired tear smoke shells and pellets to disperse the protesters. During the clashes, due to pellets one youth identified as Naseer Ahmad Bhat s/o Ghulam Ha...   READ MORE   Govt plans crackdown on 200 protesting Govt employees 9/6/2016 11:38:57 PM Early Times Report jammu, Sept 6: The state government has decided to go cracking at the government employees who are part of the protests going on in Kashmir. The intelligence agencies have submitted a list of about 200 government employees who are actively involved in the protests and the government has reportedly given its approval to file cases against them. "It's the first list of about 200 government employees who are not only actively participating in the protests but also insitigating and organizing protests. They are also reportedly pouring out money to prolong the protests. We will file strict cases against them and will ensure that they are dismissed from the government ...   READ MORE   GMC&H administration reduces OPD timings to appease influential docs 9/6/2016 11:38:51 PM Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report jammu, Sept 6: To appease some 'influential' faculty members, the administration of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) Jammu has curtailed the timing of Out Patient Department (OPD) putting patient care in jeopardy especially for patients coming from far flung areas. However, officials of the hospital claimed that to review and follow up those patients who are admitted in the emergency wards, the timing has been changed. Sources within GMCH told Early Times that a delegation of faculty members,who had already misguided administration by over ruling Government Order and succeed to fix its own time table have succeed again in their pla...   READ MORE   3 months on , construction of Paloura bridge fails to resume 9/6/2016 11:38:45 PM Vinod Sharma Early Times Report jammu, Sept 6: The two hundred meters distance to reach Canal road has stretched to nearly six kilometers for thousands of families, connected by Paloura bridge constructed over Ranbir Canal. The bridge was dismantled, nearly six months back for reconstruction. The localities of Muthi, Roop Nagar, Toph road are connected with the Jammu-Akhnoor road through a bridge over Ranbir Canal near BSF Paloura camp. Criticizing the slow pace of construction, a resident of Paloura, Pankaj Gupta said that for the last nearly three months there was no further development in the construction work of new bridge. "Thousands of families of various localities have to c...   READ MORE   MR Gunj loses sheen to official apathy 9/6/2016 11:38:39 PM Majid Nabi Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 6: Maharaj Gunj, which was once considered as nerve center of commercial activities in Kashmir valley has lost its historical magnificence owing to the negligent approach of the successive regimes in terms of its development. Notwithstanding, the heritage market where from merchandise was transported to South Asian Markets either on handmade Kashmiri wooden boats commonly known as (Tkhoch) or horse carts is desperately waiting for official attention so that its lost glory is restored. Maharaja Gunj falling in congested area of old city, according to elderly folks of the area was constructed by the then Maharaja of the state Maharaja Ranbi...   READ MORE   Mehbooba attacks separatists again! 'Their own children settled abroad, they instigate poor kids' 9/6/2016 11:38:33 PM Early Times Report srinagar, Sept 6: With no letup in violence in Kashmir for the last two months, the Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti here on Tuesday came down heavily on the separatist leadership accusing them of provoking poor children to street protests whereas their own kids are settled in the best cities of the world. Addressing people while inaugurating the launch of the Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) scheme, Mehbooba in a veiled attack on separatists said they provoke children to execute Chalo calls. "They provoke poor children to attack (security forces)," Mehbooba said. "While their own kids are settled at places like Malaysia, Dubai and Bangalore, they are...   READ MORE

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