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| Blue eyed preferred over seniors for JE training | | 20 years on, GMC fails to transfer electrician | | | Bijay Charak
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 27: The Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) administration had preferred a blue eyed junior electrician over seniors for Junior Engineering training. Moreover, the same electrician has been stationed at GMC since his appointment nearly two decades ago.
Sources informed Early Times that Manoj Gupta presently working as Electrician in GMC was firstly appointed as Nursing Order (NO) after that he was appointed as an electrician in 1994 and the administration has deploy to GMC auditorium. In spite of lapse 20 years, GMC administration has failed to transfer the electrician. However, dozens of employees doing job in same department same... | |
| | | | Concealed vital facts regarding University status to escape amenability | | VC, Registrar SMVDU misled J&K High Court | | | Avinash Azad
ET Report
JAMMU, Jan 27: Crossing all limits of hypocrisy the administration of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU) Katra reportedly misled Jammu and Kashmir High Court last year, by furnishing wrong information regarding the status of University. This act of University authorities warranted action against the incumbent Vice Chancellor and Registrar of University, who had misled the HC for unknown reasons but so far these officers have escaped any action.
Documents in the possession of Early Times revealed that the University managed to seek judgment in its favour by concealing vital facts in SWP 1815/2008 so that maintainability of Writ Petition against injustice met... | |
| | | | Despite facing criminal case, top official enjoys plum posting | | Being close to NC pays him in long run | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 27: Like scores of other officers, one of the close lieutenants of the National Conference General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar, is enjoying a plum posting in Jammu and Kashmir.
The officer was posted by the ousted NC regime to ensure that he helps their cause in the recent assembly polls but National Conference's gamble didn't work as party faced a humiliating defeat and could only manage to win 15 seats.
Sources told Early Times the official who was awarded the posting just before the assembly polls were announced has a "dubious reputation." The Vigilance Organization Kashmir (VOK) had registered a criminal case against him in 2011 w... | |
| | | | Azad is only hope to manage required numbers Rajya Sabha polls | | To save its skin, NC decides to surrender before Cong | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 27: After getting crushing defeat in the Assembly polls, National Conference is looking towards Congress to save its skin in the coming Rajya Sabha elections. Instead of fielding its own candidate for the Rajya Sabha seat, National Conference is likely to support a candidate of Congress party to win at-least one seat.
National Conference has 15 members, which is three more than Congress which has 12 members, the former is ready to support the latter.
Credible sources said that National Conference is trying to convince Congress high command to field Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad for one Rajya Sabha seat. NC leadership believed tha... | |
| | | | What about "fractured hand" Omar Abdullah? | | | |
On December 10 while addressing series of public meetings in Sonawar assembly segment, National Conference working president and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had stated that "decimation of Congress from the State due to the dismal, questionable performance and conduct of its leaders has rendered the Congress' Hand fractured and this is the reason why Congress leaders are busy in their blame-game."
Congress has become bitter and nervous due to its complete decimation from the State and wants to blame others for an inarguably questionable track-record of its own leaders in the State.
"We have given BJP, PDP and Congress a resounding answer in the first three phases and we will co... | |
| | | | Turn coat Lal Singh lambasts security agencies, Cong leaders | | R-day function turns into BJP political rally | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 27: A function organized at Higher Secondary School Hatli here, to commemorate Republic Day turned into a political rally of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) leader and MLA Basholi Choudhary Lal Singh, who launched a scathing attack at Congress stalwarts and the security agencies.
Taking a dig at security agencies "turncoat" Lal Singh claimed that the security nakas were established only to collect money from commoners rather than to provide security. "Is there any bomb being exploded?. Earlier security naka was at Jatwal now at Ghagwal. These nakas are only meant for collecting money", Singh said, while addressing gathering of villagers and school children at Hig... | |
| | | | Principal changes R-Day function appease MLA | | | |
G S Asgotra
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 27: The height of sycophancy on part of Principal of Government Higher Secondary School Hatli could be gauged from the fact that he got changed the Republic Day celebrations on January 27 only for Choudhary Lal Singh, who was busy in Basohli on January 26. Moreover, the organizing of function at Higher Secondary School, virtually disturbed the private students of class 12th, whose annual examination scheduled today.
Sources informed Early Times that Principal of Government Higher Secondary School Hatli, Jamel Singh, known staunch supporter of MLA Basohli Lal Singh, to appease his political master, rescheduled the R-Day function to January 27... | |
| | | | Asiya describes Bhat, Lone 'dead wood,' demands their ouster from separatist camp | | Hardliners versus Moderates | | | ET Report
JAMMU, Jan 27: It seems separatist in Kashmir have finally decided to expose each other for secret wrong doings as hardliner woman separatist leader, Asiya Andrabi, has termed senior separatist leaders Abdul Ghani Bhat and Bilal Gani Lone as "dead wood" and demanded their ouster from the separatist camp.
Chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Milat, Asiya Andrabi has trained her guns at Abdul Gani Bhat and Bilal Gani Lone, brother of Sajad Lone and has asked the separatist leaders to come forward and expose people like Bhat and Lone who according to her, are betraying people of Jammu and Kashmir in the name of Azadi. "I have already informed people that leaders like Abdul Ghani Bhat and Bi... | |
| | | | Banquet halls care two hoots for SRO-64, HC directive | | City faces traffic blues as marriage season begins | | | K Koushal
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 27: Already fraught with serious traffic woes, city stares at another season of worse traffic snarls that come with the marriage season.
With auspicious marriage season starting from January 30, banquet halls of the city which have mushroomed in every nook and corner in violence of laid norms have shown scant regard for the directions of the State High court ad Govt. SRO.
Jammu boasts of having nearly 120 banquet halls which are used for marriages and other social functions. The irony is that more than half of them do not have the requisite infrastructure including a mandatory parking place.
As per norms, nearly 30 percent of the acquired area t... | |
| | | | 11 months on, CB report on irregularities, promotion awaited | | DPC of Class-IV employees in Doda | | | Bivek Mathur
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 27: Accusing Crime Branch Jammu of adopting delaying tactics to enquire the alleged irregularities in promotions of Class-IV employees in Education Department, District Doda, some aspirants today approached Early Times office and claimed that their issue remained unaddressed even after filing of complaint with the then IG Crime Branch in February 2014.
Bikram Singh, one of the aspirants said that DPC of 21 Class-IV employees in Education Department in District Doda was conducted on April 23-24, 2013 with a type test conducted on the same day at the ITI office Doda result of which was released on December 19, 2013 from the ITI office Kishtwar.
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| | | | "Failed" Ram Madhav visiting Jammu today to retain control of J&K politics | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 27 : National general secretary of BJP, Ram Madhav, who had been given responsibility of Kashmir province during assembly elections, is visiting Jammu on Wednesday. Although Ram Madhav has completely failed in his Mission Kashmir, he wants to maintain his control over politics of Jammu and Kashmir so he is visiting Jammu when party candidates namely Shamsher Singh and Chander Mohan Singh would file their nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha elections.
To accomplish his Mission Kashmir, it was Ram Madhav, who had forced national leadership of BJP to abandon core issue like Article 370 and political empowerment of Jammu and Ladakh regions but he utterly ... | |
| | | | GUV overhauls state administration | | IAS officers put in charge of districts | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 27 : The Governor by ordering transfers of 156 civil and police officials has tried to set the administration in order. Barring some exceptions, he has put the best officers in-charge of the most important departments.
The notable feature has been that direct IAS officers have been made deputy commissioners. It's most striking in the Kashmir, where most of the deputy commissioners were either KAS or promoted IAS officers. These officers are not trained as the IAS and some attributed it as one of the reasons that resulted in lame duck response of the administration in dealing with the crisis of the floods, which had ravaged the Srinagar city last September.... | |
| | | | Officer who won Military Medal on R-Day got killed in J&K encounter | | | | Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 27 : A commanding officer, who had only yesterday won a military medal, was today killed along with a policeman while battling a group of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district. Two local militants were killed; an Army colonel and one Policeman lost their lives during a daylong gun battle in South Kashmir's volatile Tral area.
According to the details received, two top brass militants of Hizbul- Mujahideen militant outfit who were identified by locals as Adil Ahamd and Sheeraz Ahmed Bhat, both residents of Tral were killed in Tral area of District Pulwama today after an encounter broke out early in the mor... | |
| | | | Water bodies, fertile land threatened of 'pollution', PCB in slumber | | |  Arun Trisal
Early Times Report
Kathua, Jan 27: Pollution in general and due to chemical discharge from Industrial units in Kathua has allegedly threatened crops and has damaged several tones of crops in fertile belt of Andhard area in Kathua and also has endangered the water life in various water bodies in Kathua district but the nodal authority -the State Pollution Control Board to put check on it is in deep slumber.
The chemically polluted discharge in the area has put villagers cautio... | |
| | | | Patients suffer in absence of lady doctor at PHC Chogal | | | | Syed Tahir Bukhari
KUPWARA, Jan 27:The residents of border area are suffering from last couple of months due to the absence of Lady Assistant Surgeon and Specialists at the Primary Health Centre Chogal in Handwara tehsil of Kupwara district in North Kashmir.
A resident of Chogal Abdul Rashid told Early Times that, "the posts of Lady Assistant Surgeon and Specialists are lying vacant here in PHC Chogal from last few months, while the post of Child Specialist has not been filled from the last one year.
In this situation, people of Chogal Block and its adjoining areas are suffering and sometimes critical patients are being shifted to District Hospital Handwara for treatments, Rashid said... | |
| | | | Government formation: Crucial BJP meet today | | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Kishtwar Jan 27: In order to take the newly elected legislators on board before making final announcement of possible pact with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over formation of government in Jammu and Kashmir, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) has called a meeting of newly elected legislators at Jammu.
As per the details, party summoned all the elected legislators as well as senior party leaders to Jammu for the meeting to be addressed by party General Secretary Ram Madhav. The sources divulged that Ram Madav will brief the newly elected legislators and the party senior leaders about the ongoing talks with the PDP over the government formation, beside will also brief them... | |
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