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| Rohingyas are settled at 39 locations in Jammu | | HuJI terrorists spotted | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 10: The Rohingya intruders are settled at as many as 39 locations, mostly in Jammu and Samba. Their number is increasing by the day. According to one estimate, "20 to 25 Rohingyas are coming to Jammu by trains and buses and they are being absorbed in the localities where Rohingyas have been putting up for more that a decade now". Eyewitnesses say that "the Rohingyas are basically concentrated in the Narwal area, Bathindi, Sunjuwan, near Jammu railway station and Jammu high hills across River Tawi" and "also within the Jammu city's such localities as Talab Tillo, Rehari, Trikuta Nagar and Chinor". Sources in the Jammu Municipal Corporation say that "contractors are engaging Rohingyas as they accept lower wages".
The number of Rohingyas is increasing in Jammu by the day. According to official estimate, the number of Rohingyas living in Jammu is around 13,000. But unofficial figures range between "70,000 and one lakh". Concerned officials in the revenue and police departments allege that the "various state government agencies have deliberately underrepor... | |
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| Voters find their names missing from electoral rolls, returned without casting votes | | ET Report exposes tall claims of election Preparedness | |  Arun Jasrotia
Early Times Report
UDHAMPUR, Oct 10: A number of voters returned home without casting their votes after finding their names missing in the voter list in wards that went to polls today in Udhampur.
The disappointed voters approached the polling officials but all in vain. They could not exercise their franchise.
Displaying his voter ID card, a voter told early times that he had cast his vote during parliamentary elections four years ago. "But today I found my name missing from... | |
| | | | Migrant KPs unaware of changing voting pattern | | Forms for postal ballot not submitted | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 10: The government's sudden decision of asking migrant Kashmiri Pandits to vote in Urban Local Bodies (ULB) and Panchayat elections in their respective areas in the Valley after deleting their names in voter lists and changing the M-Form pattern to postal ballot has created a confusion among the displaced community.
According to sources, over 90 percent of displaced KPs are unaware of the decision and hence they could not fill up their forms for postal ballot before October 1 which was the last date for the same.
The migrants who filled up the forms after completion of last date were not entertained in ARO's Office. This way over 90 percent migrants could no... | |
| | | | Senior scribe reveals how theatre activist 'harassed' her | | #MeToo crawls to Jammu | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 10: Finally, the #MeToo movement has reached Jammu, with allegations by a journalist against a Padma Shri awardee theatre activist who was a bureaucrat in the Farooq Abdullah-led government in 1999.
In her Facebook page, the senior journalist has explained the ordeal she had to encounter because of the powerful bureaucrat.
The journalist was on her first assignment with a local newspaper in Jammu and Kashmir in 1999. She had gone to interview this cultural activist and the meeting turned out to be her first experience of sexual harassment. "That was a life changing moment and lesson for me", she has said.
She said that she had written the transcript and the... | |
| | | | NC, PDP fear new faces could replace 'family rule' in J&K | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 10: Assertion of Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik that the foreign educated young man could be the new Mayor of Srinagar city has created ripples in the National Conference camp.
Last month NC spokesman Junaid Azim Mattu had resigned from the party to contest the municipal polls in the Valley. He had disagreed with the decision of the NC leadership to boycott the municipal and panchayat polls in the state.
Mattu saying goodbye to National Conference had triggered speculations that second rung leaders in PDP and NC would follow the suit. "The exact number of people who deserted NC and PDP would come to fore only after the results of these election... | |
| | | | 3 ministers represented Vijaypur constituency, none could gets Shiv Nagar road blacktopped | | |  Gurdas Kumar
Early Times Report
VIJAYPUR, Oct 10: The Vijaypur constituency, which gave three ministers of cabinet rank in last one decade could not get road of village Shiv Nagar, which is just few hundred meters from main Vijaypur town, blacktopped.
Village Shiv Nagar is spread over just 700 meters of land and comprises of 350-400 houses in tehsil Vijaypur of District Samba reflects the negligence of the concerned departments and as well as the local MLAs, who remained Ministers but ins... | |
| | | | Lease of 90% hotels has expired in Gulmarg' | | | |
Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 10: In a startling revelation, it has come to fore that 90% of the land lease agreement between government and the hoteliers in ski resort Gulmarg have expired with some people reportedly being in possession of hundreds of kanals of land without proper allotment.
One of the top officials of the government Wednesday informed this to early times correspondent that technically 90% of lease has expired and within a year remaining ten percent will expire. "Once granted lease can be extended upto 40 years and further it is extendable up to 10 years at the choice of government. However, majority of the hotels are running here without lease," rev... | |
| | | | Child labour continues in JK as authorities take a nap | | Children of lesser God | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 10: Shouting out the names of locations where the Tata 407 mini bus treads with a hoarse voice that doesn't match his tender age, Shabir 13, a kid who works as a conductor on a local bus here is one of the many cases of child labour in Srinagar.
The irony is that the bus he works on every day passes the Labour and Employment department at Batamaloo which overlooks the menace of child labour in the region.
Shabir due to his strong hold on mathematics had aimed to be an engineer but destiny had stored something else for him.
He unwillingly had to take the tough job of a conductor after his father passed due to the long term illness.
Months after the death... | |
| | | | Arrest of three students at Punjab: Terrorists availing benefits of Centre's scholarship to spread terror network in India | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 10: With the arrest of three Valley based students for their links with Zakir Mussa's terror outfit, one thing has established that genuine and deserving students of J&K are being ignored in taking benefit of Prime Minister's Scholarship Scheme at the cost of adjusting supporters of terror groups.
This is not the first time that students, who are 'studying' outside J&K under scholarship schemes sponsored by the Union Government are arrested for links with terrorists.
Credible sources said that terrorists and their supporters were taking maximum benefits of Centre's scholarship schemes to spread footprints of terror groups across the country. "Instead of chec... | |
| | | | JK's Health Department forgets World Mental Health day | | 45 percent adults suffering from mental illness | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 10: With more than 45 percent of the state's adult population suffering from one or the other form of mental distress, the authorities in Jammu and Kashmir forgot to observe the world mental health day in the state. As on October 10 every year, world mental health day is observed across the world, this year the theme was 'Young people and mental health in a changing world'. This day, each October, thousands of supporters come to celebrate this annual awareness program to bring attention to mental illness and its major effects on peoples' life worldwide. Observing mental health day was critically important for Jammu and Kashmir as reports have highlighted h... | |
| | | | RTI doesn't compel PIO to create info, says SIC | | PRC issued in 1947 | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 10: The State Information Commission (SIC) has held that information which is not available with a Public Information Officer (PIO) can't be provided, as RTI law does not compel a public authority to do what is otherwise impossible or to produce a document which does not exist in the records of the public authority.
The SIC gave this judgment while hearing an appeal filed by one Verinder Sundan, a resident of Patoli Mangotrian, Jammu, who had sought details of a Permanent Resident Certificate (PRC) that was issued in 1947.
The RTI application was filed by Sudan on 18.01.2018 before the PIO in the office of Regional Director Survey and Land Records Jammu,... | |
| | | | Crucial bridge not repaired in four years | | People risk their lives each day | | | MS Nazki
Early Times Report
Poonch, Oct 10: Two school going children of village Kallar Kattal in Surankote tehsil had a narrow escape when they began drowning in the river while crossing it using wooden logs as the bridge upon this river had been washed away during the flash floods occurred in 2014.
Due to timely intervention of locals , the lives of boys namely Rizvan Ahmed of 7th class and Mobin of 5th class both resident of Kallar Kattal who were crossing the river flowing through Pir ki Gali to Kallar Kattal via Surankote could be saved.
In the absence of bridge locals have made a temporary alternative by putting some wooden logs over It which becomes very risky at times as the... | |
| | | | PWD officials, contactor nexus creates crorepatis | | | | Rajesh Tandon
Early Times Report
POONCH, Oct 10: The level of brazen corruption in PWD is a well known fact but nobody is ready to raise eyebrows on its working, because this department is considered as a backbone of district administration when it comes to development.
From the tenure of former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, Poonch PWD received huge funds in hundreds of crores and successive Executive Engineers misused those funds with the involvement of some PWD officials and blue eyed contractors. Within no time, some contractors and few well known PWD officials who remained active only in Poonch district due to political influence became crorepati and are still calling the sho... | |
| | | | 'Influential' headmaster enjoys attachment for 8 years, schools suffer | | | | Early Times Report
Rajouri, Oct 10: An influential headmaster of government schools here has been enjoying attachment for the last eight years at the AG's in the winter capital thereby affecting educational activities at the educational institutions he was supposed to work at.
Officials said one Badshah Hussain a Master Grade headmaster who was supposed to be working at Government Middle School Upper Hathal and Government Middle School Thmuba Garan has been working at AG's office Jammu in violation of norms.
Even though the government had revoked all attachment orders the official continues to be working at the AG's office.
Senior officials in the Education Department said the headmas... | |
| | | | SHO's intimidation tactics yields handsome deal with factory management | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 10: In a blatant misuse of official position, one of the Station House Officers (SHOs) posted in district Samba has coerced the management of an industrial unit to dole out monthly cash installment for him.
According to sources, the SHO 's arm twisting tactics enabled him to strike a deal with the management for monthly cash payment. "Besides the monthly cash payment, the SHO managed to extract more from the management in kind," said sources adding that though the SHO has taken over the charge of the police station only recently but he has already initiated moves to tighten noose over those from whom he could effortlessly extract easy money. "To start with... | |
| | | | PDP leader 'pledges to defeat' Congress in Srinagar | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 10: Even the National Conference and the Peoples Democratic Party had claimed to boycott the ongoing urban local body polls, the twin regional parties have allegedly joined hands to defeat Congress in the summer capital of Srinagar on the intervention of a senior PDP leader.
Sources said the senior leader of the PDP, who has been lobbying for alliance with the NC in the state, was in touch with the leaders of the opponent party with "sole aim" to defeat Congress candidates contesting the municipal polls.
Sources said the senior PDP leader, who enjoys good relations with his party colleague holding influence in the Batamaloo Assembly constituency, had p... | |
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