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MHA to probe illegal phone tapping, tracing; J&K tops list
11/11/2015 12:38:47 AM
Syed Junaid Hashmi Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 10: Union Home Ministry has constituted a high level team to investigate cases of illegal phone tapping by various agencies across the country including Jammu and Kashmir. Sources said that MHA has received complaints from various prominent personalities from across the country who have complained that their telephones including mobile phones had been either kept under surveillance or tapped for reasons not known to them. These complainants have alleged that even private calls to wives and friends had been snooped by police and other agencies illegally. They have cited instances where police officials have snooped on them probably to drive pleasure by overhearing private conversations between family members. The complainants have urged Union Home Ministry to go through the tapped conversations accessed by police as well as intelligence agencies and find out for themselves the futility of the keeping an eye on their mobiles and landline telephones. They have further asked the Union Home Ministry to seek detailed data of phone tapp...
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Karra, Hari Om on same page for different reasons
PDP-BJP alliance
11/11/2015 12:38:41 AM
Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 10: Monday witnessed PDP leader and Lok Sabha MP Tariq Hameed Karra and Prof Hari Om, former political advisor to J&K BJP president, issuing statements against the PDP-BJP coalition. Both warned their respective high commands that the coalition between the two was undesirable. Karra asked his high command to appreciate the Bihar verdict and break ties with the BJP. "The results of the Bihar Assembly elections were a wake-up call to his party (PDP) as the door had been closed 'on communal forces'. Knock knock PDP. Still time to wake up. Door closed on communal forces. Window of opportunity opened for secular forces. Knock knock PDP," Karra said in a series of ...
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As strike calls fail, separatists change strategy
Desperation at its peak!
11/11/2015 12:38:31 AM
Give ‘chalo calls’ to disrupt normal life Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Nov 10: Separatists are leaving no stone unturned to keep the pot boiling in Kashmir and want disturbance to prevail so that normal life remains disrupted and their bosses sitting across the Line of Control (LoC) remain happy. As people have stopped paying heed to the frequent shutdown calls given by the separatists and have turned them irrelevant, now separatists have changed their strategy and have started calling for marches (chalos). To make his presence felt the Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani has called for Zainakote chalo on Wednesday to ensure that Government takes precautionary measures and life comes to ...
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An honest view of Delhi-based commentator on PM Modi's package
Plight of Jammu, Ladakh
11/11/2015 12:38:10 AM
Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 10: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi's November 7 package, which was announced at Sher-e-Kashmir Stadium, Srinagar, has not only evoked a negative response from Jammu, but also from some leading Delhi-based commentators and J&K-watchers. One of the well-known commentators Sandhya Jain has described as disappointing the PM's package as far as Jammu and Ladakh are concerned. Jain on Monday said: "Discontent has been simmering in Jammu and Ladakh regions after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Srinagar on November 7, where he bestowed a gigantic Rs 80,000 crore development package, as the feeling spread that he had mainly addressed the valley rather than t...
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Housing Ministry shields officials who skipped Modi rally
11/11/2015 12:37:57 AM
Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Nov 10: Officials of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) had embarrassed the Government by staying away from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Srinagar on November 7. But instead of taking action against them, senior BJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh has allegedly come to the rescue of erring officials "to please a PDP Minister." Insiders said Singh, who also heads the Housing Ministry, has not sought any disciplinary action against the erring SMC officials following the intervention of the PDP Minister. Sources in Civil Secretariat said the Commissioner Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Department has been asked to "silen...
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Allocations shrinking, only few get 100 days guaranteed work
MGNREGA dying slow death
11/11/2015 12:37:47 AM
Akshay Azad Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 10: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) which had invited strong criticism from Prime Minister Narender Modi, is dying a slow death in J&K as not even half of applicants got work this financial year. More surprisingly, not even one percent of those get job complete 100 days' job, guaranteed under this scheme. According to the data available, there is decline in allocation of funds to all the State and in Jammu and Kashmir, a total of 211472 households had demanded employment under MGNREGA scheme but merely 103307 have so far been provided employment, which accounts for 48.85 percent. Moreover, out of 103307 ap...
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Was PSA record damaged in floods? CIC seeks evidence from HC
11/11/2015 12:37:35 AM
ET Report SRINAGAR, Nov 10: J&K's Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) G R Sufi has sought evidence from the High Court to substantiate the plea of Public Information Officer (PIO) of the court that vital record about quashing of orders issued under Public Safety Act was damaged in last year's floods. Details available with Early Times reveal that an RTI applicant Abdul Manan Bukhari had sought information from the PIO of the High Court on 27-01-2015 about the total number of PSAs quashed by the court from 1988 to December 2014. Bukhari had also sought the following information: Total number of PSAs against women quashed by the court from 1988 to December 2014, excluding the PSAs quashed...
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