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| GAD joins deptts violating Model Code of Conduct, issues relieving orders of two KAS officers | | MCC continues to be taken for granted by officers | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 12: In blatant violation of Model Code of Conduct enforced in view of Assembly elections the General Administration Department (GAD) issued two orders at fag end of the last month. The orders were issued in connection with the transfer and subsequent posting of two Kashmir Administrative Service (KAS) officers.
On October 30, the GAD issued order for the transfer and posting of Dr. Nasir Ahmad Naqash as Additional District Development Commissioner, Anantnag. This order was issued five days after the enforcement of MCC in the state. The MCC got enforced on October 25 as soon as Election Commission of India announced dates for five phase Assembly elections in the state.
"Dr. Nasir Ahmad Naqash, KAS, Special Secretary to Government, Higher Education Department, under orders of posting as Additional District Development Commissioner, Ganderbal, vide Government Order No. 1058-GAD of 2014 Dated 16.10.2014, is hereby deemed to have been relieved today on 30th of October, 2014, with the direction to join at his new place of posting i.e. A... | |
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| Terms those raising demand of Hindu Chief Minister for J&K as “unreasonable” | | Aslam Goni launches veiled attack on Sham Lal | | | Bharat Bhushan
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 12: It is now Congress versus Congress in J&K where the party is already struggling hard to keep itself afloat after its debacle in the recently held Lok Sabha elections. After its resounding defeat in the general elections, one would have expected it to do everything it can to put its house back in order. But it seems to have learnt no lesson even after losing the two Jammu seats to its arch rival BJP.
Congress leader Aslam Goni today told a national TV news channel that those, who were raising the demand of a Hindu Chief Minister for J&K, are "unreasonable". The demand has time and again been raised by none other than Congress leader and ex-... | |
| | | | 'Don't vote for BJP, it will impose Hindu CM in JK' | | Modi wave unnerves PDP legislator | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 12: Unnerved by the Modi wave and more and more people joining Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in Kashmir the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) legislator has played a communal card by asking people not to vote for the party as it would impose a Hindu Chief Minister in Jammu and Kashmir.
The PDP legislator Peer Mansoor while addressing a rally at Shangus in south Kashmir said: "It will be a curse for the people of Kashmir if they vote for BJP. People should not vote for parties who plan to impose a Hindu Chief Minister in Jammu and Kashmir which would be a curse for the Kashmiris."
"Kashmir is conflict zone and also a sensitive place and if a Hindu Chief Ministe... | |
| | | | NC providing transformers through its workers | | Violation of MCC in Charar-i-Sharief | |  Early Times Report
BUDGAM, Nov 12: The National Conference leaders are leaving no stone unturned to woo voters. In majority of the Assembly segments across state especially those being represented by NC stalwarts, the official machinery is being misused by the leaders and Ministers from National Conference in one way or the other. This has lead to violation of model code of conduct in several districts of the state , but the district administration seem to be unmoved with all these illegal pra... | |
| | | | Cop detains victim illegally for 3 days, Court directs DySP for probe | | Molestation, thrashing of woman by AFCONS officers | | | Sumit Sharma
ET Report
JAMMU, Nov 12: Munsiff Court, Gool ordered SDPO Gool to hold inquiry and report accordingly after a complaint was lodged with it against AFCONS officers namely Parshotam Patel Chief Engineer and Roop Singh, tehsildar Gool Bashir-ul-Hussain and IC/PP Sungaldan SI Parvez Ahmed Khanday to put pressure on the woman to withdraw complaint she lodged against AFCONS employees for molesting and thrashing her.
The court ordered inquiry after the lady namely Shamshada Begum w/o Ghulam Rasool of Mavlakote, lodged complaint with the court alleging therein that they were forcing her to withdraw her complaint lodged against some AFCONS employees regarding her molestation. She sa... | |
| | | | Omar Abdullah rejects poll predictions as ridiculous | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 12: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah shaken by the poll predictions on the news channel has dismissed them as ridiculous. He has said these are not the based ground realities.
A news channel suggests National Conference would just reach the double digit figure. The poll predictions are in league with the ground realities and are also in consonance with the reports of the intelligence agencies. All of them have predicted the same result from the Omar's party.
Omar who had till now been the only most visible face on the Chief Minister and probably holds the record for giving maximum interviews on the TV-infact at one point communicating through TV only- has been s... | |
| | | | What does Chenab formula means? | | Threat to Jammu identity | | | Neha
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 12: There are elements in Kashmir who say division of Jammu province along the Chenab river could be a solution to the so-called Kashmir problem. They are also the votary of Greater Kashmir comprising the Muslim Kashmir and its adjoining areas in Jammu and Ladakh regions where the non-Muslims do not constitute a majority population. The Chenab formula was first mooted by the UN representative Sir Owen Dixon soon after Jammu and Kashmir acceded to India. The Government of India had rejected the formula outright.
As for the response of the people of Jammu and Ladakh to the Chenab formula, they had also repudiated it outright. They launched the 'Ek nishan... | |
| | | | BJP exists nowhere in Ladakh, “bogus” voting not possible again | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 12: As the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leaves no stone unturned to fulfill their set Mission 44+, Chief Executive Councilor of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) of Kargil district, Haji Asgar Ali Karbalai while terming BJP leadership a victim of internal bickering said that BJP exists nowhere in Ladakh division and “allegedly” bogus voting is not possible always for BJP candidates.
Talking to Early Times, Karbalai said that 'it was bogus voting which helped BJP leadership to won one seat during Lok Sabha polls in Ladakh Province by mere 16 votes otherwise according to him a party leadership with hardline BJP ideology has never succeeded t... | |
| | | | Cong to win 6 to 8 seats, NC 10 to 16, says a pre-poll survey | | PDP, BJP in commanding position | | | Rustam
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 12: The general view in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh is that the unpopular Congress and the National Conference would bite dust in the scheduled Assembly elections appears to be a correct. On Tuesday, NewsX and India News broadcasted the findings of the pre-poll survey, which was conducted by C-Voters for these two leading national news channels. The findings were on expected lines.
The pre-poll survey said that if elections are held today in J&K, the Congress would get 6 to 8 seats and its coalition partner, the NC, would win 10 to 16 seats. In other words, both the parties would share between them 16 to 24 seats in the 87-member House. In the 2008 Asse... | |
| | | | How dependent JK BJP on Modi ? | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 12: The BJP, It seems has been riding on clouds for quite some time. Earlier the party talked about mission 44+ and now they are eying around 50 seats. The party's morale boosting, political experts believe is a result of Modi wave with no contribution from the local (suspended) MLAs or the leaders.
The BJP MLAs and local leaders, according to Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah miserably failed to raise the issues pertaining to Jammu region. "They called on me very often but only to get their jobs done," Omar said recently. However, Chaman Lal Gupta has been the only exception. He has been striving hard for Jammu region.
Political experts warn the BJP leaders... | |
| | | | First phase likely to throw `many' surprises | | | | Syed Tahir Bukhari
Early Times Report
BANDIPORA, Nov 12: In the first phase of assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Gurez, Bandipora and Sonawari constituencies in north Kashmir are witnessing polls on November 25.
The data shows that the National Conference (NC) party retained the seats in early1957, 1962, 1977, 1983, 2002, and 2008. The present National Conference MLA Muhammad Akbar Lone after getting elected for two terms at a stretch is finding it hard this time to make it the Legislative Assembly.
According to some political analysts from north Kashmir, we see this election is a ray of hope for the people of Jammu and Kashmir, and if we talk of Bandipora district the tradit... | |
| | | | 'Voluntary Service Allowance' dries up as SKEWS dies unnatural death | | | | Shakeel A Khan
Early Times Report
BUDGAM, Nov 12: The 'Voluntary Service Allowance' which was aimed at giving some respite to the unemployed youth under the hyped Sher i Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme has drawn flak as this scheme has failed to deliver.
The unemployed youth who got themselves registered to get benefits of this scheme have termed it a simple act of cheating because for the last one and half year nothing has been credited in their accounts.
Hilal Ahmad from Budgam said, while talking to the Early Times that he still remembers the words of Ali Mohammad Sagar that "The agonies of the unemployed youth of the state are over and I request them to get themselves... | |
| | | | BJP will not open account in Kashmir: Soz | | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Kulgam, Nov 12: Indirectly accusing BhartiyaJanta Party (BJP) of purchasing votes in Kashmir, JK Pardesh Congress chief Saif-u-Din Soz on Wednesday said that the saffron party wouldn't get even a single seat in upcoming assembly elections in Kashmir region.
After accompanying the Congress candidate Inyat-ul-Rather who today filed his nomination papers for the Homeshalibug constituency Soz said, "I am confident that BJP will not be able to open its account in Kashmir because of the ideological differences and despite they have kept open its coffers in Kashmir", adding Kashmir is Muslim majority state and upcoming assembly elections in the state are a d... | |
| | | | HC seeks details about relief distribution mechanism in J&K | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 12 : A Division Bench of High Court on Wednesday asked Divisional Commissioners of Jammu and Kashmir to file details within one week about the mechanism adopted by them for regulating distribution of relief among flood affected people by NGOs and others in the state.
Hearing a Public Interest Litigation, a bench of Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar and Justice D S Thakur also direct Director Information to get a public notice published in two daily newspapers having large circulation, both in Kashmir Division and Jammu Division, in which all those persons who on account of recent floods were displaced from their areas and were accommodated in the tented ac... | |
| | | | Naval tragedy: Jammu youth among 'four missing' at Visakhapatnam | | Nightmarish experience for parents as 'no whereabouts' till now | |  K Koushal
Jammu, Nov 12: Parents and relatives of young navy officer who went missing in naval tragedy at Visakhapatnam on November 6, are passing through nightmarish experiences as every telephone ring make them anxious about the 'whereabouts' of young Gurjeet Singh.
Everyone including parents at home is anxiously worried about the whereabouts of Gurjeet Singh (25), who is among the four missing sailors of Indian navy after a Torpedo Recovery Vessel of Indian Navy submerged near Visakhapa... | |
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