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| If Govt can't give employment, it has no right to snatch existing jobs: Lal Singh | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 24: Former Minister Choudhary Lal Singh has strongly criticised the drives being launched by Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) and said that it has been resorting to atrocities against the common masses, who have been working hard to run their businesses.
While talking to Early Times, Choudhary Lal Singh said that the decisions of anti encroachment drives and yellow lines across the city are totally wrong and shows the rude behaviour of its officials, who have been damaging the businesses of people.
“They are also the citizens of this country, whose buildings have been demolished. The yellow line drive has been adversely affecting the business of shopkeepers in the city areas. Already COVID-19 has collapsed the business and the indiscriminate drives by ... | |
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| LG Sinha to get new Advisor soon | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 24: The government is contemplating to appoint a new Advisor in Jammu and Kashmir in the coming days as only two such appointees have been at the helm for the last over a month.
Sources say New Delhi is in touch with the Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to make the selection of the “most appropriate face for the assignment.”
Sources said the government is interested to appoint a former IAS officer as the Advisor.
Sources said while some other names are also being discussed in the corridors of power, “there’s more of likelihood that the former civil services official will be taken up for the job.”
It’s pertinent to mention that at the moment Jammu and Ka... | |
| | | | Fearing Talibani elements in Administration not Taliban, says BJP Leader | | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, Nov 24: A BJP Leader from South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Wednesday stoked controversy by equating some officers in LG’s administration with Taliban.
“We don’t have any problem with militants. Taliban will not come to Kashmir because we the soldiers of BJP are standing here but what we actually fear is the Taliban we have in our administration here,” BJP District President Anantnag Advocate Wajahat Hussain said while addressing the party’s district committee convention at Dak Banglow Khanabal.
Advocate Wajahat Hussain complained about the poor facilities being provided to party leaders and workers by the administration.
“Taliban is i... | |
| | | | Ashok Koul’s ‘valuable’ suggestions to Azad raise many eyebrows | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 24: Ashok Koul, general secretary (organization) of J&K unit of BJP on Wednesday gave ‘valuable’ suggestions to Congress stalwart and former chief minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Koul suggested former leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad to accept the ground reality before announcing his future political decision.
“It is a reality that Congress is almost finished across the country including Jammu and Kashmir so before taking any political decision Ghulam Nabi Azad must keep this truth in his mind”, Ashok Koul told the media at South Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
Koul was in Anantnag in connection with a district-level meeting as a follo... | |
| | | | Mir hits back at Azad loyalists | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 24: After maintaining silence for the last one week, Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief Ghulam Ahmed Mir on Wednesday hit back at loyalists of Ghulam Nabi Azad for using ‘derogatory’ language against him in a rally at Dyalachak in Hiranagar.
Mir also made it clear that announcing the chief ministerial face of the party for the coming assembly elections in J&K is purely a prerogative of the Congress high command.
While tendering en-mass resignations from positions of the party, loyalists of Ghulam Nabi Azad have demanded that the party should announce Azad as Congress’s chief ministerial face for the coming assembly elections.
Further, they have also... | |
| | | | Rs 9 lakh spent on blactopping of road for merely 6 households | | PWD dancing on tunes of property dealers | |  Harpreet Singh Sethi
Early Times Report
Kathua, Nov 24: Notwithstanding the tall claims of centre and centrally governed Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir that transparency is maintained in execution of government schemes and despite strict directives from LG Manoj Sinha and the higher authorities of concerned departments but there were several departments who throw these directives to dustbin and do whatever they want do, the sources said here today.
In such a glaring example in war... | |
| | | | 3 militants killed in Srinagar shootout | | | 
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 24: Three militants were killed in a brief encounter with security forces in Srinagar city on Wednesday, police said.
They said the three were killed in the Rambagh area in a brief encounter this evening. "Police #neutralised 03 #terrorists in #Srinagar. Identification & affiliation of the killed terrorists is being ascertained. Further details shall follow," a police tweet said.... | |
| | | | Night temperature rises above freezing point in Kashmir parts | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 24: Night temperature in Kashmir rose above the freezing point across the valley due to cloudy sky but there was no respite in cold wave conditions continued to prevail with unprecedented power cuts adding wovs of the people. Srinagar, which witnesses coldest nights of the season during the past two days was recorded at 0.3 degree Celsius against the minus 2.3 degree Celsius an overall improvement of two degrees in the temperature. However, there was no respite in cold conditions prevailed across with frequent power cuts making life more difficult for the people residing here. The Meteorological Department office said, Weather is most likely to remain c... | |
| | | | ACB produces chargesheet against ex-CMO, others for embezzlement | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Nov 24: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) produced chargesheet against then CMO Budgam and others including one deceased official and few private persons
The chargesheet was produced in Case FIR No. 16/2015 P/S VOK now ACB, U/S 5(1) (c) (d), r/w 5(2) J&K P.C Act. Swt 2006 and section 120-B, 409, 420,467,468 & 471 before the Court of Special Judge Anti-Corruption Court Srinagar against then CMO Budgam Dr Mohammad Abdullah and private persons including Mohammad Ayoub and Shahid Shabir.
The instant case was registered on the basis of outcome of verification conducted into the allegations for embezzlement of Rs 17 lakh by CMO Office Budgam during the year 2009-... | |
| | | | COVID-19: J&K reports 174 new cases, 2 deaths | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 24: The Government today informed that 174 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 25 from Jammu division and 149 from Kashmir division, have been reported today, thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 335881.Also, 02 COVID death has been reported; 01 from Jammu Division and 01 from Kashmir Division.
Moreover, 135 more COVID-19 patients have recovered and been discharged from various hospitals including 25from Jammu Division and 110 from Kashmir Division.
The Bulletin informs that no new case of Mucormycosis has been reported today.
On COVID vaccination, the bulletin informs that 67,448doses of COVID vacc... | |
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