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Srinagar richer than Jammu! 11/28/2021 10:29:52 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 28: The seven decades of alleged discrimination with Jammu seems to be only deepening as Srinagar has been found richer, by a Union government agency. A report from the NITI Aayog shows that Srinagar is the richest district in Jammu and Kashmir with only 1.51 percent underprivileged people. The report on Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) by NITI Aayog said only 1.51 percent of the population in Srinagar district is underprivileged. The same index for Jammu district stands at 6.97 percent. Throwing light on the issue, Urban development experts said Jammu is around “five times poorer than Srinagar as per the MPI index.” The experts said Srinagar has not become rich overnight but that previous regimes were focused more on it “albeit at the cost of the interests and aspirations of the people of Jammu.” While the survey by the Union government agency has shown that Srinagar “is much richer as compared to Jammu”, the study has seemingly “vindicated” the allegations of the discrimination with Jammu after the collapse of Dogra regime. While the Dogr...   READ MORE

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Existing transfer industry in Education Deptt: BJP affiliated teachers’ union demands probe 11/28/2021 10:29:44 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 28: Amid allegations of flourishing transfer industry in the education department, the All Jammu Kashmir and Laddakh Teachers Federation affiliated with Akhil Bhartiya Rashtriya Shakshik Mahasangh demanded an independent probe into recent transfers in the education department. In its monthly meeting held at Ramban held under the chairmanship of district general secretary Ramparshad Singh Manhas in the presence of UT president Devraj Thakur and secretary Sanjay Katoch. In the meeting, members asked higher authorities to initiate an independent enquiry regarding irregularities, omission and commission with regards to the gross violation of transfer norms, ...   READ MORE   J&K Govt depriving local youth of employment opportunities: Omar 11/28/2021 10:29:36 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 28: Former Chief Minister and vice president of National Conference Omar Abdullah today alleged that the incumbent J&K government was depriving local youth of J&K of employment opportunities. While addressing a public meeting at Doda, Omar Abdullah minced no words in exposing tall claiming of the incumbent J&K government. “After the abrogation of article 370, this step would provide huge employment opportunities to local youth”, he recalled but hastened to add, “What to say of providing more employment, local youths are denied jobs in the existing projects of J&K”. “All promises of employment remained only on papers”, he regretted and chided the J&K gov...   READ MORE   Azad's show of strength continues, shifts focus on Kashmir 11/28/2021 10:29:29 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 28: After en-mass resignations of his loyalists from positions of the party, leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad has now shifted his focus on Kashmir Valley to show his strength to Congress high command. After covering all regions and sub-regions during the last 15 days, Azad has now activated his loyalists in the Kashmir Valley to intensify his mass contact programme. Highly placed sources leaders of the faction headed by Ghulam Ahmed Mir are trying to give an impression to the high command that Azad’s influence is confined only to some areas of Jammu province. “Mir loyalists conveyed to the high command that sidelining and ignorin...   READ MORE   ‘Nearly all terrorists involved in civilian killings last month neutralised’ 11/28/2021 10:29:22 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Nov 28: Nearly all the terrorists involved in the killings of civilians in Jammu and Kashmir last month have been neutralised and the armed forces are now focussing on intelligence-based ”surgical operations” involving smaller teams to deal with terror activities in the Union Territory, sources in the security establishment said on Sunday. They said a ”refined” approach to deal with terrorism has been put in place under a more nuanced framework of better coordination among the Jammu and Kashmir police, the intelligence agencies and the Army with an aim to minimise collateral damage. After a spell of relative calm, Jammu and Kashmir witnessed a spate of ki...   READ MORE   Detonators recovered from passenger vehicle in Kishtwar Police scrutinize CCTV footage to identify culprits 11/28/2021 10:29:14 PM Asif Iqbal Naik Early Times Report Kishtwar, Nov 28: Security forces on Sunday recovered detonators from a passenger vehicle here. According to the details available with Early Times the alert troops of 11 RR and Kishtwar Police during a checking of a passenger vehicle in Banderkoot area found some detonators and other suspicious material from a passenger vehicle (No.JK17-6820) which was on its way from Kishtwar to Patimhala. “Beside detonators, wire and some pins were among the recover...   READ MORE   BJP dividing regional parties by creating proxy parties: Mehbooba 11/28/2021 10:28:46 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Nov 28: Former chief minister and People’s Democratic Party president, Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said that the policy of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has to create division among regional parties in Jammu and Kashmir by creating “proxy Parties” to make the unconstitutional decision of August 5 2019 as constitutional decision through them in the assembly. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a party convention in Bandipora in north Kashmir, she said that the policy of BJP has been to create division among regional parties in Jammu and Kashmir. “First they attacked PDP and created ‘proxy parties’, which everyone knows. Then they created a division within NC...   READ MORE   COVID-19: JK reports 2 deaths, 145 new cases 11/28/2021 10:28:39 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Nov 28: The Government today informed that 145 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 18 from Jammu division and 127 from Kashmir division, have been reported today, thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 336531. Also, 02 COVID deaths have been reported from Kashmir Division. Moreover, 209 more COVID-19 patients have recovered and been discharged from various hospitals including 25 from Jammu Division and 184 from Kashmir Division. The Bulletin informs that no new case of Mucormycosis has been reported today. On COVID vaccination, the bulletin informs that 19,152doses of COVID vaccine have been administered i...   READ MORE

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