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| PM makes no mention of Haji Yusuf death, family disappointed | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 9: Prime Minister and star campaigner for BJP, Narendra Modi talked development in his Srinagar rally on Monday. Surprisingly no statement against Pakistan was issued. Instead Modi focused on development and eradicating corruption. Modi's guided words won him many admirers. However, a family seeking justice was disappointed.
Haji Yusuf, a National Conference worker died in mysterious circumstances on September 29, 2011 while in the custody of IG Crime Branch. The deceased was handed over to the IG by the Chief Minister himself. Yusuf was called by the Chief Minister to his residence in connection with a `murky money deal.'
An enquiry held by the police and a report submitted by Justice Bedi exonerated the Chief Minister. However, addressing an election rally at Uri last week, Omar Abdullah admitted that Yusuf died in the custody of former IG Crime, Raja Aijaz Ali. Raja joined People’s Democratic Party (PDP) after his recent retirement.
Following Omar's statement, Yusuf's son Talib Husain sought Modi's intervention for justice. Addressing a press... | |
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| Register FIR against Omar, aides: Congress | | Haji Yusuf case | | | 'CM hushed up Shopian double rape, murder case'
Early Times Report
KISHTWAR, Dec 9: A day after senior Congress leader and MLA Inderwal Ghulam Mohammad Saroori demanded that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his close aides should be prosecuted for their alleged involvement in the murder of the National Conference worker Haji Mohammad Yusuf, Saroori today upped the ante and demanded that FIR should be registered against Omar and his aides immediately. He even alleged that Omar was responsible for hushing up Shopian double rape and murder case in 2009.
Addressing his supporters here Saroori said: "Why were Omar and his associates not prosecuted in connection with the murder case of th... | |
| | | | Omar allowed Education Deptt to be asylum of corrupt Ministers, Babus | | Peerzada, Lone, Tara, Nutan, Natha, Tarsem among plunderers | | | Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 9: On the hind side of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's claims that he assigned top priority to Education sector, the fact of the matter is that he allowed the entire Education department to be reduced into den of corruption from where not only babus, but even Ministers annihilated norms and rules for vested interests and pecuniary benefits.
Registration of FIR against Chief Education Officer (CEO) Jammu Tarsem Lal the previous day was just another link in the chain that started just after Omar led Coalition government took over the reins. While CEO was booked along with others for large scale bungling in appointments of Class IV staff in Educati... | |
| | | | Congress, BJP Secret Meeting Row | | IGP Crime caught on wrong foot | | | Sumit Sharma
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 9: The former minister and Congress leader has lodged a complaint against the Inspector General of Police, Crime Branch (J&K) in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate here for his alleged failure to act upon the complaint he lodged before him.
Sawhney has alleged that IGP Crime Branch has not done anything till date to trace the accused and act against the unscrupulous elements.
The Congress leader Yogesh Sawhney had approached the court soon after the pictures about him sitting with a BJP leader and a candidate from Jammu East Rajesh Gupta went viral in Jammu.
Sawhney in his submission to the court had stated that he went to Baba Bhairav Na... | |
| | | | Interim VC JU conducts interviews for Contractual Lecturer's post in Remote Sensing Deptt | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 9: Overlooking Model Code of Conduct (MCC), enforced in the state in view of the ensuing Assembly elections, the acting Vice Chancellor of University of Jammu has reportedly conducted interview for post of contractual lecturer in Remote Sensing Department.
Well placed sources told Early Times that acting VC, University of Jammu Dr R D Sharma has recently conducted interview for the post of contractual lecturer on December 4.
"University had invited applications for the post in dubious manner in the month of July without mentioning qualification in eligibility for the post of lecturer, following the protest against the advertisement, the then VC Prof MPS Isha... | |
| | | | Alleged contractor-engineer nexus in Bhaderwah looting state exchequer | | Works being executed without tenders | | | Masood Malik
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 9: Alleged contractor-engineer nexus in PWD R&B Bhaderwah division is taking huge toll on state exchequer as the department is allegedly allotting works without inviting tenders to few influential contractors.
Information obtained through RTI revealed that about 14 works worth several lacs were executed without inviting tenders by PWD (R&B) on BC Road Division Bhaderwah Bhalla-Tesna and Trown link road.
"About 14 works worth Rs 10, 66,910 were executed by the department without inviting tenders", sources said, adding that funds meant for development were being mis-used by the PWD, R&B.
Sources alleged that department allows some staffers to do... | |
| | | | BJP likely to throw Aditi out of party after her supporters misbehaved with senior leaders | | State leaders shown helpless due to her links with high-command | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 9: "Controversial" BJP leader Aditi Sharma, who attained prominence due to alleged money and muscle power and due to her proximity with a national general secretary of the party and some RSS leaders, is likely to be thrown out of BJP after her "supporters" allegedly manhandled a senior BJP leader from Himachal Pradesh.
Aditi's staunch supporters have not only allegedly manhandled a leader from HP but also used objectionable language against a senior central leader who is camping at Jammu to manage elections.
Instead of tendering apology for misbehaviour of her supporters, Aditi even threatened to get both the veteran leaders thrown out of BJP due to her prox... | |
| | | | Former MP, his brother allegedly grab private land; Revenue | | | |
authorities stay inert
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 9: An alleged land grabbing case surfaced in district Kathua where former MP Lal Singh and his brother grabbed private land measuring 21 kanal situated at Logate Morh. The matter has been brought in the notice of police and district administration but till date, the aggrieved is at receiving end.
The aggrieved person namely Sharat Chander Nagra, addressing press conference in Jammu, said that being a refugee of 1947, government allotted a piece of land in the name of his mother namely Mela Devi measuring 47 kanals under khasra No 838/777,839/777,841/777, situated near National Highway at Logate Morh, but for the past more one year... | |
| | | | Defying boycott call 58 percent people cast votes in third phase of Assembly elections | | Charar-i-Sharief highest with 82 percent, Sopore lowest with 30 percent | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 9: Like the previous two phases people in large numbers came out to cast their votes in the 16 Assembly seats spread in North, Central and South Kashmir respectively today. Officials said that around 60 percent electorate cast their votes in these Assembly seats.
Once again the call of separatists to boycott polls was not heeded to by the electorate and there was no impact of threatening posters that surfaced in different areas of Tral and Sopore constituencies over the past few weeks.
Addressing a press conference here this evening, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Jammu & Kashmir, Umang Narula said that about 58 percent voters exercised ... | |
| | | | Sopore defies Geelani, opts for ballot | | | |
ET Report
Jammu, Dec 9: Geelani has been rejected by the people in his home constituency Sopore, hitherto considered bastion of separatism and fort of Sayed Ali Shah Geelani. The voting percentage here has broken the past records. It is also about the realisation in the Kashmir of having being exploited by the separatists.
Off all the constituencies going to the polls, Sopore was most watched out. Anti-India rabble-rouser Geelani has been consistently trying to prevent the people of this constituency from going to the polls.
He has been black mailing them on the emotive issues like Azadi, anti-India rhetoric and anything under the sky to brainwash the voters from going to the polls, I... | |
| | | | Leaders of regional parties keep fingers crossed as new entrants prove tough competitors | | Record voters send everyone into tizzy | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 9: The record polling percentage in the first three phases of the ongoing five phased assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir has send everyone in a tizzy, including the big leaders of various regional parties and the Political Pundits, who after every phase of the polling used to predict which seat has gone to whom.
Record polling after a span of two decades has made many people uncomfortable, separatists are finding it hard to believe that people have ignored their boycott call and have come out in large numbers to vote. On the other hand politicians, especially in Kashmir, who used to rely on boycott, have been left amazed and dazed by the overwh... | |
| | | | FCI's PIO fails second time to give information within mandatory period | | |  Bivek Mathur
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 9: Public Information Officer (PIO) of Food Corporation of India (FCI), Jammu Division is acting like a dictator by failing to deliver information under the Right to Information Act (RTI Act), 2009 for the second time.
The PIO had earlier denied replying some questions asked by this scribe about the process of giving tenders of jute bags/sacs and persons given tenders beginning January 2014 and ending September 2014 giving reasons that this ... | |
| | | | Health Deptt making mockery of Govt order | | PHC Simbal Camp opens for few hours only | | | Bijay Charak
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 9: The Jammu and Kashmir Health department has been making mockery of government order, as in official records Public Health Center (PHC) Simbal camp has been running round the clock but in reality same is working only for eight hours a day, during which it struggles with dearth of infrastructure, staff and medicines. Sources informed Early Times that around 15 years back state government had established PHC Simbal, few years back it was upgraded as 24x7 in papers, but on ground the 24x7 service was yet to be materialized the institution has not proper infrastructure, and also suffering of staff dearth. At the time of establishment of the PHC... | |
| | | | Gruelling contest on cards in Billawar constituency | | | | Kunal Shrivatsa/Sanjay Pathak
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 9: The Billawar Assembly constituency of Kathua district, which witnessed one sided contest in the previous two elections, is all set for a gruelling contest this time around as the sitting MLA of Congress perhaps for the first time in his political career is facing a stiff challenge posed by the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP).
Congress candidate and sitting MLA from Billawar Assembly segment Dr Manohar Lal Sharma won the poll battles first as an independent in 2002 and then as Congress nominee in 2008 quite comfortably on both the occasions largely due to the presence of weak opponents in the election arena.
However, with a c... | |
| | | | Health deptt turns blind eye towards rural Samba areas | | Contractual FMPW running Rayour health sub-centre | | | GS Asgotra
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 9: The health department has surely turned a blind eye towards the rural areas of Samba where a contractual Female Multi-Purpose Worker (FMPW) has been running health sub-centre at Rayour for the last many months. The FMPW also rarely visits the centre, forcing villagers to travel several miles to get medical treatment. "Rayour health centre caters to the needs of nine hamlets which have a population of several hundreds. In the absence of FMPW and others staffers, the people are forced to travel several miles to get medical treatment," locals said. "Majority of the people of this hilly belt are poor and backward. As the Rayour health centre mai... | |
| | | | BJP treats scribes as hawkers | | Journos take serious note | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 9: It seems that after attaining power at the centre, the state unit of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has become so bigheaded that it is not even shying away in dictating instructions to media persons in winter capital of the state.
For publicizing its assembly poll related activities, the BJP has established a Media War Room at posh Gandhi Nagar locality of the city but an email sent from its Media centre contained a very peculiar communication which was not at all taken in good taste by the media fraternity particularly reporters of various newspapers.
Though the Media War Room was perceived to micro-manage the party's day to day ac... | |
| | | | Sangrama defies boycott call, people come out in droves to cast their vote | | | | Mudasir Tariq
Early Times Report
BARAMULLA, Dec 9: Amidst cold conditions voters tricked out in good numbers in most of the areas of Sangrama constituency of this North Kashmir district to cast their vote today. Since morning the polling stations wore a festive look with large queues of voters seen outside these stations. Reports and officials said that 56.15 percent voting was recorded in this constituency breaking the previous record of 46.61 percent in 2008. The effect of the boycott calls was very much minimal here.
At a polling station in Government Higher Secondary School Kreeri, 15 percent votes were cast in the first hour of polling. Out of 710 registered voters here 127 had... | |
| | | | Khrew breaks militancy jinx, records massive polling | | | | Muhammad Mukaram
Early Times Report
PAMPORE, Dec 9: Breaking the militancy jinx after 28 years, the people of Khrew area of town of Pampore Constituency came out to vote in large numbers. The new wave took many who still believed in boycotting the ballot by a big surprise.
The four polling booths housed in Government Boys Higher secondary school witnessed huge turnout while two polling booths in Government Girls higher secondary also recorded a good number of voters.
Of nearly 6200 votes at Khrew in both polling stations, over 3500 including male and female, especially first time voters, had lined up outside the polling station throughout the day.
Completely ignoring the separati... | |
| | | | Stray untoward incidents fail to dampen spirits of voters in North Kashmir | | | | Syed Tahir Bukhari
Early Times Report
BARAMULLA, Dec 9: Defying the chill and separatist call to boycott polls electors queued up in large numbers at polling booths in the third round of the five-phase assembly elections.
The stray incidents of stone pelting failed to deter voters in this North Kashmir district.
Voters in large number trickled out in the morning at almost all the polling stations to elect representatives for the seven assembly segments despite the freezing cold that gripped the entire north Kashmir.
The polling took place four days after a string of militant attacks that left 21 people including eight soldiers dead in Kashmir.
Hundreds of voters were standing ... | |
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