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| Vigilance all set to implicate Tara Chand, Kewal in Class-IV recruitment scam | | Both likely to be included in FIR after Assembly polls | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 14: Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand and his Deputy PRO Kewal Sharma are likely to be implicated by the Vigilance Organization in infamous Class IV recruitment scam in Education Department as one of the accused has agreed to become approver in the case.
State Vigilance Organization, which has already registered an FIR against the Chief Education Officer Jammu Tarsem Lal and three others in the scam, is learnt to have established the role of Tara Chand and Kewal Sharma in influencing the selection of candidates for Class-IV posts.
Since the duo was not directly involved in the selection process and hence could not be implicated in the FIR in initial phase, sources said that their role surfaced during investigation of the case. Main accused in the case and others, against whom FIR has been registered, have confessed that selection of the candidates was manipulated on the alleged directions of Deputy CM and his Dy PRO, sources added. Sources further said that the Vigilance Organization has also seized some Dummy Official (DO) letters, written by the D... | |
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| Search committee illegal, unconstitutional; recommendatory selection not allowed | | Appointment of Secretary JKAACL | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 14: Search committee which recommended controversial ex-Director Radio Kashmir Basheer Arif for appointment as Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages (JKAACL) had been constituted illegally and in complete violation of the set norms.
Neither the constitution of the academy nor the rules allow for creation of a search committee for the appointment of Secretary. According to the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture And Languages (JKAACL) issued vide SRO 340 Dated August 14, 1963 and subsequent incorporations and amendments which were carried out ending May, 1979; Chief Minister as Presid... | |
| | | | Window meant for old, ladies being used by agents, touts | | Agents rule in RTO office | | | Sandeep Bhat
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 14: The office of Regional Transport Authority seems to have been hijacked by agents and touts. If sources are to be believed and as per the information available with Early Times, the agents seem to be having an upper hand in the office and without any official interference, they are ruling the office.
The touts and agents seem to be fearlessly trapping the innocent people. They are minting money from the people coming to the office for driving licences. As per sources, they have an understanding with the higher officials of RTO office.
The CCTV cameras are in place but the authorities concerned have failed to check the irregularities in... | |
| | | | Soz endorses Sham's politics Early Times Report | | CM from Jammu | | |
Masood Malik
JAMMU, Dec 14: Interesting developments are unfolding in Jammu & Kashmir. On the one hand, the BJP has abandoned its ideology to appease Kashmiri fanatics in its bid to open its account in the Valley and on the other the PDP has openly hailed the Narendra Modi's Gujarat Model. Likewise, the NC has not been leaving any stone unturned to blacken the face of the Congress beyond recognition and the vice-versa. They are coalition partners and they are holding each other responsible for their unpopularity. The NC is saying that the Omar government couldn't perform because the Congress created insurmountable problems for it and the Congress says that it wanted to fulfill the pro... | |
| | | | Vijaypur highest with 81 percent, Habba Kadal lowest with 21 percent | | Around half of electors cast their votes in fourth phase of polling | | | Early Times Report
Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Dec 14: Around 50 percent voters exercised their franchise as 18 assembly constituencies spread across four districts of Kashmir and Jammu divisions went to the polls today. Barring few minor incidents the polling remained by and large peaceful.
Elections were held for the eight assembly seats in Srinagar district, six assembly seats in Anantnag district, two assembly seats in Shopian district and two assembly seats in the Samba district of Jammu division. Samba district topped the overall voting percentage with more than 80 percent people casting their votes with Srinagar recording the lowest with just a shade under 28 percent
Addressing... | |
| | | | BJP candidates assault polling staff; Hina Bhat faces wrath of NC workers | | | | Early Times Report
Javaid Naikoo
Srinagar, Dec 14: BJP candidates assaulted polling agents and poll staff performing their duty, vitiating peaceful polling at more than one place oin Kashmir today, inviting wrath of people and police action. In Shopian, Police had to register a case against Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Javaid Ahmad Qadri after he slapped one Mushtaq Ahmad Mir, polling agent of one independent candidate, Advocate Shabir Ahmad Kullay triggering protest by polling agents of opposition parties . The matter was resolved only after independent candidate Kullay along with his supporters reached the spot and asked police to intervene and register a case against Qadri fo... | |
| | | | Construction material dumped at disputed land in violation of court order | | | | Early Times Report
Avinash Azad
Jammu, Dec 14: Despite the high court order of a status quo, the man, who is alleged to have grabbed a piece of land at Barnai near here, has started dumping building material at the disputed site to allegedly fence it.
According to sources, the issue related to 2.19 kanals of land falling under khasra No 460 at Barnai is subjudice in the high court. In a case filed by Gayatri Jamwal and seven others against Anuradha Singh Jamwal, wife of Kamal Nain Singh, high court judge Dhiraj Singh Thakur had on December 11 last ordered status quo and fixed next date hearing in the first week of January 2015", sources said. "To ensure that the court order is implemen... | |
| | | | Losing confidence in accomplishing hyped mission 44+ | | Nervous BJP recalls all its resources | | | Early Times Report
Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Dec 14: In pursuit of 'Mission 44+', the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) right from beginning of hitting the election trail exuded confidence that it would ultimately achieve the target of winning forty four or more seats in the Assembly polls comfortably.
However, the vigorous campaigning in nook and corner of the state being conducted by battery of star campaigners including the Prime Minister, Union Ministers and senior BJP leaders gives an impression that the saffron party's claims of attaining clear majority are only on papers and it is not quite sure of the final numbers. The political experts also find it somewhat extraordinary where a larg... | |
| | | | Traffic grumbles as NH-1A still under completion | | | | Shiv Dev Thakur
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 14: The ambitious project of NHAI which is under construction in Jammu and Kashmir with an aim to free traffic on Jammu Srinagar Highway still a half baked bread as the works on this project though is on but likely is to miss the deadline once again as fixed by the authorities .
According to reports, the people of state are waiting anxiously for this ambitious project and are estimating this project may or may not get completed by its deadline in 2016. Sources though with an absolute sanguinity believe that project is likely to get completed on time yet AFCONS could not manage to complete the Jammu-Udhampur Widening Project on time as... | |
| | | | 50 % migrant voters stay away from polls | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 14: Nearly 50 percent of the migrant voters stayed away from the polling booths on Sunday in the fourth phase of the ongoing assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir.
According to the official figures out of 20,955 registered voters only 11870 exercised their right to franchise in 16 assembly segments across Kashmir which went to polls today.
In Habba Kadal constituency out of over 16000 migrant votes nearly 4720 had opted for M Forms and out of which only 2613 turned up to cast their votes.
Likewise in Bijbehra which has over 5000 migrant votes, 2392 migrants had filled up their M Forms out of which 1431 turned up to cast their votes at different poll... | |
| | | | Mufti confident of decisive mandate | | | | Bashir Assad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec14; Opposition Peoples Democratic Party is confident of getting decisive mandate where it does not need to go for the alliance.
PDP patron, Mufti Muhammad Sayed today said that there would be no need of any coalition as the PDP will get a decisive mandate this time.
"My impression is that the PDP has a positive agenda as we had presented in 2002 and implemented. People have faith that if we come to power, we will improve and solve problems here.
The elections have got legitimacy, I am happy there is peace, those who want to vote are voting and they have faith in vote.
The people of Jammu and Kashmir will have to decide," Mufti said ... | |
| | | | Anantnag votes for 'Change', defies boycott call | | Youth voted to keep BJP 'out of Picture' | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, Dec 14: Defying militant threat, serve weather conditions and separatist boycott call, about 59.58 per cent polling was recorded in six assembly segments of Anantnag district.
According to official figures among 4, 95,052 voters 2, 94, 968 voters of the district turned to vote, apparently for 'change'; however the overall polling percentage is approximately 4 percent less than 2008 assembly election poll turnout.
No untoward incident was reported in the district; however workers of political parties clashed with each other at several places in the district.
An official spokesman said Anantnag assembly segment recorded 38.67 percent turnout... | |
| | | | Rate list of Pvt Nursing homes, labs in Jammu: Directorate of Health ignorant | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 14: The Directorate of Health Jammu has said that rate list related to undertaking of various investigations , tests and surgeries is not available with them and the same lies with Government. The Public Information Officer (PIO) of Directorate of Health who is also the Deputy Director of the directorate gave these details before State Information Commission (SIC) during a case hearing of an appeal filed by an RTI appellant who was denied the said information by the Directorate of Health Services under RTI Act.
As per details available one Naresh Gupta R/o Mohalla Paharian, Jammu moved an application dated 14-07-2014 before the Public Information Officer ... | |
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