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| NC wants Dr Abdullah to lead party! | | Baap Re Baap! | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 15: In a major development that may prove a shocker for former Chief Minister and National Conference, President, Omar Abdullah, the NC leaders want his predecessor and father, Dr Farooq Abdullah to take “command of the party affairs.”
Sources said resentment is brewing in the NC over the allegedly irresponsible behavior of the party President, who is accused of affecting the morale of the party cadres.
Sources said the senior party leaders are not happy with the leadership of Omar Abdullah and hold him responsible for the “debacle of the party since the day he became the Chief Minister and the NC subsequently lost.”
Sources said what has suddenly upped ante against Omar Abdullah is his statement to the media that he was not sure of continuing in politics after the abrogation of the special status.
Sources said the statement as made by Omar has not gone down well in the party circles while the NC president has even failed to issue a clarification about the same.
He is also accused of having made “irresponsible tweets” which dented the image of ... | |
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| After toll plazas now property tax in offing | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 15: After imposing toll tax on the people of Jammu, the BJP is going to give another gift to the residents in the name of property tax.
The property tax will be levied on all lands and buildings or vacant lands or both that fall within the jurisdiction of civic body areas unless exempted under this act or any other law.
Since morning an official notification has been viral in the social media regarding imposition of property tax in J&K.
Notable officers of the concerned departments have neither contradicted the viral notification nor confirmed it. Despite repeated attempts most of the officers preferred to maintain silence on this issue. As per the viral... | |
| | | | RDD Poonch plays foul in allotment of bunkers | | 10 community bunkers shifted then allotted to blue-eyed | | | Rajesh Tandon
Early Times Report
Poonch, Feb 15: The Rural Development Department (RDD) Poonch has allegedly played foul in allotment of community as well as individual bunkers in Panchayat Dhargloon by depriving the genuine of the benefit.
Sources told Early Times that the surveys for bunker constructions were conducted by the Revenue Department in Panchayat Dhargloon but later the executing agency RDD tampered the genuine list and included new names by deleting others.
They further said that there was a list of 13 persons for community bunkers but out of this number, 10 community bunkers were shifted and allotted to the blue eyed of a political leader on his directions and the wor... | |
| | | | Trainees made to suffer in Skill Development Deptt as training is imparted by raw hands | | Instructors placed at institutes where designated trades are non-functional | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 15: In the Skill Development department people appointed for a certain technical work are given undue and illegal benefits at the cost of a trainee. The trainee is given in the hands of those raw hands who are engaged as ‘substitutes’ of fully skilled and qualified instructors.
Sources told Early Times that the same kills the precious time of trainees and consequently they fail to face the society in terms of his or her job as a skilled worker. Both the soft and hard skills of an instructor are supposed to be imbibed in a trainee, but that is not the case in the concerned department.
“An instructor is paid a handsome salary and if onl... | |
| | | | Whistle-blowers’ turn extortionists | | ‘File complaints against Govt employees, businessmen to extract money’ | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 15: Some so-called ‘whistle-blowers’ in the name of fighting against corruption, are reportedly extorting huge money from the public servants and businessmen.
According to credible sources in the Civil Secretariat a group of a few people, including some retired government officials and anti-corruption activists are allegedly extracting money from the public servants and businessmen in Jammu for a long time.
“Thry have been active since long back, but after 5th August 2019 they are filing complaints against almost all bureaucrats, doctors, engineers and the businessmen,” said an officer associated with Grievance Redressal Cell of J&K Government.
“As p... | |
| | | | Ghordi: 15 years on, Govt school building incomplete | | ‘Students suffer, department in deep slumber’ | |  Arun Jasrotia
Early Times Report
Udhampur, Feb 15: In an era of e-learning, students of Primary school Mani in Block Ghordi of District Udhampur are still forced to attend classes under open sky as school building is yet to be completed due to alleged negligence of the contractor and the concerned department.
The construction work of Government Primary School in Mani Village of Block Ghordi in district Udhampur started in 2006 but since then only one structure has been built. The ... | |
| | | | Admin warns employees visiting foreign countries without prior approval | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 15: Taking serious note of its employees visiting foreign countries in private capacity without prior permission, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has directed them to follow the rules strictly and threatened to take action against violators.
In an order, the General Administration Department (GAD) said the procedure for granting permission in favour of government employees for private visits to foreign countries has been prescribed clearly by the administration.
“It has been provided that the station permission for proceeding outside the country on private affairs shall be granted by the administrative department in the same manner as leave outside ... | |
| | | | Process of uprooting fear of terrorism going on at rapid pace in J&K: Lt Guv Sinha | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 15: Asserting that the process of uprooting the fear of terrorism is going on at a rapid pace in Jammu and Kashmir, Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha has said the Union Territory has a development deficit of 73 years and there would be challenges to fill the gaps, but his administration is fully prepared to deal with it. He also said the aspirations and dreams of the people of Jammu and Kashmir were suppressed by "a few people" under a thoughtful strategy.
The LG made the remarks during the release of a book, titled "Tipane Kashmirchi (notes on Kashmir), untold stories", authored by Arun Karmarkar, in Mumbai on Sunday.
"Terrorism is the real enemy o... | |
| | | | Munish Gupta asks government to solve problems of people of Kunjwani Talab Lane 4 | | Residents of Kunjwani Talab Lane 4 at receiving end since problems remain unattended | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 15: Munish Gupta, Editor in Chief, Early Times has asked the administration to come up to the expectations of the people living in the Jammu region and solve the problems living in the different areas of the city.
Referring to the problems being faced by the people of Gandhi Nagar constituency Munish said that many areas of this constituency have been left to the mercy of God. He said that despite repeated reminders the people at helm have not taken any step to... | |
| | | | PAGD won highest seats in DDC elections but manages to make chairpersons only in 5 districts | | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 15: The People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) has managed to make its chairpersons in only five districts of Jammu & Kashmir despite winning highest seats in district development council elections.
Chairperson and vice-chairperson have been elected in 17 districts so far while voting on three districts is yet to take place in J&K. The PAGD is an amalgam of six parties, including the National Conference and the Peoples Democratic Party which won 110 seats out of 280 seats in DDC elections followed by BJP-75, Congress-26.
Under the first ever DDC polls held last year, each district was divided into 14 segments and the elected candi... | |
| | | | High Court stays no confidence motion against MC Kishtwar president | | | | ASIF IQBAL NAIK
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 15: In a much hyped No Confidence Motion wherein PC, BJP, Apni Party along with NC rebels made an attempt to remove President MC Kishtwar through a resolution could not materialize following the intervention of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
As per the details available with Early Times, Justice Javed Iqbal Wani in a writ petition filled by Raiz Ahmed Zargar, President MC Kishtwar seeking stay on proceedings of No Confidence Motion moved against him without fulfilling the required criteria.
The court in its order dated 12-2-2021 stayed the proceedings till the outcome of the writ petition and listed the case for 15-3-2021 for next date of... | |
| | | | 10 districts report no fresh COVID-19 case; 64 new cases reported, positive cases reach 125045 | | Active positive 617, recovered 122837, casualties 1951 | | | JEHANGIR RASHID
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 15: The union territory of Jammu & Kashmir reported 64 new cases of COVID-19 following which the total number of positive cases reached 1, 25,045. As many as 10 districts of the union territory reported no fresh case in the past 24 hours.
Srinagar district reported 35 fresh cases of Corona Virus followed by Jammu district eight cases, Pulwama district five cases, Baramulla, Budgam, Shopian and Udhampur districts three cases each, Kulgam district two cases and Anantnag & Bandipora districts one case each. No case was reported from Rajouri, Doda, Kathua, Samba, Kishtwar, Ramban, Reasi, Poonch, Kupwara and Ganderbal districts.
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