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J&K's IAS crisis set to deepen 72 of 137 IAS officers available; 13 to retire, 19 on Central deputation 2/22/2015 12:07:12 AM Syed Junaid Hashmi Early Times Report JAMMU, Feb 21: Jammu and Kashmir Government continues to face serious shortage of officers and this crisis is likely to deepen with the retirement of 13 IAS officers by the end of this year. Apart from 13 officers who would be retiring, 17 officers are already in Central deputation and with 2008 batch IAS officer Shyam Vinod Meena getting a call from Union Minister of State for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Prof. Sanwar Lal Jatt to join him as his private Secretary, the number has gone up to 19. Two officers Dr. Mandeep Bhandari and Jatinder Singh are both with Raj Bhawan and directly working under Governor N.N.Vohra. 2001 batch IAS officer Dr. Mandeep Bhandari is Additional CEO of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB) since August 4, 2009 while 2008 batch IAS officer Jatinder Singh is Additional CEO of the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board since last month. If the number of officers on Central deputation remains around 20 by the end of this year and 13 officers superannuate, J&K would be left with just 72 officers...   READ MORE

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It's final; PDP-BJP to form next Govt in Jammu and Kashmir Legislators' names cleared for inclusion in cabinet, Sajad Lone also included 2/22/2015 12:07:00 AM Committee to look into issues like AFSPA, Article 370 Jehangir Rashid ET Report SRINAGAR, Feb 21: After a wait of two months, Jammu & Kashmir is all set to witness the new government with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Patron, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed all set to take oath as the next chief minister in the next few days. While PDP Patron would be Chief Minister of the state for the next six years, Dr. Nirmal Singh of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) would be his deputy and would discharge his duties as the next Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir. Sources told Early Times that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Bharatiya Janta Party have reached a consensus on the government formation in...   READ MORE   NC-Cong regime slept over appointing heads of 4 Commissions 2/22/2015 12:06:38 AM Shiv Dev Thakur Early Times Report JAMMU, Feb 21: Four important commissions, Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC), State Human Rights Commission (SHRC), JK Backward Commission and State Accountability Commission (SAC) have been defunct as the ousted NC-Cong regime slept over the issue of appointing heads of these important bodies. Omar led regime did nothing to take tangible measures to rejuvenate four defunct commissions due to which most of the pending cases are still lying unattended and victims are still waiting for the justice. "The erstwhile NC-Cong regime framed search committees to look for the eligible persons who could be appointed as chairmen of these com...   READ MORE   PDP holding detailed negotiations with BJP 'frustrates' NC Cong kept Omar content with 'lollipop' 2/22/2015 12:06:29 AM Fazal Khan Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Feb 21: The ousted Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and working President of the National Conference Omar Abdullah is making last ditch efforts to somehow prevent the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from entering into an alliance to form the next government in the state. After maintaining silence for sometime Omar took to the twitter on Friday and accused the PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed of indulging in a "sell out." "Dear Mufti Sahib, please don't say you won't "sell out" b'cause you've already done that by helping BJP in the Legislative Council elections," Omar tweeted. The PDP and BJP have been holding neg...   READ MORE   Revisiting the Feb 22, 1994 Parliamentary resolution Political status of Jammu & Kashmir 2/22/2015 12:06:15 AM Neha Early Times Report JAMMU, Feb 21: Pakistan, which says again and again that Jammu & Kashmir is an "unfinished agenda of partition", has been bleeding India with a thousand-cut almost at regular intervals to promote its rabidly anti-India agenda and annex this part of Jammu & Kashmir. It has been claiming that since Jammu & Kashmir was a Muslim-majority State, it should have become part of Pakistan which was created on the basis of two-nation theory on August 14, 1947, withholding the truth that Jammu & Kashmir was a Princely State and not part of British India which had to be divided into two independent and sovereign states - India and Muslim Pakistan. Pakistan invaded Jammu & Kash...   READ MORE   Together we defeated polio, have we? 2/22/2015 12:06:01 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Feb 21: An advertisement in some selected newspapers of the state has claimed total eradication of polio. Interestingly, it has given some credit to the people as well in its slogan `together we defeated polio'. The slogan is misleading. Such claims are made after a survey. As far as, the people of Jammu Kashmir know, no such survey has been conducted till date. Such a survey involves hectic human resource. There has to be a team of officials, volunteers, researchers and data analysts who work in total coordination for months together to reach a conclusion. The people who chose to talk to Early Times have made clear that nobody approached them for the informa...   READ MORE   Charak's fate in limbo as case pending for regular inquiry at SAC Rs 30 cr Ganpat Bridge project scam 2/22/2015 12:05:53 AM Peerzada Ummer ET Report Jammu, Feb 21: The corruption case filed against the former Minister, Gulchain Singh Cahrak, in Ghulam Nabi Azad government, is pending for regular inquiry in the State Accountability Commission since 2012. Sources told Early Times that a breakthrough in the case is expected in very near future as the case continues to remain shelved since years. On March 27, 2012, SAC issued notices to Gulchain Singh Charak former Minister for works, several officers of the Jammu and Kashmir Project Construction Corporation (JKPCC) and a high profile private contractor taking cognizance of a complaint with regards to Rs 30 cr Ganpat Bridge project and also sought comments fro...   READ MORE   JPUF, BSP, AAP all for the Jammu cause Rise of pressure groups 2/22/2015 12:03:29 AM Rustam Early Times Report JAMMU, Feb 21: A number of important political developments have taken place in Jammu province, which never got its legitimate due share in the political and economic processes during all these 67 years of independence. It all started in the wake of the fractured mandate that the people of the state gave on December 23 in the assembly elections. The fact is that three pressure groups have come into being after December 23. The first pressure group that was formed was the Jammu Pradesh United Front (JPUF), a conglomeration of 15 smaller political groups under the leadership of the Panthers Party president Balwant Singh Mankotia. The JPUF, which was formed on ...   READ MORE   No advisories please, take tangible measures Countering H1N1 threat 2/22/2015 12:03:10 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 21: Strange are the ways of the state government. First it sits over a situation that has the potential to turn into a catastrophe. And, more often than not, its belated response is in an alien language. The state government has issued yet another advisory in local papers in English-a language which a section of population in the state can read or understand. The advisory obviously is meant for people who have access to the internet. They have visited hundreds of websites in the past three days to acquaint themselves for the disease. Some of them have ordered and even got the N97 masks, a luxury which the para-medical staff of the state hospitals cannot e...   READ MORE   Congress critical of Modi's gifts coming under hammer for a noble cause 2/22/2015 12:02:52 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 21: To the supporters of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi,and to those who are keenly awaiting the implementation of clean ganga programme criticism of Modi's plan on auctioning all those items which he had received from foreign dignitaries and from his staunch supporters sounds ludicrous and unwarranted. Senior Congress leader, Ajay maken,who lost the recent assembly election in delhi despite having been projected as the Chief Ministerial candidate cited various procedures while lambasting modi for having accepted gifts from dignitaries and from people maken opened his mouth After Narendra Modi's monogrammed suit which he wore during US President Barack Obam...   READ MORE   JKPSC lethargy tests patience of CCE aspirants Postpones preliminary exams 2/22/2015 12:02:43 AM Arun Singh Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 21: In what could be described as lackadaisical approach of Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commotions (JKPSC) that it announced postponement of preliminary examination of Combined Competitive Examination, 2014 at the eleventh hour as the same was scheduled to be held on March 1. If recalled that earlier the nodal examination agency had announced postponement of the scheduled examination reasoning it due to post flood situations and polling time in December 2014 The notification issued by PSC in its website reads that all eligible candidates who have applied for the posts under Combined Competitive Examination, 2014 in response to Notificati...   READ MORE   Hospitals san medicines, vaccines Health Deptt fails to spend funds released by Guv 2/22/2015 12:02:11 AM Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 21: Owing to unavailability of specialized labs along with insufficient of medicine vaccines in the government hospitals, a major threat about Swine Flu taking a shape of epidemic is looming large over Jammu and Kashmir. "Lackadaisical attitude of the Health Department and its failure to keep the state hospitals equipped with medicine and other necessary facilities cn prove fatal for the state," sources said. They said the Governor N N Vohra released Rs 30 lakhs to the Health Department to augment the stock of medicines and vaccines and purchase ventilators to effectively deal with the flu. "Two days have passed when the amount was ...   READ MORE   2 more test positive in Jammu 2/22/2015 12:01:53 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 21: Feb 21: At least two more persons have tested positive for Swine flu in Jammu division taking the number of positive patients to five, while 14 fresh samples of suspected persons were sent for evaluation to National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD), Delhi on Saturday. Sources said, 14 fresh samples were sent to the NICD and out of them nine reports has reached in which two patients tested positive. Total 37 samples were sent to NICD from Jammu till date and five patients have tested positive a few of them were admitted in isolation ward established at Chopra Nursing Home of Government Medical College and Hospital, Jammu....   READ MORE   'Health department failed to handle H1N1 outbreak' 2/22/2015 12:01:36 AM Javaid Naikoo Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Feb 21: Civil Society members have castigated the health officials for failing to control the outbreak of Swine Flu in Jammu and Kashmir. A day after Health officials in Kashmir admitted that H1N1virus had stuck Kashmir in October 2014, a civil society member while talking to Early Times said health officials are merely issuing statements for the sake of formality at present to evade growing public anger against them for their alleged failures but the fact is that Health department has failed at all fronts to handle the Swine flu outbreak in JK. "Failure of Health department has resulted in deaths of people, what were they doing wh...   READ MORE   Swine Flu threat looms over Katra 2/22/2015 12:01:26 AM Bijay Charak Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 21: Increasing cases of Swine flu in Jammu and Kashmir have caught the administration napping as it seems ill prepared to tackle the threat at holy town of Katra where thousands of pilgrims arrive daily from badly infected states across the country. Sources informed Early Times that till date state government is unaware about Katra where there is high possibility of H1N1 influenza spreading rapidly and reaching Jammu. Pertinently, every day thousands of pilgrims from badly infected states visit Katra which poses huge threat to locals as well as the pilgrims of Jammu division. Interestingly, there is no facility at SDH Katra to collect s...   READ MORE   Independent legislators hold key to two LC seats from Kashmir 2/21/2015 11:13:31 PM Kunal Shrivatsa Early Times Report JAMMU, Feb 21: With five candidates being elected unopposed to Legislative Council today, all eyes are now set on the fate of remaining six out of total eleven seats that go to polls on March 2. Role of independent Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) has once again gained significance after the recently concluded Rajya Sabha polls. Three Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) and two Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) candidates were elected unopposed as Members Leg...   READ MORE   Rafibad Encounter: Two Pak based Laishker ultras eliminated, huge arms ammunition recovered 2/21/2015 11:09:56 PM S.Tahir-Ul Haq Early Times Report Baramulla, Feb 21: In a fierce encounter security forces eliminated two Pak based militants of Laishker-e-Toiba (LeT) terror outfit in Thakhgund village of Rafiabad area in Baramulla district of Kashmir on Saturday afternoon. A huge hauls of arms and ammunition including GPS was recovered from the encounter site while 'combing' operating was on in the target area. The slain militanst have been identified namely as as Abu Numan and Abu Saad both residents ...   READ MORE   Engineer Rashid's participation in congregation irks Jamaat rank & file 2/21/2015 11:08:33 PM Shakeel A Khan Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Feb 21 : Participation of a mainstream leader in a recent congregation of Jamaat-e-Islami at Jammu has caused fissures in the rank and file of the socio-political organization. It continues to be a hot debate in the party circles as on date. The problem for the party started when Engineer Abdul Rashid, who won the recent assembly election from Langate spoke in the annual congregation of the party for the Jammu district conducted in the Rajinder Bazar area. "The move of the party to allow a mainstream leader to be invited to the party programme has created doubts in the minds of the workers of the party. It is totally against the basic princi...   READ MORE

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