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| Multi- crore Health Insurance scam left without probe | | Will present helmsmen fulfil past Governor's promise? | |  Early Times Report
jammu, Feb 8: Governor of erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir Satya Pal Malik had promised probe more than a year ago in employees health insurance scheme. The question is whether the authorities in the Union Territory continue to look the other way or get the multi crore scam probed on priority.
The government in September 2018 issued the order stating that the policy has been tied with M/s Reliance General Health Insurance Company Ltd on an annual premium of Rs 8,777 a... | |
| | | | BJP under pressure to give reservation benefits to Paharis of Kathua also | | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Feb 8: Decision of the UT administration to grant four percent reservation to Pahari speaking people of J&K has landed BJP in a piquant situation because residents of hilly areas of Kathua district have also started projecting themselves as Paharis to get reservation benefits.
Residents of Bani tehsil of Kathua district have already constituted Pahari Forum to substantiate their claims that like residents of other hilly areas they too have claim staked claim on reservation.
Kathua is stronghold of BJP so party leadership is under pressure because ignoring demand of these people would be proved disastrous for the party in coming days.
Earlier only people of twin... | |
| | | | Kashmir centric politicians count PSAs as Centre draws a line | | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Feb 8: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Ministers, Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti and two other politicians, Ali Mohammad Sagar and Sartaj Madni being booked under Public Safety Act (PSA) has created ripples within the camps of Kashmir centric politicians.
An analyst while talking to Early Times said, "Political leaders were expecting Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti and Farooq Abdullah will be released soon. Very few people expected that besides senior Abdullah four others will also be booked under PSA."
He said, "Slapping of PSA against these four is an indication that Centre has made up its mind to keep such elements at bay that could act as an impediment towards J... | |
| | | | Common masses expresses, 'Jaise Karni, Waise Barni ' | | PSAs slapped on former CMs of J&K for their own Karmas | | |
Mohammad Sarfaraz
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 8: Slapping PSAs over the former chief ministers of erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir has become a talk of the town, but one fails to understand why the common masses are happy over the decision of union government, and most of them said that it is all because of their karmas, (deeds).
However a netizen on the social media wrote that, he spoke to several people on the ground and none of them showed any concern, in fact many of them displayed happiness that finally some of the murderers of Kashmiris are now facing the same instrument of coercion PSA that they used against their opponents and common people.
While as many expressed ... | |
| | | | Mehbooba Mufti was working with separatists: Sources | | | 
Early Times Report
srinagar, Feb 8: A six-page dossier listing the grounds for the detention of former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti says she was working with separatists, according to sources.
The dossier mentions Mufti`s tweets prior to the revocation of Article 370, on lynching and highway blockade, among others.
According to sources, it also talks about the Peoples Democratic Party`s (PDP) flag and symbol of inkpot and pen -- a replica of the sign used by the Muslim United Front (MUF) ... | |
| | | | Govt to hold probe in fund utilisation under SRE in JK | | | |
Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 8: Jammu and Kashmir administration is likely to initiate a probe for allegedly misusing of funds under Security Related Expenditure in the new Union Territory.
This follows after Ministry of Home Affairs raised serious questions over expenditure of funds under SRE scheme in the new Union Territory.
An official said government is mulling to hold a probe to know whether there has been any misuse of funds.
"If there is any wrong doings then action will be taken against officials from Police and Home Department in JK," the official said.
The SRE is to support the logistical requirements of the J&K police to combat militancy in the n... | |
| | | | MHA handed over Nagrota encounter case to NIA: Sources | | | | agencies
new delhi, Feb 8: The Nagrota encounter case in which three militants were killed has been handed over to the National Investigating Agency (NIA), sources at the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said .
Security forces on Friday gunned down three suspected Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists and arrested three overground workers (OGW) after police intercepted a truck carrying the militants at a toll plaza at Nagrota on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.
A policeman was also injured in the encounter that took place on January 31. Sameer Ahmed Dar was driving the truck ferrying 3 Jaish terrorists and two over ground workers (OGW).
The investigation agency is now focused on the inter... | |
| | | | Love connection too in Nagrota terror attack | | | | Early Times Report
jammu, Feb 8: Security agencies have found a 'love connection' in January 31 Nagrota terror attack after a mobile phone packed in box was recovered from the truck carrying the terrorists and the ammunition.
Intelligence sources here on Saturday said that the mobile phone recovered from the truck was handed over to the handler Samir Dar, who was ferrying the Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists to the Kashmir valley, by his friend in Rajasthan where he has gone to meet him.
"Samir, confessed during interrogation that the mobile phone was given to him by one of his friends in Jodhpur where he has gone to meet him," sources said adding that on hearing that Samir was directly going... | |
| | | | KP group expresses dismay over exclusion of community in PM's outreach programme | | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 8: Kashmiri Pandit group namely Reconciliation, Return & Rehabiliation of Kashmiri migrants has expressed dismay that none of the union ministers visited the Kashmiri migrant camps in Jammu during the recent public outreach programme across the union territory of Jammu & Kashmir.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Jammu and Kashmir outreach programme saw several ministers visiting the union territory from January 18 to 24. They travelled across the former state, but did not visit the Kashimiri migrant camps in Jammu," said a spokesman of the Kashmiri Pandit group.
The group said that Jammu and Kashmir is a 'terror' affected place in which... | |
| | | | Naeem Akhtar booked under PSA | | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Feb 8: Two days after the Public Safety Act (PSA) was slapped on former chief ministers- Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, senior Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Naeem Akhtar was on Saturday booked under the Act, official sources said here.
With this, six mainstream political leaders, including three former chief ministers, have been booked under the PSA, since abrogation of Article 370 on August 5.
Sources said that Akhtar, who was also the chief spokesperson in PDP-BJP coalition government, would be lodged in a hut on Gupkar road in Srinagar.
They said NC leader Tanveer Sadiq and former MLA Mubarakh Gul were released from detention at MLA hostel and... | |
| | | | Srinagar to be 'more flood prone' as SMC plans bridge on flood channel 'without NoC' | | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Feb 8: In a move that is feared to make Srinagar "more flood-prone", the Srinagar Municipal Corporation or SMC is planning to construct a bridge on the Doodh Ganga flood spill channel here.
Official sources said the SMC has decided to constructed the bridge on the spill channel allegedly without getting requisite clearance from the competent authorities especially the Irrigation and Flood Control Department or the IFCD.
Officials in the IFCD told Early Times that it was mandatory for the SMC to get clearance from the former. "The area already has so many bridges and construction of any further bridge can further reduce the flood bearing capacity of the spill ... | |
| | | | MC Rajouri issues building permissions in violation of nor | | | | Rajesh Tandon
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 8: The slackness of Municipal Committee Rajouri can be gauged from the fact that it has totally failed to stop illegal constructions, which are being carried out across the town.
Sources told Early Times that building permissions are being issued by Municipal Committee in sheer violations of by- laws which are clearly visible from the constructions, which are taking place in the town.
“As per rules, there is permission of construction of maximum two floors including ground floor and two more floors over it but people have constructed 6-7 storey building and the concerned department see to be in deep slumber, which shows that it deliberately ... | |
| | | | Two arrested for pasting Lashkar posters in north Kashmir: Police | | Four missing teenagers handed over to their families | | | S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
BANDIPORA, Feb 8: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested two persons involved in pasting provocative posters of banned militant out-fit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) in Hajin area, while as four missing teenagers were handed over to families in Bandipora district of this north Kashmir district.
During a press conference Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Bandipora Rahul Malik said that two persons involved in pasting posters were arrested from Hajin and two laptops have also been recovered from them.
He said that they used to paste posters of LeT at various spots in Hajin for inciting common masses against the police and State of India.
The SSP said... | |
| | | | No post of child specialist at Ramnagar Hospital: Director Health Jammu | | | | Ashwani Sharma
Early Times Report
Udhampur feb 8: There is no post of a child specialist at Ramnagar Hospital. This was claimed by the Director Health Jammu, Dr Renu Sharma when this reporter asked her about no appointment in the hospital even after the death of 10 children there.
It is pertinent to mention here that few days back Early Times carried a story on non-availability of a child specialist at OPD of Ramnagar Hospital as there was death of ten kids in the medical institution.
However, as per sources the children like other patients are being examined and treated by the General Physician in the Hospital. The fact is that innocent people coming to the Hospital have no knowledg... | |
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