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| Intel agencies warn of more attempts to defame PDP-BJP Govt in JK | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 13: The Union Home Ministry and intelligence agencies have warned of more attempts by the separatists and their supporters in the Valley to disturb peace instigating violence which forces army and security forces to fire at the protestors.
The intelligence agencies have warned that every attempt will be made to topple the BJP alliance Government in the State.
The first reflection of the this warning has already come true as the video of the girl who was allegedly molested by the army. In the video the girl clearly States that she was first slapped by her classmate and then not allowed to go to the police station after her bag was snatched, and in a clear... | |
| | | | Kashmir valley on boil following killing of 4 civilians in Kupwara district | | Normal life paralyzed due to strike call given by separatists | | | Jehangir Rashid/
S Tahir ul Haq
Early Times Report
srinagar/baramulla, Apr 13: Normal life got paralyzed across Kashmir valley today following a strike call given by separatist leaders against the killing of two youth at the hands of security forces at Handwara in North Kashmir's Kupwara district on Tuesday.
Reports said that the strike was complete in almost all the major cities, towns and townships of the Kashmir valley. Protest demonstrations were reported from some of the areas of Srinagar city and other parts of Kashmir valley. Police and security forces personnel used force to disperse the protesters in different parts of the valley.
Meanwhile, the toll in the firing incident re... | |
| | | | Handwara episode exposes separatists | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 13: Handwara episode and violence has exposed the separatist and hardliner Hurriyat group headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani which is hell bent to create a 1990 type situation in militancy ravaged Valley again.
According to sources, formation of coalition by mainstream Kashmir centric PDP and BJP for the second time in the State during last one year has neither gone well with separatists nor some mainstream organizations in the Valley and they are hell bent in creating a trouble for the coalition and throw horns for smooth functioning of Mehbooba Mufti led Government.
The Handwara episode followed by NIT Srinagar unrest is a beginning towards the same. The oct... | |
| | | | Separatists race for hartal call, face public fury | | #Shame, #Hurriyat and ShameHurriyat: Netizens | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Apr 13: Even as the separatists continued to race for giving strike call against killing of two more civilians in north Kashmir on Wednesday, they had to face public fury online.
As the toll of civilian killings in Handwara town in the last two days reached four, the separatists gave strike call for another day. But the people remained witty enough to ridicule at the pro-freedom camps.
Giving vent to their feelings on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, the people took dig at the separatist leaders saying they had been minting fortunes out of civilian killings while some of them created tags like #Shame, #Hurriyat and Shame Hurriyat.
"Do you ... | |
| | | | Police book 'innocent' soldiers to please minister | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 13: In an alleged case of 'display of power' by a J&K cabinet minister, two army jawans were 'wrongly' got booked by him even as his vehicle had hit their motorcycle on the lower Akhnoor road near here.
According to police sources, two soldiers - Sanjay Kumar and Rajinder Kumar -- were Wednesday going on a motorcycle when the vehicle of a minister, who was on a tour of Domana, allegedly hit their two-wheeler near Nagbani. As the collision led to arguments between them, those accompanying the minister called up the concerned police which immediately reached the spot. Acting swiftly to please the minister, without even verifying who actually was at fault, pol... | |
| | | | Panthers doesn't know what happened in NIT! | | JKNPP to send fact-finding team | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 13: It is strange that the Panthers Party, which otherwise has taken up in a big way the despicable NIT Srinagar episode that resulted in the migration of non-local NIT students from Kashmir under the so-called BJP nationalist Raj, is not fully aware of what actually happened at the campus. How else should one describe its decision to send a fact finding team to Srinagar?
What exactly happened in NIT Srinagar, which culminated in the exodus of non-local students of the NIT Srinagar from the summer capital?
Following the India-West Indies cricket match in the ICC T20 World Cup tournament on March 31, Kashmiri Muslim students of NIT Srinagar took out processi... | |
| | | | Srinagar NIT crisis: SSP, others likely to be transferred | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 13: Due to the inept handling of Srinagar NIT issue, SSP and other officers in the district were likely to be transferred.
The government was contemplating to transfer SSP, Srinagar, and other concerned officers, following their failure to handle the situation at NIT after a clash between local and non-local students a few days back.
They were expected to be replaced by those who had the track record of handling such public issues in a more effective manner, the sources added.
A 2006 batch IPS officer, who at present is the head of Srinagar district police, is said to have already completed two years of his service in the district. As state police circles w... | |
| | | | Lathis for non-local NIT students, nodal officers for Kashmiri students | | Nationalism, BJP-style | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 13: Is the BJP a truly nationalist party? What is its ideology? These are the two straight questions the people across the country in general and Jammu, an epicenter of Indian nationalism, are asking these days. They are asking these straight and pertinent questions in the aftermath of gory and frightening events which took place on the campus of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar between March 31 and April 11. On March 31, local Kashmiri students celebrated the defeat of India in cricket match by raising pro-Pakistan and anti-India slogans. And on April 11, more than 1200 brutalized, lathi-charged, tear-gassed and persecuted nationalist non-l... | |
| | | | Gullible owner becomes victim of Police-land mafia nexus | | Running pillar to post for years for justice | | | Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 13: In order to shield a colleague in a case of alleged land grabbing, J&K police has been trashing court directions and making the legal owner of a piece of land in Gurah Brahmana area run from pillar to post for last six years.
The victim Ravinder Kumar Shan, who had purchased a piece of land at Gurah-Bramana Jammu from Puran Chand son of Kuti Ram resident of Gurah-Bramana Jammu in year 1993, told Early Times that in 2010 he started to raise construction on the his land when Parshotam Lal, Rattan Lal Sharma, an employee of High Court Jammu, and Satish Kumar who is serving in J&K Police objected and got the work on his legitimate land stoppe... | |
| | | | BJP minister in soup for indiscipline | | Projects himself 'bigger' than others, likely to face music | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 13: The Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, and the BJP's national organizing secretary, Ram Lal have taken cognizance of the alleged indiscipline by a senior BJP minister in the State Government, during a public function in at Jammu on Tuesday.
The said BJP minister is learnt to have invited attention of the party leaders as well as his colleagues when he forcefully occupied a seat on the dais where Arun Jaitley, MoS in PMO, Dr Jatinder Singh, Ram Lal, Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh and others were sitting.
Even as all the BJP ministers, legislators and senior leaders of the party were sitting on both sides of the dais, where proper sitting arrang... | |
| | | | Report pricks Pakistan's 'Azad Kashmir' balloon | | 'Islamabad runs region, Azad a mere myth' | | | ET Report
srinagar, Apr 13: A recent report published in Pakistan itself has caused stir in South Asia's political landscape- puncturing the claims of Pakistan over terming its occupied territory of Kashmir as 'sovereign'.
The report has stated that the legal governance of 'Azad' Kashmir is mere myth aimed to create a misconception across. "The constitution of Azad Kashmir gives it a lot of symbolic independence - for instance, it has a Prime Minister whereas Indian Kashmir only has a Chief Minister. But if you read Article 21 of the 1974 Interim Constitution Act passed by the 48-member Azad Jammu and Kashmir unicameral Assembly in 1974, describing the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Council, it b... | |
| | | | Dharmarth Trust opposes Temple Bill | | | | Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 13: Terming the long pending temple Bill of Kashmiri Pandits in state legislative assembly a useless move, Dharmarth Trust management claimed that prevailing lobbyism among members of Religious places is responsible for dilapidated condition of temples in Kashmir. On the eve of electing Former Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir, B.R Kundal as the new president of Dharmarth Trust run by Dr Karan Singh,General Manager of Dharmarth Trust RL Bhan opposed pending Temples and shrines Bill of Kashmiri Pandits and claimed lack of transparency a responsible factor for dilapidated condition of religious places in Kashmir. Bhan said that many Pand... | |
| | | | Power theft by illegal consumers at Sai Shyam Colony | | | | Arun Singh
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 13: Despite the fact that unabated power theft is regular feature across the state,the Power Development Department has miserably failed to curb the menace due to rampant corruption in the department.
Sources told Early Times that at Sai Shyam Colony, Ghou Manhasan, the extent of the brazen power theft can be gauged from the fact that over fifty illegal connections in the area are running day and night with active connivance of PDD employees who are greased their palms by these illegal consumers and whenever efforts are made to apply for getting legal connection for electric supply, such consumers are discouraged by the local employees of the ... | |
| | | | DSE, SMC 'non-cooperation' forces DAV school to declare lockout | | | | JAMMU, Apr 13: Due to the alleged non-cooperation of Director School Edu. (DSE), Srinagar, and Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), the management of DAV Public Sec. School, Jawahar Nagar, has been forced to declare a lockout. "It is with great pain to report that the management of DAV Public Secondary School, Jawahar Nagar, has been forced to declare a lockout in the school in view of total non-cooperation by DSE, Srinagar, and SMC without any reason," a school handout said. "However, after a contempt petition for disobedience of the Dec 30, 2014 high court order, SMC, after a gap about 11 months, issued permission on Sept 27, 2015 vide order No 647 for reconstruction and raising of the b... | |
| | | | HC reserves order on PIL in NIT row | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 13: A high court division bench of Chief Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar and Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur has reserved its order in a PIL filed by Prof Hari Om, seeking direction to respondents to ensure fool proof safety of students at NIT, Srinagar, sans J&K police to ensure freedom of celebration of national, religious functions and festivals. The petitioner also sought a direction to the respondents to ensure free and fearless movement of students of NIT, Srinagar. A direction was also sought to restrain respondents especially UGC chairman not to conduct any examination of students at NIT, Srinagar, till the time their safety and liberty was restored.
The b... | |
| | | | Sports Council gets in limelight for lethargic in 'website updation' | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 13: Believe it or not, former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed is still as the president and Imran Raza Ansari, as Minister for Youth Services & Sports and vice-president of the J&K Sports Council, courtesy lackadaisical and lethargic approach of nodal authority which once again set tongue wagering not in sports sphere but also in common masses for it pitiful functioning of routine affairs including 'official website updation."
Although Ex-Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's promised e-Governance plan is yet to take off in several departments of the state and where it has been initiated it is falling flat reasons better known to concerned officials at helms... | |
| | | | Mehbooba to restructure party | | | | Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 13: After forming the government with BJP, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti is all set to restructure the party.
Insiders within the party said Mehbooba has decided to appoint spokespersons and other officer bearers for strengthening the party. "The party has decided to appoint party youth leaders Waheed Rehman Parra and Firdous Tak as spokespersons for Kashmir and Jammu region respectively," a senior PDP leader said. "But the decision over appointment of chief spokesperson is yet to be taken. Many leaders are in the race for the post but the party president will take the final call," the PDP leader said.
Before the demise of Mufti Mohamm... | |
| | | | Administration ignorant, influential contractors' might rules | | Scot free road-mafia takes on district Rajouri | |  Early Times Report
Rajouri, Apr 13: Astonishing it may sound , but the fact that haunts the three important departments related to the construction and developments of the roads in the district Rajouri is that none of it knows what is being cooking up under its nose.
The one and half kilometer new link road that stretches from village Barnara to Thumba in Nala Makol Panchyat is near about its completion while its DPR doesn't exists in the government records and the officials put up an ignor... | |
| | | | Garbage chokes water bodies, people seek revival | | |  Arun Kumar
Early Times Report
Kathua, Apr 13: Union government and Apex Court instructed to protect water bodies in entire country including district Kathua but number of water bodies meant for irrigation and domestic purposes have been choked by dumping garbage turned dry and soft place for garbage. People hailing from Chann Arorian today raised their voice under the leadership of social worker Deepak Raina wherein they demanded preservation of a river that now epitomized in small cana... | |
| | | | 'Land for rehab of Dal dwellers is marshy, unfit for construction' | | | | Majid Nabi
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 13: The inhabitants of Dal Lake claimed that the land provided by the government under Dal Dwellers rehabilitation policy in Housing Colony Rakhe-Arth in central Budgam is 'marshy' which is unsafe for residential construction.
The affected inhabitants said that the residential structures they had erected after being shifted to Rakhe-Arth have developed cracks besides there is no proper facility of power and drinking water which has added to their woes.
"The process of shifting Dal Dwellers was started in 2008, most of the people who shifted to Rakhe-Arth under governments rehabilitation policy complained that the land is marshy and in ... | |
| | | | Company violating DIC's norms, court apprised | | Sexual harassment case in M/s Ultimate Flexi Pack | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 13: The much publicized sexual harassment case that surfaced in multinational company running in the name and style of M/s Ultimate Flexi Pack Ltd. SIDCO Industrial Complex Bari Brahmana (Samba) on September 8, 2016, has exposed the working of the said multi- national company as the complainant apprised the court that the company, violating DIC's norms, transferred him somewhere in Delhi, besides violating court's directions.
The aggrieved namely Sanjay Thusoo, who is also the Commercial Manager in U flex unit, apprised the court that he was debarred from entering his office despite of court's directions to let him attend his duties which came on 19 Dec... | |
| | | | Under prepared admn defers mega traffic diversion plan for Srinagar | | ET Impact | | | Hyder Ali
Srinagar, Apr 13: Prompted by the series of Early Times reports, which recently exposed that administration in Kashmir was "underprepared" to undertake the massive traffic diversion in Srinagar in the wake of proposed closure of the arterial Jehangir Chowk Ram Bagh (JCRB) road, the authorities have deferred that plan "till things get into place."
As the JCRB flyover construction is underway, there were apprehensions of mishap if traffic continued to ply on that route.
Sensing trouble, Governor NN Vohra had sought safety audit of the route, while the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Asgar Hassan Samoon was asked to look into the matter. Though Samoon instantly prepared the "po... | |
| | | | Transferred cops not being relieved | | | | JAMMU, Apr 13: Several cops, who were transferred from various police stations in the district here following allegations of corruption and indiscipline against them, have yet not been relieved. Most of them are 'karyakhaas', who are termed in police stations as 'confidants' of SHOs. For being close to SHOs, they are termed as powerful within and outside the police stations. To get their transfer orders cancelled, the police station heads were alleged to be making all out efforts, police sources alleged. Sources said while after their transfers, which were effected a few days back, some were relieved immediately, the others were yet not shifted to their new places of posting. They were tran... | |
| | | | J&K yet 'undecided' to weed out non-performing IAS, IPS, IFS officers | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 13: Even as several IAS and IPS officers of J&K cadre are faced with allegations of corruption, professional misconduct and non-performance, the state is yet to share with the central government information about formation of review committees for assessing their performance.
As per rule, the central government, in consultation with the concerned state, may require an officer to retire in public interest from service for non-performance.
"There are some states like Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand among others who have not yet shared with the central government information regarding formation of review committees for assessing performance of IAS, IPS and ... | |
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