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Cong attacks Govt, BJP says everything is fine NIT issue rocks Lok Sabha

4/27/2016 11:16:23 AM

Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 26: The cornered BJP Government on Tuesday said in the Lok Sabha that deployment of CRPF personnel at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Srinagar, would not result in alienation of Kashmiri youth. "Deployment of central forces was not a suo motto decision of the central government. It was done only after the (non-local) students and the NIT administration made a demand (in this regard). Even Jammu and Kashmir police are outside the campus. So I don't think there will be any alienation," Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said in the Lok Sabha during Question Hour. Rijiju said even the Centre was keen that state police should be able to control ...

RSS takes state BJP to task for keeping high command in dark

4/27/2016 11:16:09 AM

Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 26: Taking serious note of the NIT Srinagar episode, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has taken state BJP leadership to task for its misleading feedback on the burning issue, which has been in new for the last around a month. According to sources in Sangh Parivar, the RSS top brass has come to know that the state unit of BJP and its ministers misrepresented the facts about ongoing struggle of non-Kashmiri students of NIT Srinagar. While elaborating, sources added that the State BJP leaders and its senior minister in the Mehbooba Mufti-led coalition government allegedly told the high command that the NIT issue was a minor administrative problem of the students wit...

Draft by ex-DGP on police accountability goes missing from Home deptt

4/27/2016 11:14:00 AM

Sumit Sharma ET Report Jammu, Apr 26: A file pertaining to the Police Act, which had covered all aspects making the state police accountable, has gone missing from the Home Department, putting a question mark on intention and working of officials there. The file had been submitted to Home Department by the then DGP Kuldeep Khoda. The revelation of disappearing of that particular file was made after hue and cry in last budget session in Srinagar raised by leaders of opposition party including Congress MLA from Kishtwar G.M Saroori demanding for the pattern of JKP's promotion policy at par with the other Northern states including Delhi, Rajasthan, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. Later, the X...

Sensing cold response from Pak, Sajad Lone skips Amanullah Khan's funeral

4/27/2016 11:13:23 AM

Early Times Report srinagar, Apr 26: Sensing trouble in getting visa for visit to Pakistan, Peoples Conference (PC) Chairman Sajad Lone has decided to skip the funeral of his father-in-law and JKLF co-founder Amanullah Khan who died in Rawalpindi on Tuesday. Sources said even though Lone, who is married to Khan's daughter Asma Khan, had been spending time with his family in New Delhi, the separatist-turned-mainstream leader decided not to apply for visa, though the Pakistani embassy falls in the national capital itself and it would have been easy for him to file the application. Lone, who is also MLA Handwara, has decided to fly to Srinagar for special condolence meetings, which may str...

Hurriyat (G) assault on NULM exposes its ideological myopia

4/27/2016 11:13:03 AM

ET Report Jammu, Apr 26: Hurriyat (G), a votary of separatism, is still living in an era of conservatism averse to change in thinking and new innovative modern schemes being launched by the government to ameliorate the lot of downtrodden class of society. The analysts while commenting on media reports, state that the apprehension expressed by Hurriyat (G) that PDP-BJP Govt is hell bent to change demography of Kashmir and trying to alter the Muslim character of J&K under the garb of National Urban Livelihood Mission launched by the government is designed in a futile attempt to misguide the Kashmiris and is based on its narrowness to thrust its conservative thoughts to prevent the low...

Bungling in SRE: CAG expose authenticates ET's reports

4/27/2016 11:12:50 AM

Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 26: As Comptroller & Auditor General's office (CAG) has exposed J&K Police's role in embezzlement of Security Related Expenditure during 2014 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, the Government headed by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti must initiate a probe into this scam without any delay. Early Times has been filing news reports on this issue from last more than one year and after such a long time CAG's investigation has authenticated the news articles of this newspaper filed on 4.10.2015, 29.9.2015, 4.7.2015, 25.6.2015, 10.2.2016. It was on the direction of Governor NN Vohra that voluntary disclosure of Security Related Expenditure (SRE) was made early last yea...

How unfortunate are non-local NIT students

4/27/2016 11:12:35 AM

Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 26: How unfortunate are the 2002 non-local students of the National Institute of Technology, who after being thrashed, abused, attacked and brutalized had to leave Srinagar to save their lives on April 11 and 12. They had never thought that they would be punished, condemned and hounded out and that their whole academic career would be at stake for countering the anti-nationals on the campus and demonstrating their commitment to the nation by chanting Bharat Mata Ki Jai slogan and waving national flag. They discharged their obligations towards the nation against all heavy odds, including threat to their life and limb, hoping that the Indian political class an...

Social networking sites and Jammu Marginalized, Ignored Jammu needs special care

4/27/2016 11:12:13 AM

Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 26: Everyone talks about Kashmir, Kashmiri pain, Kashmiri alienation, Kashmiri needs an aspirations and a solution to the so-called Kashmir problem - a solution that is acceptable to the Kashmir's majority community, and to the members of a particular religious sect, who have been at the helm of affairs for almost seven decades now and are well entrenched not only in the political establishment in J&K but also at the centre. This has been the approach of the Indian political since 1947 itself. People had hoped that the rise of BJP to power at the centre and the "historic victory" of the BJP in Jammu in 2014 would end the earlier Kashmir-centric and anti-Jammu...

Would Govt's employment policy work on ground? Peerzada Ummer

4/27/2016 11:04:03 AM

Early Times Report Srinagar, Apr 26: At a time when the government is pitching for the formulation of the comprehensive job policy, worrisome figures about the jobless youth are coming to fore- hinting at a dreadful surge in their numbers. Government in a recent high level government meet cautioned about the threat of radicalisation due to the growing rate of unemployment in the state. According to the official documents in possession of Early Times, the government in its recent survey has found that the number of jobless youth in the state is witnessing a serious surge with numbers almost doubling in five years. Earlier, the figures had claimed number of jobless youth as six lakh....

8Alarming spurt in crime against women J&K turning unsafe for 'fairer sex'

4/27/2016 11:03:41 AM

K Koushal Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 26: Contrary to the claims of keeping crime against women under check in J&K, the Crime Report recently released by Police department has revealed that J&K registered more cases of crime against women than the national average. The official statistics reveal that Jammu and Kashmir registered 57 cases per one lakh women population, which is much higher than the all India rate- 56.3. The figures are also indicative of the inability of the J&K Police to keep crime against women under check. As per the figures, there is an increase in the cases registered by police across the state in the year 2015 in comparison to the year 2014. The prime as...

College of Education purchases electronic items from open market

4/27/2016 11:03:26 AM

Akshay Azad Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 26: The Government College of Education Jammu had reportedly purchased electronic items worth Rs. 55,000 from open market, without inviting any tender besides the payments were made to the dealer on simple performa bill rather than on invoice bill. According to the documents in possession of Early Times, the Government College of Education Jammu on 23/2/2015 purchased electronic items including wireless MIC AWM, MIC SHM, MIC Stand DGN, MIC Stand DGT, Megaphone PM, Amplifier SSB, MIC AUD, MIC PIN, worth Rs. 55859 from open market in the year 2015. All the items were purchased by the then purchase committee of College, comprising Prof.AnjuBal...

Orders preliminary inquiry SVC detects nexus in Jammu University

4/27/2016 11:03:12 AM

Early Times Report JAMMU, Apr 26: On the basis of the merit of the complaint and the secret verification conducted in the matter, the State Vigilance Commission has asked the Vigilance Organization to initiate regular preliminary inquiry into the allegations levelled against two engineers of Jammu University. Earlier, the Commission had received a complaint about the misusing of official position and University funds by Suresh Sharma and Akash Bhola, both Assistant Engineers, working in Works Department of Jammu University, for their personal gains. The complainant has also alleged that the concerned engineers hand in glow with the contractors Karam Chand, Sonu Mahajan and Suresh ...

Parents of NIT students accuse BJP of supporting anti-nationals for power

4/27/2016 11:02:58 AM

Early Times Report JAMMU, Apr 26: As opposition Congress has hijacked NIT issue, the arrogant BJP leadership ultimately woke from deep slumber by starting an exercise to establish contact with parents of the affected students. Neither parents nor NIT students are so far giving any response to the BJP after the one member investigating team constituted under the directions of Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh shifted all blames on non-Kashmiri students for trouble. Credible sources said that sensing that this issue of National Flag is likely to snowball into a nationwide controversy, the BJP leadership this afternoon has asked state unit to establish contact with the parents of ...

19 months on, Saddal fails to become 'smart'

4/27/2016 11:02:01 AM

Bijay Charak Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 26: Promises made by state government as well as Union Government to Saddal homeless families that the village will be developed as Smart village but the lapse of nineteen months the families are yet to be permanent rehabilitated. Romesh Singh, Sarpanch of Panjar said that nearly six thousand peoples comprising 85 families of Saddal village were affected after the entire village got buried under landslides in September, 2014, in which 40 peoples are buried alive and bodies of four persons are yet to be traced. "Minister of State in PMO, Dr Jitendra Singh in his visits announced that Saddal village will be developed as the first 'smart vill...

Ordered to be wound up by present regime Overseas Employment Corporation, white elephant created by NC-Congress Govt

4/27/2016 11:01:48 AM

Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Apr 26: Previous National Conference-Congress coalition government in the state took many 'hasty' and 'wrong' decisions which at the end of the day did not lead to any benefit to any person in the state and in fact put un-necessary burden on the state ex-chequer. Creation of Jammu & Kashmir Overseas Employment Corporation (JKOEC) was one of the few wrong decisions taken by the dispensation led by Omar Abdullah. Ever since its creation the Corporation failed to get even a single un-employed youth adjusted in any company or other organization located abroad or within the country. The JKOEC was established in 2010 to facilitate employment of...

MLA thrashing Patwari row: Police takes cognizance as both sides file their complaints

4/27/2016 11:00:08 AM

Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 26: Arnia police have started investigations in the alleged thrashing of Patwari by MLA R S Pura after the police had received respective complaints from both sides with their claims and counter claims. According to police sources, while in his complaint, MLA R.S Pura has alleged that one of his supporter entered into verbal brawl with the Patwari after the latter showed lethargy in performing his duty on the other hand the Patwari in his complaint had alleged that he was thrashed by the MLA himself during his office hours. After getting complaints from the two sides, the Police have started investigation in this connection", a senior police officer...

RSS takes state BJP to task for keeping high command in dark

4/26/2016 11:41:05 PM