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Fear stricken PM package employees demand evacuation from Kashmir 5/14/2022 11:08:53 PM Early Times Report Jammu, May 13: Amid fear and anger Kashmiri Pandit employees, appointed under the much-publicized Prime Minister's Employment Package, have urged Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to evacuate them from Kashmir Valley. These employees Saturday urged Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to evacuate them to safer places. “It is to apprise regretfully that we PM package employees under threat compulsion have finally decided that Kashmir is not safe for we people”, employees mentioned in a fresh letter written to Lieutenant Governor. “It is very unfortunate that being Indian, being Hindu we are being targeted again and again, day in day out we are being assassinated selectively”, employees said. The letter further mentioned “the package was given to as confidence-building initiative for we people but forget about the confidence we are not able to live here. Administration on daily basis takes responsibility for our lives but we are being killed daily. Kashmiri Pandits are ready to serve anywhere in the world but not in Kashmir due to Jihadist Terrorism”. The enraged...   READ MORE

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NIA to probe Rahul Bhat killing! 5/14/2022 11:08:47 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, May 13: The National Investigation Agency or NIA is likely to probe the recent gruesome killing of Kashmir Pandit, Rahul Bhat who was killed inside his office by terrorists. Sources said New Delhi has taken a serious note of the killing of this yet another Kashmir Pandit in Kashmir, taking the toll of target killings of this community members to 15, since the abrogation of the so called special status of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019. The lapse of the part of Jammu and Kashmir administration is not being ruled out. Sources said the Modi government has taken a serious note that the young government employee was killed that too inside his government o...   READ MORE   BJP delegation to discuss security, other affairs of KPs with LG: Ravinder Raina 5/14/2022 11:08:41 PM Early Times Report Jammu, May 14: Jammu & Kashmir President Ravinder Raina denouncing the killing of Rahul Bhat said that he along with other senior BJP leaders will meet J&K LG on Sunday to discuss and press for the security related issues. Raina said that this sorry episode has ashamed humanity and whole Jammu & Kashmir. This brutal episode has maligned the humanity and ashamed whole society. He said that Rahul was dedicatedly serving the society when he was brutally murdered by the Pakistani sponsored terrorists. He also lashed out at the killing of SPO who was a Kashmiri Muslim by the terrorists and said that they cannot derail the peace and progress process here by their henio...   READ MORE   Attack on Pandits assault on very soul of Kashmir: Farooq 5/14/2022 11:08:34 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, May 14: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Party President and Member of Parliament Srinagar Farooq Abdullah on Saturday said every attack on Pandit brothers is an out and out attack on the very soul of Kashmir. Farooq said this while interacting with a delegation of Kashmiri Pandits led by the party Minority Wing Vice President Amit Koul. The visiting delegations discussed a number of issues concerning Kashmiri Pandits, particularly those living in Kashmir with the party President, NC spokesman said. The visiting delegations said that those KPs who took up government jobs as the first step toward rehabilitation were now struggling for timely p...   READ MORE   Protests continue against Rahul’s killing 5/14/2022 11:08:29 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, May 14: Street protests continued for a third day on Saturday against the killing by militants of a Kashmiri Pandit, Rahul Bhat, who was shot dead on Thursday. On Saturday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) too staged a protest in Srinagar against the killings of Bhat as well as policeman Riyaz Ahmed. The protesters shouted anti-Pakistan slogans and appealed Prime Minister Nardendra Modi to “teach another lesson” to Islamabad amid a series of targeted killings. “Since Kashmir is witnessing a bumper tourism, Pakistan and the terrorists are worried over the prevailing peace. And now Pakistan-backed terrorists kill innocent people like Rahul and Riyaz to ...   READ MORE   J&K Govt working towards doubling power generation capacity in 3 years: LG Sinha 5/14/2022 11:08:22 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, May 14: To make Jammu and Kashmir power surplus in the next four years, Power Development Department is working earnestly towards doubling electricity generation capacity in the Union Territory in three years. The J&K government has initiated a large scale capacity augmentation programme to address the current power deficit in the UT. Earlier, Jammu and Kashmir was able to harness only 3,500 MW of electricity in the last 70 years but the power generation capacity in the Union Territory is all set to be doubled in the next three years and trebled in seven years. The J&K administration has launched various initiatives to strengthen and improve power infrast...   READ MORE   Army Chief visits forward areas in Eastern Ladakh 5/14/2022 11:07:16 PM Agencies New Delhi, May 14: Army Chief Gen Manoj Pandey on Saturday visited forward areas in Eastern Ladakh and reviewed the operational preparedness of the forces deployed along the LAC in challenging inhospitable terrain. The General interacted with the troops and complimented them for their steadfastness and high morale, the Indian Army said. Gen Pande arrived at Leh on Thursday on a three day maiden visit to the Ladakh region after assuming the command of the Indian Army. The Army Chief, in an interaction with journalists this week, said that "China does not intend to find an early resolution to the overall boundary question." Altering the May 2020 status, the PLA has also c...   READ MORE   J&K Govt orders minor reshuffle in civil administration 5/14/2022 11:07:10 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, May 14: The Jammu and Kashmir Government on Saturday ordered transfers and postings in the administration. According to a Government Order No.559-JK(GAD) of 2022, issued by the General Administration Department (GAD, Mohammad Akbar Wani, JKAS, Managing Director, J&K Cable Car Corporation, is transferred and posted as Secretary in the Agriculture Production Department. Ghulam Jeelani Zargar, JKAS, Chief Executive Officer, Tourism Development Authority, Gulmarg, shall hold the charge of the post of Managing Director, J&K Cable Car Corporation, in addition to his own duties, till further orders. Jahangir Hashmi, JKAS, Additional Secretary to the Government, Ag...   READ MORE   Omar starts campaign for assembly polls 5/14/2022 11:07:04 PM Early Times Report Jammu, May 14: Within days after the Delimitation Commission has submitted its final report, National Conference- the principal opposition party, has kicked started the election campaign for the assembly elections. After holding meetings in Kashmir Valley, the former chief minister, and National Conference vice president of NC, Omar Abdullah reached Poonch on Saturday where he will address a series of meetings in the twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri. Insiders in the National Conference said that aim of Omar Abdullah’s visit to Poonch-Rajouri was to mobilize the party cadre and retrieve lost ground in this region which was once a stronghold. In the 2014 a...   READ MORE   J&K Bus Fire: NIA team visits scene, collected samples 5/14/2022 11:06:59 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, May 14: A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday inspected the passenger bus that was gutted in a mysterious fire incident near Katra town, the base camp for pilgrims visiting Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Four persons were killed and 24 others injured when the moving bus, mostly ferrying devotees, caught fire near Nomai, about three kilometers from Katra, shortly after leaving for Jammu from the base camp on Friday. Though the survivors and the people residing in the vicinity of the incident spoke about hearing an explosion in the bus, Additional Director General (ADG) of Police, Jammu z...   READ MORE

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