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Budgami keeps Azadi, mainstream camps happy, gets bulletproof vehicle Thaali Ka Baingan! 6/15/2015 12:25:48 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, June 14: Being ridiculed as 'Thaali Ka Baingan' could be humiliating but in Kashmir such a strategy brings blessings for politicians who can keep both mainstream and separatist camps happy. For separatist leader Agha Syed Hassan Budgami, who recently quit one Hurriyat to please the other and has equally improved his relations with a mainstream party, the strategy has worked wonders for him: State government has blessed him with a bulletproof vehicle. Budgami who for the past few weeks has been seen rubbing shoulders with Mirwaiz's arch rival Syed Ali Geelani, has been blessed with the bulletproof for personal travel while his police escort has also been upgraded. The new vehicle is equipped with sophisticated bulletproof system and wireless communication gadgets. "A specially trained driver and wireless operator are with the sedan," said a source adding "this has added to the police protection which this family has already been enjoying for years." Ironically, Budgami is believed to have travelled in the government-sponsored vehicle even to attend...   READ MORE

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No security for common man, BPs for separatists Police Raaj! 6/15/2015 12:25:40 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, June 14: Jammu and Kashmir Police seems to have no defined criteria for providing security to separatists in Kashmir. Many separatists, who leave no stone unturned to indulge in anti-India activities, get bullet proof vehicles and security guards to protect them, but when a common man approaches the Police to seek security his request is turned down on the pretext that there is shortage of manpower and no vehicles are available. Even the people who face threat to lives are not protected. Despite militants killing Sarpanchs last year Police made no effort to secure them and rejected their demand to protect them as a result many of them fell prey to the bullet...   READ MORE   Cong too joins Hurriyat to protect land-mafia by mis-using religion 6/15/2015 12:25:31 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 14: A day after self-styled "freedom fighter" and chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik staged "dramatic" dharna in supporter of land grabbers of Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress today came in support of those who have encroached thousands and thousands crore of Forest land across the State. General Secretary of the Pradesh Congress Committee Choudhary Shah Nawaz staged a dharna today at Srinagar to in support of "land-mafia" of Jammu and Kashmir which is posing grave to the ecology of the State. Choudhary Shahnawaz's dharna was aimed at giving a threat to Forest Minister against serving notices to those who have enc...   READ MORE   Deptt changes strategy to prevent confrontation among ministers Police transfers police way 6/15/2015 12:25:23 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 14: In the absence of unanimity among the State Cabinet for affecting transfers in police, the department has adopted a unique modus operandi to shuffle its officers from one place of posting to another by taking a go ahead from the Home Department and then issue transfer orders of different officers in piece meals. According to sources, the department first prepares the list of the officials to be transferred and then shifts them after getting an approval from the Home Department. "As of now only one such list was issued wherein a few transfers were executed…Within a few days, another list containing names of officers to be transferred will be released ...   READ MORE   Aimed to create good will, initiative brought brickbats instead How Ministers messed up New Recruitment Policy 6/15/2015 12:25:15 AM Peerzada Ummer Early Times Report Srinagar, June 14 : Much to the disappointment of the government, the new recruitment policy which was planned to be presented as the first major pro- people initiative by the new government was messed up by some cabinet ministers in such a way that it proved counterproductive for both the coalition partners in the state. Sources privy to this development told Early Times that after fifteen days of assuming office, both the coalition partners, PDP and BJP, met in Jammu and discussed threadbare, a plan which could put the new government in positive limelight with no money being spent over the execution of the plan at all. "Three prime sectors were ide...   READ MORE   Illegal constructions in full swing on forest land in Jammu Forest Minister's 'resolve' proves no deterrence for land mafia 6/15/2015 12:24:50 AM Early Times Report Jammu, June 14: PDP-BJP alliance government's Forest Minister Bali Bhagat created a furore few days back stating that forest land state-wide is presently being illegally occupied by encroachers who included top politicians of J&K. The political punch came when he said that while the previous government was non serious in retrieving land from encroachers, present government is determined to serve notices to all, including politicians like Dr Farooq Abdullah, a couple of senior leaders of his party besides some stalwarts from the Congress party. Over a week on after he raised this controversy, nothing remains unchanged on the ground as constructions are going on unab...   READ MORE   Cop allegedly takes Rs 1 lakh for letting couple free held in Car Senior police officer terms the incident a well knit plot by cop 6/15/2015 12:24:41 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 14: In a rebuff to the Khaki, a Sub Inspector who happens to be the in-charge of a police post in city allegedly took one lakh rupees to let the couple free, held in compromising position in a car. The incident took place in the late hours of Saturday, when a boy and a girl were held with the obscene gesture by a police team. Duo was taken into the police post where a Sub Inspector rank person allegedly took Rs one lakh from the parents of the girl and boy. Earlier, it is also alleged, the cop in question took the I-phone of the boy with him and it was after the exchanging of amount, the matter was over looked. In a similar incident that took place durin...   READ MORE   Re-employment of 'blue-eyed' officials leads to draining of crores as salaries 6/15/2015 12:24:25 AM Shakeel A Khan Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 14: Having in the mind that they will be wiped out in the assembly elections, the previous National Conference-Congress government emptied the state coffers by re-employing the blue eyed persons, on whose salary crores of rupees have been spent so far. Sources told Early Times that the previous government spent almost seven crore rupees on the salary and on the other expenditures of the persons who were re-employed, leading the state to the economic bankruptcy. "These re-employed persons got lakhs of rupees in terms of salaries and other perks during the previous regime. The previous government wasted the precious money which otherw...   READ MORE   Police reviewing security of protected persons, Agencies clueless about assailants After civilians gunmen can target politicians 6/15/2015 12:24:05 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, June 14: Unidentified gunmen targeting civilians in north Kashmir's Sopore area have thrown up another challenge for the security agencies operating in Kashmir. People at the helm fear the gunmen may intensify their activities in coming days, and they may target politicians. Sources told Early Times that agencies are reviewing the security of all the protected persons and have informed them not to venture into areas which are considered to be "red zones." "Along with Jammu and Kashmir Armed Personnel (JKAP) paramilitary CRPF men are being deployed to guard the people who could be the possible targets of the gunmen in coming days," sources added. They sai...   READ MORE   Govt mulls reconstitution of J&K State Sports Council CM likely to seek resignation of sitting members 6/15/2015 12:23:56 AM Abodh Sharma Early Times Report Jammu, June 14: Government is likely to dissolve existing J&K State Sports Council, the apex sports governing body of the state in the middle of its tenure and reconstitute the new dispensation soon. Sources in the Government divulge that a meeting of the existing Sports Council has been scheduled to be held in Srinagar on the 16th of June in the summer capital, wherein, the Chief Minister in his capacity as the president of the Council is likely to seek resignations from all the members to facilitate the process of its reconstitution. "The present Council is still left with more than a year in its four year term, but ever since the formation of new s...   READ MORE   AIIMS issue: Hunger strike enters 3rd day in Jammu 6/15/2015 12:03:36 AM Early Times Report Jammu, June 14: The chain hunger strike launched by AIIMS coordination committee, an amalgamation of various civil society groups spearheading agitation in support of setting up of an AIIMS in Jammu region, entered third day today. The members of the Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industries (JCCI) today took their turn to sit on the strike. "It is third consecutive day of the strike. People from various sections have sat on the strike in support of the AIIMS demand. We w...   READ MORE   Pak rejects banking for LoC business CM keen to enhance trade 6/15/2015 12:00:21 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 14: Even as Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed appreciated the separatists and Pakistan for the heavy turnout in Assembly polls, the neighbouring country, on the other hand, remained non-committal over the issue of further strengthening cross LoC trade for which the PDP patriarch is rooting for all through these years. In this context, the provision of a hassle free cross LoC trade between India and Pakistan was specially included in the PDP-BJP's coalition agenda for governance on the insistence of the CM as he was very keen to include it in the agenda. Though Mufti is pressing hard to raise the number of goods being traded presently but the Union Govern...   READ MORE   2 years on, GMC Administration fails to install two ACs for networking server room Equipments worth Rs 80 lakhs at risk 6/15/2015 12:00:13 AM Arun Singh Early Times Report Jammu, June 14: Blame it on the criminal neglect on the part of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) administration that it has been more than two years of setting up of networking server room to connect entire hospital with high speed network facility at cost of approximately Rs 80 lakhs but the administration has failed to install two Air Conditioners mandatory for maintaining temperature so that smooth functioning of server room can be ensured. Sources told Early Times that the project was given to National Knowledge Network which has expertise in multi-gigabite network, with a purpose to provide a unified high speed network, backbone for edu...   READ MORE   US need not to poke its nose in India-Pak bilateral matters J&K's political future 6/14/2015 11:59:49 PM Early times Report JAMMU, June 14: United States of America (USA), which has all along sided with rogue Pakistan, which is also considered epicenter of global terrorism, has once again poked its nose in the bilateral affairs of India and Pakistan. USA the other day asked India and Pakistan to take steps to reduce tensions and move toward resuming dialogue as the two countries engage in a verbal duel. It indirectly referred to the Kashmir issue that has embittered relations between India, the aggressed upon, and Pakistan, the aggressor. India rightly claims that Jammu & Kashmir as it existed on August 15, 1947 is an integral part of India and not part of partition plan. Pakistan, on the oth...   READ MORE   Yatra security on top of Govt priority list High level meeting in New Delhi on Jun 16 6/14/2015 11:59:00 PM Sanjay Pathak/ Kunal Shrivatsa Early Times Report JAMMU, June 14: With threats of a terror attack on the ensuing Amarnath Yatra looming large, the central government is taking no chance in ensuring smooth conduct of the annual pilgrimage as it has geared up its security mechanism to scuttle nefarious designs of different terrorist groups. The Union Ministry for Home Affairs (MHA), which is playing a pro-active role in plugging loopholes, if any, in the security apparatus has convened a series of meetings with different security agencies in the recent past for better coordination among them while looking after the security for the Amarnath yatra which is beginning from July 2 for 59 day...   READ MORE   Deliberate police ‘inaction’ stuns Omar, spoils NC rally 6/14/2015 11:58:49 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, June 14: The former Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah came out on the road to seek good governance and enforcement of the rights of the people. Omar, contrary to his expectations was not stopped by the police. The police watched with amusement when the workers lifted/removed the barricades near erstwhile Regal cinema on the one time posh Residency Road. Omar must have wondered to found that the lesson taught by successive NC regimes was forgotten by the police. No cane charge, no tear smoke shells and no use of the latest pallet guns. Political grapevine suggests that the `deliberate inaction' of the police forced Omar to change his programme. The plan of marchin...   READ MORE   Government thwarts separatists' anti- India conclave Several detained enroute Geelani's residence 6/14/2015 11:58:42 PM Javaid Naikoo Early Times Report Jammu, june 14: The government thwarted scheduled Seminar proposed in Srinagar by Separatist faction led by Hardliner Syed Ali shah Geelani and detained many separatist leaders and others invited from outside the state to attend the seminar. Schedule One-day seminar titled as "How to Resist RSS Agenda" wasexpected to attract participation of a number of Sikh, Christian and other Minority community leaders, including Simranjit Singh Mann of Akali Dal Punjab, Kanwarpal Singh of Dal Khalsa Punjab, Gautam Navlakha noted writer and human rights activist, besides Separatist leaders from Kashmir,Jammu and Rajouri areas. All main roads leading to Hyderpora Resid...   READ MORE   Jammu has not given power of attorney to so called negotiators TracTrack-II break-India efforts on in Kashmirk-II break-India efforts on in Kashmir 6/14/2015 11:58:27 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 14: Some Delhi-based pro-separatist elements have landed in Kashmir to play dirty role there. Some of them have become self-styled chairmen of Kashmir policy and strategy group (KPSG); former interlocutor M M Ansari; former Governor of Mizoram A R Kohli; Lt Gen (retd) Atta Hasnain; former Sikkim Governor B P Singh; former RAW chief A S Dulat and a Supreme Court lawyer, a Kashmir Pandit, who has little or no say in his own community. In fact, the community of internally displaced Kashmiri Pandits, barring the likes of Amitabh Mattoo, dismiss him as a "mercenary". A R Kohli and Atta Hasnain are very close to the RSS and the BJP. A S Dulat, too, maintains ve...   READ MORE   Amid squeezing political space in Kashmir, Mirwaiz eyes Jammu Sheds 'crocodile tears' for Jammu Muslims 6/14/2015 11:58:16 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 14: Finding his political space squeezing in Kashmir, Hurriyat Conference-M Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq now eyes Jammu to be in spotlight. After threatening to launch a full-fledged agitation in support of forestland grab in Jammu, Mirwaiz is all set to visit the winter capital to mobilize his resources. On June 14, while addressing the Friday gathering at Jamia Masjid gathering, Mirwaiz not only dedicated his entire speech for Muslims living in Jammu region, but also threatened to launch a full-fledged agitation to "fight for their rights". The development has come at a time when Mirwaiz, the moderate face of Hurriyat is losing members and getting wea...   READ MORE   Several teachers found absent from LHS Dashnan, CEO Doda assures action ---- ZEO Ghat 'attaches' teachers in violation of government order ---- 6/14/2015 11:56:56 PM Asif Iqbal Naik Early Times Report KISHTWAR, June 14: In a brazen violation of rules and regulations, Zonal Education Officer Ghat has allegedly ordered for the attachment of teachers in ZEO office or in nearby schools contrary to directions of Education Minister. Sources informed Early Times that Zonal Education Officer Ghat has disobeyed and bypassed all the government orders regarding ban on attachments of teaching personnel in offices, beside order for immediate detachment of all attached teachers/Masters if any. But keeping all the norms at bay; ZEO Ghat Shayista Tabassum has attached several teachers in nearby schools as a result of which schools in far flung areas have virtually...   READ MORE

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