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| Court expresses displeasure against SVO for dropping cases against former ADGP's brother, bureaucrats, ors | | Govt pressurizing SVO to drop cases against its blue eyed | | | Sumit Sharma
JAMMU, Aug 25: The recent stricture passed by the Anti Corruption Court should be an eye opener for the premium investigating agency of the state which is fast eroding its credibility in the second most corrupt state of the country. While rejecting a closure report filed by the State Vigilance Organization in a Disproportionate Assets case against one JE of PWD, Additional Sessions Judge Anticorruption Jammu, Sanjay Parihar said, "I am pained in observing that the investigation has been closed as not admitted at the behest of Central Office of Vigilance Organization, a premier agency having exclusive control of Vigilance Organization ... even supervisory officers have been found lacking in discharge of their duties of the fair investigation which they owe not only to themselves but also to the public at large".
It was not for the first time that the courts have rejected the closure report. Not very far, in February this year, Special Judge Anti-corruption Jammu Puneet Gupta had directed SVO for further investigation in an FIR registered against a senior IAS officer in... | |
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| Speaker says shelling will carry on as long as 'conflict' is there | | | | Jehangir Rashid
Srinagar, Aug 25: Legislative Assembly Speaker Mubarak Gul today said that such incidents would take place as long as the 'conflict' is there.
The Speaker made these remarks on the first day of the autumn session of the legislature here. Responding to the National Panthers Party (NPP) legislator from Udhampur Balwant Singh Mankotia's demand that State Government should take effective measures to deal with firing incidents on border, the Speaker said this can be done by Central Government alone.
"As long as conflict is there such incidents would take place. The State Government cannot do anything in this regard as it is the Central Government that has to take a final call ... | |
| | | | Cong leader seeks Tara Chand's resignation | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 25: Congress senior leader Faqir Khan today sought resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand from the government and the Congress party.
Talking to a Srinagar based news agency Khan said that he has taken up this issue with the Congress president Prof Saifuddin Soz and Ghulam Nabi Azad recently.
Khan said that despite communicating his grievances against Tara Chand, the party has failed to take any action against Tara Chand.
"If Tara Chand does not quit his ministry and steps down from the party post, I will quit the party along with my supporters," Khan said.
He accused Tar Chand had facilitated closure of government higher secondary sch... | |
| | | | J&K Agro conspires to keep Jammu out of its recruitment | | Beyond CM's equity claims | | | Abodh Sharma
JAMMU, Aug 25: Belying tall claims of transparency and propriety in governance, Jammu and Kashmir Agro Industries Development Corporation is in the process of conducting the recruitment of 9 officials stealthily with the malafide intention of keeping candidates from Jammu and Ladakh divisions out.
According to details available with the ET, the Corporation advertised nine posts in different cadres including two Chartered Accountants, in the pay scale of 9300-34800 GP 4200, one Company Secretary in the pay scale of 9300-34800 GP 4200, four Assistant Managers in the pay scale of 9300-34800 GP 2800 and one Account Assistant in the pay scale of 9300-34800 GP 2200, through an adve... | |
| | | | 79 percent Govt schools without toilet facility, dysfunctional ones add to miseries of children | | Truce face of J&K's cleanliness desire! | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Aug 25: Around 79 percent Government-run schools in Jammu and Kashmir either have no toilet facility or the facility is dysfunctional.
Of the total 23234 registered Government schools in the state; 18,466 either do not have toilet facility for both male and female students or have become dysfunctional with state Government doing nothing to make them functional again. Of these 18,466; girl schools without or with dysfunctional toilets are around 9091 while those meant exclusively for boys are much higher i.e. around 9375.
Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) headed by ex-actress turned politician Samriti Irani has put detailed data of the schools without ... | |
| | | | State leadership misleading high command on core issues confronting J&K | | What lies beneath BJP's hyped Mission 44+! | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Aug 25: Brimming with confidence after the overwhelming success it tasted in the Lok Sabha polls, the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has set a target of 'Mission 44+' for itself in the upcoming Assembly elections in the state.
However, the BJP high command, which is trying its level best to accomplish the mission, is somewhat far from reality as the big-wigs of the state unit are keeping it in dark of the core issues which could make or break party's prospects in the forthcoming polls.
If party insiders are to be believed then the party high command's calculations to achieve the desired goal of 'Mission 44+' is not based on ground realities and is cobbled around the ... | |
| | | | Kuch tou hai jiski parda dari hai! | | What is cooking up in NC? | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 25: Horse trading by politicians is not a new phenomenon. The National Conference is the worst sufferer of what Omar today called `Aya Ram gaya Ram policy'.
In 1953 some NC legislators led by Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad ditched Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah. The mauled lion returned to power as CM after completing 22 years of political wilderness.
Omar's father faced a similar situation in 1984. His brother-in-law `seduced' scores of legislators and toppled Dr Farooq Abdullah Government. Farooq lost the legal battle as well as the High Court did not agree with him and saw no problem in Ghulam Mohammad Shah's Government.
While everybody knows it fully, Omar'... | |
| | | | Cong sends list of candidates to party high command | | LA Polls | | | Crucial meet ignores issues confronting coalition
Fazal Khan
Srinagar, Aug 25: The Congress party today recommended the names of the candidates for the forthcoming Assembly elections to the party high command.
Sources told Early Times a crucial meeting of the Congress party was held here this morning and all the top leaders including the JKPCC chief Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz and former Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad attended the meeting.
They said that Democratic Party (N) Chairman and the Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir also arrived as a "surprise guest" and participated in the meeting.
A source said that names of the candidates for the all 87-Assembly segments were di... | |
| | | | 295 Kanal Humhama, Gogoo land scam | | 'Bureaucrats, officials hamper inquiry' | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 25: The multi-crore land scam at Humhama, Gogoo outside Srinagar Airport in which top officials are involved has almost been hushed up as bureaucrats hamper enquiry.
Documents reveal that in Humhama area 234 kanals and 1 marlas of Kahcharai land and around 36 kanals 1 marlas of state land and in nearby Gogoo area 25 kanals 13 marlas of Kahcharai land have been encroached illegally over the years by influential persons including noted bureaucrats.
The names of encroachers exposed by documents were kept hidden by officials at the office of the Deputy Commissioner Budgam due to the pressure exerted by top officials of state administration not to expose... | |
| | | | Ram Madhav meets Governor after CM tossed the ball to Centre | | Cross-border shelling relief | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 25: BJP's National General Secretary Ram Madhav flew to Srinagar today for a meeting with Governor N.N. Vohra after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah told the National Panthers Party MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia in Assembly that the issue of cross-border shelling on the International Border (IB) in Jammu was a Central subject and thus required to be answered by the Centre.
MLA from Udhampur, Mankotia wanted Chief Minister to make a statement on the incessant Pakistani shelling in Jammu's border areas and the situation arising out of it. Over 10,000 residents have reportedly shifted to relatively less vulnerable areas in the 5-km border strip after two civilians g... | |
| | | | Superintendent’s wife skips night duties | | No lady doctor available at night in ailing Anantnag hospital | | | Saahil Suhail
Anantnag, Aug 25 : Besides several requests from paramedical staff, Medical superintendent Maternity and Child Care Hospital Sherbagh Anantnag has failed in ensuring presence of a senior lady doctor in the hospital during the night, as the Medical Superintendent has allegedly exempted his ‘wife’- a doctor posted in the same hospital from night duties. Highly placed sources told Early Times that general public and paramedical staff of the hospital has repeatedly requested the Medical superintendent for keeping a senior female doctor available during the night hours, keeping in view the heavy flow patients in the hospital. They said that attendants frequently turn violent ... | |
| | | | Media is a purchasable commodity: Omar | | Fear of defeat | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Aug 25 : NC working president and Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is angry with everyone, except himself and members of his coterie. He is angry with the PDP leadership and is accusing it of flirting with the BJP in order to help the latter achieve its ‘Mission 44+’. He is asking the PDP leadership to tell the people of Kashmir as to what it is up to. Besides, he is accusing the PDP leadership of putting its self-rule agenda on the backburner and befooling the people of the Valley.
Omar Abdullah is unhappy with the Congress leadership as well.
He is accusing the Congress of backstabbing the NC by deciding to contest the upcoming assembly elections separatel... | |
| | | | Defence Estates Officer sits on compensation case file | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 25 : As the Defence Estates Department has already started disbursing the money to affected families of three villages in Budgam near Srinagar International Airport as per previous market rate fixed in 2009 , the Defence Estates Officer (DEO) Srinagar is yet to forward the recommendations of the Deputy Commissioner Budgam to his higher ups in Delhi ie the Office of Director General (DG) Defence Estates Department. According to documents available with Early Times the Collector Land Acquisition (DC Budgam) has recommended rate for land acquisition between Rs 18 to Rs 20 lakhs per kanal in Karewa Damodar , Kralpora and Wathoora villages and the these recom... | |
| | | | Omar concedes defeat, inaugurates incomplete projects | | | | Fazal Khan
Srinagar, Aug 25 : Chief Minister Omar Abdullah seems to have conceded defeat even before the dates for the forthcoming assembly elections have been announced. He is inaugurating incomplete projects to ensure that his successors don’t take credit for it and has trained guns at media for highlighting his failures.
Omar on Sunday inaugurated an incomplete hospital at Chanapora in uptown here. During his speech Omar made a point. “I am inaugurating incomplete projects to ensure that nobody takes credit of the developmental projects we have started,” he said.
The Chief Minister while referring to the projects which were started by the Congress led UPA-I and UPA-II said, “It i... | |
| | | | Blue eyed AD CAPD flouts transfer order, sticks on to original place of posting | | | | Mohd Irfan
Jammu, Aug 25 : In a glaring instance of nepotism and favoritism, a blue eyed AD CAPD has been giving a damn to the Government transfer order and sticking on to the place from where he has been posted out. Reliable sources revealed that blue eyed AD Trade and Store Ghar Singh who has been transferred from said posting, has averted his transfer to Miran Sahib despite the fact there were complaints against him of using unparliam-entarily language and casteist comments.
“This AD has good proximity with Director CAPD, Deputy Director etc and his misbehavious is generally overlooked encouraging him to continue to the same repeatedly” said an employee, adding, “Ghar Singh is transf... | |
| | | | 22 employees of MHCH await regularization for 15 years | | Salaries not being paid for months | | | Bijay Charak
Jammu, Aug 25: Notwithstanding Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah’s claims that the services of contractual, daily wagers, need base workers and daily routine workers would be regularized, around 22 daily wagers in Mechanical Hospital and Centre Heating (MHCH) division of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) have been awaiting regularization for the last 15 years.
Sources informed Early Times that around 120 daily wagers of MHCH division of GMC&H, of which 22 employees have been working at MHCH for more than 15 years, but have not been regularized. “In November 7, 2012 GMCH forwarded a list of 22 employees to Secretary Deptt of Health and Medical Education, seeking reg... | |
| | | | Paradigm shift in Kashmir policy | | End of Nehruvian era | | | Neha
JAMMU, Aug 25 : J&K, like 560-odd other princely states, acceded to India in 1947 as per the constitutional law on the subject, but, sadly, many of our Prime Ministers treated this solitary state differently just because the Muslim population was about 20 per cent more as compared with the non-Muslims. In fact, they took a stand that created serious doubts in the minds of the international community about the political status of J&K vis-à-vis India and in a way strengthened communal and separatist forces in Kashmir, who considered the Indian presence in Kashmir, unwarranted, illegal and against their will.
For example, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1948 promised a plebiscite t... | |
| | | | Army to raise ceasefire violations by Pak in DGMO-level talks today | | | |
New Delhi, Aug 25:The Indian Army is likely to raise the issue of ceasefire violations during the DGMO-level talks scheduled tomorrow.
The two DGMOs holds talks every Tuesday over the hotline during which they discuss various issues between the two forces along the Line of Control and other areas.
During talks, the Indian side is likely to raise the issue of frequent ceasefire violations and lodge protest over the issue, Army sources said here.
There have been 95 ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the Line of Control and it has also breached the ceasefire pact 25 times on the International Border.
Defence Minister Arun Jaitley has stated that India has been responding effectively ... | |
| | | | After R S Pura, Arnia, unprovoked Pak shelling spreads to Samba too | | 35 BSF outposts targeted; 100 odd houses damaged, woman among 3 hurt | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Aug 25: Against resuming talks with India, hawks – army, Rangers and militants perched in their forward posts – in Pakistan continued shelling forward Indian posts and villages for the sixth consecutive night Monday, further straining ties between the two hostile neighbours and dashing any hopes of near-term peace deliberations.
The Pak troops, who restricted firing and shelling for five days to the areas that fall in R S Pura and Arnia sub-sectors, last night and tonight targeted Samba too, leading to critical splinter injuries to three persons, including a woman, and cracks to several buildings.
Pakistan opened fire late Monday night, targeting at least six forw... | |
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