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Meter Hatao, Heater Lagao! Power Minister has no slogan, constituency 8/9/2014 12:57:10 AM Hike in tariff, defunct meters puncture tall claims Fazal Khan Srinagar, Aug 8: As the Assembly elections are coming closer, the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, who is also the Power Minister, is busy inaugurating small grid and receiving stations across Kashmir. He wants to put a lid over the unprecedented hike in power tariff which JK witnessed during the past five and a half years of his rule by propagating that state is all set to achieve self-reliance in the power sector. Omar as a Power Minister “failed miserably.” When he launched the election campaign in 2008 his slogan “Meter Hatao, Heater Lagao” became very popular across the Valley. He promised people that if National Conference forms the Government it would revolutionize the power sector. Omar during 2008 election campaign went on record to say that first thing NC Government would do is that it would remove the meters. Soon after NC led dispensation took the reins of the state. The first thing Omar did was he raised the power tariff across JK and forgot about his promise. “In the past five and a half years power tari...   READ MORE

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Wani has no authority to seek explanation from me: Shaheen `Kamaal will soon quit NC’ 8/9/2014 12:56:42 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Aug 8: In a scathing attack on Provincial President National Conference for Kashmir province, ‘disgruntled’ party leader who has been served show cause notice to clear his position over his anti-party remarks, Abdul Rasheed Shaheen today said that Nasir Aslam Wani has no authority to seek explanation from him as he is the most junior worker of the party who got so much hype due to ‘kindness’ of Omar Abdullah. He said Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal will also leave the party as he has already realized the follies committed by party leadership. “Kamaal knows that at present National Conference leadership is pursuing anti-Sheikh Abdullah policies and I am dead sure that ...   READ MORE   Blast mastermind wanted to contest elections; 4 arrested, 1 still absconding Poonch IED blast 8/9/2014 12:56:30 AM Sumit Sharma JAMMU, Aug 8: Irfan Ahmad Khan, son of Abdul Qayoom Khan, resident of Dhargloon Poonch, the alleged mastermind behind the IED blast at Revenue office in Poonch wanted to contest Assembly elections from Mendhar and for that very purpose, he had approached to some political parties for mandate but before he could succeed, police caught hold off him. The revelation in this connection was made by him during questioning in the Joint Interrogation Centre (JIC), Jammu. Sources said that officers in the JIC are under intense pressure and are being allegedly asked to go slow on the investigation. They added that a particular lobby is working to ensure that Khan gets a safe passage. D...   READ MORE   Modi Sarkar paving way for UT status to Ladakh Division inevitable! 8/9/2014 12:56:08 AM Syed Junaid Hashmi JAMMU, Aug 8: Emboldened by silence of state Government, union Government is slowly but steadily moving towards grating Union Territory status to Leh-Ladakh, thus paving way for regional division of Jammu and Kashmir. Sources said that the recent decision of Government of India to start construction of 498 kilometres Bilaspur-Manali-Leh railway line to directly link Leh with New Delhi by rail is one more step towards carving out Union Territory for Leh-Ladakh from Jammu and Kashmir. According to recent reports, Railway Ministry has been asked to start the work on the rail project within shortest possible time. The new Government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi q...   READ MORE   HC seeks affidavit from SSP on Shoaib Lone’s allegations 8/9/2014 12:55:53 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Aug 8: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court today asked Senior Superintendent of Police to file personal affidavit, specifying steps taken by him for conducting further investigation into the allegations of former MLA Shoaib Lone that then Education Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed and his wife had accepted and demanded bribe from him. The direction was passed by a bench of Justice Ali Mohammad while hearing a revision petition filed by state Government, challenging the order by the court of Additional Special Judge, Anti-corruption Kashmir on 16-7-2012 whereby further investigation was ordered to be carried out in case (FIR no. 2/2008 in Police station VoK unde...   READ MORE   NC is sinking ship, says Shaheen 8/9/2014 12:55:39 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Aug 8: The oldest Kashmiri party NC, like the grand old party of India Congress, is passing through a very critical time. It, like the Congress, is struggling for its very survival. Senior NC leaders are condemning the top party leaders like Chief Minister and working president of the party Omar Abdullah and his father and party president Farooq Abdullah in the manner many senior leaders of the Congress like Choudhary Birender Singh, Avtar Singh Vadana and so on are questioning the very leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. The Congress is a sinking ship, detractors of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are saying. Similarly, senior NC leaders like Abdul Rasheed...   READ MORE   PDA demolition notices to Movera hotel owners raises brows `It is aimed at shielding violators’ 8/9/2014 12:55:26 AM Saahil Suhail ANANTNAG, Aug 8: After facing public ire while carrying out selective demolition drive in Movera and adjacent notified areas of Pahalgam, the Pahalgam Development Authority (PDA) has served demolition notices to dozens of illegally raised structure owners; however the environment activists alleged that Pahalgam Development Authority was shielding the owners other than stopping the haphazard constructions besides High Court ban. Official sources told Early Times that notice were issued to over dozen influential and rich violators including son-in-laws of state Cabinet Ministers representing Indian National Congress in Omar Abdullah’s Cabinet. They said that violators to cla...   READ MORE   Sheikh Nazir's chest beating on August 9 aimed to please secessionist sentiments 8/9/2014 12:55:15 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Aug 8: Sheikh Nazir, the nephew of late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah has always been an apologist and a progandist for the Sheikh dynasty in the same breath. Come August 9 and Sheikh Nazir has been releasing to the press the same statement that he had written during the days his uncle and the NC had been running the Plebiscite Front seeking referendum in J&K which was the NC way to press for secession of the State from the rest of the country. August 9 was a dark day in the history of the State not because there was a conspiracy against the Sheikh. It was a dark day because the Sheikh who was the Prime Minister of the State had to be arrested because he had been h...   READ MORE   PHE employees hit streets against abusive Minister ‘Under pressure, Govt rejects Lankar’s Resignation’ 8/9/2014 12:55:08 AM Javaid Naikoo Srinagar, Aug 8: Irate over alleged misbehaviour of National Conference Minister with Chief Engineer Public Health Engineering, (PHE) employees of PHE shunned work today, Government while bowing under pressure rejected the resignation of the Chief Engineer. A day after Chief Engineer Public Health engineering (PHE), Muzaffar Ahmad Lanker, resigned from his post after he was allegedly abused by senior NC Minister Choudhary Ramzan, J&K Government today while rejecting his resignation asked him to join office once again. “I am directed to refer resignation letter no. PHE/PS/13492-97, dated 07-08-2014 which has been examined at this end and that it has not been accepted,” reads ...   READ MORE   NC’s populist measures to win Valley Bridging the gulf 8/9/2014 12:54:56 AM Rustam JAMMU, Aug 8: What Chief Minister Omar Abdullah didn’t do in more than five years he has been desperately trying to do it after May 16, when the election authorities declared the NC defeated in all the three Kashmir Lok Sabha seats. The defeat was comprehensive and message from Kashmir was loud and clear: NC no more wanted. The defeat of the NC candidates at the hands of the newly-founded PDP candidates, including NC president, four-time state Chief Minister and former Cabinet Minister Farooq Abdullah, obviously rattled the NC leadership in general and Omar Abdullah in particular because it was he who led the party from the front. He continues to hold the position of working preside...   READ MORE   Workers pressurizing Cong leadership to withdraw support from Govt 8/9/2014 12:54:44 AM ET Report JAMMU, Aug 8: After party leadership has announced to contest coming Assembly elections on its own, Congress leaders in State are exerting pressure on the high command to severe ties with National Conference at this juncture and withdraw support of the present Government headed by Omar Abdullah. There a feeling among Congress leaders that there is no reason to continue in the Government when party has already decided to contest elections alone. Credible sources in the Congress said that majority of the party leaders were mounting pressure on the state president of Congress Saif-ud-Din Soz to take a decision on continuation of alliance with NC. Party leaders believed that there ...   READ MORE   Army kills 3 militants in Tanghdar sector, operation still on 8/8/2014 11:38:15 PM Mustansir Srinagar, Aug 8 : Army on Friday evening killed three militants in an encounter in the Tangdhar Sector in North Kashmir. An Army spokesperson said that the bodies of slain militants along with their weapons have been recovered from the site of encounter. "Three militants were killed in an encounter along Line of Control (LoC) in Tanghdar sector of north Kashmir's Kupwor district on Friday" the spokesperson said. He said that army's 3/1 GR, 5/5 GR and 20 RR launched a massive hunt to combat with the suspected militants who had reportedly infiltrated in this side near Gagadori in the sector last week. "The group of 6-7 militants reportedly managed to sneak into this side on...   READ MORE   As para-medical institutes fall short of staff, students resort to unfair means to pass 8/8/2014 11:37:57 PM Jehangir Rashid SRINAGAR, Aug 8 : Para-medical institutes operating in the state are deficient as far as teaching faculty is concerned. It is due to this reason that the students of these institutes resort to unfair means at the time of final examination conducted at different centres. Classic Institute of Health Sciences located in the Hyderpora area of the summer capital is a typical example of understaffing. The under staffing of the Institute has led to a situation wherein the students admitted in different courses fall well short as far as completion of the syllabus is concerned. Jammu & Kashmir State Para-Medical Council functioning under the aegis of Government Medical College, ...   READ MORE   Invigilators, exam supervisors rue nonpayment as records show they have been paid Embezzlement in SSRB ? 8/8/2014 11:37:47 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Aug 8 : As the Services Selection Recruitment Board (SSRB) has earned a revenue to the tune of around seven crores during last three years, the Board is yet to reimburse the payments to the staff it had hired for conducting these examination especially the written tests which were conducted at various centers across the state early last year. The official documents show that invigilators and supervisors have already been paid. As per the information available with Early Times, the SSRB on account of sale of forms and fees paid by the Government job aspirants earned a revenue of Rs. 4.68 crores in 2011alone ; From 2012 to 2014 (upto June) more than Rs....   READ MORE   Greed, gluttony of land mafia eating into agricultural land Govt. cold, in different 8/8/2014 11:37:26 PM Shakeel A Khan SRINAGAR, Aug 8 : With no curb on land mafia, the prices of land in the state, particularly in the valley have become unaffordable for the general public and unplanned colonies are mushrooming across the capital cities in connivance of concerned authorities. The government has virtually surrendered to the land mafia who call the shots in deciding rates of the land clearly violating the norms as set by the government. "Now the land mafia is eying the fringe areas of the Srinagar city where it has started the process of buying and selling of the already shrinking agricultural land. It is not only the agricultural land that the mafia has in mind; in fact it is the prized Saf...   READ MORE   Rescued for rehabilitation, children waiting for special school for 5 years Union Ministry of Labour, Employment sits on file 8/8/2014 11:37:18 PM Avinash Azad Jammu, Aug 8 : Homeless and destitute, children who were rescued working as bounded labour, are waiting for special school as the Union Ministry for Labour and Employment has not cared to respond to the proposal sent by the J&K government for five years. In Jammu district alone, around 1036 child labourers were indentified for rehabilitation under centrally sponsored, National Child Labour Project (NCLP), after conducting survey Labour and Employment department Jammu through Deputy Commissioner Jammu had sent its proposal to union government seeking requisite funds for creating infrastructure, but after lapse of five years, no reply came from the union government. "Futu...   READ MORE   Reconciling differences : Gujjars, Paharis and political parties 8/8/2014 11:37:00 PM Neha JAMMU, Aug 8 : Elections to J&K assembly are not far away. These would be held before January 4, 2015, as the new government has to be in place latest by January 5 next year. It's only natural that major political parties have started preparing themselves for the upcoming very crucial electoral exercise. The coming assembly elections are very crucial for all the major players, NC, Congress, PDP and BJP. Significantly, NC, PDP and BJP have all declared that they would be fighting for 44+ seats and the Congress has umpteen times said that it would emerge as the single largest party in the election and no party would be able to form the next government without it. It has also repeatedl...   READ MORE

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