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| | | | Centre asks J&K Govt to post list of rescued people | | | |
Early Times Report
NEW DELHI, Sept 9: As families and friends struggle for information about the whereabouts of their missing kin in flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre has asked the state government to post on its website the list of people rescued from different parts of the state.
Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami said if the list of rescued people is made public, many families will heave sigh of relief on being assured that their loved ones are safe. "That is why we have asked the state government to upload the list of rescued people on its website as early as possible," he told reporters here.
Goswami said anger of some of the flood-affected people about delay in rescue team r... | |
| | | | Pawan Hans, private choppers join rescue ops; Army restores Sringar-Leh highway | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Sept 9: Massive rescue operations continued in the flood-hit area of Jammu and Kashmir today even as the death toll crossed 200 in the worst floods that the state has witnessed in the last 60 years.
State-run Pawan Hans Helipoters Limited and private chopper firms have joined the massive rescue operation in the state. Air India has kept two aircrafts on standby to rescue passengers from flooded area and carry relief materials.
From the official Twitter handle, the Indian Army tweeted that over 32,000 people have been saved so far in the state.
Taking note of the flood situation, the United Nations (UN) has offered to help both India and Pakistan in their res... | |
| | | | Telecom services slowly being restored in Kashmir valley | | | |
Early Times Report
NEW DELHI, Sept 9: Telecom services in the flood-hit Kashmir valley are slowly being restored with operators resuming network connectivity in various parts of the region.
Around 58 Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) or mobile towers of BSNL and Aircel are functioning now along with 10 landline exchanges of the state-run operator. Vodafone has also been able to restore connectivity in some parts of Jammu and Kashmir, especially in Srinagar, Anantnag, Qazigund, Mattan, Awantipura and Ashmukam. Vodafone said extra talk-time credit is being provided to ensure low balance doesn't prevent them from getting connected with their near and dear ones. Bharti Airtel said it has also... | |
| | | | No need to panic, says administration | | |  Bivek Mathur
JAMMU, Sept 9: In reply to the mounting pressure from different quarters over the safety of students stranded in different parts of the valley, Divisional Commissioner, Shantmanu and IGP Rajesh Kumar today disclosed that there is no need to panic as students are safe and best efforts are being made to shift them to Jammu with the help of Army and Indian Air Force (IAF).
Replying to a delegation of the parents of the stranded students led by former IGP, Kamal Saini, IGP Rajesh Ku... | |
| | | | Hats off to Army, Airforce, Navy | | Floods in Kashmir | | | Neha
JAMMU, Sept 9: The situation in the Valley is very critical. Bulk of the Valley is facing the fury of floods. Srinagar, the summer capital of the state, is under water. There are areas in Srinagar where the water level has risen to one to two storeys high due to the rains and where the flood affected people are crying for help. The difficulties have been further multiplied by landslides. These landslides have hampered the relief work. There is a complete breakdown of communication network. Roads are damaged. Many bridges have been damaged. Many vital institutions, including hospitals and military cantonment, are under deep water and the life has come to a grinding halt in many parts o... | |
| | | | Floods wash away election gusto from J&K | | | |
Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Sept 9: With rains playing havoc in J&K, the political activities at their peak before the flash floods have also received a setback as the focus of various parties including that of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), which is already in elections mode shifts towards the deluge and its aftermath. The floods have also forced Election Commission of India to withhold its announcement of schedule for elections in four states including J&K.
The BJP, which is eyeing an absolute majority in the State Assembly, has set a target of 'Mission 44+' for itself and with so much hype surrounding the desired goal, several aspirants including tested leaders as well as fresh faces were m... | |
| | | | Administrative machinery completely collapsed in J&K, no clue of total casualties | | Officers failed to learn lesson from 2005 snow tsunami | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 9: Administrative machinery has totally collapsed in Jammu and Kashmir after the devastating floods and incessant rains. Even after passing of nearly one week when incessant rains started causing devastation, administration has yet to reach to many areas of Poonch, Rajouri, Ramban, Udhampur and Reasi.
Government has yet to come up with the total figure of total death toll in Jammu region as well as number of houses collapsed.
Except Jammu district, administration of all other flood affected districts has not prepared list of the people who lost their lives in the natural calamity. Those sitting on the chairs are waiting for news to pour in from the remotest... | |
| | | | Implement RPA to give proper representation to Jammu | | Empowering the de-empowered | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Sept 9: The people of Jammu province have been discriminated against. Their political representation in the Assembly has been diluted due to the absence of delimitation based on the criteria laid down by the Representation of People's Act (RPA). Those at the helm have all along played with the census figures in order to ensure more than fifty per cent representation to Kashmir in the Assembly. The story of the 2001 census was no different. It has all through been the charge of the people of Jammu province that the "Kashmiri leaders always fudged the census figures with a view to harming their interests". They did not cross the line when they consistently complained during the... | |
| | | | Rampant violation of transfer policy in Higher Edu Deptt goes unabated | | 40 out of 86 Physics lecturers are overstaying | | | Akshay Azad
JAMMU, Sept 9: Rampant violation of transfer policy for gazetteed employees has been going on unabated since decades as out of 86 lecturers of Physics, 40 are overstaying in the colleges, some of them allegedly by greasing the palms of "seniors" and others are not being transferred by authorities due to reasons best known to them.
According to reply given by Higher Education department in response to an RTI application, the first in the list is Sudha Sehgal, presently posted at Women College Gandhi Nagar, who has been staying in Jammu city colleges for the last 25 years, in gross violation of transfer policy. "She remained posted in GGM Science college from year 1989 to 1999, ... | |
| | | | On day of devastating flood in Tawi, death threat revisited Hajra 20 yrs after ultras cut her breasts | | |  Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Sept 9: All are aware of the nightmarish situation that developed in the region over the past week due to the record rains that heavily flooded rivers and other water bodies in the state. The mighty swollen waters of Tawi Saturday morning caused extensive damage to the 4th bridge on it and nearly washed away half the bridge that connects Satwari with 45 Phalan Mandal villages across the river.
The crumbling of a part of the 4th bridge and its approach road from the Ware ... | |
| | | | Gifts four wheelers to Gandhi Nagar block presidents to garner maximum voters reach | | BJP gets new female power | | | K Koushal
JAMMU, Sept 9: A new female entrant in Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) who achieved undue hype in the party allegedly gifted away two four wheelers to two of the Block Presidents (Mandal Pradhans) of Gandhi Nagar constituency just to ensure maximum reach to the voters.
"In lieu of the four wheelers, both the presidents have been directed by the new entrant to mobilize more and more voters in her favour to get mandate via newly launched SMS scheme by BJP", claimed highly placed sources in BJP adding that she is in close touch with one of the former state president of BJP.
Highly placed sources in the BJP claimed that the new glamorous entrant in the BJP is not leaving any stone untur... | |
| | | | Floriculture Director's office running in rented building since 2007 | | Spent Rs 25 lakh on rent but did not raise own building | | | GS Asgotra
JAMMU, Sept 9: Bizarre it might sound but it is true that the Floriculture department which has failed to pay regular salaries to contractual workers, has been paying a whopping amount to the tune of Rs 30,000 per month as rent of building hired to house to office of Director Floriculture, Jammu.
Sources informed Early Times that office of Director Floriculture Jammu has been running from a private building in Gandhi Nagar since its establishment in year 2007 while the department has failed to locate land for building its own building.
An amount of Rs 30,000 was fixed as monthly rent of building hired by department to run the office, sources said, adding that in the last aroun... | |
| | | | Azad takes a plunge ahead , reaches distressed in Kashmir | | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Sept 9: As the state grapples with the natural calamity struck through the incessant rains, landslides and flash floods, the political dispensation, both in administration and the opposition flood the media headlines with the lip-services.
However, seldom, except the few ones who dared to venture into the ground zero to reach out to the distressed masses.
Senior Congress leader, former Chief Minister and presently Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, is one such rarity among present leadership, who took a heroic plunge and hit the streets of Srinagar city to take stock of the situation without even caring for his security.
The Congress s... | |
| | | | 5 teachers absorbed after ET report | | | | Ajay Sharma
Jammu, Sept 9: Five teachers have been absorbed by the government after Early Times carried a story on their plight in its August 27 edition under the caption 'Enjoying Tara Chand's patronage, ZEO Sunderbani says, 'I damn care'.
The teachers namely Anita Dewi, Vijay Kumar ,Vijay Sharma, Jagdish Raj and Jagjeevan Kumar were regularized by the CEO Rajouri on the direction of the Director Education H. R Pakhroo who took cognizance of ET report.
Today, the ET staffer was called by the CEO Rajouri and in his presence the orders of their regularization were handed over to the ReTs. The beneficiaries later thanked the ET for putting their demands before government and helped them ... | |
| | | | 375 people rescued, Hundreds living under open sky | | | | MS Nazki
Mendhar/Poonch, Sept 9: Joint rescue operations of Army and Police saved about 375 people from different locations of the Poonch town, who were trapped due to floods caused by heavy rains, said an official handout.
As per the official handout, over 572 Pakka houses have been fully damaged, 398 partially damaged, 1720 Kutcha houses fully damaged, 3402 kutcha houses partially damaged, 203 shops, 8700 cattle sheds have been fully damaged and 798 cattle died in the worst flood that hit different areas of the town.
With this, it was also revealed that 28298 Kanal of land has been eroded and 192 water mills badly damaged. Further, with reports of heavy rainfall in the town, people... | |
| | | | I am alive; thanks to Army, Air force and locals | | | | Sandeep Bhat
Jammu, Sept 9: This was the worst nightmare for me and I have come out alive from this terrible condition of floods. As usual, I only had heard about flash floods of this kind but this was my first hand encounter with such horrific scene. I was thinking safe in circuit house MLA hostel and never had an iota of water logging so far in hostel and reaching second floor and increasing.
But I was wrong and first time experienced such turbulent situation. I was here in Srinagar for assembly session and was writing and reporting for my paper from here.
As usual, I was reporting from Srinagar and was staying initially in circuit house and then shifted to the safest place of Srina... | |
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