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Govt schools in city become 'leisure centres' for influential teachers 9/15/2019 10:52:42 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 15: Notwithstanding claims of the authorities to deploy teachers in the schools functioning in rural areas, most of the school situated within municipal limits are still over-staff and many teachers belong to influential families have managed their postings in these approachable school. Shockingly most of these over-staff schools have delivered zero percent results in matriculations and class 12th examinations this year. Most of schools situated within municipal limits, except a few, have delivered very poor results despite the fact that highly qualified teachers, belong to influential families, have been posted in these schools to teach poor students who could not afford education in private schools. Government schools in Jammu city are an indicator of the dismal education scenario in the state where government schools have virtually turned into 'leisure centres' for teachers belong to influential families. After poor results in class 10th and 12th this year, authorities had promised to review performance of all schools situated within city but n...   READ MORE

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Final decision over PoK on cards as neighbouring country refuses to mend its ways Rajnath gives ultimatum to Pakistan 9/15/2019 10:52:35 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Sept 15: Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh seems to have given a last warning to Pakistan by stating that it should stop promoting terrorism otherwise it would disintegrate. Referring to the recent statement of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan that his people should not cross Line of Control (LoC), Singh said, "Khan has given good advice to his people not to cross the LoC as the Indian soldiers are ready and won't allow them to return." An analyst while talking to Early Times said, "Pakistan politicians and its Army should read the writing on the wall. If it fails to mend its ways then its disintegration is inevitable." He said the terrorists who have b...   READ MORE   SC to hear today pleas against abrogation of Article 370 provisions, curbs in J-K 9/15/2019 10:52:19 PM Agencies New Delhi, Sept 15: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday pleas challenging abrogation of provisions of Article 370 -- which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, validity of imposition of President''s rule and the related restrictions imposed in the state. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S A Bobde and S Abdul Nazeer will be also hearing a bunch fresh petitions. Jammu and Kashmir People''s Conference party led by Sajjad Lone has also challenged the abrogation of provisions of Article 370 and the validity of the state Re-organization Bill. Child right activists Enakshi Ganguly and Professor Shanta Sinha have also filed a plea against the alleg...   READ MORE   Driving licenses of ten Jammuites suspended as new traffic laws applied to J&K 9/15/2019 10:52:10 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 15: With the new amendments of Motor Vehicle Acts (MVA) 1988 being applicable to Jammu and Kashmir, the authority has suspended driving licences of at least ten Jammuites in the first go. Official documents, a copy of which lies with the Early Times, revealed that the driving licenses of at least 10 persons hailing from Jammu have been suspended for a period of 3 months for violations various traffic norms. Officials said no such action however has been initiated in Kashmir. The suspensions have been made by the Regional Transport Officer (RTO) Jammu who had got the recommendations from Police force from within and outside of the state in such cases to i...   READ MORE   Court challans to continue, no more awareness for traffic violations Newly amended Motor Vehicle Act-2019 9/15/2019 10:52:02 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Sept 15: Traffic Police to continue with the court challans until the further directions would not come from the State Government while the awareness drive taken up in this regard has come to an end across Jammu. Since the newly amended Motor Vehicle Act-2019 has been passed, the people have reacted in mixed tones as some are appreciating the government move while others are expressing resentment against it. Meanwhile, in Jammu, no such case of hefty penalty on account of traffic violation has been reported as Traffic Police has yet to initiate compound challaning. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Traffic Jammu, Joginder Singh told that the awareness part...   READ MORE   Militants who held PDP leader hostage confess to kill Parihar brothers, RSS leader Startling details emerge in ongoing investigation of PDP leader's hostage crisis 9/15/2019 10:51:50 PM Asif Iqbal Naik Early Times Report JAMMU, Sept 15: In an open challenge to security forces, the group of the militants who took the PDP leader Advocate Sheikh Nasir Hussain and his family hostage at gun point for almost 12 hours in densely populated area in the outskirts of Kishtwar town and manage to break all the security cordons, nakkas after escaping with the weapon of PSO of PDP leader and vanished in thin air in the area somewhere between the heart of Kishtwar town and its peripheral areas throwing an open challenge to security establishment and anti terror grid that they can strike at its own sweet will under their close nose. As per the details emerging from the ongoing inve...   READ MORE   BJP MP from Ladakh not ready for ownership of land to investors 9/15/2019 10:51:36 PM Early Times Report Leh, Sept 15: Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, the BJP MP representing Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency, has welcomed the Rs 50,000-crore mega solar power project in the region, but made it clear that it can go ahead if jobs are reserved for the locals and can work on a land lease model. Protecting the fragile ecology of Ladakh is of paramount importance, Namgyal said, adding the investor should also devote a part of the earnings as royalty for the locals. Following the Centre's moves to abrogate Article 370 and create a separate Union Territory of Ladakh, there has been media report of a Rs 50,000-crore solar power project coming up in the region. "Investments are essential...   READ MORE   Make J&K shine was PM Modi's message to me': Guv Satya Pal Malik 9/15/2019 10:51:27 PM Agencies New Delhi, Sept 15: Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik said that the message from Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he took charge of the erstwhile state was to make it "shine so much" that the people of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) would want to come and settle here. "When I came to take charge of Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister told me that make Jammu and Kashmir shine so much that people of PoK would want to cross the border over to our side and say proudly, this is...   READ MORE   BJP hints at delimitation in J&K 'Soon', Assembly seats to be reserved for Gujjars & Bakarwals 9/15/2019 10:50:25 PM Agencies New Delhi, Sept 15: BJP working president JP Nadda on Sunday said that elections will be held in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, but delimitation will be done before that. He also promised reservation of seats for both Gujjars and Bakarwals. Speaking at a function in Thane, he said, "J&K has been made a Union Territory but they have been given the powers of a legislature. There will be elections, but before that, there will be delimitation." He continued, "Scheduled Tribe (ST) seats will be reserved for Gujjars and Bakarwals in both Valley and Jammu." Delimitation is defined as the process of fixing limits or boundaries of territorial constituencies in a country or a...   READ MORE   Despite threats to business establishment, "Sunday market" runs peacefully 9/15/2019 10:50:13 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Sept 15: Despite the threat from militant outfits to shopkeepers, the famous Sunday Market has been buzzing on the usual business establishment day with people selling and buying the essential home items including utensils and clothes today. Earlier there were few vendors, now the numbers have been quite increasing from last many weeks. Terror outfits have been intimidating shopkeepers across the valley to not to run their business beyond 8:30 AM in the morni...   READ MORE   Efforts of PSO save PDP leader's life, his family members 9/15/2019 10:48:06 PM Asif Iqbal Naik Early Times Report JAMMU, Sept 15: In what could be a daredevil act and efforts of Personal Security Officer (PSO), the life of PDP leader, his family members including toddlers were saved after the militants, who barged into the house of PDP District President Advocate Sheikh Nasir Hussain and held them hostage for nearly 12 hours-tied their hands and legs with ropes-covered their mouth with clothes before escaping from the spot. As per the details available with the "Early Times", it was due to efforts of the PSO Mubashir Hussain son of Shams Din of Bunastan, Kishtwar, the lives of around one dozen people including minor children were saved. The sources told the ...   READ MORE   Security forces maintain dominance in J&K as Pakistan attempts to disturb peace 9/15/2019 10:47:43 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 15: The restrictions have since been eased to a significant extent but the security forces have not allowed any major incident to disrupt peace despite attempts. Despite Pakistans desperate attempts to fuel trouble in Jammu and Kashmir, security forces have maintained dominance on the situation there ever since the states special status was abolished about 40 days back. Except for sporadic terror attacks targeting civilians and some stone pelting incidents, the Kashmir Valley has been peaceful, according to the Jammu and Kashmir administration and the Army. On August 6, Parliament approved abolition of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, granted u...   READ MORE   Education worst hit during 42 days of clampdown in valley 9/15/2019 10:45:17 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 15: While schools, colleges and universities are functioning normally in the Jammu and Ladakh divisions of the two Union Territories, the same cannot be said for the Kashmir Valley where education has taken the worst beating because of the clampdown. Authorities have opened schools up to the 10th standard in the Valley, but the attendance of children in these educational institutions has been disappointing so far. "All the teaching staff have been attendi...   READ MORE   e-office to help integrate Jammu, Kashmir into national mainstream 9/15/2019 10:44:24 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 15: Over one crore pages of files relating to the Jammu and Kashmir government that would be physically carted in trucks to winter capital Jammu or summer capital Srinagar every six months during the Durbar Move, will now be made available through the e-office portal. This and other measures to ensure smooth functioning of the J&K Government system are on the anvil as teams of senior Central government officials visit Srinagar to meet Jammu and Kashmir government officials, ahead of October 31 when the official bifurcation of the state into two Union Territories takes place. The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is moving fast to bring about a...   READ MORE   Custodial death case: Medical Board conducts post-mortem of deceased Two constables suspended by Police Department 9/15/2019 10:43:10 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 15: A day after the death of Ikhlaq Ahmad Khan, who was died in police custody shortly after his arrest, a medical board of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) Jammu conducted the post-mortem and handed over the body to the family for last rites. The Police department suspended two constables namely Sulkhan Singh and Manpreet Singh for dereliction of duty during arrest of the deceased on Saturday. On the directions of District Magistrate Jammu, a Medical Board of doctors constituted by the higher authorities of the GMC&H Jammu comprising Dr Rita Gupta, Forensic Medicine, Dr Mohi, General Medicine, Dr Navneet Naz, Pathology of GMC Jammu an...   READ MORE   Authorities to initiate strict action against rumour mongers in Kashmir 9/15/2019 10:43:00 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 15: The authorities will initiate strict action against rumour mongers in Kashmir valley, where a communication gag, including suspension of mobile phones and internet services, continued since Article 370 and Article 35 A were scrapped on August 5. Meanwhile, life remained crippled for the 42nd day on Sunday in Kashmir valley, where people are protesting against scrapping of the special status of J&K, besides bifurcation of the state into two Union Territories on August 5. An official said that to create a safe and secure atmosphere across valley, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Baseer Ahmad Khan directed officers concerned to initiate action against rum...   READ MORE   Curfew to remain imposed in Kishtwar today following death of Jamat leader 9/15/2019 10:42:51 PM Asif Iqbal Naik Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 15: In order to thrawt any attempt of mass gathering during the funeral services of veteran Jamat e Islami leader Master Ghulam Nabi Gundna who happened to be a close associate of hardliner Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Kishtwar Administration shortwhile ago made an announcement informing the people that curfew will remain imposed in the District tomorrow I.e 16-9-2019. As per the details available with Early Times, 80 year old Master Ghulam Nabi Gundna, resident of Jamia Masjid Mohallah Kishtwar died at Ludhiana hospital after prolonged illness and his dead body reaches Kishtwar today evening as a result of which heavy rush of...   READ MORE

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