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Tussle among BJP MLAs to get plum Ministries!

1/4/2015 11:59:32 PM

Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 4: Neither the PDP nor the National Conference (NC) has so far announced alliance with BJP for the formation of a coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir but the newly elected "impatience" MLAs of the BJP have started lobbying for ministerial berths. Shockingly all the 25 elected MLAs of the party have started utilizing their all resources to become ministers in the coming coalition government. All the MLAs are thinking that they are very important for the party so it would be in the interests of the party to utilize their services as minister in the new government. BJP MLAs utilizing all platforms to project themselves as potential candidates for the mi...

Congress leaders see 'bleak' future in case BJP & PDP forge alliance in J&K

1/4/2015 11:59:26 PM

Early Times Report JAMMU, Jan 4: At a time when PDP-BJP alliance on government formation is on cards in Jammu and Kashmir, the state unit of Congress party fears that consequences of PDP-BJP alliance in Ladakh and Jammu regions would be deadly for the party. Sources revealed to Early Times that when PDP and BJP are about to announce their alliance on government formation in coming days, senior Congress leaders despite offering unconditional support to PDP from the day first feel that possible PDP-BJP alliance may wrap the future of state Congress in many parts across the state particularly in Jammu and Ladakh Divisions where the party won good number of seats. "Any news regarding P...

Jugal ditches his electorate, remains absent from LS during winter session

1/4/2015 11:59:19 PM

Bivek Mathur Early Times Report JAMMU, Jan 4: Not keeping the promises made with the people BJP Member Parliament (MP) and State President Jugal Kishore Sharma remained absent from Lok Sabha for 21 days out of the total 55 days of three sessions of Lok Sabha so far after being elected to the Lower House of the Parliament. As far as the Special Session of the Lok Sabha is concerned, that was held in between 04.06.2014 to 11.06.2014, Jugal's attendance was 100 percent. Similarly Sharma attended 26 proceedings of the Budget session out of total 27 proceedings that was held in between 07.07.2014 to 14.08.2014 but he failed to maintain his attendance for the Winter Session as Sharma rem...

JKNRHM policies to exploit unemployed youth, benefit private recruitment agencies

1/4/2015 11:59:12 PM

Akshay Azad Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 4: The new policies being pursued by Jammu and Kashmir National Rural Health Mission (JKNRHM) authorities are likely to bring fortunes for some private recruitment agencies but will open doors for rampant exploitation of unemployed educated youth of the state in the hands of private agencies, which usually paid meagre salary to employees and also bereft them from benefits meant for employees. Sources in the Health department informed Early Times that NRHM state chapter has recently outsourced the services of Data Entry Operators for working in various institutions of Health and Medical Education department. "A total of 157 Data Entry Operator...

Vigilance tightens noose around Tara Chand, Kewal; PC hard-discs seized

Class-IV recruitment scam in School Education Department

1/4/2015 11:59:03 PM

Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 4: In the Class-IV recruitment scam in School Education Department, the State vigilance Organization has started tightening noose around former Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand and his then Deputy PRO Kewal Sharma, who are believed to be main culprits in the case The Vigilance sleuths are learnt to have seized hard-discs of the Personal Computer and laptop of Kewal Sharma from his residence as well as some other PCs installed at Tara Chand's official residence for collecting more information and evidences against the duo in recruitment scam. Some other evidences, including a pen drive were also seized from the residence of Kewal Sharma. According to offici...

Modi Govt's first push, permanent resident status for West Pakistani refugees

1/4/2015 11:58:48 PM

Syed Junaid Hashmi Early Times Report JAMMU, Jan 4: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led Union Government is seriously considering grant of permanent resident status to west-Pakistani refugees. As and when the new government takes over from present caretaker dispensation headed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, sources said that PMO through Union Ministry of Home Affairs is likely to impress upon the new state government to consider, as a onetime measure, the demand of West Pakistani Refugees to grant them status of permanent residents of the state sympathetically so that they can live as state subject in dignified way, with all legal rights including right ...

Inaugurated 3 months back, ISM additional block lying unused

Locked 2-storey building mocks director's claims

1/4/2015 11:58:38 PM

Bijay Charak Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 4: The hastiness on part of ISM director could be gauged from the fact that instead of waiting for completion of 25-bedded additional Block, he had inaugurated the building in September last year when it had been partially completed. Astoundingly after the lapse of three months, the complex is still closed and the authorities concerned are in no position to make it functional as there is shortage of equipments and manpower to run the block. Reliable sources informed Early Times that the 2-storey building work of 25 bedded additional block of Ayurvedic Hospital, Jammu, was awarded to J&K Housing Board at an estimated cost of Rs 77 lakh. The ...

BJP core group leaves for New Delhi for talks with Central leadership

Hectic lobbying begins for DyCM's post

1/4/2015 11:58:19 PM

Early Times Report JAMMU, Jan 4:With still no headway in government formation between BJP and PDP lobbying in BJP camp has begun for the post of Deputy Chief Minister. At the same time the BJP core group has been summoned to New Delhi by Party High Command to discuss the modalities of a coalition with PDP in the state. The Core Group members including State president Jugal Kishore Sharma, general secretary Ashok Koul, former presidents Dr Nirmal Singh and Ashok Khajuria, general secretaries Bali Bhagat and Kavinder Gupta left for Union Capital this evening to meet Party president Amit Shah, national general secretaries Ram Lal, J P Nadda and Ram Madhav. According to sources the BJP le...

Congress working against the Jammu cause

Office of CM

1/4/2015 11:58:13 PM

Rustam Early Times Report JAMMU, Jan 4: The "secular" Congress party has, it seems, not learned any lesson from its humiliating defeat in Jammu province. How else should one view its rabid opposition to the reasonable and democratic demand in Jammu for the coveted office of Chief Minister? None from Jammu till date has become the Chief Minister in J&K. Those who say that Ghulam Nabi Azad, who led the state between November 2005 and July 2008, was from Jammu are wrong. Azad is ethnically Kashmiri. Immediately after becoming Chief Minister, Azad had tried his level best to counter the campaign against him in Kashmir by telling the Kashmiri people that he originally hailed from Kashmir...

J&K police forgets Motor Bike Squad; continues withdrawing fuel, maintenance charges

1/4/2015 11:57:59 PM

K.Koushal Early Times Report JAMMU, Jan 4: Notwithstanding the fact that the Motor Bike Squad, which was introduced in the city to keep check on rising crime has remained non-functional since long, the police department is still charging fuel and maintenance cost of the squad from the government exchequer. Initiative of Jammu and Kashmir police-Motor Bike Squad, is apparently missing from the city roads, but surprisingly the department is still charging cost of the squad every month, informed sources. According to police officials, the cost of fuel and other maintenance of the Motor Bikes are still charged upon the government expenditure by the JK police in Jammu. Police officials...

PDP's only goal is to capture CM's post: NC

2 weeks on, JK awaits Govt Formation

1/4/2015 10:48:20 PM

Shiv Dev Thakur Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 4: Since PDP emerged as the single largest party of Jammu and Kashmir in assembly elections with 28 seats including 25 seats in Kashmir and 3 in Jammu region and BJP came out to be the second close by winning 25 seats in Jammu region only, but the Govenment formation in Jammu and Kashmir is still in limelight even after BJP is towing out all restrictions and is moving from pillar to post to form its first Government in Jammu and Kashmir. Reliable sources said that no combination of the political parties is seen competent to make an alliance to form the Government in Jammu and Kashmir owing to the ideological difference between all the thr...

8 yrs on, 4 districts run without Tuberculosis Centers

Health department indifferent to TB patients of newly created districts

1/4/2015 10:48:02 PM

G S Asgotra Early Times Report Jammu, Jan 4: The Jammu and Kashmir Health Department is seemingly least bothered about the Tuberculosis (TB) patients of four newly created districts, which have been running with District Tuberculosis Centers, even after the lapse of nearly eight years. Sources said that the state government had constituted four new districts for Jammu province during the Chief Ministership of Ghulam Nabi Azad nearly eight years back but following Congress- NC led Omar government has failed to establish District Tuberculosis Centre (DTC) in four newly district Samba, Ramban, Reasi and Doda. In absence of DTCs the TB patients have to trek several kilometers hilly r...