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| Energy accounting of power stations still a distant dream | | Reforms in power sector restricted to papers only | | | Akshay Azad
Jammu, Oct 29: Despite ever increasing Transmission and Distribution losses of power in state coupled with repeated directions by Union government to increase revenue collection, the Power Development Department (PDD) has so far failed to conduct auditing of power stations/sub-stations under Energy Accounting System.
Sources informed Early Times that during distribution of power, thousands of power units were lost. To prevent distribution losses, in the year 2012 the state government had introduced Energy Accounting of power stations, but so far the plan has not materialized.
They further informed that under Energy Accounting System, the officer responsible for distribution of electricity was to be made accountable for the units supplied from a particular feeder. "The officer responsible will have to keep check on the units consumed in the locality and later tally it with the revenue collected by the field staff", they said.
Most of high tech meters installed in grid stations, sources said, were neither reliable nor have the reliability tests been conducted regular... | |
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| Nazir, Kamaal say Sheikh Abdullah was against accession to India | | Time for fake secularists to re-fashion their approach | | | Neha
JAMMU, Oct 29: The fake secularists in Jammu & Kashmir and their supporters in New Delhi had consistently maintained that Sheikh Abdullah was secular, critic of two-nation theory and a votary of the accession of the state to India. They held this atrocious view notwithstanding the fact that neither Sheikh Abdullah nor his Valley-based and one-sect-centric National Conference ever appreciated the Indian Constitution and the Indian institutions, including the Supreme Court, the Election Commission and the Comptroller and Auditor-General. They always withheld the truth that Sheikh Abdullah had tried his level best to join Pakistan but failed because the Pakistani leadership hated the N... | |
| | | | Raising Kashmir issue Omar's poll prank | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 29: Raising the Kashmir issue by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah with an international agency is mere a political stunt aimed at getting votes during the 2014 elections.
Omar is trying to play with the sentiments of people of Kashmir valley by raising the Kashmir issue ahead of elections. He knows it very well that the work done by him during the past five years will not get him votes and thus he is playing a gamble by raising the Kashmir issue again.
This tactic by the National Conference (NC) working president is not new as this party has been doing it for past so many years. During the 1996 Assembly elections, Omar's father and NC president Farooq Abdu... | |
| | | | Omar bemoans that J&K cannot become independent | | Ireland-type solution | | | Neha
JAMMU, Oct 29: NC working president and J&K CM Omar Abdullah, who questions the state's accession to India day in and day out in and outside the assembly as well as during his meetings with foreign delegations taking the controversial Congress-led UPA Government for a ride, is a broken-hearted Kashmiri leader. He vouches for a solution that grants independence to J& K, but bemoans that independence for the state is not possible. "The State can never be independent and will always remain under Indian sovereignty. The state is landlocked and lacks natural resources," he, according to PTI report posted from London, UK, said during his interview to the UK's Telegraph newspaper. During t... | |
| | | | Omar pitches for Ireland-type peace process on Kashmir | | 'Scotland-type devolution could inspire JK's future settlement' | | | Agencies
London, Oct 29: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is of the view that the State can never be independent and will always remain under Indian sovereignty, but believes that Britain's Northern Ireland peace process and devolution in Scotland could "inspire" a future settlement.
The state is landlocked and lacks natural resources, Omar said in an interview to the UK's Telegraph newspaper, underlining why it can never be fully independent.
But the peace process in Northern Ireland and the devolution in Scotland could "inspire" a future settlement in which "sovereignty is not threatened but you recognize the nationalist sentiment that exists and you evolve that," he is... | |
| | | | What BJP did when it was in power? Opponents ask Khanna | | BJP's crocodile tears on refugees' issues | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 29: BJP MP and Prabhari J&K Avinash Roy Khanna today castigated the Government for failing to provide basic rights to West Pak refugees till date but failed to explain what his Party which headed the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) at Centre for over six years did in this regard.
Khanna who is in the city of temples here in connection with participation of Party's Refugee Adhikar yatra started last week from border city of Poonch addressed rallies in various border areas of Akhnoor tehsil yesterday and accused the Congress led UPA and J&K coalition for the plight of West Pak as well as PoK refugees.
On reaching Jammu he addressed a press conference th... | |
| | | | Vakil 's punch against NC led Govt continues, NREGA bungling newest | | Why in Congress no one musters courage on similar lines….? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 29: Senior Congress leader and former minister Abdul Gani Vakil has done it again, much to annoyance of National Conference. Continuing with his spree of lashing out at National Conference , Vakil has hit the nail with a political punch, making it more than clear that Congress is not at all interesting in going together with NC in elections. His assertion is relevant and well timed. What comes as a bigger blow is Vakil's continuous attack on corruption, this time exposing links and loops in NREGA, a scheme on which the government tires of making tall claims. The moot question remains while Vakil continues with attacking spree, who listens or cares about... | |
| | | | Uri pushes Taj to wall, anti- incumbency at galore | | | | Mustansir
Srinagar, Oct 29: How the fear of anti-incumbency turns a once roaring lion into a frightened fighter could be gauged from the fact that Minister for Medical Education and senior Congress leader, Taj Mohi-ud-Din is seeking help from those Congress leaders who he was not even ready to talk to until the other day.
Taj Mohi-ud-Din who represents the Uri constituency of North Kashmir in the J&K Legislature since 2002 seems to be handicapped by a strong anti-incumbency wave gripping the Uri constituency and now Taj has sought help from those congress leaders who he did not even talk to till other day.
Sunday's public meeting in Boonyar block of Uri constituency was not less th... | |
| | | | Bad news for Congress in Chhattisgarh, MP | | Pre-poll survey | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Oct 29: Is the Congress losing very badly the upcoming Assembly elections in the BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh? If the findings of the pre-poll survey conducted by CSDS for the news magazine The Week and leading Hindi news channel IBN7 between October 14 and 20 is any indication, then it can be said that the Congress is going to face a crushing defeat in both the states for the third time in a row.
The pre-poll survey said that the BJP will win the election very comfortably and the Congress's tally would come down. It said that the BJP will win seats between 61 and 71 seats in the 90-member House, as against its 2008 tally of 50 seats, if elections are held now... | |
| | | | J&K RTI patron sees 'nexus' among SIC officials, concerned PIOs | | SIC Registrar excuses lack of awareness among people | | | Javaid Naikoo
Srinagar, Oct 29: A verbal dual between the office bearers of State Information Commission(SIC) and chief patron of right to information(RTI) movement of Jammu and Kashmir on delay in providing information to the RTI activists.
While quoting the example of sincere and dedicated approach of former central information commissioner, Shalesh Gandhi towards the much lauded RTI movement across the country, RTI patron of Jammu and Kashmir, Dr Sheikh Ghulam Rasool today alleged that the work order of the office bearers of SIC is not satisfactory and far behind than none other the former central information commissioner himself who on an average used to decide around 22 RTI cases... | |
| | | | Rajouri police clueless about missing student's whereabouts | | | | Early Times Report
Rajouri, Oct 29: A student of 8th class in government middle school went missing on October 24 after he left the school before morning prayers along with his friend to visit Rajouri city instead of attending their classes.
The boy has been identified as Mohd Afiaz son of Mohd Farooq a special police officer(SPO) presently deployed at district police lines and his friend as Aftat Hussain son of Mohd Iqbal both residents of village Dalhori.
Rajouri police, which is already under pressure as two murders are still unsolved, have utilized all resources to trace the missing student to avoid any more public cry.
Afttar and Mohd Afiaz are friends and studying in government ... | |
| | | | Final hearing on Nov 29 | | Haji Yousuf case | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 29: A Division Bench of Supreme Court of India comprising Justice B S Chauhan and Justice SA Bobde after hearing arguments of Prof Bhim Singh, for the petitioner, Balwant Singh, and Advocate-General of J&K in a writ petition seeking investigation by CBI into the Haji Yousuf death case, ordered that the final hearing of the case shall be held on November 29, 2013.
Bhim Singh, submitted before the Supreme Court that Haji Yousuf, a businessman closely associated with the ruling National Conference was summoned by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to his residence on September 29, 2011 following a complaint by another National Conference worker that Yousuf had c... | |
| | | | 3 held for encroaching 42 Kanal JDA land valuing Rs 120 Cr | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 29: Police today claimed to have arrested three persons who were grabbing prime located 42 kanal land belonging to Jammu Development Authority (JDA) at Narwal behind Wave Maul here today.
As per sources, the land was retrieved by the timely action of Narwal police which took suo moto action and later informed JDA officials. The JDA after having information reached at the site and joined in the anti encroachment drive by pressing its JCB machines.
"Based on the inputs that some persons are grabbing JDA land which valuing Rs 120 Cr, sources said and added, "a police team led by SDPO East Shamsher Singh Sambyal rushed to the spot and seized the revenue paper... | |
| | | | Justice Gandhi cross examines over 30 witnesses | | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Kishtwar, Oct 29: Justice retired R C Gandhi probing August 9 Kishtwar communal clashes today examine over 30 witnesses who had submitted his affidavit to the Commission of Inquiry with regard to the Kishtwar violence.
Justice Gandhi along with his secretary, Qazi Sarwar and other supportive staff cross examine the witnesses in a full court established inside the office of Assistant Commissioner Revenue Kishtwar.
Justice Gandhi during his cross examination of witnesses asked questions related to the incident and the reasons their off. He also sought detailed information from the witnesses about the violence related. He will continue the exercise for two more days bef... | |
| | | | Police sabotages meeting of JCC, arrests employee leaders | | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Oct 29 : Police today raided the agricultural complex here and arrested some of the leaders of Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) who had assembled there to chalk out future course of action with respect to the demands of government employees.
Reports reaching here said that Police sealed the entrance of agricultural complex and did not allow any of the employees to enter so that the meeting of JCC leaders could not take place. However, some of the employees managed to give police the slip and reached the venue of meeting from the back side.
The JCC leaders and employees assembled at the park inside the agricultural complex and started the meeting. The meetin... | |
| | | | Deptt of Tourism pokes into Agriculture Department's nose | | Saffron Festival | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 29: The department of Tourism is going overboard in promoting Kashmir and everything associated with it, often crossing its domain and mandate.
This time the department jumped into the department of agriculture and started promoting saffron of Kashmir valley.
The saffron festival was organized by the Department of Tourism and department of agriculture jointly at Dusoo Pampore and IUST Awantipora in district Pulwama with a slogan of celebrating the saffron bloom.
While promoting Saffron was the job of department of agriculture to organize the festival but the department of tourism offered unasked for help.
It is a fact that saffron of Kishtwar is consider... | |
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