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Panchayat polls: coalition allies may 'want' to have it on non party basis

11/12/2010 11:11:15 PM

EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Nov 12: Notwithstanding the resolve of the government to hold Panchayat elections in the state at the earliest, for now these stand deferred. Interestingly and ironically both the coalition partners have been expressing willingness and eagerness to hold the polls as early as possible through repeated announcements but have been unable to happen it on ground. What is actually holding them back to announce a final schedule instead of pushing it ahead on almost quarterly basis. Varied reasons have been put forh for the delay, non finalisation of electoral rolls being the apparent as projected by the government. From March this year to October, from October to De...

Denied a job as cook, a person locked govt school

11/12/2010 11:11:00 PM

ET REPORT RAJOURI, Nov 12: It may sound incredible but it is true. A local resident locked a school in Thanamandi area for a simple reason of not getting job in it as cook. The school is under lock for the last 5 months and education authorities failed to vacate it. As per sources, a family had put a lock on Government Primary School, Mehraj Pura Saaj in Thanamandi Education Zone of Rajouri district as the land on which the school is constructed belonged to them and they claim compensation as employment in the school. One of the family member said that they were assured by the department that their one family member will be engaged as cook in the school as compensation of land given by...

Azad became CM to harm Jammu, promote communalism

Kathua Address -- I

11/12/2010 11:10:41 PM

ET REPORT JAMMU, Nov 12: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad did well to accuse the Omar Abdullah-led government of not completing the "around 1550 development works and schemes", which were started during his tenure as Chief Minister in J&K. No one can find fault with what he said at Kathua on November 10 while addressing the people gathered at Shaheedi Chowk to pay tributes to the Kargil martyrs. It would be an exercise in self-deception if the people continue to pin faith in the Chief Minister and believe that he would complete the works his predecessor started. For, the Chief Minister is interested more in rabble-rousing than in the people's welfare. He is interested more in promoti...

OMAR faces traffic snarl on busy Gumat road

11/12/2010 11:10:22 PM

EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Nov 12: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who always enjoys smooth ride home on roads, had to taste moments of traffic blues in the winter capital.Choked with heavy traffic as the Jammu roads are these days, Omar remained stranded in a jam on busy Gumat road till his security personnel got down from their vehicles to clear the serpentine queue making way for the VVIP cavalcade. After attending first half of the day at civil secretariat when Chief Minister was heading home via bus stand area near Gummat road long queue of vehicles came in the way of his cavalcade and he was seen stuck in the jam for few minutes. The traffic police personnel despite making best possibl...

‘An era of innocent killings, amputated limbs and shattered panes’

22 month NC-Cong rule

11/12/2010 11:10:04 PM

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Nov 12: Omar led coalition has completed twenty-two months in office. Apart from giving a new look to roads in Jammu and Srinagar cities in the initial days of the regime; the coalition government has failed on all other fronts. According to people in Down Town Srinagar, Omar regime has been an era of broken limbs, amputated hands, damaged eyes and bruised bodies. An elderly man also adds another word; "broken panes." Immediately after assuming office, the chief minister promised a clean administration. But at the end of the year he summed up the administration `Rotten to the roots'. Strangely enough Omar did not take any measures to put the derailed administrat...

Desperate lover commits suicide

11/12/2010 11:09:42 PM

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Nov 12: Unsuccessful at love and unable to make his inner vision conform to reality of the outer world, a youth today allegedly ended his life by consuming poison here today. Ravi Kumar (25), son of Rashpal of Garhi, Purkhoo, was found lying unconscious outside a plywood factory at Muthi in the evening. Police sources said after some locals brought the matter to their notice, cops rushed to the spot and evacuated the youth to the GMC hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. He was a welder by profession. A letter was recovered from his pocket in which he had stated that he was ending his life as a girl had rejected him, the sources added. A case in this...

Return of migrants an acid test for Govt, majority community in Kashmir

11/12/2010 11:09:18 PM

ET REPORT JAMMU, Nov 12: Though the Government has mooted the return and rehabilitation formula for displaced Pandits to their homes and hearths in Valley but to give this formula a practical shape will be an acid test for both the Government and the majority community across the Jawahar Tunnel. The State Government, which claims to have taken various steps for rehabilitation and return of Kashmiri migrants in Valley under PM's Rs 1614 crore package is itself in a fix as how to implement the same in view of the prevailing lawlessness in Kashmir which is witnessing a complete shutdown for last five months now. Right from the announcement of the PM's package the displaced Pandits showed ...

J&K international issue, Congress mum, Delhi groping in the dark

11/12/2010 11:09:04 PM

RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Nov 12: "New Delhi has already accepted the 5 points put forward by the chairman of Huriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Three interlocutors appointed by New Delhi have already declared Kashmir a disputed issue and they have acknowledged that Pakistan has a role. New Delhi has not denied any of these statements. Remaining four points (demilitarization, repeal of AFSPA and other anti-terror laws, release of terrorists and separatists and action against security forces) of the formula fall within the domain of the state government and we are working on them…Jammu and Kashmir is an international issue…The back-channel talks between these nations Indi...

Minor girl abducted by 7 youth from Nagrota

11/12/2010 11:08:42 PM

EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Nov 12: A 14-year-old girl has been abducted by seven youth from Pangali area of Nagrota. According to a complaint lodged today with Nagrota police station by the girl's father Mohammad Jaleel of Pangali, she was kidnapped by seven youth from the village on November 5 last. In his complaint, Jaleel alleged that his daughter was abducted by one Mohammad Altaf, son of Mohammad Rashid of Udhampur, and his six associates and taken to some unknown place. He said he had approached police after his failure to find any clue to his daughter's whereabouts. She had been taken by the accused to some unknown place, he alleged....