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| MHA tells J&K; Religious organisations must pay for taking out processions | | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Nov 18: Taking note of certain religious and socio-religious organisations viewing processions on religious occasions as a show of strength, Union Home Ministry has advised Jammu and Kashmir government to ask organizers of such religious processions to give substantial deposit for the same.
Union Home Ministry has in an advisory, copy of which is with Early Times, said that various kinds of religious processions have very frequently led to communal confrontation and clashes. Besides, certain religious and socio-religious organisations tend to organise, and view, processions on religious occasions as a show of strength, which could itself become a cause for provocation, maintains the Union Home Ministry.
Going tough, MHA has asked the divisional and district administrations to ask organizers of religious processions to give substantial deposit if procession passes through any sensitive areas, and to ensure that they adhere to permitted routes. It has further told the government to ask the organisers to deposit hefty sums if they intend to go through rou... | |
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| Radio Kashmir Srinagar authorities not ready to learn from past mistakes | | Technical snag disrupts transmission for 15 minutes at a stretch | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Nov 18: Authorities of Radio Kashmir, Srinagar are hell bent on not improving the existing infrastructure despite the fact that faulty equipment creates trouble on frequent basis thus leading to disruption in the programmes being aired from the station.
On Monday morning, the machinery developed a snag and as such thousands of listeners were deprived to listen to the initial stage of a musical programme. As soon as Tuheunz Farmaish, a musical programme of Kashmiri songs started there was a prolonged fault in the machinery and as such there was a disruption in the programme.
“Tuheunz Farmaish got underway at 9:45 AM and hardly had the first song got started the... | |
| | | | Mubarak Mandi Heritage complex craves for renovation | | 2 and half years on, Governing body fails to meet | | | Akshay Azad
Jammu, Nov 18: The non serious approach of state government especially Chief Minister Omar Abdullah towards renovation of Mubarak Mandi Heritage Complex, could be well gauged from the fact that the Governing body of MM Heritage Society (MMHS) has not met for the last more than two and half years. The last meeting of body was held in April, 2011.
Sources informed Early Times that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was the chairman of the Governing body of Mubarak Mandi Heritage Society (MMHS) and the Tourism Minister its vice chairman, but in the last two and half years, Chief Minister didn't get time to chair the meeting, so that some pending administrative decisions could be ta... | |
| | | | Salman rejects Omar's statement on Modi as election gimmick | | | | Javaid Naikoo
Srinagar, Nov 18: JKPCC chief, Saif-ud-Din Soz's son, Salman Soz said on his Facebook page that Omar's statement on Modi and PDP was a mere election gimmick.
He wrote that frankly speaking I think it is unlikely that the PDP would form an alliance with a Modi led BJP in future, while as given its past National conference (N.C) may form an alliance with the BJP although even in their case it might be tough to swallow Narendra Modi as the head of the BJP.
Salman while elaborating his facebook update wrote that he believes and many analysts also agree that Congress will be part of the next Government in Jammu and Kashmir and an alliance with the BJP is not going to help eit... | |
| | | | Samba people face acute shortage of K-Oil | | CAPD officials delay fresh allotment to 'earn quick buck' | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Nov 18: Contrary to tall claims of the state government that it is committed to provide adequate quantity of essential commodities under Public Distribution System (PDS) to common man, the people of Samba are facing acute shortage of Kerosene Oil (K-Oil) thanks largely to the 'red-tapism' and alleged 'black sheep' in Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) Department.
A group of people from Samba, who approached Early Times, said that though CAPD department always claim that there is sufficient quantity of Kerosene oil in the stores, the reality is somewhat different in various parts of Samba including Vijaypur, Ramgarh, Sumb and border areas where there i... | |
| | | | 28 ReTs posts advertised against 31 vacancies | | Blue eyed adjusted on 3 remaining posts | | | Ajay Sharma
Rajouri, Nov 18: Flouting the prescribed norms, Zonal Education Office (ZEO) Sunderbani of district Rajouri advertised only 28 posts of Rehbar-e-Talim (ReT) teachers against 31 available posts leaving three posts ostensibly to adjust the blue eyed.
Sources said that Zonal Education Officer (ZEO) Nirmal Kumari had issued advertisement for 28 posts of Rehbar-e-Talim (ReT) teachers against 31 vacant posts under advertisement No. EEOR/RET/27041-55 dated 04-10-2013. They further said that in all 28 posts few were reserved for the candidates of Actual Line of Control (ALC) category. They alleged that on the remaining three posts, ZEO Nirmal Kumari adjusted three teachers already ... | |
| | | | Legislators rue non implementation of DDB decisions | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 18: As the Jammu and Kashmir government is completing five years in office, Members of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of various districts of Jammu and Kashmir have alleged that decision taken in District Development Board (DDB) meetings are not implemented. The opposition MLAs have been raising this issue since long but now members belonging to coalition government are also not happy with the non-implementation of decision taken in these meetings.
The most vocal MLA from Congress who has unequivocally raised his voice against Omar government has been kept at a bay by both Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) and state government.
On Monday morning, he emphasized ... | |
| | | | Congress accords dangerous legitimacy to separatist Geelani | | Poll boycott | | | Neha
JAMMU, Nov 18: Tehrik-e-Hurriyat chief Syed Ali Shah Geelani is a well-known pro-Pakistan separatist and hardcore terrorist. He is not an ethnic Kashmiri. It is also too well-known that he has been exploiting the name of Islam for worldly gains since decades. Besides, it is also too well-known that he has been living on the blood and sweat of the gullible Kashmiri Muslims belonging to a particular religious sect - a sect that controls all or nearly all the Kashmir-based separatist organizations and the so-called mainstream political outfits, including the National Conference, Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India-Marxist and that has been ruling the state and exp... | |
| | | | By-passing Cong, NC starts cosying up with BJP | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 18: National Conference which has accused PDP of getting closer with the BJP has now itself gravitating towards the Narendra Modi led BJP. NC patron and union minister Dr Farooq Abdullah has publically stated that former Prime Minister AB Vajpayee be given Bharat Ratna.
This demand was first by BJP and supporting it means Dr Farooq Abdullah is slowly gravitating towards BJP.
This is in line with the NC which while accusing PDP of becoming a team of Modi led BJP, is itself not ruling out possibility of getting into alliance with the Modi led BJP. But in the meantime it's also publically stating that NC is a committed constituent of Congress led UPA.
NC i... | |
| | | | If NC could share power with BJP, why can't PDP? | | Unwarranted criticism | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Nov 18: National Conference (NC) working president and Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who is enjoying the loaves and fishes of office with the support of the Congress party since January 2009, has turned extremely unreasonable. He has turned so unreasonable, nay alarmed and nervous, that he has started questioning the very credibility and ideology of the People's Democratic Party (PDP). On Sunday, he went to the extent of charging the PDP with hobnobbing with the BJP and expressed the view that the PDP could join the NDA to enjoy political power. "Hidden meetings of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed with close associates of LK Advani and his close contact with Narendra... | |
| | | | Numb SVO sleeps over IAY, MGNREGA irregularities | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 18: The State Vigilance Organisation (SVO) is yet to initiate a probe into the misappropriation of Indira Awaas Yojna (IAY) and MGNREGA funds in Kutabal Jeddan village of Central Kashmir's Budgam district inspite of the directions of the Special Anti Corruption Court Srinagar which had also sought a report from the SVO. The authorities instead of taking action against the culprits have promoted the former Block Development Officer (BDO) of Chadoora block during whose tenure this bungling took place.
The Minister of Rural Development Ali Mohammad Sagar recently launched a helpline and toll free number 18001807021 for registering the grievances by the ... | |
| | | | Rahulji ki baat to sun lo | | Ambedkar Nagar Congress rally | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 18: Just 20 days are left for the prestigious Delhi Assembly poll, which are slated for December 4 and it now appears that the Congress is failing on all fronts, including getting crowd to its election rallies. Indeed, it is a nightmare coming true for the Congress party. Is the Congress paying the price for its corrupt ways or is it that AICC vice-president and the Congress's Prime Ministerial candidate Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi have lost their charisma among the voters, simply because people know what they stand for. Moreover, despite favorable reporting by the bulk of the mainstream media, things have not helped them. Add to that BJP's Prim... | |
| | | | 8Srinagar Face lifting scam Minister orders time bound inquiry Javaid Naikoo | | | |
Srinagar, Nov 18: Taking cognizance of repeated reports appearing in Early Times regarding swindling of funds in face lift of road infrastructure in summer capital, Minister for R&B has instituted a time bound inquiry into the allegations.
Misappropriation in allotments of contracts issued from the Office of the Executive engineer R&B construction division II Srinagar for face lifting of roads, police beats, kerb stones, edge lines, centre lines, electric poles on the eve of Darbar move exposed by Early Times in its 18/10/2013 edition followed by bringing to the fore fraudulent measures used by contractors in nexus with concerned R&B officials finally invited the attention Minister ... | |
| | | | Power crisis worsens in Kashmir, people taking to roads in protest Bashir Assad | | | |
Srinagar, Nov18: With the early onset of winter, the power scenario in Kashmir has further worsened and the new power curtailment schedule announced by the Power Development Department (PDD) is causing miseries to the people. The PDD has come up with new curtailment schedule in which the frequency of power cuts in metered as well as non-metered areas have been increased.
Non metered areas will reel under more darkness this winter as there will be 57 hours of power cuts while in the metered areas it will be for 17 hours. However, the scheduled and unscheduled power cuts has hit Kashmir as most parts of the Valley reel under severe electricity shortage with no indication of improveme... | |
| | | | HC orders status-quo on construction by CAPD Minister | | | | S Sabaqat
Srinagar, Nov 18: A single bench of Jammu and Kashmir High Court has directed maintainance of a status-quo on a house construction by senior National Conference leader and Minister for CAPD Choudary Mohammad Ramzan for allegedly violating master plan for a residential colony in Budgam district of Kashmir Valley.
A bench Justice Bansi Lal Bhat passed the directions on a petition filed by one Dr Ghulam Nabi Yatoo, a resident of Friends Enclave Humhama in the central Kashmir district.
The Minister is alleged to have managed permission for raising the double storied residential house on two plots from Srinagar Municipal Corporation in whose jurisdiction the area falls.
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| | | | GGM Science College concludes awareness on waste management | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 18: 'Don't litter, it makes the world bitter' is one of the main slogans used by the NCC Senior Wing girl cadets of the GGM Science College for the awareness on Waste management theme today held on in the college premises.
The event was in the connection with NCC week celebration started Nov17 to Nov 24 planned by J&K, NCC Directorate, Jammu Group.
The NCC Senior wing cadets under the guidance of college Principal Dr. Satinder Singh and NCC officer Lt. Anjana Sharma displayed banners, posters, charts and models for discussing the necessity of waste management and recycling of the waste products in our society.
Lt.Col Abrol, Commanding Officer, 2 J&K Girls... | |
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