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| Governor, Speaker shut eyes to CM's Advisor | | Axe falls on PB's CEO in Delhi; Masoodi, Mubarak are holy cows in J&K | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 11: One of the country's most influential bureaucrats, CEO of Prasar Bharti Broadcasting Corporation B S Lalli, is being fired on Monday for his indulgence in corruption. Over a dozen others, allegedly involved in some lately exposed scandals, have been already sacrificed for the sake of credibility of the democratic system and institutions. Powerful politicians from Shashi Tharoor to Ashok Chavan to A Raja have been laid on the altar. But officials like Lalli's protégé and Director of Doordarshan Kendra Srinagar, Dr Rafeeq Masoodi, and Chief Minister's Advisor, Mubarak Gul, can comfortably escape with their escapades in the "special status state" of Jammu & K... | |
| | | | ‘ET is a mirror; It shows beauty and grey areas’ | | Bad habits die hard! | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 11: Bad habits die hard. This is how a senior Srinagar based journalist had to say on punishing Early Times by denying it the share it deserves in government advertisements.
The senior scribe while quoting history said the second oldest profession was always taken for granted by National Conference. Ghulam Muhammad Kashfi was a renowned journalist and created a niche for himself in the pre-partition era. According to Mir Ghulam Rasool Nazki, Kashfi became Khidmat's editor in 1943. His unique style of writing and presenting news added new dimensions to Khidmat.
Notwithstanding Kashfi's indefatigable efforts to popularize National Conference, Moulana Masoodi ... | |
| | | | Signature campaign against govt vindictive attitude towards Early Times | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
KATHUA, Dec 11: The Akhil Bhartya Vidyarthi Parishad unit Government College, Kathua conducted a signature campaign to lodge their protest against the vindictive attitude of the coalition government for threatening and harassing the state's most popular and accepted daily English paper Early Times .
The signature campaign launched under the leadership of college president of ABVP Manmohan Sharma and city president Arun Raina criticized the Omar led NC government which has been exposed as most corrupt and anti-people and these facts were taken before the people by all the print and electronic media.
ABVP leaders alleged that coalition government has adopted undemocratic... | |
| | | | PDP protests against govt's anti-democratic attitude towards Early Times | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 11: The PDP unit, Kathua burnt the effigy of the state coalition government by holding a massive protest under the leadership of district president Surinder Singh against the anti-democratic attitude of the state government towards the print media especially daily English newspaper Early Times.
He alleged the state coalition government of harassing and threatening the Early Times by directing all the government agencies to stop all the advertisements and any govt news in this paper which exposes real anti- media and anti democratic intention of the Omar Abdulla's regime.
The district president Surinder Singh said that such atrocities by the government on ... | |
| | | | Khajuria, Sukhnandan condemns govt attitude towards Early Times | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 11: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today condemned the state coalition government's stand to withhold government advertisements to English news paper Early Times daily.
According to BJP MLA, Ashok Khajuria the selective stoppage of government advertisements to the daily newspaper Early Times by the state government was a matter of concern.
The issue of selective stoppage of advertisements by the government seems to be a ploy to restrict the freedom of expression in the state particularly the freedom of media to report, comment and analyze the issues of public importance.
Khajuria said that the government has chosen to ignore the seditious and communal r... | |
| | | | Controversial remarks land up Cong minister in trouble | | Show cause notice issued, clarification sought within 7 days | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 12: Following furore in political corridors caused by the statement loaded with controversial contours by the Health minister Sham Lal Sharma , the Congress High Command has issued show cause notice to him seeking to clarify his position on the remarks within a week's time. The show cause notice has been issue by the party High Command over his remarks in the statement in which he reportedly supported independence (Azadi) for Kashmir ,separate statehood for Jammu and UT status for Ladakh region.
Though Sharma remained inaccessible for his comments over the high command's move, he is reported to have said that he has learnt notice has been issued but he has n... | |
| | | | ‘Ganderbal introduced accountability; redfined politics’ | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Dec 11: Emphasizing the historical role played by Ganderbal in introducing a sense of accountability into electoral process of the state, Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti today said the development initiatives started after 2002 elections had been virtually reversed.
Addressing a meeting of the office bearers and prominent workers of Ganderbal here, which was among others addressed party General Secretary Mohammed Dilawar Mir, Senior Leader Qazi Mohammed Afzal, Bashir Ahmed Mir, and Ab Wahid Dar. Mehbooba Mufti regretted that the present government had completely failed in building on the achievements of previous coalition. "This is in line w... | |
| | | | SKUAST (J): Agri Minister has two yardsticks | | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 11: Jammu province has been getting a raw deal at all levels since October 1947. Even impartial investigators have candidly acknowledged that Jammu province has never got its due share in any of the spheres, political or otherwise. In other words, discrimination with the people of this province is real and the charge of the people that they have been rendered unreal and ineffective for all practical purposes cannot be construed as a manifestation of their biased attitude towards Kashmir.
Only the other day, two of the four members of the State Finance Commission - Swami Raj Sharma and Sonam Dawa - put out official statistics and figures to indicate the ... | |
| | | | Disarm critics with embrace: Let Omar Abdullah follow the adage | | From a reader's pen for Early Times | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 11: The National Conference led Government continues to be immune to criticism .It wears thick skin whenever it is told of its glaring fallibilities. It keeps its eyes shut whenever reminded of its misdeeds and misdoings. It turns deaf to suggestions from its well wishers and even critics. It is a Government that is opposed to freedom of press. It is a Government run basically by a political party that does not care for seniority and experience. This lack of experience on the part of the man who is supposed to run the Government to the satisfaction of the people of the state has allowed his adviser to mislead him in basic forms of governance. Chief Minister, O... | |
| | | | Will it be an amalgam of autonomy and self-rule? | | Political solution to Kashmir problem | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 11: The announcement of the Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram, that the contours of political solution to the Kashmir problem were expected to emerge within a few months has set in motion a chain of public debate and discussion within and outside Jammu and Kashmir. What political solution to the Kashmir issue was being hammered out? This has become a million dollar question when Chidambaram seemed to be quite confident on the emergence of a political solution to the Kashmir problem.
Well during the last couple of months the central Government has carried out number of experiments on winning the hearts of people in Kashmir. And these experiments were in t... | |
| | | | Concerted move towards separation, onslaught on Indian Constitution | | State Election Commission - I | | | RUSTAM
ET REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 11: The Congress has again bungled and walked into the dangerous trap laid down by those who are systematically widening the gulf between Jammu and Kashmir and the rest of the country. The most disturbing aspect of the whole situation is that the National Conference, which is ruling the state with the help of the Congress, is doing certain things designed to weaken the constitutional and political bonds between the state and New Delhi the National Conference couldn't do when it commanded absolute, or even two-third, majority in the legislature.
Yesterday, the National Conference-Congress coalition government cleared decks for the establishment of separate elec... | |
| | | | Certain urchins spreading canards about Early Times | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 11: Perturbed over the public response towards Early Times newspaper, certain unidentified urchins have begun spreading fantastic canards across media circles.
These urchins are reportedly giving threatening calls to the government officials on the name of Early Times newspaper, probably with intent to bring disrepute to the owners and journalists associated with the newspaper. A few days ago, media circles were abuzz with the news of seizure of Early Times newspaper and closure of the printing press associated with it.
Management of Early Times preferred not to react but a day later, a rumor was spread across the media circles that an FIR had been lodge... | |
| | | | Doctor goes missing from GMC hospital | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 11: A doctor, doing post-graduation in pathology, has been missing under mysterious circumstances from the GMC hospital here for the past four days.
Police sources identified him as Randeep Singh of Reshamghar Colony.In his complaint to police, Punjab Singh said his son Randeep left home for GMC hospital on December 7, but did not return after that.A case in this connection stands registered at the Bakshi Nagar police station.... | |
| | | | Case registered against hotlier for allegedly encroaching graveyard | | | | EARLY TIME REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 11: Police today registered a case against hotelier, owner of 17 Miles Restaurant and Hotel on Jammu-Samba road, for his alleged act of encroaching upon graveyard land at Salmeri close to his business complex.
An FIR had been registered against hotelier under section 447 A of RPC, police sources said.Tension gripped Salmeri with people holding demonstrations Saturday night and Friday morning against the alleged attempt of the hotelier to encroach upon the graveyard land.Sources said he on Friday night hired a JCB to level the land close to his factory of transformers near the restaurant. While the JCB levelled the land, local stopped the work and held a d... | |
| | | | K oil shortage at Samba | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 11: The Samba district is faced with acute shortage of kerosene oil for the past few days.
Kerosene oil was not available in any part of the district, locals told The Early Times over phone.
They said they had brought the matter to the notice of authorities concerned, but nothing had been done in this regard so far.
They urged the authorities to take requisite steps for adequate supply of kerosene oil to the district.... | |
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