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| Udaan fails to take off in JK | | | | Akshay Azad
JAMMU, Dec 19: The much hyped job employment policy Udaan has so far proved a flip flop for Jammu and Kashmir as after nearly two years of its launching, only 368 candidates have been offered the job in private sector.
Sources informed Early Times that Udaan - a scheme piloted by the Home Ministry as part of the Centre's skill development initiative for Jammu and Kashmir- has been slow in delivering on the committed volumes.
"The Udaan scheme was launched on March 26, 2012, to enhance skills and employability of 40,000 to 57,000 graduates, post-graduates and three years engineering diploma holders from state over a period of five years but after lapse of around two years, only 368 candidates have been offered job in private sector", sources informed.
They further added the project was aimed at providing skills and enhance employability to 8000 youth from state every year, but contrary to claims only 547 have so far completed their training.
"If such will be the pace of scheme after two years, then in the five years tenure, not more than 1,000 candidates of state wil... | |
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| Administrative myopia, fiscal indiscipline deprive people of development opportunities | | | |
Early Times Report
kathua, Dec 19: Lack of administrative foresight and fiscal indiscipline have deprived people of remote region of Kathua district, opportunities of development.
People of remote hilly Hut-Mashka area of district Kathua, where the NHPC is generating power by Hydro Electricity Project Seva-2 and depositing one percent in the account of district Kathua under an agreement have suffered lack of vision on part of the administrative machinery as the amount thus deposited that amounts to Rs four crore annually has not been utilized for development of the region.
"Since July 2010 NHPC is depositing the amount under local area development fund and upto September 2013 an amoun... | |
| | | | Leading brands continue to take people for ride despite disclosure of adulteration | | Government gives least preference to health of masses | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Dec 19: Despite the recent disclosure that products of two leading food brands in Kashmir are adulterated no action whatsoever has been taken against the companies. The inaction from the Government mocks at claims of providing safe and standard food to the people.
Few days back it came to the fore that the packaged milk being supplied by Khyber Group of Companies is adulterated as it contains detergent. The presence of detergent in the packaged milk was revealed by Central Food Laboratory, Kolkata. It is being seen as a danger that can lead to serious repercussions for the people as far as their health is concerned.
At the same time it also got revealed that Fe... | |
| | | | `LoC trade is not an Indo-Pak venture' | | Omar proposes, Centre disposes | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 19: The day Chief Minister Omar Abdullah sought conversion of cross LoC trade into currency transaction, Government of India has made it clear that it cannot happen.
"The line of control trade is confidence building measure implemented though Home Ministry. Eligible items produced on either side of the LoC are traded under this mechanism and zero duty between J&K and POK. LoC trade is not an India-Pakistan trade," said the Union MoS Commerce and Industry in Parliament on Dec 18.
The statement makes it clear that cross LoC trade can't be made an international trade and as such it can't be traded in currency.
CM was probably aware of it but he did what he has... | |
| | | | SMC official complains against lawyer of Kanwal group | | | |
Saahil Suhail
SRINAGAR, Dec 19: A health officer of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) has filed a compliant in city's Shaheed Gung police station against Kanwal Group's lawyer for allegedly threatening and harassing him.
Health Officer (HO) of Srinagar Municipal Corporation Dr. Shafkat Khan told Early Times that he has formally lodged a complaint against spice brand's lawyer Advocate Molvi Aijaz for threatening and harassing him during official timing.
"After our disclosure that Kanwal spice brand is using harmful colouring agents which can even cause cancer in Saunf powder, counsel of the said brand visited me in my office and started using abusive language, harassed me and even th... | |
| | | | Say irregularities deliberate, seek ECI intervention | | New voter lists irk Jammu people | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 19: There has been a growing concern among the people over the deletion of names of the bonafide voters in the voter lists especially in Jammu region. The aggrieved persons have sought intervention of the Election Commission of India.
According to sources, the electoral rolls are full of mistakes and incomplete in all respects. The names of the bonafide voters are missing in these rolls and despite complaints the authorities seem unmoved.
Sources said even the political parties of Jammu region have also taken serious exception to irregularity and appealed to the Election Commission of India to take appropriate measures. They said that the mistakes were deli... | |
| | | | Cong all out to negate Modi's impact on OBCs of J&K | | Kuldeep Verma's meeting with Rahul Gandhi | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 19: Even as Congress leaders are publicly trying to undermine impact of Modi's "Lalkaar Rally" at Jammu, internally they are worried over impact of BJP Prime Ministerial candidate's speech on Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and other weaker section of the state.
Modi's while addressing Lalkaar Rally on December 1 had refreshed wounds of OBCs who are the worst victims of Article 370 because they have been denied reservation rights all due to this Article. Modi in his address had raked up this issue only to strike emotional chord with weaker sections especially OBCs. As Modi himself belongs to OBCs his appeal has great impact on OBCs of Jammu and Kashmir which in... | |
| | | | Punjab National Bank starts process of seizing assets of senior PDP leader Maulvi Iftikhar to recover Rs 13.34 Cr liability | | Ansari family in the eye of another storm | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 19: The Punjab National Bank (PNB) has slapped a notice on Highland Automobiles---an automobile business venture of the prominent cleric-politician and the opposition People’s Democratic Party's sitting MLA Maulvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari's family---asking the proprietors to deliver possession of the secured assets for failing to liquidate a cumulative liability of Rs 13.34 Crore. The amount includes the capital loan and the compound interest accrued thereon.
"…The amount due to the bank has not been paid till date. We have therefore, decided to take possession of the secured assets…," reads the PNB notice that has been issued days after a court vacated th... | |
| | | | Third Front to hold convention in Jammu on Dec 22 | | Move to widen political base across Jammu region...? | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 19: In order to give a statewide base and shape to the newly floated political outfit Third Front is organzing a convention in Jammu on December 22. This will be first ever political activity in Jammu after it was formally launched in Kashmir nearly two months back. Third Front which is an amalgamation of various political parties has some senior politicians of the state on board and it is trying to rope in more and more leaders across the state to widen its base. The purpose of organising the convention in Jammu is to convey a message that the Front is not merely confined to Kashmir Valley.
Ahead of Assembly elections in the state as the Third Front has incr... | |
| | | | Congress treading a dangerous path | | Ignoring Nehru, Shastri, Gandhi | | | Neha
JAMMU, Dec 19: The Sonia Congress and her men and women have disowned Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi for all practical purposes and adopted a policy that is calculated to help the communalists in Kashmir to separate Jammu and Kashmir from India and establish there an Islamabad-type Government to decimate and persecute the non-Muslim minorities. How else should one interpret the stand the Congress leaders, including Ghulam Nabi Azad, Harish Rawat, Manish Tiwari, Digvijay Singh, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Sanjay Jha, Abdul Gani Vakil, to mention only a few, have been taking on the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's suggestion that time has come to hold a ... | |
| | | | Not contesting election from Ganderbal would mean conceding defeat | | Shaky National Conference | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Dec 19: Is National Conference (NC) working president and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah not so sure of his victory in the prestigious Ganderbal Assembly constituency in Kashmir considered to be a pocket borough of the Abdullah family? Is he in search of a safer constituency in the Valley to ensure his victory in the 2014 Assembly elections? These are the two straight questions which political observers put today. In fact, it was the talk of the town today with many political pundits saying that Omar Abdullah is "afraid" of facing the people of the constituency he has been representing since 2009. It was none other than Mustafa Kamaal, Omar Abdullah's uncle, who provided an opp... | |
| | | | 'Warns supporters of political parties of dire consequences' | | LeT posters appeared in Srinagar City | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 19: Militant outfit Lashkar Toiba has asked people to desist from supporting any political party of Jammu and Kashmir and has warned Sarpanches and Panches of dire consequences in case they don't abdicate their chair.
"People who support the present 'oppressive regime' and those who favour National Conference, People’s Democratic Party, Congress or BJP and intend to participate in electoral process are hereby strictly warned of dire consequences in case they continue to support or vote political parties," handwritten posters of LeT warned.
The posters, appearing at many walls and electric poles in Habakadal, Kharyar, Gowkadal and Basant Bagh area of Sri... | |
| | | | After Pahalgam, Gulmarg; Sonamarg vandalization continues unabated | | Politicians, bureaucrats, businessmen construct hotels | | | Mustansir
SRINAGAR, Dec 19: In blatant violation of the prescribed norms and regulations, the vandalization of picturesque Sonamarg continues under the nose of the state Government rather in connivance with the political bigwigs of ruling National Conference.
After Gulmarg and Pahalgam, it is Sonamarg which is the victim of unplanned and illegal constructions that are telling upon the health of this resort once called "golden meadow".
The area is no more a meadow of gold. Zones which were declared 'green' under the Sonamarg Master Plan have been brazenly defiled by the unholy triangle of politicians, bureaucrats and businesses.
Pertinently after Gulmarg and Pahalgam, Sonamarg is the mo... | |
| | | | HC asks IGP to constitute SIT by Dec 23 | | 2010 Anantnag killings | | | S Sabaqat
Srinagar, Dec 19: Jammu and Kashmir High Court today asked IGP Kashmir to strictly constitute a Special Investigation Team headed by an officer not below the rank of Superintendent of Police to investigate the killing of two youth at Khannabal in south Kashmir's Anantnag district in 2010.
Hearing an application filed the families of victims-Bilal Ahmad Najar and Noor-ul-Amin Dagga, A single Bench comprising Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey asked the IGP to constitute the SIT by December 23.
Earlier as soon as hearing in the case started, advocate M A Qayoom, the counsel representing family drew the attention of the court to an order passed by the IGP regarding the constitution of ... | |
| | | | Lifer to accused husband for wife 'murder | | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Kishtwar, Dec 19: Principal District and Session Judge Kishtwar Pawan Dev Kotwal today awarded life imprisonment and fine of Rs. 5000 to 45 year old accused namely Ashok Kumar Baghat son of Kunj Lal Baghat resident of Traksina Astanbala Kishtwar for murdering his wife Thakri Devi, mother of three. Public Prosecutor R K Ghoswani appeared on behalf of the state while senior advocate Om Prakash Parihar appeared on behalf of accused. After hearing both sides, the session Judge upheld the arguments of Public Prosecutor and awarded life imprisonment to the accused.
As per the details, Kishtwar police registered FIR No.186/2009 U/S 302 RPC dated 25-10-2009 against Ashok Kuma... | |
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