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Congress to emerge as single largest party, says Tara Chand Political Scene 12/27/2013 11:20:48 PM Rustam Jammu, Dec 27: Senior Congress leader and Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand the other day claimed that the Congress will emerge as the single largest party in the state in the forthcoming Assembly elections. "The Congress will emerge as single largest party in the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state…As far as I know we (NC and Congress) have been delivering to the best of our capacities. But people always expect higher from any Government and we too want to give our best to the people. As far as the functioning of our coalition goes, let me tell you that it is running smoothly. Education, health sector, power supply, safe drinking water, social welfare schemes, infrastructure building, exploiting tourism potential, agriculture and employment generation have been the priorities of the present coalition Government and many achievements have been recorded in the respective fields since the formation of the Government in 2009," he said. The claim of Tara Chand that the Congress will emerge as the largest party in the state in the 2014 Assembly elections appears to be a ...   READ MORE

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JK requests to release Rs 1000 Cr as first installment GoI refuses to release SPA of Rs 2064 Cr 12/27/2013 11:14:29 PM Akshay Azad Jammu, Dec 27: More tough days are ahead for Jammu and Kashmir Government as the Union Government has reportedly refused to release the Special Plan Assistance (SPA) amounting Rs. 2064 Crore out of total Rs. 7300 Crore of Annual Plan allocation for year 2013-14. Moreover, the State Government has made a fresh request before Union Government for release of at-least Rs. 1000 Crore out of total SPA component, as first installment. Sources informed Early Times that only three months of financial year 2013-14 were remaining, but the Union Finance Ministry has not released even a single penny out of total Rs. 2064 Crores allocated under Special Plan Allocation (SPA) component of to...   READ MORE   Kupwara's Runa Laila and Minister of Law 12/27/2013 11:14:15 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Dec 27: Directorate of Education in Srinagar has conveniently slept over a bunch of complaints about the Government school-teachers engaged with different private businesses but taking home their monthly salaries regularly from their drawing and disbursing officers (DDOs), particularly in Kupwara and Baramulla districts of north Kashmir. Exposure in the local newspapers, of many Government employees indulging in absenteeism and private businesses, has been ignored by senior officials and politicians as they have been equally the beneficiaries of the "no work full salary scam". Encouraged by the Omar Abdullah Government's inaction against such employees, a nu...   READ MORE   A week on, Gandhi Commission report not made public No official word... Govt still silent on findings 12/27/2013 11:14:06 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 27: Even as the political wranglings continue to envelope the Justice Gandhi Commission report on Kishtwar violence, full findings of the one man panel still remain elusive under wraps of mystery for reasons best known to Omar Abdullah led coalition Government in the State. Despite furore in the political corridors over a part of the report that was purportedly leaked to media, the Government has made no attempt to make this report public nor come out with any official version or statement on it. The only step it took in haste hours after this part became news was the re-induction of NC Minister Sajjad Kitchloo into Council of Ministers. Omar Abdullah led Gov...   READ MORE   As New Year dawns' employees all set to resume agitation against Government JCC to meet on January 1 to chalk future course of action 12/27/2013 11:13:42 PM Jehangir Rashid SRINAGAR, Dec 27: As there seems to be no end to the showdown between State Government and its employees with respect to the demands of the latter the New Year is all set to resume the confrontation between the two sides. Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) of State Government employees would meet in Jammu, the winter capital of the State on January 1, 2014 and chalk out the future course of action. The JCC in a meeting here today castigated some of the people in the Government who according to them are acting as stumbling blocks in the fulfillment of demands of Government employees. Talking to Early Times, Pir Nisar Ahmad, Press Secretary, JCC said today's meeting was pre...   READ MORE   Army puts onus on Omar to bring accountability 12/27/2013 11:13:30 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 27: The army has not put the onus on the Chief Minister to take action for even showing semblance of accountability and transparency in governance. Omar, who had locked horns and accused Army for not respecting the aspirations of the people, had ordered the court martial of six army personnel by the Army in the alleged Machil encounter. The order was issued despite the fact that Army had strong reservations about it. Even former army chief had also given a different version about the incident in an interview. "Now the clamour for transparency and accountability will grow more. Omar now can't shield his wrong doing by publicly accusing Army of being inse...   READ MORE   Safdarjang Hospital diagnosed him as 'Schizophrenic', reluctant to share history of diagnosis JK resident says GOI duped him 12/27/2013 11:13:21 PM Bivek Mathur Jammu, Dec 27: A resident of Jammu and Kashmir from Jourian area, earlier admitted in Safdarjang Hospital of New Delhi has alleged that he has been befooled by the Medical Board of the said hospital by diagnosing him as 'Schizophrenic' without any psychiatric treatment by the Doctors of the hospital. The complainant, Indu Bhushan Bali, said that he applied for a two year medical course in SSB Department on 05-12-1990 and after passing physical test, written test and interview he was selected for the course. According to him, despite completing two year course, he could not get the diploma/certificate for the said course. Further, he said that after he failed to get the certif...   READ MORE   Congress does a `tit for tat' to PDP To address rallies in South Kashmir 12/27/2013 11:13:10 PM Mustansir SRINAGAR, Dec 27: In a typical tit for tat politicla shows to match PDP's growing strength, senior Congress leaders are assembling in PDP's hot bastion, South Kashmir tomorrow to exhibit a show of strength aimed to put the opposition party on defensive. Realizing the intrusions made by opposition PDP in Doda-Kishtwar and Poonch- Rajouri once considered to be the hot bed for the party, Congress leaders are attempting to intrude in South Kashmir. Senior leaders, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Professor Saif-ud-Din Soz and Ambika Soni are scheduled to address series of public meetings in South Kashmir starting with a big rally in Shangus constituency currently represented by PDP's Peerzada Ma...   READ MORE   Board, GAD leave SVC red-faced; refuse even ordinary reforms Scam hit BOPEE 12/27/2013 11:21:04 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi Jammu, Dec 27: Virtually disinterested in bringing reforms and cleansing the system of rot, officials in the General Administration Department (GAD) as well as Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE) have stonewalled recommendations of State Vigilance Commission (SVC). GAD has rebuked SVC by terming recommendations 'futuristic' while BOPEE has referred to non-availability of 'Burg Khalifa' type building for being unable to accept and implement recommendations of the commission. In an official communique to SVC, GAD has obliquely refused to intervene for getting its recommendations implemented and instead, promised commission of taking up the issue of regular...   READ MORE   Azad, Soz to share page in Anantnag rally Azad steadily sneaking in state politics 12/27/2013 11:12:58 PM Javaid Naikoo SRINAGAR, Dec 27: Following defeat in the Delhi Assembly elections, the Congress high command, according to sources has urged Ghulam Nabi azad and saif-ud-Din Soz to shun differences and unit for the sake of party. The two leaders representing warring factions of Congress are expected to share dias at the Anantnag rally scheduled for tomorrow. The leaders, sources said were urged by the high command to shun differences after workers informed them that the party could suffer defeat in Parliamentary as well as Assembly elections. Sources also added that Ghulam Nabi Azad who during his political career has always liked enjoying rank and maintaining statues was actually aware ...   READ MORE   Valley's youth, retiring officials joining mainstream political parties Shift in mood ........ 12/27/2013 11:13:54 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Dec 27: With the youth wings of all the mainstream political parties, including National Conference and Congress, being defunct after the 1987 Assembly elections, the younger generation's participation in the mainstream political activity has been nominal in Kashmir valley in the last 25 years. Among the youth, only the relatives of the contesting candidates and surrendered militants have turned up at the polling stations in the Valley in different Assembly and LoK Sabha elections in the post-1996 era of the democratic regimes. Even among the older generation, particularly the government officials retiring from service, there was a craze for joining either the...   READ MORE   No taker for Kitchloo's tirade against opposition Issueless NC 12/27/2013 11:12:43 PM Neha Jammu, Dec 27: The rehabilitated controversial MoS Home Sajjad Ahmad Kitchloo had on Thursday charged the opposition with hatching a conspiracy to disintegrate Jammu and Kashmir by exploiting regional and religious sentiments of the people. "Opportunist political parties are creating wedges between the communities on the basis of religion, region, caste and creed," he said while interacting with the deputations, who called upon him at Civil Secretariat in Jammu, and asked the people to "foil their attempts and machinations to uphold integrity and solidarity of all the three regions of the State". "Communal and anti-national forces are hell bent to polarize the society by exploiting re...   READ MORE   Of Babus, police officers, politicians and mutual interest society 12/27/2013 11:12:05 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 27: The administrative inertia in the State has reached a level where Babus, police officers and politicians have stopped fearing both God and man. The system of governance has rotted to such an extent that clerks and officers in Government departments openly and publicly demand and accept money for doing jobs for which the Government pays them monthly salaries. Who says there is fear of either the State anti-graft body or that of any accountability by supervisory authorities in Jammu and Kashmir among the corrupt Government employees? It is a fact that there are honest civil and police officers also and so are honest clerks and Government officials at othe...   READ MORE   HC allows Minister's kin to lay tin roof of Budgam house 12/27/2013 10:33:21 PM early times report Srinagar, Dec 27: Jammu and Kashmir High Court today allowed family of Choudary Mohammad Ramzan, CAPD minister, to complete tin roof of a house at Humhama in central Kashmir's Budgam district. Hearing an application filed by the minister's son Asif Afzal Choudary and his relative Haji Ghulam Ahmad Wani, a single bench of the court comprising Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar allowed the completion of tin roof after their counsel submitted that roof of the structure is already 80 percent in place and only 20 percent tin roof is to be laid. He further submitted that in view of the winter season, the house will suffer considerable damage if it remains uncovered. "In view...   READ MORE   M A Stadium taken over by anti-sabotage team till January 29 12/27/2013 10:39:17 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec27: The Anti-sabotage team has taken over the M A Stadium in Jammu and entry for the common men including sportsperson has been barred till January 29 from today. The stadium has been closed for security ahead of Republic day celebrations of January 26, 2014. The Anti-sabotage team has started their job in the stadium and all the sportspersons have been instructed, not to enter the stadium till January 29. "The stadium is for sports or for cultural and political activities, firstly Rahul Gandhi, then Modi and now Republic day, when will we practice in the stadium," said Saurabh Gupta, a player. "Our government can't even make a separate stadium of these k...   READ MORE   ATM machine with Rs 4 lakh cash stolen 12/27/2013 10:38:53 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 27: A group of unidentified robbers late Thursday night made a desperate attempt to loot an ATM in the densely populated Nanak Nagar area but when they failed to broke open the machine they decamped with the same after uprooting it from inside the room with the help of a vehicle. An estimated Rs 4.3 lakh were looted from the ATM machine, official sources said. The incident, which according to eyewitnesses, took place at around 2.00 a.m in Sector 7 came to light at around 5:30 am on Friday when locals of the area alerted the police. The room where ATM machine was fitted was without any security guard and flouted basic security norms as well. The unit wa...   READ MORE

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