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| Jugal hides behind Modi's achievements | | Fails to list single landmark as MP | | | Bivek Mathur
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 30: As the Member Parliament from Jammu and Bharatiya Janta Party's state chief Jugal Kishore Sharma counted various achievements of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, here today, he couldn't list a single landmark which he has achieved as a MP during the past six months.
A political analyst while talking to Early Times said past six months have witnessed massive campaigning by the political parties for the assembly elections. In this period, people of the Jammu-Poonch, Udhampur-Doda-Kathua and Ladakh were expecting development by the three BJP MPs including Jugal Kishore Sharma, Dr Jitendra Singh and Thupstan Chhewang.
He said as far as ... | |
| | | | Won't compromise on CM's post: BJP legislators | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 30: Newly elected BJP legislators have reportedly conveyed it to the party top brass that they would prefer to sit in opposition rather than giving up their demand for Chief Minister from Jammu region.
Sources told Early Times that the BJP leaders who met here today to discuss the situation in backdrop of the fractured mandate are understood to have told the BJP senior leader Ram Madhav that party cannot give up its main demand and party leadership should not compromise on it. "BJP has got the maximum vote share in the recent assembly elections and it deserves the CM's post. If PDP or any other party which is willing to enter into an alliance with BJP doesn't... | |
| | | | Experts question Raj Bhavan on inviting two parties simultaneously on govt formation | | | | Bashir Assad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 30: As PDP president, Mehbooba Mufti arrived in Jammu today evening to meet the Governor N N Vohra tomorrow, constitutional experts have questioned the decision of Raj Bhavan to invite two parties in one go for government formation.
PDP president, Mehbooba Mufti arrived in Jammu this evening. She is scheduled to meet Governor N N vohra tomorrow to discuss the government formation in Jammu and Kashmir after the recent elections threw a fractured mandate.
A two-member BJP delegation today met Vohra to discuss government formation in the state and later said it would submit a formal proposal to him on January 1.
However, the legal and constitut... | |
| | | | SMGS hospital sans Paediatric Surgery department | | | | Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 30: Astonished it may sound but it is true that the premier maternity and paediatric hospital of Jammu-Shri Maharaja Ghulab Singh (SMGS) hospital has been running without Paediatric Surgery department, since its establishment owing to lethargy of Health department.
Sources informed Early Times that everyday nearly 1,200 patients visited OPDs of the hospital besides 100 patients were admitted to various wards and 60 deliveries and major and minor operations are performed every day.
"Contrary to tall claims of state government, large number of patients has failed to get required surgeries done due to unavailability of paediatric surgery depart... | |
| | | | 15 years on; Library runs from private accommodation, sans infrastructure | | State Govt indifferent to district library Jammu | | | GS Asgotra
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 30: The decline in the number of readers in libraries could be attributed to insensitivity on part of state government which has failed to provide infrastructure and other facilities to district libraries.
Same is the case with district library Jammu which has been running in a rented accommodation for the last 15 years besides san proper infrastructure.
Moreover, in the last 15 years, DL Jammu has been shifted in three different locations of the city, firstly it was running in Nanak Nagar area, then shifted to Channi Himmat and now has been running from Kala Kendra Jammu, due to which the number of regular readers has declined abruptly.
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| | | | Soz cautions Mufti against forming an alliance with BJP | | Government formation | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 30: With speculations on rise that PDP with the support of BJP will form the new government in Jammu and Kashmir, State Congress President, Professor Saif-ud-Din Soz today said that he is convinced that Mufti Mohammad Sayeed will, under no circumstances, cripple the Goose that will certainly lay the Golden Egg for him as the chosen leader of the State.
Soz said that the present situation has yielded a trump card in Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's hand and he feels confident that Mufti will use the opportunity very properly and advantageously.
"I am of the view that the atmosphere in the State is moving to Mufti Saheb's favour and he will adopt a course which w... | |
| | | | Graft cases during 2014 registered over 100 percent increase | | Beyond Omar Govt's 'crusade' against corruption | | | K Koushal
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 30: The menace of corruption continues to bother common masses in the state, as in comparison to the previous four years, the corruption index in Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed steep rise this year. A total number of 77 cases have been registered across the state this year as compared t 36 during last year.
As per official record of the J&K State Vigilance Organization (SVO) as many as 77 cases of corruption, including 34 in Jammu and 43 in Kashmir, against government employees stand registered with the organization this year and all of them are under investigation.
The number of registered cases this year has surpassed all the previous figures ... | |
| | | | Mustafa Kamaal provoking explosions in Jammu | | Muslim CM from Valley | | | Neha
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 30: Vested interests in Kashmir are hatching a conspiracy against Jammu and describing the demand in Jammu for a Chief Minister from this region as communal, anti-Kashmir and anti-constitutional. The comprehensively defeated Mustafa Kamaal, additional general secretary of the National Conference, which also suffered the worst-ever defeat in the just-held Assembly elections, has even gone to the extent of saying that since J&K is a Muslim-majority State, its Chief Minister has to be a Muslim from Kashmir. Kamaal lost his security deposit in the assembly election. He had sought to re-enter the assembly from the Gulmarg Assembly constituency, but got relega... | |
| | | | Independents would emerge as kingmakers if BJP-PDP talks fail | | | | Fazal Khan
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 30: As the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) are adamant on their stands to have the Chief Minister's post and talks between the two parties seem to have hit a roadblock, five independent candidates and Peoples Conference led by Sajad Lone which has two MLAs can play a big role vis-à-vis government formation in Jammu and Kashmir in coming days.
If PDP and BJP enter into an alliance, independents, who have won seven seats altogether, would become irrelevant as BJP-PDP combine would have 53 seats much more than required 44.
As both the parties have started looking away from each other it has given these indepen... | |
| | | | Sports infrastructure still awaiting maintenance | | Sand spread at mini-stadium during I-Day is reason for delay: Sports Officer | | | Shiv Dev Thakur
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 30: Notwithstanding the tall claims of the government and concerned department in developing the sports infrastructure of the state, the mini-stadium, Parade Ground, in the heart of city is craving for attention to get fit for sports activities.
At a time when the Jammu and Kashmir State Sports Council is in limelight over the construction of new sports infrastructure in Jammu and elsewhere in the state, the allegedly indifferent council administration is doing a little to save the existing infrastructure from systematic decay.
While sources in the council attributed the worst condition of the stadium to the lack of foresight on part of the ... | |
| | | | Jammu & Kashmir Police denies security to SMC for carrying out demolition drive | | Locals smell something fishy in whole issue | | | Shakeel A Khan
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 30: Jammu & Kashmir Police (JKP) is entrusted with the responsibility of safeguarding the interests of public at large, but on ground contrary is happening in some of the cases. A typical example of the same has come up in heart of summer capital.
JKP has denied security cover to the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) for carrying out a demolition drive in the Gonikhan area of the city. Although the work on illegal construction coming up in the area has been stopped but due to non-cooperation of JKP the demolition has not been carried so far. In the Bandooq Chawni locality of Gonikhan area seven Marlas of state land has been illegally occ... | |
| | | | Cold shivers mentally challenged, police fail to shift them to psychiatric hospital | | R S Pura SDM's direction to SHOs of R S Pura, Miran Sahib police stations in this regard not complied with | | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 30: At a time when heating appliances, quilts, blankets and winter wears are found insufficient to fight the bone chilling cold, one can well imagine what will happen to a person spending a night under the open sky and that too with few tattered blankets and jute bags.
Nearly half a dozen mentally challenged persons are said to be spending days and nights under the open sky on Miran Sahib-R S Pura road but the SHOs of R S Pura and Miran Sahib police stations have so far not bothered to shift these "Men of Lesser God" to psychiatric hospital, Amphalla, despite directions from Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) R S Pura, Rajinder Sharma.
Sharma had... | |
| | | | 50 percent wetlands lost, 10 percent forest cover goes missing, Urbanisation three times more than growth of population | | Political greed brings Kashmir closer to another catastrophe! | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 30: After recent disastrous floods, another natural catastrophe awaits Kashmir valley which has lost much of its forests and lakes to the greed of ruling political dispensations.
The ruling class has cared little and allowed devastation of the natural resources across the Kashmir valley at an alarming pace during the last 100 years. Nature has bestowed a vast network of wetlands and waterways locally called "Dembs" to the Srinagar city which acted as sponges during the floods and shared the Jhelum waters, but during the last few decades due to rapid and unchecked urbanization, these wetlands and water ways were converted in to built-up.
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| | | | Protests against PDD in North Kashmir | | | | Syed Tahir Bukhari
Early Times Report
Bandipora, Dec 30: Scores of villagers staged massive protests on Tuesday against the Power Development Department, in twin districts of Baramulla and Bandipora.
According to sources, " hundreds of people staged a protest against the Power Development Department (PDD) for not supplying power according to the scheduled curtailment in Bandipora and Baramulla districts.
Irshad Ahmad Dar of Sumbal told Early Times over phone that "Power situation is getting worse in recent times, people on Tuesday took to streets in various parts of Bandipora district and staged a massive protests against the PDD. Hundreds of people Tuesday staged a massive protest her... | |
| | | | Frustrated JKNPP questioning the legitimacy of electoral exercise | | Not in the national interest | | | Rustam
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 30: The 2014 electoral exercise in Jammu & Kashmir has been hailed by one and all in the state, barring the Kashmiri separatists, Pakistan and the decimated National Panthers Party (NPP). The ruling National Conference (NC), which could win only 15 seats, as against its 2008 tally of 28, has commended the Election Commission for organizing a free and fair poll. It was none other than Mustafa Kamaal, NC addition general secretary and critics of New Delhi, who described the Assembly elections free and fair. Not only this, he termed the agencies impartial. It was for the first time in 60 years that the Indian intelligence agencies remained neutral and all... | |
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