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| Ministers, former legislator's 'Aashirwad' renders transfer orders in Local Bodies department meaningless | | Saifullah, Mir, Dar don't want their blue-eyed boys to be transferred | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Dec 6: Too much interference from politicians is seriously hampering the normal functioning of Urban Local Bodies department. It is due to this meddling in affairs that two recent orders issued with respect to transfer of more than one dozen officers in the department have become irrelevant.
Sources told Early Times that a week back on November 29 the Urban Local Bodies department issued two orders ordering for the transfers of 14 Executive Officers of different municipal committees and councils. The orders became irrelevant as the transfers never took place and the Executive Officers continue to function at their previous places of posting.
"The Urban Local Bodies department issued order numbers 303 and 304 on 29-11-2013 under which 14 Executive Officers were transferred. However, as on date nobody has been transferred due to the patronage enjoyed by some officers of the politicians more so those who are ministers in the ruling coalition," said sources.
According to the orders, Ghulam Mohi-ud-din, Executive Officer, Municipal Committee, Kupwara in Nort... | |
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| J&K only state offering no concession to disabled, senior citizens in public transport | | 5 years on, Minister says she is alive to situation | | | Bivek Mathur
JAMMU, Dec 6: In what could be termed as shameful for the ruling National Conference (NC)-Congress Government in the state that the Minister given portfolio of Social Welfare Department knows the importance of concession to physically handicapped persons in public transport but not the remedy.
When Early Times contacted Sakina Itoo, Minister for Social Welfare regarding no policy in place to provide special benefits to senior citizens and physically challenged persons like concession in public transport, she replied, "I know, it is of utmost importance and I have highlighted the matter several times, but we could not formulate a strategy till now to sort this issue".
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| | | | Article 370 deprived J&K youth of employment opportunities: Tarun | | Says instead of FDI it has led to Terrorism Direct Investment | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Dec 6: Reiterating Bharatiya Janta Party's (BJP) resolve to repeal Article 370, the BJP Member of Parliament and national spokesperson Tarun Vijay said today that as and when party comes to power at Centre on its own Article 370 will definitely be revoked.
"If elected to power at Centre, revoking Article 370 will be BJP's top most agenda," Tarun Vijay asserted while addressing a press conference at party headquarters here today.
"Article 370 is a conspiracy to make the state of Jammu & Kashmir poorer… It deprived the people of Jammu & Kashmir of the opportunities of employment and industrialization…. Instead of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) it has led to Terrori... | |
| | | | Congress deflates pre-poll alliance balloon | | Set to contest all six LS seats | | | Bashir Assad
JAMMU, Dec 6: A day after National Conference announced its candidates for Parliamentary elections from three seats of Valley, ignoring Congress's appeals of sparing at least one seat for it, Congress asserted that it would put up candidates in all six Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir, ruling out alliance with its coalition partner during the upcoming Parliamentary polls.
"We are not looking for alliance partners. We will put up candidates in all six Parliamentary seats in the state and there will be no tie up with National Conference," MLC, Ghulam Nabi Monga told Early times on phone from Delhi.
Monga said that the state unit of the Congress party is of the considered v... | |
| | | | AFSPA: Omar Abdullah's shifting stand | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 6: NC leader and J&K CM Omar Abdullah had over the period created an impression that he would take rest only after he succeeded in getting the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) lifted, at least from certain districts in Kashmir and Jammu. He had even taken cudgels with JKPCC president Saif-ud-Din Soz on the issue when the latter questioned his unilateral announcement in October 2010 that he would revoke the AFSPA before the Durbar move offices were opened in Jammu. During the next 18 months or so, he repeatedly insisted on the abrogation of the AFSPA, but thereafter he maintained silence on the issue for several months.
However, he broke his silence o... | |
| | | | National Conference a one region party | | 2014 elections | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Dec 6: National Conference (NC) president and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah, who a day before asked the people to accept the money from the political parties during the elections but give votes to the NC on Thursday not only announced the names of the three party candidates who would seek (re)election to the Lok Sabha in 2014 but also claimed that the NC would form the next Government in the State on its own. All the three sitting Members of Parliament of the NC will seek re-election from three Lok Sabha seats of Kashmir valley during the forthcoming Parliamentary elections, he announced at a function organized to observe the 108th birth anniversary of his father and founder... | |
| | | | Will leadership be able to translate it into political gain...? | | Riding high on Modi wave, BJP in 'thanks giving mode' | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 6: Euphoric over the grand success of Lalkar rally on December 1 in terms of massive numbers in which people participated , state unit of BJP in a first of its moves, is in gratitude expressing mode, one of the bodies at the mandal level having begun it formally with a proper thanks giving message to masses for their contribution in making it a truly show of strength. The gesture is appreciable more importantly for those who despite facing restrictions of all sorts on the context of security, could not manage a smooth entry inside the jampacked stadium for one or the other reason. The party is also upbeat over the way Narender Modi comment on Article 370 has c... | |
| | | | Omar forces Farooq to put his foot in the mouth over sexist remark | | | | Javaid Naikoo
SRINAGAR, Dec 6: Taking cognizance of criticism and wrath of the people across the country on social media over sexist remarks of Dr Farooq Abdullah about woman, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah forced his father to apologize for his comments.
As the Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy and president of National Conference, Dr Farooq Abdullah while talking to reporters in New Delhi said that men were scared of talking to women because they feared landing up in jail, Omar Abdullah was flooded with criticism by his followers on social media and he asked his father to apologize for the same.
Farooq Abdullah while talking to reporters about the case of retired Supreme Co... | |
| | | | No taker for Omar's claim on ST status to Gujjars | | Wrong noises | | | Neha
JAMMU, Dec 6: National Conference (NC) working president and the Congress-supported Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on the occasion of 108th birth anniversary of his grandfather and founder of the NC Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah said many things about the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in Srinagar, challenged him to join debate with him on Article 370 anytime, anywhere, and even at Ahmedabad and made several claims to establish that the NC is an all-embracing party.
One of his claims was that Gujjars of Jammu & Kashmir enjoyed Scheduled Tribe status. He was right. But he did not tell the audience that the NC by conviction was opposed to any such status to the ... | |
| | | | As authorities sleep over Hawala transactions, infamous raise fortunes through shady deals | | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Dec 6: A group of Kashmiri businessmen have benefitted a lot by the hawala money and yet evaded any action due to lackadaisical attitude of the administration. These businessmen have developed from rags to riches and continue to grow geometrically even today.
A business house owned by four brothers has spread its businesses across the Srinagar city by allegedly receiving money from illegal sources and are now counted amongst influential business families of Kashmir.
Sources told Early Times that up to 1990 the infamous four brothers basically hailing from downtown Srinagar had hardly any property, but the things have changed since then. They have owned shops in... | |
| | | | Mirwaiz Umar: From darkness to light | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 6: His proximity to so-called Kashmir Economic Alliance, has apparently put the senior separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on a course of transformation since 2011. Addressing the Friday prayer assembly at Jamiat Masjid today, Mirwaiz charged the state and the central governments with promoting corruption and exploiting Jammu and Kashmir's mineral resources, hydroelectric power potential in particular. He claimed that the State had capacity to produce more than 25,000 mega watts of power that, according to him, would fetch J&K state receipts worth Rs one lakh crore a year.
It is indisputably the separatist leader's magnanimity that he has begun to think ... | |
| | | | Family of 1971-war missing still awaits his whereabouts | | | | Et Report
Jammu, Dec 6 : 70-year old Nirmal Kour might be losing her eye-sight due to old age, but from last 42 years her eyes are still waiting to see the face of her husband, Capt. Assa Singh, who was arrested by the Pak Rangers during 1971 war at Chambh sector at Jammu and Kashmir. She fails to controls her tears, whenever she recalls the time when Army had informed her that her husband is missing and presumed dead. "It was the most tragic moment of my life, when the Army informed me that my husband is missing in the war and presumed dead. No one can understand that what a lady would feel who has two sons and five daughters and when she comes to know that her husband is no more," said N... | |
| | | | ‘Fulfil our demands or we leave’ | | Migrants rue homecoming | | | ET Report
Srinagar, Dec 6: For them the homecoming has not been comfortable. The indifference of the government has forced the Pandits to return to their adapted homes. They have threatened to move back.
Breaking the militancy jinx, migrant Pandits started to come back to the Valley after government promised them security and a comfortable stay. But inadequate accommodation and lack of basic facilities in the quarters at Devsar Kulgam and Sheikhpora Budgam have irked them so much so that they have decided to move out of the Valley.
Some of them told Early Times that the accommodation offered to them at the above mentioned places was worse than migrant camps of Jammu.
The government st... | |
| | | | HC seeks status of inquiry against SMC officials | | | | S Sabaqat
Srinagar, Dec 6: A Division Bench of Jammu and Kashmir High Court granted further time to Commissioner Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) to file latest status regarding an inquiry initiated against delinquent officers of the body.
As soon as the hearing of Public Interest Litigation seeking an end to illegal constructions in the city began before bench of Justice M A Attar and A M Magrey, counsel representing SMC prayed for time till next date of hearing for filing the status report. The court allowed the prayer.
On November 28, SMC commissioner was directed by the court to file status report about the enquiry initiated against delinquent officials/officers of the corpo... | |
| | | | People's issues sound like 'Laila Majnu drama' to Farooq Abdullah: Mehbooba | | Says 'It is NC that used green cloth, rock salt for its political ends' | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 6: Mocking non governance during the present NC led regime Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti today today said projection of public issues sound like 'Laila Majnu Ki Kahani' to the National Conference leadership. Addressing a well attended public meeting at Chokibal in Kupwara constituency, she said Dr Farooq Abdulla's recent insinuation that the people of the state take money for votes is an ultimate insult to their (people's) sense of discretion and integrity. 'It (NC) explains why the state has become almost dysfunctional, disempowered and disturbed, whereas, the personal assets of the ruling elite have immeasurably grown in the l... | |
| | | | Leela Karan challenges Omar for debate on Article 370 anywhere in J&K | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 6: Bhartiya Janta Party leader Leela Karan Sharma today challenged Omar Abdullah regarding a debate on abrogation of Article 370 within state.
Sharma has reacted over a statement of Omar Abdullah which he made yesterday challenging Gujarat Chief Minister and Bhartiya Janta Party Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to debate on Article 370.
Omar had said that he (Omar) is ready to debate on the importance of 370 anywhere in the country especially Gujarat's Ahmedebad city.
Omar had further challenged the Prime Ministerial candidate saying that those who know least about the article are commenting on the abrogation of Article 370, linking the Lalkar r... | |
| | | | Official DoB-December 5, 1904, School records- March 2, 1902, Biographer- January 29, 1903 | | Controversy on Sheikh's DoB deepens | | | ET Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 6: The controversy over the date of birth of Sher-e-Kashmir, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah deepens with every passing day. The official date of birth is December 5, 1905 and happens to be a holiday in Jammu and Kashmir. The National Conference says that Baba-e-Quom (father of nation) was born on December 5, 1905 at Soura. This claim has been belied by the school records which state that "Abdullah Sheikh of Soura was born on March 2, 1902."
However, Sheikh Abdullah's biographer MY Taing told local English daily that the date of birth according to family sources was January 29, 1903.
Taing said the research for Sheikh Abdullah's biography; Aatish-e-Chinar took him to ... | |
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