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| Panchayat elections: Divided Oppn may make a cake walk for coalition | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 10: Though the main Opposition PDP has not cleared its stand over the issue yet, the announcement of Panchayat elections by the State Government is snowballing into a big controversy with BJP and other parties warning to launch a mass movement against the Government decision of holding the elections without the incorporation of Indian Constitution's 73rd and 74th the amendment.
The PDP according to sources though inwardly favors the incorporation of 73rd and 74th amendments to make the basic democratic institutions in the state more powerful but with NC's game plan to wean out the masses in Kashmir for not incorporating the Indian Constitutional amendments a... | |
| | | | Bakshi, Farooq were Maqbool's admirers | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 10: Former Prime Minister of Jammu Kashmir, Bakshi Ghulam Muhammad and former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah held Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) ideologue, Maqbool Bhat in high esteem. Bakshi even signed his roadmap for `liberation of Kashmir with his blood and Farooq ridiculed his close friends for maligning the image of Maqbool.
In Late 60s Maqbool Bhat came to Kashmir on a special mission. His close friend Advocate Ghulam Nabi Hagroo had become the acting president of Plebiscite Front and did not want to meet him for some strong reasons. He did not want to convey the message that the Plebiscite Front had connections with underground people. But,... | |
| | | | Disputes redressal commission penalizes SMVDU severely | | Damaging career prospects of student | | | SUMIT SHARMA
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 10: Jammu and Kashmir state consumer disputes redressal commission has directed Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU) administration to pay Rs 4.50 lakh as compensation to the girl student for making bid to damage her carrier.
Commission has criticised the administration of SMVDU and accused it violating laws with impunity. Similarly, two laboratory assistants of the famed university have also filed complaint in the court accusing SMVDU administration of adopting callous attitude. It needs to be mentioned here today that university is run by the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board of which the Governor NN Vohra is Chairman.
In the case adjudi... | |
| | | | Militants strike again in Sopore; 2 injured | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 10: Unidentified gunmen, widely believed to be militants, today struck twice in a span of six hours in Sopore town of north Kashmir. Two civilians were left wounded in the twin strikes in broad daylight.
In first attack, Majid Bashir, 33, was shot at by the gunmen at around 10 am inside his shop in Sopore. Bashir was hit in the left thigh by the bullets fired by the assailants, who fled from the spot soon after the incident. Police cordoned off the area and launched a manhunt, reports said, adding, so far no arrest has been made in connection with the incident.
The second attack took place at around 4 pm, when gunmen fired at Arif Hussain Reshi, 27, at a ... | |
| | | | Three feared dead in avalanche, bodies untraced | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 10: Three persons, who had Tuesday gone to collect firewood in Anantnag's last inhabited Thimran village, were feared dead in an avalanche.
Official sources said Javed Ahmad Koka, son of Abdul Ghani Koka, and two brothers -- Ghulam Qadir and Abdul Ahad -- Tuesday left homes at Thimran to collect firwood in the village forests.
As they did not return homes, they were feared to have come under a snow avalanche and died, the sources added.
Soon after the incident, the officials deputed a rescue team of district administration, police and army to the area in search for the bodies of the missing persons.
Sources said though several teams of police, army and civ... | |
| | | | Self-rule fundamentally bad and retrograde -- II | | | | NEHA
ET REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 10: PDP leader and former Chief Minister further said in Washington DC: "At a practical level, it should be obvious that the Jammu & Kashmir issue cannot be solved exclusively on an inter-state level (i.e., within India or within Pakistan). It requires a combination of intra-state (across India and Pakistan) and inter-state (within Jammu & Kashmir and cross-Line of Control) measures. Thus, it would seem prudent to advocate a three-step approach to the resolution of the issue - introducing fundamental principles of a solution, which would reduce uncertainty and provide a 'road-map.' Creating a dual power-sharing arrangement which would be based on equal relationsh... | |
| | | | Pharmacist runs CMO's office, Nursing Orderly District Hospital Budgam | | Candidates without qualification selected @ Rs 1.00 Lakh each in NRHM | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 10: Now attached and subjected to administrative inquiry, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Budgam had outsourced his entire job to a Pharmacist, posted in his office for over 16 years. Medical Superintendent (MS) of District Hospital (DH) Budgam was operating through a Nursing Orderly who was last week found to have swindled over Rs 16 Lakh of NRHM funds in one go. It has now surfaced that senior officers of Health Department have manipulated appointments of staff in NRHM through their Class 4th and Class 3rd subordinates against cash payment of bribes ranging between Rs 50,000 and Rs 1,50,000 from each selected candidate.
Ask anybody in the district name of th... | |
| | | | Sheikh assured loyalty to Hari Singh for personal power | | Conspiracy against Jammu -- II | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 10: On October 26, 1947, Jammu and Kashmir acceded to the Indian Dominion. On October 27, the nominated Governor-General of India, Lord Mountbatten, informed Hari Singh that his Government had accepted the accession offer. The Governor General's letter said: "It is my Govern-ment's wish that as soon as law and order has been restored in Kashmir and her soil cleared of the invaders the question of the State's accession should be settled by a reference to the People." The suggestion was both outrageous and unconstitutional. He also wrote: "My Government and I note with satisfaction that Your Highness has decided to invite Sheikh Abdullah to form an interim Gover... | |
| | | | Amid rumors of result leak, PSC reveals KCS merit list | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 10: The final announcement of the KAS main examination results here today have left several hundred hopefuls shattered as they failed to made it to the final list of the successful candidates.
Soon after the results were made available large number of KAS aspirants who were eagerly awaiting results of the main examination expressed serious concerns over the manner in which the KAS result was selectively leaked even before its formal announcement here today and the same was later posted on the news portal during last month itself.
According to the details available on the news portal during the fast week of January 2011, a list of students was made available ... | |
| | | | CM's spicy tweets win him admirers | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Feb 10: "Lunch from Krishna Dhaba - kaddi chawal and some rajma - mmmmmmmmmmmm." That's a tweet from none other than Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who is opening a window to his own life, shooting off opinions on terrorism and even promising to get transformers fixed - on microblogging site Twitter.
Since Abdullah entered the world of twitter on Jan 9 this year, he has notched up a following of nearly 6,000 on the site and tweeted nearly 800 messages, in restricted phrases as necessitated by the 140-character limit of the medium.
In the process, the 40-year-old Kashmiri leader, born and educated abroad, could be breaking a barrier that keep... | |
| | | | Lt Col's wife hurt as a youth opens fire | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU: The wife of a retired Lt Col of army was wounded after four "inebriated" marriage revellers opened fire from a pistol at Kachi Chawni here last night.
Police sources said Lt Col (retd) Ram Gopal Sharma of Panchkula and his wife Ranjana Sharma had come to City Palace banquet hall at Kachi Chawni to take part in a marriage function.
When the function was on, a youth, said to be drunk, took out his licenced revolver and fired several rounds in the air. One of the bullets, however, hit Ranjana in the leg, the sources added.
She was hospitalised.
The accused, whom sources identified as Mukesh Kumar, later fled the spot in his Tata Safari (JK02AQ/4000).
Another re... | |
| | | | Two killed, 3 hurt in road mishaps | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Katra/JAMMU, Feb 10: Two persons were killed and three others wounded in separate road mishaps here today.
Police sources said a speeding tipper (JK02AE/9597) skidded off the road at Badora in Mahore at about 2 pm and fell into a 500 mt deep gorge, resulting in the instant death of two persons and injuries to another.
The dead were identified as driver Mohinder Singh (22), son of Sher Singh of Mahore, and conductor Bahar Din (23), son of Shamasdin of Khair Lalyana, Bagga, and the injured as Mohammad Raqib (25), son of Mohammad Hussain of Jamsalan, Mahore.
Raqib, who had sustained serious injuries, was later airlifted to the GMC hospital in an army helicopter. Hi... | |
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