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Promotion on fake degrees: 2 principals demoted 3/19/2024 10:38:50 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 19: Although two Principals in the School Education Department have been demoted as teachers after post-graduation degrees were found fake, many more are likely to face the same action because the process to reverify correspondence degrees is going on. Sources said that post graduate degrees procured by teachers through correspondence from some unknown degrees would be reverified to check authenticity. Important to mention here that the Jammu and Kashmir School Education Department has taken action against two Principals who were found to have obtained their positions as acting principal and senior lecturer using fraudulent postgraduate degrees. Investigations revealed that one of the Principals claimed to have earned a PG degree in Chemistry from Magadh University in 2003, a program that the university did not offer at the time. Both of them were serving as Principal in Higher Secondary Schools in the Samba and Kathua districts respectively. Apart from recovery from the day of promotion as incharge lecturers to Principals, both of them h...   READ MORE

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Seeking hat trick, BJP moving cautiously on Ladakh seat 3/19/2024 10:38:38 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 19: With the Lok Sabha elections on the horizon, all attention is fixed on the Ladakh parliamentary seat, firmly held by the BJP since 2014. The biggest question in the political circle can the BJP make a hattrick or Congress-National Conference (NC) alliance break the BJP's stronghold in this region? As reported earlier BJP leadership is moving cautionously on this seat because the party has yet not announced to repeat sitting Lok Sabha member of Ladakh Jamyang Tsering Namgyal like other members of the erstwhile state of J&K. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections the BJP candidate Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, who was then sitting Chairman-cum-CEC of LAHDC Leh...   READ MORE   Focus on goal of ‘Health for All’: LG Sinha Chairs review meeting of Health & Medical Education Department 3/19/2024 10:37:47 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 19: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today chaired a review meeting of Health and Medical Education Department with the senior officials and Principals of Government Medical Colleges. Heads of Departments also participated in the meeting. The Lt Governor called upon officials and all the stakeholders to focus on the goal of ‘Health for All’ and ensure healthcare services are efficient, effective and equitable. He reviewed the utilization of funds under variou...   READ MORE   No issue of seat sharing in J&K, says Dr Farooq 3/19/2024 10:37:10 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Mar 19: A day after the National Conference kicked off the party’s election campaign, the party President Farooq Abdullah said that there is no issue over seat sharing with the INDIA alliance partner and reiterated that they will contest on all three Lok Sabha seats in Kashmir. On Monday NC held a rally in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district sending a message to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) that it was not willing to make any compromise on the south Kashmi...   READ MORE   Omar upset over no simultaneous polls in J&K 3/19/2024 10:37:01 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Mar 19: National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah on Tuesday asked if the Centre cannot hold assembly and Lok Sabha elections together in Jammu and Kashmir, how can it conduct simultaneous polls across the country. Abdullah was reacting to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar’s remark that the officers of the Union Territory administration had expressed inability to conduct the elections simultaneously in view of the requirement of a large number of security forces. “When the CEC addressed a press conference, he said the ECI and all political parties are ready for polls, but the current administration (in J-K) put hurdles, saying th...   READ MORE   Crime Branch achieves big success, recovers Rs 1.10 cr 3/19/2024 10:36:53 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 19: Crime Branch, EOW, Jammu has achieved a major success by recovering huge misappropriated funds amounting to rupees 1.10 crore from an ex-employee of Jamkash Vehicleads Pvt. Ltd. SSP Crime Jammu, Benam Tosh deputed a team of highly professional officers of Crime Branch (EOW) Jammu to Indore, Delhi and after all out efforts during in-depth investigation, team succeeded in recovering rupees one crore ten lacs embezzled funds. On 19th of July 2022 , a case...   READ MORE   BSF Special DG reviews preparedness 3/19/2024 10:36:31 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Mar 19: Border Security Force (BSF) Special Director General Y B Khurania reviewed the operational preparedness of the personnel deployed along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, the force said on Tuesday. “Y B Khurania IPS, Special Director General, SDG HQ BSF (Western Command), visited forward areas of #Kupwara to review the operational preparedness of #LoC deployed Units,” BSF Kashmir said in a post on X. The BSF said the special director general interacted with the troops and applauded them for their unwavering performance in challenging situations....   READ MORE   MeT predicts rain, snow 3/19/2024 10:36:26 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Mar 19: Meteorological Centre Srinagar on Tuesday predicted light to moderate rain and snow at many places over Jammu and Kashmir during March 21 and 22. The MeT office said that the weather will remain generally cloudy on March 21 and 22, with the possibility of light to moderate rain and snow at many places with thunder, lightning, and gusty winds over the plains of Kashmir and Jammu division. The weather will generally remain dry on March 23, while it will turn generally cloudy with light rain and snow at a few places over Jammu and Kashmir on March 24. It said and added that on March 26, the weather will again remain generally dry while partly cloud...   READ MORE

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