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| KAS officer allots shop to wife in Jammu | | CM’s year against corruption begins with a breach in Jammu Wakf | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 3: A middle rung officer of Kashmir Administrative Service (KAS) has created history by getting a commercial property of Auqaf-e-Islamia Jammu (AIJ) allotted to his wife in total violation of norms. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Jammu & Kashmir State Wakf Council (SWC), Javed Iqbal Balwan, who is also functioning as Special Officer of Auqaf in Jammu & Kashmir, has later confirmed the allotment of the shop at Talab Khatikan in favour of his better-half, Chaman Ara, without any fear of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s declaration of 2011 as the “year against corruption”.
Months after an Executive Officer of a Municipal Committee in Baramulla district has recruited his own wife on a substantive post in an unprecedented violation of rules and norms, CEO of SWC, Javed Iqbal Balwan, with endorsement of other members and Chairman, has confirmed allotment of a Wakf property in favour of his own wife, Chaman Ara. Documents in possession of Early Times are clear that there was a word of recommendation from Minister incharge Haj and Auqaf and Chairman o... | |
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| Surveillance on MLAs raised to fail horse trading | | Phones being tapped, bank accounts monitored, movement watched | | |
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
JAMMU, Apr 3: Government has mobilized all available resources to prevent horse trading on one critical seat of Legislative Council in Jammu as telephones of most of the opposition leaders are being tapped, movements watched and bank transactions monitored. In the
six-yearly elections for six vacancies on April 13th, the NC-Congress ruling coalition is sure to win four seats---two each in Kashmir andJammu---and lose one to PDP in the Valley. However, the real contest would be on the 6th seat in Jammu where there is a great scope of
horse trading and cross-voting.
Government agencies, according to well placed authoritative sources, are currently busy in plugging... | |
| | | | Zamindar customers increase by 10 pc after Omar Tweet | | IGP, DIG, SPs throng highway Dhaba to taste Rajmash, Roti | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 3: Immediately after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah drove all the way to Sarror on the national highway, alongwith his family, last week to relish the desi rajmash and roti, Zamindar Dhaba has
registered 10 percent increase in its customer base. A number of Police and Civil officials were among hundreds of fresh customers who enjoyed the pride of being the Chief Minister’s followers in the last
few days.
A group of senior Police officials, including an IGP and a DIG, tasted the sumptuous desi cuisine at Zamindar this evening. “Our sales are static around Rs 15,000 per day but the rush of customers has increased by around 10 percent after Omar Sa... | |
| | | | Militant groups in J&K warn public against taking part in civic polls | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, April 3: Militants have warned people against participation in the forthcoming municipal elections. Posters appearing outside mosques and prominent places across Kashmir urging the people to stay away from the polls have alerted the security agencies.
According to police sources, this seems a reaction to massive participation of people in 2008 elections. The security forces, sources said have been put on alert in response to the posters.
The posters appeared one week after the killing of a National Conference worker in Tral, Pulwama district.
Officials believe only 300 militants were now active in Kashmir. “But they are enough to create trouble”, s... | |
| | | | Jagmohan denies involvement in pundit exodus | | ‘I didn’t order killing of innocents’ | | |
New Delhi, Apr 3: The former governor, Jagmohan today denied his involvement in migration of pundits from the Valley in 1990. Talking to a local news agency at New Delhi, the former governor also said that he did not order killing of innocent persons.
Blaming the `vested interests’ for unleashing `malicious propaganda’ against him, he said: “When I took over as governor of the state, thousands of pundits had already migrated from the valley and were living in camps at Jammu.”
“Determined efforts were being made by me to instill confidence in the public by re-erecting the collapsed structure of administration. But killings of eminent Kashmiri Pandits, including poet Sarvanand Koul ... | |
| | | | Who is lying? | | Mirwaiz , MM Ansari or both? | | |
News Analysis
Early Times Report
Jammu, April 3: The chairman of the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference today denied his group had approached the Interlocutors. “Officially we have not sent any representation to them”, he said. One of the interlocutors, MM Ansari had yesterday claimed that a group had submitted a representation to them on behalf of Mirwaiz at Rajouri during their visit to the border district last month.
The Mirwaiz’s sentence needs thorough analysis. The group has not sent any proposal officially is it safe to presume that the group met them un-officially?
The disclosure triggered a debate across Kashmir. While some quarters severely criticized the Mi... | |
| | | | Bogies of two trains gutted at rly station | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 3: Despite the presence of huge possee of policemen and RPF personnel at the railway station here, a bogie of the Jhelum Express was gutted after it caught fire under mysterious circumstances this evening.
The train arrived at the platform at about 10.30 am. It was being taken for washing at about 4.30 pm when fire was noticed in one of its bogies, police sources said.
The matter was immediately brought to the notice of department of fire services. While efforts were being made to control the flames, fire broke out in a compartment of Hawra Express, which was parked on the nearby track, the sources added.
Firemen controlled the flames from spreading to t... | |
| | | | Bhim asks AICC president to wind up Congress in J&K | | Legislative Council Elections | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 3: Panthers Party Chairman Bhim Singh has strongly urged the AICC president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to "wind up the Present Congress Unit in J&K and reconstitute a fresh one with fresh blood committed to the cause secularism, democracy and national integration." In fact, he has written a letter to the AICC president, notwithstanding the fact that his action amounts to a naked interference in the Congress affairs. But Bhim Singh has the audacity to do what others normally avoid to do.
What has provoked Bhim Singh to write such a letter to the AICC president is the seat-sharing arrangement reached between the National Conference and the Congre... | |
| | | | Chidambaram complicating situation in Kashmir | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 3: Home Minister P Chidambaram is consistently disappointing the whole nation. In fact, he has dumbfounded everyone who believes in national unity and integrity and Indian sovereignty; who abhors and hates communalism, terrorism, separatism and politics National Conference, People's Democratic Party and Pakistani-style.
The case in point is his outrageous and highly controversial statements about Jammu & Kashmir. For example, he has said: "Voice of separatism in Kashmir is a reality…There is a political problem in Kashmir and it has to be solved…Centre would start a dialogue…but it will be a quiet dialogue and quiet diplomacy, away from the media gla... | |
| | | | Omar shown black flags in Ajmer | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Apr 3: A group of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) supporters greeted Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah at the shrine of Khawaja Moin-ud-Din Chisti at Ajmer in Rajasthan today.
Omar, who is ma regular visitor to the shrine informed people about the incident through his tweets. "They have made me feel imp0ortant", said one of the tweets.
The Saffron brigade is angry with him for his `anti-national' statements. Omar had stated in the Assembly last year that Jammu Kashmir was a disputed territory.
He left Jammu, the winter capital Friday, for Delhi after the budget session of the assembly got over Friday. He will be returning to the state Monday.
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| | | | Court summons editor, bureau chief of local daily | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Apr 3: In pursuance of a civil suit filed by the Health Minister in J&K coalition government Sham Lal Sharma, Principal District Judge Jammu Ashok Kumar Shan has issued summons against the editor of a local daily newspaper and its Bureau Chief and the Printers. They have been asked to appear in the court on April 28.
The Health Minister who also holds the charge of horticulture and floriculture departments, had earlier filed a defamation suit against the defendants. The minister has claimed damages of Rs10 crores claiming he has been aggrieved by alleged misleading, malicious and defamatory story against him by the defendants in the newspaper on February 10 thi... | |
| | | | Cheat held at Arnia | | | |
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 3: A cheater, who used to strip gold from people by washing jewellery in a strong acid solution, was today apprehended at Nikowal in Arnia area of Bishnah.
Police sources said the cheat went to Amit Kumar's house at Nikowal in the morning and told his wife that he would polish her gold jewellery at a cheaper rate. The woman, who was taken in by his words, gave him her gold jewellery. However, after the cheat washed the ornaments and returned them to the woman, she found that these had become lighter, the sources added.
She raised an alarm following which the cheat was apprehended by the people and later handed over to police.He was identified as Sanjay K... | |
| | | | Accused escapes from Hiranagar PS, ASI among 2 suspended | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 3: An Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) and a SPO were placed under suspension after an accused fled from the Hiranagar police station lockup Saturday night.
Police sources said Makhan Din of Saparwal Pain, Hiranagar, who was arrested for allegedly manhandling advocate Vijay inside Hiranagar tehsil office on March 25, fled from police custody last night.
ASI Munir Hussain and a SPO were suspended in this connection, the sources added. Sources said a hunt was on to apprehended the escaped accused.... | |
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