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| Central leadership ignores wishes, aspirations of Jammu, Ladakh candidates | | To safe-guard Mir's seat, Cong high-command crosses all limits to appease anti-national elements | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 5: To 'safeguard' victory of Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief Ghulam Ahmed Mir, Congress high command appears to be ready to sacrifice three Parliamentary constituencies of Jammu, Udhampur and Ladakh. The only concerned of Congress high command is to ensure victory of its 'blue-eyed boy' Mir at any cost
Election manifesto of the Congress and guarded silence maintaining by party leadership on high provocative and controversial statements of National Conference and PDP leaders have authenticated the allegation that one and only concern of Congress high command is ensure victory of Mir, who is contesting election against PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti from Ana... | |
| | | | Why census in J&K in 2020, not in 2021? | | HM needs to review his stand | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 5: The next census of India will be carried out in 2021 with 1 March of that year as the reference date, the Home Ministry has announced. A notification to the effect that the decision has been taken by the central government under the powers conferred by Section 3 of the Census Act, 1948 (37 of 1948).
"The central government hereby declares that a census of the population of India shall be taken during the year 2021," the notification said. However, it also said that census would be held in Jammu & Kashmir in October, and not in March 2021. "For Jammu and Kashmir, the reference date shall be the first day of October, 2020," the notification said.
It would... | |
| | | | 'Pak stooges caught in their own web' | | Hurriyat dove gets 3rd NIA notice, faces arrest, if he refuses to cooperate | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 5: Hurriyat dove Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has received third notice from the National Investigating Agency. He has been asked to appear at the NIA headquarters in New Delhi on April 8 in connection with the terror funding case.
Prior to this, the NIA had sent two notices to Mirwaiz asking him to appear before the agency for questioning but he didn't go citing security reasons.
An analyst while talking to Early Times said, "If Mirwaiz refuses to go this time he could be arrested and taken to New Delhi for questioning."
He said that NIA has got enough evidence against the Hurriyat dove and "if he doesn't cooperate he would end up in a jail," he added.
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| | | | Undermining SC's authority, FD extends transportation permission for Khair | | | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 5: Undermining the authority of Supreme Court, the state Forest department has extended transportation permission for Khair (Acacea Catechu), violating the Management Plan for Khair growing. The Chief Conservator of Forest Jammu on 1st of April issued an order which reads, "....The Principal Chief Conservator of Forest J&K has agreed to extend one month time for transportation of Khair wood upto ending April 2019, to complete the process as devised in SRO-111 of 2016 and the Management Plan for Khair growing in non forest land".
The Forest department has already violated the Management Plan for Khair growing on various accounts and made chan... | |
| | | | Will SKUAST-J get first ever local Vice-Chancellor? | | | | Arun Singh
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 5: Ever since the tenure of Vice Chancellor Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu (SKUAST-J) came to an end, discussions on the new VC have started. Will the university get its first ever local VC? The question haunts the people of Jammu.
Sources informed that it has been a shocking fact that that SKUAST Jammu has never got a local or internal academician on this coveted post even since the establishment of the varsity. "Despite having well qualified candidates in the State, the preference was given to the outsiders due to which, the varsity could not be benefited to that extent which was expected from the... | |
| | | | SIC directs CEO Srinagar to provide details | | Admission of BPL students in Pvt schools | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 5: In a significant development the State Information Commission (SIC) has directed the Chief Education Officer (CEO) Srinagar to collect details about number of students from Below Poverty Line (BPL) category being admitted in some renowned private schools of Srinagar as per Apex Court guidelines. The information was earlier not provided under RTI Act which prompted the applicant to file appeal before the Information Commission. Details available with Early Times reveal that an RTI application was filed before Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) by one Parvaiz Ahmad Bhat a resident of Rawathpora, Baghat Srinagar on 26.03.2018 seeking informa... | |
| | | | Anantnag Women college officials swindle money, Higher Education Deptt buries scam | | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, Apr 5: A year on, the Higher Education Department has failed to recover money allegedly swindled by senior officials of Anantnag Women's college. According to reports, an internal enquiry committee had detected a scam in Anantnag Women's college in 2017. According to the report, incumbent Principal and female senior laboratory Assistant was found guilty of having swindled an amount Rs 1, 09,860. This amount was collected from the students on account of fee for provisional and discharge certificates.
After the internal enquiry, the Higher Education Department had also constituted a three member committee to probe the matter. The committee wa... | |
| | | | Woes of poor go unnoticed as parties pit people against each other | | Real face of politicians in JK gets exposed | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 5: Real face of Jammu and Kashmir's politicians is getting exposed as not even a single political group has broken lull over the 60 thousand daily wagers who are without salaries for the past one year.
NC, PDP, Congress and BJP all in unison are raking up emotive and imaginary issues while as maintaining stoic silence on the plight of these ill- fated daily rated workers. There are heart wrenching pictures of the children of daily wagers who protested at various places, holding placards in their hands, urging the Governor to listen to their plight and address it on humanitarian grounds.
Meanwhile, there is not even a single politician who could speak ov... | |
| | | | Village Tatani- a sordid tale of unkept promises | | |  Abid Hussain Wani
Early Times Report
KISHTWAR, Apr 5: Tatani village in tehsil Drabshalla of district Kishtwar is a perfect tale of raising high hopes of development and progress while getting almost nothing in return as the promises made by the ex-MLA have hardly got fulfilled.
The general perception of the people of this remote village which is part of the Inderwal Assembly segment is that they do not feel something fruitful has happened or changed for their betterment over the last 1... | |
| | | | Will Mehbooba again make it to Lok Sabha? | | Fighting against odds in Anantnag | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 5: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti finally filed her nomination papers from the crucial Anantnag parliamentary constituency on Wednesday. In 2004 and 2o14, Mehbooba Mufti had won this seat defeating the NC candidates.
BJP has fielded against her former MLC Sofi Yousuf. It would be too much to say that he would pose any challenge to her. There are two reasons: Hardly anybody takes him seriously in the constituency and more than that, he belongs to a party to which all in Kashmir are opposed ideologically. The NC has fielded against her former judge Hasnain Masoodi. He is a green-horn in politics and he would not be able to challenge Mehbooba Mufti and that, too, in... | |
| | | | People forced to drink contaminated water, frog found inside supply line | | |  Early Times Report
DODA, Apr 5: Doda villagers face problems in their day to day lives, there are reports that a frogs was found in a water supply pipes in Chiralla area of Doda district.
The incident came to light when locals saw frogs inside the main supply which is the only supply of drinking water at Sunarthawa village. Damaged water service lines and roads are now common issues of these Doda villagers since winter season.
While talking to Early Times, one of the resident of Chiralla Raj... | |
| | | | Kupwara roads in bad shape; R&B, Beacon in slumber | | |  S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
KUPWARA, Apr 5: Even as the winter has ended in Kashmir, but the roads of this frontier district have potholes due to which students in particular are suffering.
The locals said the department gets huge funds every year but the condition of the roads speaks volumes about its inefficiency.
Mohammad Sultan of Batpora said that, both the national highway and inner link roads are in shambles, many times in the past we were assured that after winter, the ro... | |
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