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A week ahead; NC, Congress leaders concede defeat in Parliamentary elections PDP, BJP, coalition set to score brace each in LS polls in J&K 5/9/2014 11:47:03 PM Jehangir Rashid SRINAGAR, May 9: Although there is still one week left for counting of votes for the six Parliamentary seats of Jammu and Kashmir leaders of the coalition have begun giving statements that indicate that they have already conceded defeat to their opponents. Congress leader and Health Minister, Taj Mohi-ud-Din virtually dropped a bombshell when he said that National Conference leaders and workers of the Uri assembly segment voted for People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Muzaffar Hussain Beigh for the election to the Baramulla-Kupwara Lok Sabha seat on May 7. As if the statement of Taj was not enough, Minister for Agriculture, Ghulam Hassan Mir gave a statement that has virtually broken the back of National Conference leadership. Mir said that he could not motivate all of his workers to vote for National Conference-Congress coalition candidate, Sharief-ud-Din Shariq for the Baramulla-Kupwara Lok Sabha seat. It was National Conference's Additional General Secretary, Dr. Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal who started the whole episode of cross voting during the Parliamentary...   READ MORE

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Power scenario still bleak; T&D losses at 57.40 percent, purchase touches Rs 4000 crore After NC's 5 years, 5 months in office! 5/9/2014 11:46:45 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi JAMMU, May 9: National Conference (NC)-Congress coalition Government is just five months away from facing assembly election and the promise of improving the power scenario drastically has seemingly remained un-kept. Power purchase has gone up from Rs. 1783.696 crore in 2008-09 to Rs. 4103.084 crore in year 2012-13. Transmission and Distribution (T&D) losses 61.31 percent in March 2009 when the new Government took over have shown marginal decline and if the state Government reports are to be relied upon, those losses have reduced by 4 percent during the last 5 five years. Since the figures for year 2013-14 are yet to be made public, T&D losses in March 2013 were 57.40 p...   READ MORE   SC grants bail to SSP Manohar Singh 5/9/2014 11:46:30 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, May 9: Supreme Court today reportedly granted bail to former SSP of Jammu Manohar Singh in the Amandeep Singh murder case in which the senior Police officer was accused of exchanging the weapon of offence in custody. He is coming out from Kot Bhalwal Jail Jammu after 5 years of continuous detention. Though the ET has no access of the order copy, but if his legal experts are to be believed, the Supreme Court gave him respite in the shape of his bail on conditional basis. Meanwhile, Central Jail Kotbhalwal authorities, where Manohar was lodged as under trial prisoner, when contacted said that they had not received such order as yet in this connection....   READ MORE   Monga says Congress leaders campaigned for NC honestly `Differences between Taj, Uri led to cross voting in Uri' 5/9/2014 11:46:21 PM Javaid Naikoo SRINAGAR, May 9: As National Conference-Congress alliance Parliamentary candidate, Sharif-ud-din Shariq today ascribed deep rooted differences between Taj Mohi-ud-Din and Shafi Uri a major cause of cross voting, state Congress vice president said that blame game is not good as Congress leadership fulfilled their promise to support NC candidate across North Kashmir. Terming the allegations baseless, state Congress vice president, G.N Monga said that Shariq and all other NC leaders are accusing Congress leadership without knowing facts as according to him Congress leadership tried their best to gain maximum public support for alliance candidate "Blame game is not good, our ...   READ MORE   Lawless Doda, Kishtwar; 7 police vehicles running without fitness certificates 5/9/2014 11:46:01 PM Asif Iqbal Naik KISHTWAR, May 9: In an embarrassment for the government which is fighting hard to prevent accidents in hilly districts of Kishtwar and Doda district, seven police vehicles are among several government and private vehicles which runs without fitness on roads in Kishtwar District & other parts of the state. As per the details available with Early Times, astonishing facts came to the fore after a notice issued by Assistant Regional Transport Officer (ARTO) Kishtwar intimating the defaulters to go through fitness process of their vehicles. As per ARTO Kishtwar Notice issued vide order No: ARTO/KTR/2014-15/83-96, 86 vehicles including seven vehicles of police department registe...   READ MORE   Omar Govt's total surrender in Sopore 5/9/2014 11:45:53 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, May 9: For a change, almost all the Valley-based newspapers have prominently carried the stories of the physical and mental torture suffered by the voters of Kupwara and Uri areas at the hands of the masked and unmasked hooligans in the separatist hubs of Sopore and Baramulla. That the situation was deteriorating to a sort of the civil war between the lowest turnout Kupwara-Baramulla and the highest turnout Kupwara-Handwara-Uri belt was evident from the fact that hundreds of travelers from the north Kashmir border belts were assaulted and humiliated. Scores of Kupwara-bound buses, taxis and private cars, as also those coming in from Kupwara and Handwara, were dam...   READ MORE   Cong bracing up for show down with NC 5/9/2014 11:45:44 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, May 9: The State unit of Congress is bracing up for show down with the National Conference. An indication of it was given in the meeting chaired by Pradesh Congress Committee president Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz at a meeting in Srinagar. Soz directed his party members to gear up activities in the Kashmir zone. It's significant as the state unit was not happy with the decision of the party high command not to contest from the Kashmir division. The state unit felt that it damaged the poll prospects of the party which was viewing the Parliamentary elections preparation for run up to the crucial state elections. The meeting according to the sources also analysed the g...   READ MORE   Did PDP's Baig get NC, Cong, DPN votes? Shariq on sticky wicket 5/9/2014 11:45:22 PM Neha JAMMU, May 9: Did former Deputy Chief Minister and People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Baramulla-Kupwara Lok Sabha seat Muzaffar Hussain Baig get votes which were supposed to go to the National Conference (NC) candidate Sharif-ud-Din Shariq, who was seeking re-election to the Lower House of Parliament from the same constituency? Did the supporters and cadres of the Congress of Saif-ud-Din Soz, NC of Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah and Democratic Party Nationalist (DPN) of Agriculture Minister and a bitter critic of Abdullah dynasty Ghulam Hassan Mir vote for the PDP candidate? What are the victory chances or otherwise of Baig? Will Shariq bite dust? These are the four per...   READ MORE   About 10,000 migrants cast their votes out of 81,000 voters in 3 phases 5/9/2014 10:39:22 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, May 9: About 10,000 Kashmiri migrants cast their vote in the three phases of elections held in Valley out of 81,000 registered migrant voters in Valley. The KP leaders attribute the low turnout in the voting by migrants was due to cumbersome process adopted by the Election Commission of India for voting. This forced majority of displaced people not to take part in election process as no body was ready to waste days together from relief organisation to Zonal offices for bringing M Forms filling them and depositing them back in their respective zonal offices. The Kashmiri Pandits right from 1996 have been demanding simplifying the election process for the displace...   READ MORE   No science lecturer for 150 students of 11th & 12th class, students approach DC GHSS Panjdhara Kishtwar lacks medical staff facility 5/9/2014 10:38:54 PM Asif Iqbal Naik Kishtwar, May 9 : The Government Higher Secondary School Panjdhara situated in remote Dachhan area of Kishtwar District having student strength of nearly 400 mostly belonging to poor families not only lacks modern and basic infrastructure, but there is also the dearth of staff in the school particularly for over 150 medical stream students studying in 11th and 12th class of the school. While talking to "Early Times", a group of students from GHSS Panjdhara led by Sachin Prakash & Ajeet Ganjoo said that the studies of over 150 students having opted for the medical stream are suffering badly as there was no teacher available in the school who could teach them science su...   READ MORE   Baramulla LS seat 'declared' ahead of results? 5/9/2014 10:38:37 PM Bashir Assad Srinagar, May 9: Though the opposition PDP, Peoples Conference and ruling National Conference are claiming to have won the Baramulla Lok sabha seat, the statements made by senior Congress leader and Minister for Health and Medical Education, Taj Mohiudin and that of the Agriuculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir which appeared in a section of press today have made it easy for all the stake holders to clearly assess the situation. Significantly both the senior Ministers in Omar government represented Uri and Tanmarg assembly segments in the state legislature have hinted at PDP's victory in the contest. Though ET on May 7 had predicted an edge for the PDP over NC and PC, th...   READ MORE   DB of SIC directs Home department Reveal Info about enquiries conducted from 1990 to 2011 5/9/2014 10:38:24 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, May 9 : The Division Bench of J&K State Information Commission (SIC) has directed the State Home department to provide information related to enquiries conducted from 1990 till 2011 under Commission of Inquiry Act 1962. The SIC while issuing this important order has upheld the decision of the Home department of not revealing names of the accused persons as the same may lead to incitement of an offence and would threaten their lives. Khurram Parvaiz a human rights activist from Srinagar filed second appeal against the order of First Appellate Authority (FAA) , Home Department wherein the information was denied to him. The information demanded by the app...   READ MORE   Tara Chand surrenders, takes back security 5/9/2014 11:45:32 PM Mustansir SRINAGAR, May 9: In what could be embarrassing for the coalition partners, senior Congress leader and Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand today afternoon surrendered his security in protest against what the Congress sources termed insult to the person and portfolio of the Minister. Source said the surrender took place after his bullet proof vehicle was allotted to another Minister. Chand has surrendered the security in Kashmir as well in Jammu and is presently at M A Road residence. When contacted Deputy CM termed the reports as mere rumours and denied having surrendered the security at his Srinagar and Jammu residences. "These are just rumours and nothing else," Tara C...   READ MORE   Jammu at the receiving end, but Kashmiri leadership says Valley is alienated from Delhi A True Story 5/9/2014 11:44:48 PM Rustam JAMMU, May 9: The politicians of Kashmir in particular and Jammu and Kashmir in general are a pampered lot. They represent a State which has been bestowed with various special powers. Yet they grumble that they and Kashmir are being discriminated against. The Kashmiri leadership rules the state. They exercise unbridled and absolute powers under Article 370. There is no accountability. They have, according to Transparency International India, converted Jammu and Kashmir into the 'second most corrupt' State in India. They control all the portfolios with political weight and considerable funds. They enjoy representation in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly which decides quest...   READ MORE   District, sub-district hospitals lack adequate facilities Govt fails to prioritize health sector 5/9/2014 10:34:06 PM Shakeel A Khan SRINAGAR, May 9: The state government has failed to prioritize the health sector and people, more so from the rural areas continue to suffer for want of quality health care as district and sub- district hospitals lack adequate facilities. Due to the lack of facilities at the district level there is an over burden on the premier hospitals of the state. As such the basic motive of setting up these premier hospitals gets lost. The district as well as sub-district hospitals lack men and machinery which is a requisite for the efficient delivery of the services to the people. "Though there are hospitals, health centers and nursing homes across the towns of the state but still ...   READ MORE

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