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| Omar's bungalow in New Delhi raises eye-brows, social groups approaching SC | | 'J&K CM gets special status' | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 10: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has alleged twisted rules to get him official bungalow in the posh Lutyen Delhi, the home to Prime Minister and Cabinet Minister.
It's one of the most sought after residential address in the entire country. Sources said, his allotment is likely to be challenged in the court. As per the rules, no Chief Minister is allotted bungalow in New Delhi. Only Cabinet Ministers are entitled to it. No other Chief Minister of the country has got bungalow there. Chief Minister, tweeting in response to reports of his bungalow, had said that he has only swapped his residential address with the Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad from Akbar road t... | |
| | | | Right to Information Act being used to blackmail officials in JKPCC | | | | Mustansir
SRINAGAR, May 10: Increased number of cases of blackmail of Government officers by Right to Information Act, 2009 are coming to the fore in Jammu and Kashmir and most of the times the blackmailers have patronage of the employees (retired or in service) of Government organization or department. In Jammu and Kashmir Project Construction Corporation (JKPCC), revelations have come to the fore that a couple of retired and in service officials of the organization are using RTI to blackmail their own colleagues particularly the seniors. According to the reliable sources, one Fayaz Ahmad Khan S/o Ghulam Mohammad Khan of Iqbal Colony, Zainakote Srinagar who retired as Deputy General Mana... | |
| | | | Ladakh Congress workers also voted for independents | | Pre Poll alliance with NC was a mistake: Karbalai | | | Javaid Naikoo
SRINAGAR, May 10: At a time when cross voting issue has already ignited fire within NC and Congress camps of Kashmir, the Ladakh wing says that due to prevailing internal bickering NC and Congress followers voted for independent candidates.
While accusing higher ups of both the parties to form pre poll alliance without taking workers on board, senior Congress member and Chief Executive councilor of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) of Kargil District, Haji Asgar Ali Karbalai said that like Kashmir cross voting happened in Ladakh too.
He said pre poll alliance was a mistake committed by higher ups as it remained restricted to papers only and instead of an... | |
| | | | District that illuminates JK has 389 un-electrified villages | | 1258 villages in 17 districts un-electrified | | | Avinash Azad
JAMMU, May 10: Notwithstanding about 2000 megawatt hydro-electricity production in four districts of Reasi, Ramban, Doda and Kishtwar around six hundred villages of these districts are un-electrified. Moreover, nine districts of Jammu division have 809 while eight districts of Kashmir division have 349 un-electrified villages.
According to official documents with Early Times there are 1258 villages of 17 districts of state yet to be electrified. "Nine districts of Jammu division having 809 un-electrified villages, while 349 villages in eight districts of Kashmir division are also un-electrified", the documents revealed, adding that in the list of un-electrified villages distr... | |
| | | | M.Phil pass outs of DSRS awaiting admission in PhD since 2010 | | Ishar's Amritsariya lobby playing with future of Jammu youth | | | Bivek Mathur
JAMMU, May 10: Lobbyism at Jammu University (JU) is ruling the roost as under pressure from the Amritsar University's lobby, of which VC JU MPS Ishar had remained an active member in the past has adjusted some incompetent faculty members who are denying admissions to Department for Strategic and Regional Studies (DSRS) pass outs of M.Phil without any valid reason.
As per reliable sources, the Jammu University Vice Chancellor MPS Ishar had adjusted some lecturers who are not even Ph.d but they are being remunerated heavily by the University administration despite of the fact that no M.Phil pass out was enlisted for the Ph.D programme since 2010 by these influential.
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| | | | Concealing information about organ donation | | Mirwaiz aide serves notice on Director SKIMS | | | Bashir Assad
SRINAGAR, May 10: A day after a businessman from down town Srinagar decided to donate his organs after death, former militant commander and political secretary to Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Shahid-ul-Islam has served a notice on Director SKIMS for concealing information.
Shaid through his counsel today served a legal notice on Director SKIMS, Dr. Shawkat Ahmad Zarger accusing him of concealing the facts about the first person who has offered to donate his organs after death.
Shahid has claimed that he offered his organs on March 9 this year, while as the report quoting Dr Zargar say that the first person offered the organ donation on April 16.
"On March 9, 2014, a seminar conduct... | |
| | | | Spurious drug trade continues, death knocks doors of commoners in Kathua hospital | | | | Sumit Sharma
JAMMU, May 10: Even after being under the watch of High Court, spurious drugs continue to wreak havoc and play with the lives of the commoners.
In a recent incident, a patient was brought back from the clutches of death in District Hospital Kathua. Panic gripped among the medicos in the district Hospital, Kathua after a patient had a narrow escape after he was injected (I/V) the Propofol drugs recommended and supplied by the Drugs Control Department. However, filled with the anger, and fear of being beaten by the locals, the Medical Superintendent of the Kathua hospital wrote to the Drugs Department, complaining of the alleged sub standard drugs supplied to the Government hos... | |
| | | | Terror and talks can't go hand in hand: Modi | | Pakistan and Jammu & Kashmir | | | Neha
JAMMU, May 10: BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Thursday had indicated a really tough stand against Islamabad and stated that talks between New Delhi and Islamabad could not be possible amid sound of gunfire. "Is it possible to have discussions amidst bomb blasts and gunshots? Do you think it is possible to have a discussion amidst the deafening noise of bomb blasts and gunshots? So to have a reasonable discussion, first the blasts and gunshots have to stop," he said in an interview with leading news channel, Times Now channel and the anchor was none other than Arnab Goswami.
When asked to explain his recent statement that "a confrontational approach is not the best... | |
| | | | To vote for PDP was decided in a secret meeting: Congress | | | |
Early Times Report
URI, May 10: Scores of Congress leaders from Uri Constituency today claimed that 98 percent National Conference workers voted for People's Democratic Party candidate Muzafar Hussain Beigh and the decision was taken in a secret meeting at Chandanwari that was presided by a former NC MLC.
Castigating Mohammad Shafi Uri for blaming Taj Mohi-ud-Din for failing to meet his commitment of support to the coalition candidate Sharief-u-Din Sharik, a delegation of Congress workers led by Block President Uri, Hamid-ur-Rehman told that National Conference top leadership including Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is well aware of this fact that NC workers did not cast their votes in ... | |
| | | | Will 1977 drama be enacted in Kashmir if Congress loses power in the Centre? | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 10: Notwithstanding the fact that six Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir may not have any vital role to play in the Government formation in the Centre in case the ongoing Parliamentary elections threw up a hung Lok Sabha, the importance of the poll is, by no way, less significant for the state and its people.
On the basis of some assumptions if the Congress led UPA Government fails to retain power will it have any direct or indirect impact on the five and a half year old political arrangement in Jammu and Kashmir? Yes, the political situation in Jammu and Kashmir may witness some change. That is different if the state will be in for a change for better or... | |
| | | | War of words in Kashmir becomes bitter | | Shafi Uri's counter attack | | | Rustam
JAMMU, May 10: Just a day after senior Congress leader and Cabinet Minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din made a starling revelation that at least 50 per cent Congress and NC voters voted for PDP candidate for the Baramulla-Kupwara Lok Sabha seat Muzaffar Hussain Baig and that all this happened because of senior NC leader and Member of Rajya Sabha Mohammad Safi Uri's son's activities, the NC leader hit back and blamed Taj for what happened during the election on May 7. "He (Taj) is trying to cover-up his failures of not having fulfilled his commitment to make Congress cadres vote for the coalition candidate Sharif-ud-Din Shariq. Instead of blaming NC workers, he should tell, how 12 Panchayat repr... | |
| | | | 'Congress party disappointed us' | | Kamaal calls Taj an intruder | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 10: National Conference today said that it was disappointed over the admission of some Congress leaders that its party workers indulged in cross voting in the recently concluded Parliamentary elections for in Kashmir.
Additional General Secretary National Conference Dr Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal told that NC will think hundred times in future before forging any kind of alliance with the Congress party. "It was shocking to listen from a Minister like Taj Mohi-ud-Din that some of the Congress workers voted for PDP candidate Muzaffar Hussain Beigh. Our workers voted for Congress in Jammu but what they did in Kashmir was astounding and it shocked us all. We will de... | |
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