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'Fake' ration cards issued to facilitate NC President's win from Srinagar Lok Sabha seat MLA Habba Kadal turns out de-facto Director, CA&PD Kashmir 5/14/2014 11:57:57 PM Jehangir Rashid SRINAGAR, May 14: At a time when thousands of people are being deprived of food grains in Kashmir a ration scam has surfaced in the summer capital of the state. The ration is being distributed on political lines with a legislator of National Conference backing the distribution. Under the scam fake ration cards were issued in names of the wives of prospective voters and the store keeper was directed to provide ration without any fail in the Habba Kadal constituency. Sources told Early Times that dozens of families living in the Habba Kadal constituency of Srinagar are illegally getting the monthly supply of ration despite the fact that they don't possess the ration cards. This thing got started before the holding of Parliamentary elections and the distribution of ration is going on. "Months before the holding of elections for the Srinagar-Budgam Lok Sabha seat the National Conference President asked the MLA Habba Kadal, Shamima Firdous to gear up the workers and ensure his victory. The MLA asked her workers to get the things done so that Dr. Abdullah wins from thi...   READ MORE

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'Chota Geelani' arrested 5/14/2014 11:57:27 PM Mustansir SRINAGAR, May 14: Shopian Police today arrested a youth who was allegedly wanted in 12 cases of stone pelting and was evading his arrest for last couple of months. According to police sources, 14 years old Faisal Amin Mir of Shopian was arrested today who was allegedly wanted in 12 cases pertaining to stone pelting and was evading his arrest from months together. They said that Faisal, son of Mohammad Amin Mir a resident of Khanday Mohalla, Bonebazar Shopian was arrested in Gagren area, at the residence of one of his close relatives. Known as 'Chota Geelani' Faisal, according to police sources was evading his arrest for couple of months. They added that Faisal was wanted in 1...   READ MORE   'Reckless' digging by PHE deptt leads to disconnect of mobile services in Jammu 5/14/2014 11:57:18 PM Kunal Shrivatsa JAMMU, May 14: Marred by a major technical snag caused due to the reckless digging by PHE Department, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited's (BSNL) mobile services remained snapped throughout the day in the winter capital of the state. The snag forced the clueless subscribers to move around in the city in 'disconnected' mode. The BSNL mobile services hit a road block after PHE men involved in digging at Mandir Morh, Roop Nagar inadvertently cut the Optical Fibre Cables (OFC). The mobile services which got disconnected at around 11:00 AM could not be restored till late this evening. As the network failed completely, thousands of BSNL's Cellphone users came across lot of inconven...   READ MORE   Yasin Malik faces public scrutiny over 'poll boycott for money' allegation 5/14/2014 11:57:09 PM Bashir Assad SRINAGAR, May 14: The civil society in Kashmir is up in arms against chairman JKLF Yasin Malik after the disclosure made by senior journalist Prem Shankar Jha that the separatist leader enforced the boycott in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections in Kashmir at the behest of the ruling National Conference for money. Speaking at the seminar organized on Tuesday in Srinagar on 'Kashmir Youth: Anxieties and Aspirations', noted businessman and social activist Shakeel Qalandar asked Yasin Malik to explain his stand on the question raised by Jha. Qalandar, who actually is not a votary of boycott politics, said that it would be the greatest disservice to the people of Kashmir if bo...   READ MORE   663 candidates not called for interview without assigning reasons SSRB's recruitment process sans propriety, accountability 5/14/2014 11:57:00 PM Avinash Azad JAMMU, May 14: In a brazen example of utter lack of accountability and transparency, as many as 663 candidates have not been called by the Service Selection Board (SSB) authorities for interview, which is scheduled from May 19, 2014, despite qualifying the mandatory written test for various district cadre posts for Rajouri district. According to recent notification of SSRB regarding interviews for various posts, 2613 candidates have been summoned for interview out of 3276 shortlisted candidates. " Total 3276 candidates were selected for various posts including 128 candidates against item number 397, 2160 candidates for item number 494 and 988 candidates were shortlisted for ...   READ MORE   Champion athlete gets a cold shoulder, empty recurring Beyond Police's hyped sports promotion! 5/14/2014 11:56:43 PM Sumit Sharma JAMMU, May 14: On the hind side of the sports events organized by Jammu and Kashmir Police under its Civic Action Program (CAP), which have proved to be little more than media opportunities for its bosses, the fact of the matter is that the organization has meted a raw deal to its own champion. Despite strong recommendations and remarkable performance over the years, a budding athlete has been deprived of his due. Undone and demoralized by apathy of the successive regimes and ignored for absorption as regular constable, love and passion for Athletics has motivated Special Police Officer (SPO) Ram Raj to give his best despite heavy odds and dismal lack of incentive. Despite s...   READ MORE   Leaders go into 'hibernation', Ministers yet to resume official work Exit polls effect: Demoralization in Congress camp 5/14/2014 11:56:28 PM ET Report JAMMU, May 14: Exit polls having painted a grim picture for Congress, the state unit of party has gone into huddles with senior leaders and key functionaries in a state of hibernation for the last two days. There is no word, not to speak of any statement or reaction from any quarter over marathon discussions on post poll political anatomy. While for other parties it is business as usual in terms of resuming their normal political activities, things are almost stagnant for the state unit of Congress where no one knows the whereabouts of each other. Sources said after having spent few days in New Delhi, J&K PCC president Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz today returned to Srinagar but kept off...   READ MORE   Challenge before Jammu, Ladakhi leadership Minorities in J&K are in danger 5/14/2014 11:56:12 PM Rustam JAMMU, May 14: It's time for the Jammu and Ladakhi leadership and the people of these two regions, especially those belonging to the minority communities, including Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh as well as the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus, to prepare themselves without losing a single movement for a full-scale movement against the Kashmir-based National Conference (NC) leadership. It has become imperative. To remain dormant and devoid of any political activity any longer would be to enable the NC leadership to impose their sectarian solution on the minorities and get Jammu and Kashmir out of India. Why should the minorities and their leadership in Jammu and Ladakh launch a full-s...   READ MORE   What happened to fuel scam in LC? 5/14/2014 11:57:45 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, May 14: Legislative Council had constituted a House Committee to probe much talked JAKFED scam but nothing has been done so far to investigate fuel scandal in the Legislative Council which took place during the tenure of former acting Chairman Arminder Singh Micky. Credible sources said that fuel scandal came to surface during the tenure of Micky but those who are at the helm of the affairs have not taken any step to probe that scam which had cost huge loss to the state exchequer. "During the tenure of Micky, who remained acting chairman of the Legislative Council, a scam was exposed in which it was established that money was charged by showing excessive use of...   READ MORE

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