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63 works allotted without tendering at Nowshera Division in two years Shady affairs of Irrigation and Flood Control department 5/6/2014 11:46:02 PM Avinash Azad Jammu, May 6: The maxim 'rules are for fools' seems to be the hallmark of the Irrigation and Flood Control Department (IFC) in Jammu and Kashmir, as the department has executed scores of works in Rajouri Division without inviting tenders. A cursory look at the official documents, available with Early Times, revealed that in the past two years, the Department has undertaken 63 of works without inviting tenders, as the rules demand. This has raised a question mark on the financial dealings of the Department as the works executed in violation of codal formalities amount to crores of rupees. "The IFC division Rajouri had executed 63 works of worth Rs 238.15 lacs without inviting tenders in the year 2012-13 and 2013-14", documents maintained, adding that while during said period only 67 works executed through tendering process of worth Rs 7, 39.43 lacs. Sources in department said asserting that the most of works were allotted 'arbitrarily' to 'blue-eyed persons' under the garb of exigency. Officials believe that execution of works without tendering has become a norm in t...   READ MORE

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Keyboard jihadist arrested in Srinagar downtown 5/6/2014 11:45:44 PM Early Times Report srinagar, May 6: With the arrest of a class 12th pass-out in Srinagar downtown, Police have statrted a crackdown on the administrators and operators of certain Facebook pages promoting violent demonstrations, attacks on Police, CRPF and the polling parties and boycott to the Lok Sabha elections in Kashmir valley. Faced with violent demonstrations and attacks on over a hundred polling stations in South Kashmir, Police filed over a dozen criminal cases under Information Technology Act, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Representatives of Peoples Act and other criminal laws against the social media operators on April 29 and 30. Official sources said that the first arre...   READ MORE   NC leaders start to pick up holes for likely debacle at State, Central levels Anti-incumbency wave may spell doom for party 5/6/2014 11:02:44 PM Jehangir Rashid SRINAGAR, May 6: In a bid to save their skin during the ongoing Parliamentary elections National Conference leaders have started to give varied reasons for the likely debacle of the coalition in the State and at the Centre as well. National Conference President, Dr. Farooq Abdullah has of late started blaming the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) for its follies and wrong policies. On no less than two occasions over the past 10 days, Dr. Abdullah said that wrong policies of the Government at the Centre have landed UPA into trouble. As far as state level is concerned the National Conference President accused People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of hatching conspiracy with Bhara...   READ MORE   What lies beneath Farooq relinquishing JKCA headship? 5/6/2014 11:02:30 PM Abodh Sharma Jammu, May 6: Dr. Farooq Abdullah's announcement that he would not seek another term as the president of discredited Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association is being taken by his detractor with a pinch of salt. Sources within JKCA, however, believe that Farooq has pre-empted a defeat for the National Conference in the coming state Assembly elections and with his once confidants within JKCA becoming his bitter adversaries, he has deemed it fit to relinquish the chair he held for more than three long decades. While Aslam Goni, former working president of the JKCA parted ways following controversies in the Association and the National Conference and joined Congress, Mehboob Iqbal,...   READ MORE   High Level Committee formed to end stalemate between lawyers, police 5/6/2014 11:45:15 PM Sumit Sharma Jammu, May 6: The state government today constituted a four member committee to break the ice between lawyers and Jammu and Kashmir Police over the alleged manhandling of a lawyer by SHO Gandhi Nagar. The incident sparked protests from lawyers' fraternity who are demanding action against the SHO. Official sources told Early Times that the four member high level committee comprises of Suresh Kumar, Principal Secretary, Home Department, B R Sharma, Secretary Planning, Mohammad Ashraf Mir, Secretary Law and Shantmanu, Divisional Commissioner Jammu. The development comes after the lawyers under the banner of Bar Association of Jammu (BAJ) intensified their agitation with the str...   READ MORE   Molestation case: Shabir Khan appears before CJM Directed to file objection to victim's application 5/6/2014 11:02:02 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, May 6: Minister of State for Health and senior Congress leader Shabir Ahmad Khan appeared before a local court here in connection with a molestation case filed against him by a lady doctor in February this year. Khan, sitting MLA from Rajouri, has been charged under sections of 354 RPC (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 509 RPC (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman). The charge sheet was filed before Chief Judicial Magistrate Srinagar V S Bhou on April 3 by police in Khan's absence following which the court had summoned him today (May 6). As the case came up before the CJM, Khan along with hi...   READ MORE   Transitory population of Bangladeshis, Burmese posing grave security threat 5/6/2014 11:01:31 PM Shiv Thakur Jammu, May 6: Posing serious threat to the internal security of state, a major chunk of Bangladeshi and Burmese population is latently growing within and along peripheries of Jammu city and if this goes ignored both by district administration as well as police with impunity the same could turn into a serious problem in future, sources said. According to sources, over five thousand Bangladeshis and Burmese have settled in the outskirts of Jammu city including Narwal and Channi Rama posing a serious security threat to Jammu. Majority of these people are lured to travel to Pakistan for employment and their easy ex-filtration to Pakistan from the Jammu region, sources said, addin...   READ MORE   Demand in Jammu for delimitation commission well-founded Inadequate representation in Assembly 5/6/2014 11:01:48 PM Rustam Jammu, May 6: The non-Congress, non-NC and the non-PDP parties in Jammu province have been urging the Government to constitute delimitation commission to redraw and delimit de novo the Assembly and Parliamentary constituencies as per the Jammu and Kashmir Representation of People's Act, 1957. The demand cannot be dismissed as preposterous or as a manifestation of an anti-Kashmir bias. The demand is as justifiable as it is democratic and constitutional. The National Conference-Congress coalition Government in the State has scuttled the demand of these political parties, taking shelter under the anti-democratic constitutional bar on delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constitu...   READ MORE

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