TOP STORY OF THE DAY

REHABILITATING STONE PELTERS: Hurriyat, NC, BJP on same page No takers for innocent Jammu youth 6/25/2014 12:12:01 AM Early Times Report Jammu, June 24: "Nationalist" BJP, Kashmir centric National Conference and separatist Hurriyat Conference are on the same page on the issue of granting amnesty to the anti-national stone pelters, who has launched a war against India. Today BJP leader from Kashmir Fayaz Ahmed Bhat demanded that cases against stone pelters should be withdrawn and all of them should be recruited in the police. Shockingly no one is speaking about those innocent youth who were booked during Amarnath land row but all parties are speaking in favour of stone pelters of Kashmir. It is already established that stone pelting is part of agitational terrorism but there is race among all political groups to rehabilitate stone pelters. Stand of National Conference and Hurriyat Conference was already clear but today BJP also came into the support of these stone pelters. According to a handout issued today, important delegations of stone pelters have called on Fayaz Ahmad Bhat senior BJP leader. The youth who are associated with Stone Pelting Association and have been booked under various ca...   READ MORE

FRONT PAGE STORIES

"Nationalist" BJP avoiding Art 370 , keeping NC in good humour 6/25/2014 12:11:47 AM Early Times Report Jammu, June 24: Amidst report of ruling National Conference extending olive branch to BJP, the later has decided to keep silence on the contentious issue of Article 370. Instead of reiterating its demand of revoking Article 370, the BJP has decided not to speak on this controversial issue to keep National Conference in good humour. Today, in an informal chat with media persons on the sidelines of the Core Committee meeting of the party, neither BJP national general secretary Jagat Parkash Nadda nor Union Minister of State in PMO Dr Jitendra Singh spoke on this issue. When media persons asked about BJP stand on revocation of Article 370, which is core to the nationalis...   READ MORE   Home Ministry opposes amnesty to stone pelters 6/25/2014 12:11:39 AM Early Times Report Jammu, June 24: The Union Home Ministry is averse to the proposal of the State Government to grant amnesty to about 7000 stone pelters. The Ministry has reportedly told the Omar Abdullah Government to put on hold this proposal till the Assembly elections are over. The Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had proposed to grant amnesty to almost all stone pelters against whom cases were registered in various police stations. The CM who was himself earlier opposed to such a move as many concerns were raised decided to go with it with elections in the mind, after it had received drubbing in the Parliamentary elections. Sources said the Home Ministry officials had communicated that...   READ MORE   Ministers missing, files gathering dust, official work piling up 6/25/2014 12:11:30 AM Mustansir SRINAGAR, June 24: After the debacle in Parliamentary elections in the state, the Minister of NC-Congress coalition Government have confined themselves to their respective constituencies leaving their offices at the mercy of their special assistants and personal assistants. The offices of the majority of Ministers in Srinagar Civil Secretariat continue to wear deserted look. After facing defeat in Lok Sabha elections, the coalition Ministers with Law Minister, Mir Saifullah the only exception, have literary abandoned their offices and spend most of the time in the constituencies in an attempt to regain the support they have lost. Finally, the axe fell on Ministers who could no...   READ MORE   Azad acknowledges people are against Article 370 Return of Kashmiri Hindus 6/25/2014 12:11:20 AM Neha Jammu, June 24: Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday virtually acknowledged that many people in Jammu and Kashmir are opposed to article 370 and the BJP uses it for electoral gains. "He has no expectations from Prime Minister Narendra Modi vis-a-vis resolution of Kashmir issue…The BJP is raking up Article 370 merely for vote bank politics. I have got no expectations…Kashmir is far…first let him (Modi) see the national front…I have been hearing about Article 370 for ages…Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the tallest BJP leader and nothing changed even during his time…It is being used only for vote bank for Assembly elections," he said while talking to repo...   READ MORE   Anarchy rules JKCA as Chairman reduced to a puppet Joint Secretary encroaches powers in Farooq's absence 6/25/2014 12:11:05 AM Early Times Report Jammu, June 24: Persistently in focus for all wrong reasons, Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association has been marred by complete anarchy with few of its office bearers brazenly over stepping their domains and the newly elected chairman Arvinder Mickey watching the mess from a distance as a mute spectator. Sources in JKCA rue that unlike Aslam Goni, who exercised his command and authority over internal administration and vital decision making, Mickey has been reduced to a puppet as he has failed to ensure accountability and probity on part of the office bearers. "With all powers vested in him in the absence of president, Dr. Farooq Abdullah who is abroad, Mickey as the cha...   READ MORE   As usual state Congress authorizes Sonia Gandhi to take final call on important matters No decision on pre-poll alliance issue, CM candidate 6/25/2014 12:10:49 AM Jehangir Rashid SRINAGAR, June 24: The one day session of state Congress leaders and workers failed to evolve a consensus on two important issues with respect to the Assembly elections being held after three or four months in the state. The party is yet to decide who would be its Chief Ministerial candidate for the Assembly elections and it is also in a fix as to whether or not to forge any pre-poll alliance with any of the mainstream regional parties of the state. These things became clear during the press conference addressed by All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary, Ambika Soni along with senior party leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Pradesh Congress Committee President, P...   READ MORE   National Conference not to announce candidates before Congress 6/25/2014 12:10:36 AM Early Times Report Jammu, June 24: National Conference (NC) is in no mood to announce list of contesting candidates for upcoming Assembly elections in the state as the party is keeping watch on the development of Congress party first. They are waiting for Congress to announce list of candidates first and then, NC will make public their list of candidates. A senior NC leader said that there is no formal announcement of breaking of alliance for the upcoming Assembly elections and until Congress party and NC top leadership make public that they are going to put an end to this six-year long coalition, the NC will not announce its list of candidates. "We are ready with our home work for both ...   READ MORE   Post advertised six months back, appointment nowhere in sight Appointment of NREGA Ombudsman 6/25/2014 12:10:28 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 24: After over four years of long wait, Jammu and Kashmir Government has planned to appoint Ombudsmen at various places in the state for hearing complaints regarding Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme read NREGA. Early Times had carried a series of stories on this issue and on December 26, 2013 this paper had carried an exclusive story on absence of NREGA Lok Pal (Ombudsman) affecting the implementation of this centrally sponsored scheme. After the news was carried, Rural Development Department issued an advertisement notice on December 30, 2013 regarding appointment of Ombudsmen and subsequently applications were sought from the el...   READ MORE   No tenure norm for ex-Home Minister Nasir Wani's close relative Executive officer not transferred since 2009 6/25/2014 12:10:13 AM Saahil Suhail ANANTNAG, June 24: In blatant violation of norms, Executive officer of Verinag Development Authority a close relative of an ex- Minister has been found working at the same office for more than six years. By virtue of a Government order No: 861- GAD of 2010 dated July 28, 2010 maximum tenure for stay of an official at one place is two years and maximum upto three years but the Executive officer of Verinag Development Authority has been found working at the same office for six year now. Locals told Early Times that officer is using his political connections to remain in the office. "He uses his political connections to stay here and continues corrupt practices," they said. Th...   READ MORE   After open dissent; Lal Singh, spouse seek party mandate again 6/25/2014 12:09:54 AM Early Times Report Jammu, June 24: Discredited for his open dissidence against his own party in the just concluded Parliamentary elections which led to the defeat of former Chief Minister and then sitting Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, Lal Singh is reportedly seeking a mandate from the party for the forthcoming Assembly elections. If sources within the party are to be believed, Lal Singh is going overboard to seek a mandate for himself or his wife Kanta Andotra in the forthcoming elections to regain their political standing in the state. "It is shameful that after turning rebel against his own mentor and working behind the veil for his defeat, Lal Singh is again seeking mandate from t...   READ MORE   Kishtwar Police apprehends suspect resembling deadly Ultra; Investigations on 6/24/2014 11:55:16 PM Asif Iqbal Naik Kishtwar, June 24: Kishtwar Police are preempting a major success in the arrest of a suspect who resembles longest surviving Hizb Supreme Commander Mohammad Ammin Butt alias Jhangir Saroori. The suspect was detained from Kishtwar town on Sunday where he was camping for last few weeks for medical treatment. As per the details available, a joint team of CRPF, Army and Kishtwar police led by Inspector Saroop Singh conducted the raid in close vicinity of District Hospital Kishtwar and arrested the suspect believed to be the Saroori wanted by the security forces since last 25 years. After arresting the suspect HM Commander, police whisked him to some unknown location. When ...   READ MORE   Ceiling of Surgery operation theatre comes off, Emergency goes jail way Woes of GMC Hospital 6/24/2014 11:55:03 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 24: Apart from having turned the emergency of Government Medical College (GMC) Hospital Jammu into a virtual jail, ceiling of the operation theatre of Surgery department has broken down within month of inauguration by top officials of the health and medical education department. A look at the emergency of the GMC Jammu explains how the political executive functions in Jammu and Kashmir while responding to crisis situation. Junior doctors backed by some seniors who have recently or some years ago cleared public service examination of Government Medical College Hospital (GMCH) would often strike work over what they describe as threatening behaviour of atte...   READ MORE   Court directs police to expedite investigation; IO finds no substance in complaint 6/24/2014 11:54:48 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 24: A local court here today asked police officer, investigating the sexual assault allegation among others on Director Health Services Kashmir, to expedite investigation even as the cop revealed that no substance has been found in the complaint filed by the nurse so far. "The report filed by the IO indicates that steps have been taken for expediting the investigation to its logical conclusion," the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate V S Bhou observed. "The IO is directed to take steps to expedite the investigation and record any evidence produced," the CJM added. Earlier in its report, the IO said that no concrete evidence has been found so far which...   READ MORE   Iraq factor may influence voting pattern 2014 - assembly elections 6/24/2014 11:54:31 PM Rustam JAMMU, June 24: The disturbing developments in the far off Iraq, particularly the conflict between Arab Sunnis (around 15 per cent) and Arab Shiites (around 55 per cent) and the ganging up of terror outfits, including the dreaded Sunni ISIS) against the Shiite dispensation in the country, have caused unease across in the US, Europe and India. The raging bloody conflict in Iraq is fraught with dangerous consequences and it may culminate, among other things, in Sunni-Shiite Muslim clashes not only in the Muslim countries, but also in Jammu & Kashmir State, where the proportions of Muslims and non-Muslims is 60:40 and where the Kashmiri-speaking ethnic Sunnis dominate and control a...   READ MORE   SICOP land allotted for factory sold to third party, Govt clueless 6/24/2014 11:54:22 PM Avinash Azad JAMMU, June 24: In violation of norms set for industrialization, an entrepreneur who was allotted land by the SICOP for establishing a unit had allegedly sold the land to third party. Moreover, the allotment was made in violation of rules. Sources in SICOP told Early Times that the allotment was made without getting NOC from District Industrial Centre (DIC) Pollution Control Board (PCB) and Power Development Department for establishing a factory in industrial area Birpur, Bari Brahmana. "Entrepreneur, Raj Kanwar Singh who managed to get 2.5 kanal of land in industrial area has close proximity with SICOP's management. The land was allotted to him 13th single window committee...   READ MORE   Top HM militant surrenders in Handwara 6/24/2014 10:42:11 PM Syed Tahir Bukhari BARAMULLA, June 24: A top militant of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) outfit surrendered before government forces in HandwaraTehsil of Kupwara District in north Kashmir on Tuesday. According to police a militant namely Muhammad Maqbool Mir alias Najam, son of Ghulam Muhammad Mir, resident of SherkoteVilgam surrendered before Handwara police and army's 21 Rashtriya Rifles on Monday. According to well established sources that Maqbool was active in the area form past one month and has infiltrated this side of LOC (Line of Control). Sources added that "He had ex-filtrated in 1993 to Pakistan Kashmir for obtaining 'illegal arms/Ammunition training. He recently infiltrated to our...   READ MORE   Kashmir comes on roads as Govt goes into hiding Shortage of amenities 6/24/2014 10:41:52 PM Shakeel A Khan SRINAGAR, June 24: The non availability of the basic amenities has forced the people of many areas of the valley to come on the roads. With the each passing day the problems go on aggravating, courtesy, apathy of the government. The government is nowhere to be found these days and the non-availability of funds has put a question mark on the functioning of various departments. It is annoying that half of the year has ended and the meetings of the district development boards have not been conducted so for. The people of the valley are surprised to see the government acting in such a lazy manner. The people ask as to when the government is going to start the developmental w...   READ MORE   Curfew to continue in Sopore today Youth pelt stones on police, CRPF 6/24/2014 10:41:27 PM Syed Tahir Bukhari SOPORE, June 24: Indefinite curfew was imposed in Sopore town of District Baramulla in north Kashmir on Tuesday following the death of a youth in a firing incident on Monday. The call for shutdown was given by both the factions of Hurriyat Conference. According to reports heavy deployment of police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF was undertaken to prevent any untoward incident Since early morning, authorities imposed strict curfew to thwart protests against the killing. However, despite restrictions, youth took to streets and held protests. Reports said the youth pelted stones on the police and paramilitary forces. The clashes were witnessed in ...   READ MORE

CARTOON CORNER

E-PAPER PREVIEW

LOCAL NEWS

Genuine issues will be resolved, but don't expect it overnight, says DGP Rajindra Clear all major Nallahs flowing through city parts : Bhalla to JMC DDC orders enquiry into 'unauthorized absence' of 2 Anganwari workers Lifer awarded by Trial Court set aside, murder accused acquitted GLTF opposes Govt’s announcement in favour of ReTs NCP to contest Assembly elections Kashmir being turned into breeding ground for violence: Mehbooba Illegal timber trade flourishes in Basohli, forest area shrinking Kashmiri leadership responsible for alienating masses: JSM NPP decision to contest all Assembly seats hailed Premature transfer of Forester stayed Committed to resolve issues of refugees stranded in Jammu region: MoS-PMO J&K should be made as role model for SAARC countries: Mufti Dalai Lama reaches Zanskar on three days tour People stage protest against erratic water supply, block NHW Arya Yuvak Charitar Nirman Shivir inaugurated Shri Amarnathji Yatra arrangements reviewed TLSC RS Pura organizes awareness camp BABAYN to establish 15 langar stalls Newly married attempts suicide KPC holds meet, discusses political situation of state Satish Sasan elected as new President SD Sabha Poonch KPC holds meet, discusses political situation of state Violence erupts in Dooru following 'drowning incident' 24 PoK guests, 4 Kashmiris among 105 cross sides on LoC Two receive burn injuries in separate cases LPEF elects new office bearers for Doda unit DGP visits Poonch, Rajouri; interacts with officers, addresses cops PDP protests against failure of coalition Govt to resolve public issues HC stays repatriation of JE JE PMGSY Billawar lands in vigilance net alonwith Rs 1.00 lakh graft Resettlement of Kashmiri Pandits Political Issue: KPOs J&K SRTC Drivers Union enters into 2nd consecutive day NC leaders lock horns in Bhaderwah meeting   READ MORE THIS SECTION

OTHER STORIES

LPG likely to be costlier by Rs 5; Kerosene by Re 1 Abdul Gani bags Ravta dangal title   READ MORE THIS SECTION

ARCHIVE SECTION

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 Monday, June 23, 2014 Sunday, June 22, 2014 Saturday, June 21, 2014 Friday, June 20, 2014 Thursday, June 19, 2014 Wednesday, June 18, 2014

STOCK UPDATE

BSE Sensex NSE Nifty

CRICKET UPDATE