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| Water crisis: Have-nots stare at dry taps | | PHE control rooms to monitor water supply on papers; authorities blind to plight of people | | | MISHU GUPTA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 3: People residing in the old city area woke up today only to find their taps dry, with no supply of water in almost all localities. Long wait interspersed with requests to the concerned authorities through pho-nes proved a futile exercise. Working folks went to offices without even washing their faces while others at home literally remained glued to taps, desperately waiting for a drop of water.
The relief only cam e when the supply was restored around 3.00 pm , around seven hours late than routine timing.
The scene is neither unprecedented nor unusual particularly during hot summers. It however, is surely contrary to the claims of the government made recently that it was seriously contemplating to formulate a new water policy for maintaining and streamlining the available natural water resources of the state. In the backdrop of sufferings of people due to irregular and curtailed supply, the recent statements by the Minister for PHE Taj Mohiud-din also sounds hollow that government is fully committed to provide drinking water facili... | |
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| Pampered PROs with ministers 'misusing the office'? | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 3: Looking for an easy entry into the echelons of power in the civil secretariat? Must 'eye' the posts of PROs with Ministers and 'grab' the opportunity as and when it comes , no matter the salaries are less. For the post, even though for a period that lasts the term of the government or the innings of the concerned minister, is loaded with privileges and cozy comforts which not even a permanent officer enjoys throughout the service career.
Public Relations Officers, fondly called PROs in the modern political and administrative parlance are most "privileged and pampered " lot in the hierarchy of officers and officials our ministers have the privilege of k... | |
| | | | PM won't hold talks with separatists: Omar | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, June 3: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday ruled out the possibility of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh holding direct talks with the pro-freedom leadership during his forthcoming Kashmir visit.
"I think the PM is coming to Kashmir to attend a SKAUST convention and not to initiate talks with the separatists. If any sort sorts of talks with separatists are to take place, they would be held by interlocutors. The PM won't be involved in the initial state," Omar told reporters here on the sidelines of an official function.
However, Omar was quick to add that PM had kept "the doors of talks open". "The PM has repeatedly said that anybody willing to shun violence ... | |
| | | | Jazia on Amarnath pilgrims:Is J&K a secular polity? | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 3: All this shows that Kashmiri leaders, both "mainstream" and separatists, Kashmiri "civil Society", Kashmiri media, Kashmiri lawyers and advocates, Kashmir-based "human rights" activists, in fact, everyone in the Valley contributed to the growth of sectarianism and joined hands to oppose the decision of the State Government to divert a piece of land to the Shrine Board. Their actions, including attacks on the Amarnath Yatris, all established that they stood for a non-secular polity.
Mercifully, a number of non-Kashmiri "human rights" activists, social scientists, opinion-makers, writers and journalists also made common cause with those in Kashmir who vehem... | |
| | | | Contrasting political, social order causing alienation among two regions | | | | ARTEEV SHARMA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 3: Be it a human rights breach, fake and custodial killing, rape or even a small speck of turbulence arising from the valley, the resounding resistance to it from social and political dispensations there is so awesome that it has its collateral boom on the global scenario even.
Vice versa is the case here in Jammu that remains in deep slumber on a holocaust even that has made it suffer on all accounts.
In Kashmir, the surging public rage backed by the strong leadership on any mishap or misadventure takes the government to ride not only in the state but extends a shocker to New Delhi also that compels to rise to such echoes.
The Shopian case ... | |
| | | | J&K symbol of secular India and, hence, non-negotiable | | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 3: A close scrutiny of these books and articles, which were published during all these years of turmoil in Kashmir, however, reveals that all those who penned down their views, for the most part, refused to look beyond the Kashmir Valley on the misguided notion that the Valley of Kashmir constitutes the entire State of Jammu and Kashmir and that winning the "hearts and minds of the alienated Kashmiri Muslims" would be the same as meeting the needs and aspirations of the people of Jammu and Ladakh and all those who have never been considered part and parcel of the so-called Kashmiriyat. A study of these writings also tells that all or nearly all the au... | |
| | | | Ultras now wield AK-90 rifles | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 3: After AK-47 and AK-56, militants in Jammu and Kashmir have got the latest in the AK series, ie AK-90, a much sleeker and powerful weapon. Official sources said the Quick Action Team of the CRPF along with state police recovered an AK-90 rifle, the first in the state, from a militant hideout in Draman Trag belt of the Rambhan district here last night.
Besides AK-90 rifle, one AK-57, 150 live ammunitions, four magazines and three high-explosive grenades were found in the hideout. "It is for the first time that an AK-90 rifle has been recovered from the militants. It shows how the fire power of militants is increasing day by day," the sources added. Th... | |
| | | | New base camp at Panjtarni: SASB | | | | SRINAGAR: Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) today decided to establish a new base camp at 3,657 meter high Panjtarni, six km short of the holy cave shrine.
Governor NN Vohra, who is Chairman of SASB, today flew to Panjtarni, 140 kms from here, and held discussions with officials on arrangements required at the new base camp, a board spokesman said.
He went around the Panjtarni Camp, which is still under fairly heavy snow, and issued instructions to Chief Executive Officer of the Board RK Goyal and all other concerned officers to timely ensure the arrangements.
The yatra to the cave shrine situated in South Kashmir Himalayas is scheduled to commence from July one.
Vohra also went to Balt... | |
| | | | CRPF cop hurt in firing at Udhampur jail | | | | UDHAMPUR: A CRPF jawan was today injured critically after being hit by a bullet at the district jail here. CRPF cop Basant Kumar of 187 Bn sustained a bullet wound at the district jail here in the morning, police sources said.
He was rushed to army hospital by the jail authorities, the sources added.
However, it was not immediately known whether he was injured in accidental fire from his official weapon, or from somewhere else, or he had tried to commit suicide.
Sources said the matter was being investigated by the jail authorities and police.
Basant of Madhya Pradesh had recently joined his duties after returning from leave.
Another report said he had allegedly tried to end his life... | |
| | | | No Kashmiri crosses over to PoK, | | | | SRINAGAR: No Kashmiri today crossed over to the other side of the Line of Control (LoC) while 12 residents of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) arrived here today in the Karvan-e-Aman bus operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad.
As many as 19 returnees from Kashmir and PoK also crossed sides this afternoon, official sources told .
They said not a single Kashmiri crossed to PoK. This is for the 5th time that no guest from here crossed over to the other side since January this year, during which 91 people from different parts of the valley had crossed over to PoK to meet their relatives.
Sources said 16 residents of PoK, who had come here in previous buses, also left for their homes afte... | |
| | | | Man held with fake currency at Gool | | | | JAMMU: A man was today arrested by police from Gool along with 5,000 fake Indian currency notes.
Police sources identified the accused as Bashir Ahmad, son of Alia of Jabba, Gool.
The fake currency notes worth Rs 5,000 were recovered from him on a tip-off, the sources added.
His sustained interrogation was in progress.
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