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Cong leaders hibernate, uncertainty grips PCC Polls aftershock 6/3/2014 11:35:09 PM Shakeel A Khan SRINAGAR, June 3: Pradesh Congress Committee is finding it very hard to cope with the situation that has risen after its fall from the height and its leaders aren't visible these days. The leaders have gone into hiding and distances in the rank and file within the party are quite visible. Leaders both from Jammu and Kashmir divisions have nothing to talk about as they have been outrightly rejected by the people during the last six years. The leaders of the Pradesh Congress Committee aren't in the good books it may not be wrong to say that these leaders got indulged into the acts, highly immoral in nature. "Be it the sex scandal, molestation bids or the allotment of the tenders, the Pradesh Congress Committee leaders have had a role in them, doesn't matter they were shielded by the party high command against the wishes of the people," said a group of people while talking to Early Times. This group of people opined that the leaders of Pradesh Congress Committee claim tall that their motto is to address the concerns of the people which turned out to be wrong. They s...   READ MORE

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Sports infra decaying 6/3/2014 11:34:53 PM Shiv Thakur Jammu, June 3: At a time when the Jammu and Kashmir State Sports Council is gaga over construction of new sports infrastructure in Jammu and elsewhere in the state, the indifferent and incompetent administration of the Council is doing little to save the existing infrastructure from systematic decay. While sources in the Council attribute the pathetic condition of the stadia in Jammu to lack of foresight on part of the Council administration that in a bid to re organize the autonomous body stopped the promotion of senior coaches as managers stadia, leaving the administration at grass root level totally headless and unaccountable. "The move caused multiple problems as there i...   READ MORE   Congress condemns Omar's Govt, says responsible for defeat Regional Council for Jammu 6/3/2014 11:34:42 PM Rustam Jammu, June 3: Senior Congress leader Madan Lal Sharma, who was defeated by Jugal Kishore Sharma in the recently-held Lok Sabha elections with a huge margin of over 2.5 lakh votes on Monday held two factors responsible for the defeat of the Congress in Jammu. He said the Modi factor and the failure of the Omar Abdullah-led NC-Congress coalition Government to deliver resulted in the defeat of the party. The disconnect between the Government and the people and the Modi phenomena changed the whole election scene in Jammu and opined that if the Congress is to remain relevant in Jammu province, it has to address the issues facing its people. Interestingly, he talked of discrimination wit...   READ MORE   Complaint boxes scheme fails to dent system 6/3/2014 11:34:00 PM Early Times Report Jammu, June 3: In the long list of innovative measures meant to improve the functioning of Police department that have been pushed into oblivion in a systematic manner, the step of introducing complaint boxes introduced few years back has also gone astray, thanks to the lack of will with higher officials as also inherent drawbacks in system which have left it completely invisible or out of sight in Jammu. With new DGP on the job, would he resurrect the idea of starting complaint boxes again which were meant to provide some succor to common people...? It was during the tenure of then DGP Gurbachan Singh Jagat that the idea of erecting complaint boxes outside the Police...   READ MORE   Omar can't take credit': Soz 6/3/2014 11:33:40 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 3: Hours after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced that retirement age of Government employees will be raised from 58 to 60 years, State Congress president Professor Saif-ud-Din Soz said Omar Abdullah is putting Congress on back foot but by doing so he will miserably fail. "I want to ask Omar Abdullah why he opposed this decision two years ago when I was advocating and appealing the Government to increase the retirement age of Government employees," Soz told Srinagar based news gathering agency CNS adding that his plea at that time was that average age as well as standard of living has increased. He said Omar Abdullah can't take credit of everything. "...   READ MORE   CM's attempt to outfit Cong 6/3/2014 11:33:30 PM Javaid Naikoo SRINAGAR, June 3: In a desperate bid to outsmart Congress and seek all accredit ahead of the State Cabinet meet scheduled to be held today, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah promised a bonanza for the over four lakh employees of the state, enhancing age of superannuation, upper age limit for recruitment in Government service and regularization of need base employees within one month, While assuring positive outcome over long pending demands of employees which include enhancement retirement age from 58 to 60 years and the upper age limit for recruitment in Government jobs from 37 to 40 years, Chief Minister also announced one month deadline for finalizing the regularizati...   READ MORE   Major reshuffle on cards 6/3/2014 11:34:16 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 3: The state Cabinet is scheduled to go for a major reshuffle in civil and police administration in its next meeting scheduled to be held on June 11. Informed sources revealed to a news agency that some top and middle rung officers in bureaucracy are under the scanner of Government and are likely to face transfers and postings as per their performance. "Rumours that the Chief Secretary will be appointed as Director General IMPA are baseless. However, some senior officers in civil and police administration will be shifted," a Cabinet Minister said....   READ MORE   Upbeat BJP, now eying 'magic figure 44+' 6/3/2014 11:00:16 PM Kunal Shrivatsa JAMMU, June 3: Encouraged by the grand success it received in the three seats recently held Lok Sabha polls, the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) is now aiming high to achieve a clear majority in the Legislative Assembly elections slated for later this year but it has created tongue wagering within state polity -as how and from where?. BJP which bagged three LS seats of Jammu-Poonch, Udhampur-Doda and Ladakh in the state has launched 'Mission 44+' goal much on the pattern of its 'Mission 272+' for the Lok Sabha, however, the benchmark set up by the saffron party is a fitting case of 'aiming too high' and without having a 'reality check'. No doubt, the saffron party did tre...   READ MORE   Filling station of senior bureaucrat's niece sealed over adulteration 6/3/2014 10:59:42 PM Saahil Suhail Anantnag, June 3: Authorities on Thursday sealed a filling station, registered in the name of Khurshid Ahmad Ganai's niece in Mattan area of the district for selling adulterated fuel. Police, Revenue and CAPD in a joint operation sealed the diesel point of the filling station fallowing written complaints from the local drivers of adulteration, sources said. They said that officials of all three departments visited the Lidder valley filling station this morning and found complaints of drives correct after seizing the diesel containing water content. Drivers who refilled their vehicles from the filling station this morning got irritated after their almost fresh vehicles stopp...   READ MORE   Changing nomenclature from PoK to PoJK A great development 6/3/2014 10:59:35 PM Neha JAMMU, June 3: The June 1 PTI report emanating from New Delhi suggested that the Narendra Modi government at the centre was planning to change the nomenclature of the illegally-occupied areas from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) to Pakistan-occupied-Jammu & Kashmir (PoJK). The report also aid that the government will affect this change in the next few days through a parliamentary resolution or through a government notification. If correct, there are reasons to believe the report, it is a great development - a development that will change the whole discourse on the state and will also tell Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists that the new government means business and that it consid...   READ MORE   HC seeks plan on spending within 2 weeks Union Govt releases Rs 30 Cr for Wullar conservation 6/3/2014 10:59:21 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, June 3: As government of India released Rs 30 crore in addition to revalidating nearly Rs 8 crore from unutilized funds from last fiscal, Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Tuesday asked the Wullar Lake Conservation Authority (WUCMA) to submit a comprehensive plan about the utilization of funds in proper manner. During the hearing in the PIL- Kashmir Environment Protection Vs State of J&K and others, Assistant Solicitor General S A Makroo informed a division bench of Chief Justice M M Kumar and Justice M H Attar about a compliance report filed by Director Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance Government of India. In the report, it has been stated th...   READ MORE   Week after court stayed FIR, police drags man into another case Another instance of Police arrogance 6/3/2014 10:59:08 PM Avinash Azad JAMMU, June 3: In an obvious bid to hoodwink court direction, Kalakote Police has dragged a man into another case after the Court stayed FIR registered against him in an alleged dowry case filed by his estranged wife. According to documents available with the Early Times, the High court on May 26 last had stayed an FIR registered against Mohd Shabir son of Mohd Yousuf resident of Sounchal, tehsil Kalakot, District Rajouri and others, as well as directed the concerned police not to act upon FIR number 8/ 2014. Asmat Begum wife of Mohd Shabir, had filed a case of dowry against her husband and acting on the complaint Kalakote police registered a case against FIR No 8/201...   READ MORE   NC making last ditch effort to rejuvenate Party 6/3/2014 10:58:57 PM Early Times Report Jammu, June 3: In a bid to gain its lost ground, national conference is making desperate efforts both at the party as well as government level ahead of the Assembly elections likely to be held before winters. With Omar Abdullah led government already announcing some populist measures after doing away with its new employment policy and also on its way to give some sops to the employees including enhancement of retirement age from 58 to 60 years NC leadership is on its last bid to save its image and seek the support of people in the forthcoming election and restrain its rival Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from regaining power in the state. What has disturbed the NC m...   READ MORE   Retirement age increased by 2 years; NC, Cong Ministers address separate pressers 6/3/2014 11:33:51 PM Jehangir Rashid SRINAGAR, June 3: National Conference-Congress coalition Government in the state is in a damage control mode these days and they are taking steps aimed to 'woo' the electorate with the Assembly elections just few months away. The state Government today virtually succumbed to the pressure exerted by the Government employees and decided to increase the retirement age of the Government employees from 58 years to 60 years. This is despite the fact that the state Government had in the recent past said that it does not have funds to increase the retirement age. The decision to increase the retirement age was taken in a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah a...   READ MORE

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