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| Lashkar div comdr among 2 militants killed | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, June 8: Police and army killed two militants including a divisional commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) during an encounter in a village in South Kashmir's Pulwama district today. Police officials said that the slain divisional commander was involved in number of militancy related incidents in Srinagar and Pulwama districts.
Srinagar based spokesman of 15 Corps, Lt Col N N Joshi said that based on specific intelligence, a joint operation was launched by Rashtriya Rifles Unit and SOG, Pulwama in Reshipora village of Pulwama district of South Kashmir, resulting in killing of two hardcore LeT militants. The spokesman said that one AK-47, one Pistol and other w... | |
| | | | Applicant gets blank CD from PWD Xen | | Another attempt to bulldoze RTI Act | | | Bivek Mathur
Jammu, June 8: In yet another attempt to bulldoze the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) in Jammu and Kashmir, Executive Engineer PWD (R&B) Construction Division Number 3 provided a blank Compact Disk (CD) to an applicant seeking information under the ACT.
The Engineer Rajan Mengi replied to a query of this scribe about the projects funded by ADB, Central Government as well as State government for the year 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 respectively by enclosing the required information in a CD containing an NRI file of 17 KB limit having nothing to see. The Engineer first violated the RTI Act by delivering the requisite information late to this activist as the RTI applicatio... | |
| | | | Jammu-Udhampur NH upgradation project gets delayed by six months | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 8: The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) seems to be missing the deadline of completion of Jammu-Udhampur stretch of National Highway, which is being upgraded yet again.
The all important road was scheduled to be completed in June 2014 but now the NHAI has set another deadline of December 2014.
The 65-km Jammu Udhampur National Highway is being upgraded under North-South corridor project which will go upto Uri in Kashmir valley. This project is having two major tunnels, one at Chenani-Nashri, decreasing the length of highway by 30 kms and another at Banihal to Lower Munda, which will also decrease the length by 25 kms.
Besides these, few smalle... | |
| | | | Azad is Cong leader in RS | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 8: Former Union Minister and state Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday appeared all set to become Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha after his appointment as Leader of Congress in the Upper House.
According to the reports, Azad has been appointed as the leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha.
Azad while talking to a local news agency thanked UPA chairperson Sonai Gandhi for giving him such a huge responsibility. He promised to give his best. and that he will for sure use his experience that he had gained during his tenure as the minister for the parliamentary affairs.
"Now Congress is in the opposition in the Rajya Sabha. At least we ar... | |
| | | | J&K Govt watches haplessly, ex-APRO of DyCM enjoys unbridled powers | | 7 DSEs shifted within 1 year | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, June 8: National Conference (NC)-Congress coalition government saw rising of several new political faces in Jammu and Kashmir but none matches the power and control of matric pass forest guard turned Additional Public Relations Officer (APRO) of Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand, Kewal Krishan Sharma.
If the officers who have been shuttled in and out of the education department are to be believed, it was Kewal whose illegal and uncalled for interference in the system led to seven officers being changed within a period of 1 year in the office of Director School Education (DSE) Jammu. One of these officers while speaking to Early Times said that Kewal enjoys unbri... | |
| | | | BJP high command takes serious note of indiscipline | | Seeks report from JK Prabhari on groupism in party | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 8: Taking serious exception to infighting in the Party's State unit, the High Command of BJP has sought a detailed report from Party prabhari for J&K on the issue and also urged him to recommend disciplinary action against the leaders indulged in groupism and anti party activities. According to party sources in Union Capital, BJP High Command was perturbed over the happenings in the State unit and staying away of Party senior leadership from the reception organized in honour of Union MoS in Winter Capital yesterday which was followed by a group clash at another felicitation function held at Udhampur.
Sources said Party High Command said that J&K was the f... | |
| | | | Cong proposes total administrative overhaul | | Consensus eludes Coalition on administrative reshuffle | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 8: The proposed reshuffle in the upper and middle rung civil and police administration has virtually run into rough weather as Congress has proposed massive reshuffle to overhaul the state administration, rather than a pick and choose exercise in the next cabinet meeting scheduled to be held on June 11.
Authoritative sources disclosed that not seeing any role of either the civilian or police authorities in the defeat of the coalition candidates in recent Lok Sabha elections Congress has opposed pick 'n' choose reshuffle and instead proposed a massive shake up in state administration the first after Lok Sabha elections. A senior Congress minister while... | |
| | | | NC rules out pre-poll alliance with Congress; keeps rear doors open | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 8: A day after senior Congress leader and a former Chief Minister ruled out any pre-poll pact with the ruling National Conference (NC) here, NC today while echoing Azad's statement for not forging the pre-poll alliance however, remarked that the party will form the next government with the Congress if the need arises for the same after assembly elections scheduled to be held by the end of this year.
"If no absolute majority is given to any party then NC will be ready to forge alliance with the state Congress for the government formation," said Additional General Secretary NC- Dr Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal.
Kamaal, who is also the younger brother of NC pre... | |
| | | | Hoax call on e-metering, Jammu sweats | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 8: If the relentless heat waves have made lives of Jammuites miserable, frequent and long power-cuts by the Power Development Department (PDD) are just adding to their woes.
As the tall claims of a power-cut free summer in e-metered areas by the government prove hoax, the people in the winter capital of the state are struggling with power curtailments and water supply crisis.
Most of the residents complain that despite the assurance by the Power Development Department that metered areas will get regular power, they still had to face frequent power cuts. "Government is only making claims in the name of streamlining the system and scenario is completely di... | |
| | | | Tourism at receiving end, PDD ignorant | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 8: Jammu tourism is in trouble, thanks to huge shortage of electricity in the state. Summer is the peak season for Jammu tourism as tourists come to pay homage to Vaishno Devi shrine. However, power cut could spoil the summer season for Jammu this year.
The story of Jammu is similar to several states across India. During the summer, rise in power demand leads to massive power cuts across the country. Jammu is too victim of power cuts. There are power cuts of over 8 to 10 hours in Jammu and several nearby cities.
This is bad news for tourism industry as tourists are looking to stay clear of Jammu due to power cuts. While some hotels have facility of genera... | |
| | | | BSP again reiterates its demand for trifurcation | | Against separate status | | | Rustam
JAMMU, June 8: In the last week of May, a number of political groups active in Jammu province demanded reorganization/trifurcation of the state into Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh States, saying three-way split of the state was the only alternative left to achieve freedom from the discriminatory and separatist Kashmiri leadership and restrict the area of contention and strife to the small Valley. Jammu State Morcha (JSM) of Ashwini Sharma (MLA), the Jammu State Morcha of Virender Gupta and the Shiv Sena were some of the political groups which put forth the demand seeking trifurcation of the state and the demand was made soon after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah declared that Jammu & ... | |
| | | | BJP leadership licking wounds of Jitendra Singh's ascend | | Jammu relives a sordid gaga of fragmented polity | | | Abodh Sharma
Jammu, June 8: State BJP's newly assumed aspiration of getting 44+ seats and forming a Government on its own got a serious snub the previous day when sharp clashes of ego among its leaders came out in open shamefully during the maiden visit of Dr. Jitendra Singh after his induction in the Union Council of Ministers.
What happened at Jammu and Udhampur during the weekend has once again brought to the fore the petty vested interests and political shortsightedness of the leadership of Jammu which has historically relegated Jammu to the position of political disadvantage.
Jammu's leaders have failed to learn from the manner in which political parties of Kashmir have put up a ... | |
| | | | BJP leadership licking wounds of Jitendra Singh's ascend | | Jammu relives a sordid gaga of fragmented polity | | | Abodh Sharma
Jammu, June 8: State BJP's newly assumed aspiration of getting 44+ seats and forming a Government on its own got a serious snub the previous day when sharp clashes of ego among its leaders came out in open shamefully during the maiden visit of Dr. Jitendra Singh after his induction in the Union Council of Ministers.
What happened at Jammu and Udhampur during the weekend has once again brought to the fore the petty vested interests and political shortsightedness of the leadership of Jammu which has historically relegated Jammu to the position of political disadvantage.
Jammu's leaders have failed to learn from the manner in which political parties of Kashmir have put up a ... | |
| | | | Rana reaches out to SC, OBCs ahead of LA polls | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 8: Following total rout in the recently held Lok Sabha elections, the National Conference has now focused on the SC and OBCs of Jammu region to gain some ground in the region.
The provincial president for Jammu, Devender Rana today called for convergence among weaker sections to attain political empowerment and socio-economic transformation.
The highly `loaded' words of the provincial president must have humbled the participants. However, they need not take the words to heart. NC does not mean what it says.
Right from Sher-e-Kashmir's times, NC never believed in political empowerment of anybody except the Sheikh Family. The socio-economic transformatio... | |
| | | | What's in name: A rose will smell sweet if it is given a different name | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 8: Though the Government of India is yet to implement its plan of changing the nomenclature of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) to Pakistan Occupied Jammu Kashmir(POJK), Kashmir Mirwaiz and chairman All Party Hurriyat Conference ,Molvi Umar Farooq, has reacted sharply against the plan.
Molvi Farooq has gone to the extent of blaming the Modi led Government for trying to "polarize Jammu and Kashmir" which could have dangerous consequences.The Mirwaiz has said that "It is unfortunate that the BJP and its wings are hell-bent to divide J&K in the name of religion and geography. I want to convey to them that all five regions of the erstwhile princely state of J... | |
| | | | Voters lured by money sent in bank accounts during polls: EC | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, June 8: Innovative methods like transfer of funds through the RTGS banking system and concealment of currency wads inside car bonnets were detected by Election Commission (EC) as it took steps to curb the use of black money during the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls.
The poll panel's election expenditure monitoring wing, under its Director General (Expenditure) PK Dash, seized total cash of Rs 313 crore and 2.25 crore litres of liquor along with other illegal inducements for bribing voters during the recently held parliamentary and Assembly polls. "As a fear was created among miscreants, they were constantly changing methods. For example, since vehicles were being c... | |
| | | | Farooq taking on Mufti for wrong reasons | | Struggle for Kashmir constituency | | |
Neha
JAMMU, June 8: The NC has not learned any lesson from its defeat in the just-concluded Lok Sabha election. On the contrary, its leadership has turned extremely irrational and made certain statements which are highly provocative and indicate the extent to which it has started going in its desperate bid to recapture the lost Kashmir constituency, which used to be its pocket-borough till 2002. It has turned so communal believing that such a stance would help it turn the tables on the victorious PDP leadership that it has started taking on patron of PDP Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. It has described the Mufti as the other face of the late Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq during whose regimes the office... | |
| | | | Minister converts office building into guest-house for his workers | | | | Mustansir
Jammu, June 8: In a glaring example of misuse of official position and privilege, Ministers from a particular party have converted the official buildings into guest houses for their workers visiting Kashmir as tourists. After shifting its office to Bemina in the city outskirts on bypass, the J&K Housing Board office building at Tulsibagh was renovated. On papers the building was reserved for high level meetings and for the stay of the top officials during their visit to Srinagar in winters when the offices function at Jammu. However, the Minister in-charge Housing, in misuse of his official position, converted the office building into a guest house for the stay of his worke... | |
| | | | Fumed Farooq likely to get down on Omar's coterie | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 8: The senior leadership of the National Conference, which is close to Dr Farooq Abdullah, has taken strong exception to planted stories aimed to maligning them. The sources said that they spoken to the Dr Farooq against a section of party leadership, which is trying to project Omar as a victim of inner party dissent.
The media reports had indicated that AR Rather and Ali Mohammad Sagar, were conspiring to oust Omar Abdullah when the state was rocked by 2010 summer unrest. The story has indicated that Omar didn't get the required cooperation from the senior party leadership and is projected as one of the main reasons for the debacle of the party in th... | |
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