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Dir Education forced to implement all controversial transfer orders Bureaucratic hierarchy turn ‘Year Against Corruption’ into a big joke 7/14/2011 11:38:24 PM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz EARLY TIMES REPORT SRINAGAR, July 14: Transfer orders of nearly 1,000 government schoolteachers in Kashmir Division, that had been issued by Director Education Shagufta Parveen but put in abeyance by Commissioner-Secretary of School Education, Naseem Lankar, have been finally implemented by officiating DSE, Kashmir, Sheikh Mushtaq Ahmed. Reportedly under tremendous pressure from higher levels, Mr Mushtaq has withdrawn the abeyance orders and directed all the subordinate Chief Education Officers and Principals of High and Higher Secondary schools to ensure joining and relieving of all the transferred teachers at once. Vide Order No: 1167-DSEK of 2011 dated 16-6-2011 and Order No: 1184-DSEK dated 17-6-2011, Director of School Education Kashmir, Shagufta Parveen, had ordered promotions and subsequently transfer and appointment orders of nearly 800 teachers. In the wake of serious allegations of corruption and confirmation of such reports by a Police intelligence agency, Commissioner-Secretary School Education, Naseem Lankar, had put in abeyance transfer orders of al...   READ MORE

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Brewing resentment against opposition to acceptance of Devnagri as alternative script 7/14/2011 11:36:14 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 14: The opposition to acceptance of Devnagri as an additional alternative script for Nastaliq for writing by the State Government on the behest of separatists and fundamentalist elements in the Valley has drawn a flake from the nationalist forces in the state. While the Hindu scholars from the valley had pressed this demand before the then Union Government in 2001 and the then HRD Minister in consultation with the scholars from Kashmir had agreed to accept the Devnagri as an alternative script for Hindu writers in writing Kashmiri. The union Government at that time had in principal agreed to issue orders for making Devnagri as an alternative script for Hin...   READ MORE   Jammu being taught things Jammu famous for Reorganization Imminent 7/14/2011 11:35:54 PM Neha EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 14: Interlocutor Dileep Padgaonkar yesterday asserted that "a need to maintain integrity of the State and power sharing between regions and sub regions and maintaining tolerant and pluralistic culture of the State were the other major points, which have emerged during the broad dialogue.'' He also stated "though aspirations of different regions and different sets of people differed, there was a consensus among majority of people against trifurcation or bifurcation of the State." His statement that those who took part in the roundtable conference in Jammu rejected outright the idea of the state's trifurcation could be construed as an over-statement. It ...   READ MORE   Half of July is also over; Kashmir stays calm 7/14/2011 11:34:57 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 14: Half of July has ended and Kashmir stays cool, calm and pleasent as well. The separatists have issued no calendar People seem least interested in what the authorities call summer agitation. The Valley teems with tourists. However, restrictions in the shape of section 144 CrPC continue to remain in force for the time being. The authorities, it seems, are scared of allowing five or more Kashmiris to assemble at a place especially in the city of Srinagar. The authorities imposed un-declared curfew (they like to call it restrictions) in the city. All roads leading to the graveyard at khawaja bazar were sealed to foil Geelani's programme of offerin...   READ MORE   Would NC learn lessons from Panchayat elections? Who said voters did not vote party in those elections? 7/14/2011 11:34:40 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 14: The much hyped Panchayat elections held across Jammu and Kashmir after many years have thrown up winners and losers depending on their popularity at the grassroots level, but also in the process posted some very serious lessons for the ruling National Conference (NC) in the Valley. To learn from them or to ignore them, the NC would be doing that to its own advantage or absolute peril. One of the most interesting lessons the NC learnt as a party and the state chief minister, Omar Abdullah learnt as its president is that the people cannot be taken for granted. They will hit you where it hurts the most. Omar Abdullah has been interacting with the newly el...   READ MORE   J&K: Congress, BJP on the same page Political Settlement -- I 7/14/2011 11:33:56 PM Rustam EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 14: The BJP once again demonstrated its ambivalence as far as its stand on Jammu and Kashmir was concerned in the interlocutors-sponsored roundtable conference in Jammu. The July 13 statement of the interlocutors that the "the remarks convinced many of the participants that national political parties would show flexibility and wisdom to reach a broad consensus on a political settlement in Jammu and Kashmir." The interlocutors referred to the presentations/interventions of Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyer and BJP MP Rajan Sushant. The very fact that the interlocutors praised both the MPs was a clear hint that both the national parties are on the same pag...   READ MORE   Two held with charas 7/14/2011 11:33:22 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT SAMBA, July 14 : Two car-borne youth were today apprehended by police at SIDCO chowk here along with over 800 grams of charas. Police identified them as Tufassal Ahmed, son of Ghulam Rasool, and Sajjad Ullah, son of Allah Ditta, both residents of Srinagar. While 110 grams charas was recovered from their pockets, 700 grams of it was recovered from their Ford Ikon car (HR06K/7416). A case was registered against them at Samba police station. Police also seized their car....   READ MORE   Theft in ex-DIG's house 7/14/2011 11:32:52 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 14: Some unidentified persons stole a motor pump from the house of Allah Baksh, ex-DIG of police, at Karnaile Chak near Satwari Wednesday evening. Police had registered a case in this connection. In another incident, the nose ring of a diety was stolen from a temple at Jourian last night. Burglars also broke into a shop of electronic goods at Jourian last night and decamped with copper wire worth thousands of rupees....   READ MORE   2 SPOs, minor girl killed in road mishaps 7/14/2011 11:32:27 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 14: Two special police officers (SPOs) and a minor girl were killed in separate road accidents here since Wednesday night. SPOs -- Neelam Singh and Shadi Lal -- were last night manning a police naka near Baggi nullah at Batote, about 110 km from here on Jammu-Srinagar road, when they signalled a truck (JK02AX/8101) to stop for checking. However, instead of applying brakes, he sped away and in the process the truck ran over the SPOs, according to police sources. One of them died in Batote hospital while another succumbed to injuries on way to the GMC hospital here. Sources said when driver Mohinder Singh of Gadigarh increased speed of the truck, he lost co...   READ MORE   Lady burnt alive by another lady at Chingus 7/14/2011 11:31:52 PM Amit Sharma EARLY TIMES REPORT RAJOURI, July 14: A house has been torched and a lady burnt alive in it in a Chingus village on Jammu Poonch highway after there was reported scuffle between two wives of a villager. Police sources told Early Times that one wife of Abdul Majeed of Chingus village namely Zareena has reportedly torched his own house on tye intervening night of June 13-14 and burnt alive the second wife of Abdul Majeed namely Zamurad Begum. Sources said that seeing the flames comes out of the house, nearby residents rushed to the spot for rescue operation however they failed to save the life of Zamurad. Sources said that in the incident, Zamurad had received serious burn i...   READ MORE   Amarnath pilgrim falls into gorge, dies 7/14/2011 11:31:20 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, July 14: An Amarnath pilgrim today died after he slipped and fell into a gorge at Nougam in Banihal area of Ramban. Police said Udai Bhai Pramat, son of Sagan Pramat of Porbandar, Gujarat, was walking by the roadside at Nougam when he slipped all of a sudden and fell into a deep gorge, resulting in his instant death. Police took out his body from the gorge and evacuated it to hospital mortuary where post-mortem was conducted on it. It was later handed over to his family for last rites. He had come along with his wife and other family members for the darshans of ice lingam in the holy cave shrine of Baba Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas....   READ MORE

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