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| 'How much' does it take to get a posting in PHE department? | | | | Abodh Sharma
Jammu, July 1: The department of Public Health Engineering is in ill health; not just because of its inability to afford potable drinking water to the people of the State for which it is already facing public ire, but because of administrative mess within it that also has a direct bearing in the performance of the department and its officers.
Sources in the department divulge that postings to various positions within the department come with a price tag and only those who can dish out the price are posted on the said positions. According to the official record, while several AEEs of the department have been attached waiting orders of posting, important positions within the department continue to be manned by AEs both in Jammu and Srinagar. ET learnt that positions of AEE mechanical (Material and Procurement) Srinagar, AEE PHE sub division Qazigund, AEE PHE Boria Jammu, AEE PHE Ground water division Jammu and Srinagar, AEE MICD Srinagar, AEE PHE sub division Noushehra are several among many that are vacant and are being attended to by the Assistant engineers concerne... | |
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| One dies, other injured in Mugal Road car rally | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 1: One person died on spot while other received injuries in an accident that took place at Sinthan Top Chatroo during Mugal road rally here today. The accident took place when driver racer of the Gypsy car bearing registration number PB47C/9290 lost control over the vehicle. The deceased has been identified as Joginder Shukla son of Raj Kumar of Malarikotal, Punjab while injured namely Ashish Chander son of Subash Chander of Punjab was rushed to the district hospital Anantnag for treatment.
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| | | | Five more Amarnath pilgrims die, toll mounts to 19 | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 1: Five more devotees died due to cardiac arrest at Pahalgam and Baltal base camps pushing the death toll in the ongoing annual Amarnath pilgrimage to 19.
Megha Gupta, aged 24 years, a resident of Chandigarh, suffered a massive heart attack at Pahalgam last night while on her way to the Amarnath cave shrine, police said.
64-year-old Jagbir Singh from Haryana and Rinku (55) from Tamil Nadu died at Sonamarg on shorter Baltal route, they said.
Hailing from Madhya Pradesh, 83-year-old Babu Singh died at Baltal base camp after paying obeisance at 3,880-mt high shrine housing the naturally-formed ice lingam of Lord Shiva.
An unidentified man was found dead... | |
| | | | Fresh Batch of 4,268 pilgrims leave for Amarnath | | | | A fresh batch of 4,268 pilgrims today left amid tight security for the Amarnath cave shrine situated in the South Kashmir Himalayas. The devotees comprising 3,009 men, 821 women, 145 children apart from 293 Sadhus left for the 3888-metre high shrine in a cavalcade of 156 vehicles from the Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu at around 5 am, police said. The convoy is reported to have crossed the Banihal district on the Jammu-Srinagar National highway on its way to base camps of Pahalgam and Baltal in Kashmir Valley. With today's batch, as many as 23,677 pilgrims have left Jammu for their onward journey to the temple.
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| | | | Rumours about HM commander surrender ripe in Kishtwar | | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Kishtwar, July 1: Following a series of news reports about Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sajjad Ahmed Mir alias Rizwan's plans to surrender last month, rumours about the surrender of the said commander are ripe in Kishtwar.
Rumours suggest that Rizwan surrendered before joint team of police and 17 RR . However, the concerned SSP Bhim Sen Tutti has no information about the surrender.
He said that the media shall be briefed accordingly if the reports are found true. Rizwan is a close associate of 3 HM militants wanted in Delhi High Court blast and was active since 2005. In case the reports pertaining to surrender of Rizwan found to be true, this will be a major success... | |
| | | | Azad's sops in health sector annoy rivals | | Why focus on 'few' districts alone….? | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, July 1: During his recent tour to state, Union Health Minister and former Chief Minister of J&K Ghulam Nabi Azad did not only annoy his political rivals from both within his own party but also ruling National Conference for more than one reason. A spree of rallies and shows with comments full of criticism about governance, ongoing development works apart, what has brought Azad into focus of negative political commentary from rivals is his continuous announcements and commitments of facilities and infrastructure in Health sector at the regional and district levels.
Sources in Congress party say that party is not happy the way Azad has chosen to identify an... | |
| | | | Riot police may be taken out of barracks for smooth conduct of Amarnath yatra | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 1: As a precautionary measure, Riot Police may be taken out of barracks and deployed on the Amarnath pilgrimage route for the smooth conduct of the yatra.
For the first time in the J&K police history, the riot police were carved out of the executive and armed wings of the state police for the protection of Amarnath pilgrims three years, or so back.
"To keep the rioters and unruly groups of people away from the pilgrims, 1,000 odd cops were taken out of the two police wings to form the riot police some time back," a senior police officer said.
These cops, drawn from different police training schools in the region, were specially trained in dealing with ri... | |
| | | | Siachen, J&K non-negotiable | | July India - Pak Talks | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 1: Only a few days ago, Indian and Pakistani Defence Secretaries met at Rawalpindi to discuss ways and means leading to the demilitarization of the strategic Siachen glacier region which is legitimately Indian and which is being defended to the hilt by the Indian Army since 1984. It is Pakistan, especially its Army, which had been insisting on talks over Siachen with a view to ensuring its demilitarization so that it could establish its stranglehold over the glacier and jeopardize the Indian interests. Both the Defence Secretaries met but reached no agreement. It was expected. The Indian Defence Secretary stuck to the stated position, with the nation heav... | |
| | | | Dastageer Shrine: Information sought from public | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 1: A public notice has been issued in Srinagar seeking information from general public about the fire incident that gutted the 200-year-old Dastageer Sahib shrine in the old city last week.
Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Asgar Samoon, who has been appointed as the inquiry officer to probe the cause of the fire, today issued the notice inviting people to recored their statement within one week.
He will start recording statements about the incident from Monday.
"... Any individual or organisation having any information of any sort related to the incident, may record their statements in person on all working days within one week or convey relevant infor... | |
| | | | Child crushed to death | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 1: A child was crushed to death while his parents got seriously injured after they were hit by a speedily driven car in this winter capital of the state.
"A three-year-old child Adhayan died on the spot while his parents Sunil Gupta and mother Meenakshi Gupta yesterday late evening got seriously
injured when they were hit by a car while they were standing outside a Shopping Mall near Hotel Fortune Rivera," police here said. The locals immediately shifted them to the hospital where the child was declared as brought dead, police added. Meanwhile, the driver identified as Sourabh Sahni, resident of Udhampur was apprehended by the police. A case has been reg... | |
| | | | Dust not yet settled on Interlocutors' report…! | | BJP's two pronged strategy to keep issue 'alive', take on Congress | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, July 1: Even as the dust appears to be settling down on the uproar that erupted soon after J&K Interlocutors' report became public last month, for BJP the issue is still politically hot which the party is trying to keep alive to its gain . From protests on roads to now exploiting the issue at the intellectual level by reaching out to states outside J&K is what the leadership is focusing on at present. The strategy is to hit out at its rival Congress by painting a negative picture about its leadership vis-à-vis Kashmir policy.
The state leadership has in fact embarked upon a well scheduled series of such programmes which have been devised in consultatio... | |
| | | | Kashmiri mis-information campaign impacts Jammu 'commentators' | | Non-Existent Delhi Agreement | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 1: Kashmiri leaders of different hues have been seeking a solution to the Kashmir problem as per the so-called Delhi Agreement of 1952 since decades now. The National Conference leadership is in the forefront. It has been seeking to convince the people of the state and authorities in New Delhi that Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and NC leader and Wazir-e-Azam Sheikh Abdullah had in 1952 signed an agreement in order to redefine the centre-state relations. Actually, they are preaching falsehood. There is no such agreement as the Delhi Agreement of 1952. Even NC ideologue and Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather has admitted that there exists no signed Delhi... | |
| | | | J&K's secularism shines, one lakh Yatris in five days | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 1: More than one lakh Yatris have so far had 'Darshan' at the Amarnath Cave Shrine as the rush of more Yatris queuing up for the Yatra continued both at Baltal and Nunwan base camps. Thankfully this year's Yatra is continuing smoothly and with religious fervor.
The security forces drawn from the army, Border Security Force (BSF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the state police have been doing round the clock duties to provide security to the Yatris. Various line departments of the State government including health, PHE, CAPD and others are lending a helping hand to the Yatra.
As the official preparedness and arrangements for the smooth condu... | |
| | | | People have many questions, they need courageous men to answer | | | | Bashir Assad
Srinagar, July1; Not denying the fact that for last couple of weeks or so strange incidents are taking place in Kashmir valley which, in no way can be overlooked rather underestimated because a neglected spark can put in flames the entire society. Of course, separatist as well as mainstream political spectrum has smelled something wrong in alleged desecration of holy Quran and in Shia populated area in Budgam district the other day and senior Shia cleric and PDP leader Moulvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari too has described the incident as a conspiracy aimed to create sectarian divide in Kashmir which was experiencing a record tourist influx amid uneasy calm after many years.... | |
| | | | Vaishnavi,an honest, truthful rebel, is no more | | | | M.L. Kak
Jammu, July 1: If there can be a term like honest and clean rebel A.N.Vaishnavi is an epitome of it.A rebel in the sense that he would not watch injustice,repression,oppression like a mute spectator.
I was fortunate when I met him in Srinagar central Jail in June 1975.It was a meeting between one detainee and the other.He had been detained by the Jammu and Kashmir Government,headed by Sheikh Abdullah,who had allowed the extension of the emergency promulgation to Jammu and Kashmir.Vaishnavi's fault was that he was a volatite individual ready to fight injustice or any kind of raw deal.As a senior teacher, posted in Ladakh, he had raised a banner of revolt against those elements... | |
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