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| Cloud burst washes away Awoora bridge in Pahalgam | | | | Saahil Suhail
Anantnag, Aug 20: Vehicluar traffic continued to remain suspend on Bijbehara-Pahalgam road on second consecutive day, as Awoora bridge was washed away by flash floods triggered by a cloudburst in Awoora Pahalgam area on Monday.
Locals said that on Monday flash floods due to cloud burst washed way the bridge at Awoora disconnecting the area with tehsil headquarter Pahalgam, creating problems to the students, employees and business people. "I could not attend today my classes in higher secondary school Pahlagam as no vehicles could ply due to collapse of the bridge," Javid Ahmad said.Similarly, employees and business people told Early Times about the problems thay have been facing. They have been forced to travel a long distance for getting vehicle service on Anantnag Pahalgam road. Locals said that soon after the bridge collapse, local MLA and administration visited the area but nothing has been done till now. Deputy Commissioner Anantnag Farooq Ahmad Lone said that he had directed concerned department to construct a diversion for time being.... | |
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| Srinagar all set to host national level rugby tournament | | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Aug 20: The summer capital of Jammu & Kashmir is all set to play host to the national 7 a side rugby tournament.
The three day championship would get underway on August 23 and the finals would be played on August 25 at the Bakshi Stadium.
Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, Nasser Hussain, Captain Indian Rugby Team said that it would be for the first time that Srinagar would host the national level 7 a side rugby tournament. He exuded confidence that more such tournaments would be held at Srinagar in the coming years. "Twenty teams with most of them comprising the state teams would be taking part in the national championship.
The national level ... | |
| | | | MLC Jugal demands relief for flood victims | | | | Et Report
JAMMU, Aug 20:Expressing grave concern over incessant rains in Reasi district, the Member Legislative Council (MLC) Jugal Kishore Sharma demanded proper rescue and relief for the people affected by flash floods.
In a statement issued today, Sharma said that government should constitute a team to access the extent of damage caused by floods and the heavy downpour in Reasi and its peripheries while arrangements should be made on war footing to provide immediate relief to the affected people.He said that the flash floods have affected not only the crops but also the property of the people. Sharma said that mostly the poor people have been affected by the flash floods as such Gover... | |
| | | | Imposition of Governor rule the only solution, says Bhim | | Kishtwar gory incident | | | Neha
JAMMU, Aug 20: The August 9 gory Kishtwar incident has triggered a fierce debate in the political circles. Almost all the parties, barring the NC and the Congress, have been expressing the view that the Omar Abdullah-led coalition Government failed to discharge its duty on August 9 to maintain communal harmony in Kishtwar and other areas and that it has outlived its utility. It was perhaps the first occasion in 65 years when the Indian lawmakers, barring those belonging to the Congress, the NC and the NCP, condemned in one voice the Omar Abdullah Government and held it directly responsible for what happened that day.
The political response the avoidable Kishtwar incident evoked in Ja... | |
| | | | Demand of 'disbanding VDCs' conspiracy against nationalistic forces: Jugal | | |  Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Aug 20: Launching a scathing attack on those who are making hue and cry over the role and relevance of Village Defence Committees (VDCs) besides seeking their disbanding, the state Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) chief and MLA Jugal Kishore Sharma termed the demand as a well hatched conspiracy to weaken the nationalist forces.
Speaking exclusively to Early Times, the BJP president Jugal Kishore said that separatists and few political groups are making false propaganda about... | |
| | | | Mobile School children denied mid-day meals Where has sanctioned money gone? | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 20: From 2007 till date, the Government of India under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (SSA) provides money for the Mid-Day meals to the children across the country . The mobile seasonal schools which are run under the said scheme (SSA) for tribal Gujjars and Bakerwals in J&K are not being provided any such meals and this according to experts is a big scam .
To provide quality education to the Gujjar and Bakerwal children of the state, the J&K Government launched a scheme in late 1970's known as Mobile Schools which is at present known as Mobile - Seasonal Schools. After the onset of armed militancy the mobile schools in J&K could not function for more than 10 ye... | |
| | | | Justice Sagheer recommendations Committee fails to meet since Sept 2012 | | | | Akshay Azad
JAMMU, Aug 20: The non-seriousness of state Government regarding implementation of Justice Sagheer Ahmed Committee recommendations (Prime Minister Vth working Group) can be gauged from the fact that the Cabinet Sub-Committee (CSC) constituted by latter to discuss recommendations, has failed to meet after September 2012.
Sources informed Early Times that the last meeting of eight members Cabinet Sub Committee including four members each from Congress and National Conference was held in the month of September last year, after which no new meeting has been taken place.
"The members of the CSC remained busy with other engagements and on January 15, 2013 due to expansion and Cabi... | |
| | | | Is state awaiting massacre of minorities? 400 VDC members loose weapons in Doda, police intentionally delaying fresh arms | | | | Early Times Report
KISHTWAR, Aug 20: Citing flimsy reasons, Police in District Doda has withdrawn arms of around 400 Village Defence Committee (VDC) members.
Several leaders of minority community including President of Sanatan Dharm Sabha (SDS) Gajjay Singh while talking to Early Times claimed that 200 files of fresh as well as relatives and Kins of Village Defence Committee (VDC) members of minority community who were disarmed are pending in the office of SP (Doda) Arif Rishoo. They further claimed that the process of antecedent verification has been completed yet they have not been disposed off.
Citing some examples, they said that documents of three persons namely Prabhat Singh, Thaku... | |
| | | | Kishtwar effect | | Pakistan, LeT behind vicious campaign against VDCs | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Aug 20: The demand for disbanding the Village Defence Committees (VDCs), which were set up in 1995 to combat cross-border terrorism and defend minority communities in the state in general and erstwhile Doda district and Udhampur, Poonch and Rajouri districts in particular, have united all the Jammu-based political parties and groups, minus the NC and the Congress, against the opponents of these counter-insurgency groups. They have extended their unflinching support to the affected people of Kishtwar and held out a commitment that they will not allow the authorities to disband the VDCs whose role has all along been splendid.
What has given a fillip to the demand that the VDCs... | |
| | | | Two months before retirement, Chakraborty refused re-entry in J&K | | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Aug 20: In the context of the re-employment of three retired bureaucrats in the Property Tax Board, ex-IAS officers have begun wondering over why the state not remember Prabodh G. Dhar Chakraborty, a J&K cadre IAS officer of the 1980 batch. Prabodh has handled almost every assignment in the urban development sector in Jammu and Kashmir from Jammu Municipality Administrator to Vice-Chairman of Jammu Development Authority (JDA) to Secretary Housing and Urban development department continuously for seven years from 1991 to 1998. If the sources are to be believed, no one in the cadre is more experienced than Chakraborty in this sector.
Even in union Government, he ha... | |
| | | | Will Cong Ministers attend next Cabinet meet? | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 20: The Congress party will be put to litmus test in the coming days when the Cabinet meets yet again to take some vital decisions. Will the Congress Ministers participate? Defying party directions, the Congress Ministers chose to attend the previous Cabinet meeting. A senior Congress leader while clarifying the confusion said the Minister participated keeping in view the explosive situation in Kishtwar and rest of Jammu region. This clarification has redeemed the Congress pride to some extent. But the real test lies ahead.
The leadership had urged the Ministers to boycot the Cabinet meeting unless National Conference (NC) additional general secretary, Dr ... | |
| | | | Police reshuffle at higher level on cards | | | |
Mustansir
SRINAGAR, Aug 20: A major reshuffle in police administration is on cards in the state. Official sources said the State Government is expected to reshuffle its police administration in next few days.
Official sources told Early Times that the team of Cabinet Ministers that visited Kishtwar to assess the ground situation in the wake of communal clashes of 9 August, has recommended some changes in the police administration in Jammu Division which would certainly impact the Kashmir region also because the team has recommended shifting of at least one senior police officer from Kashmir.
If the sources are to be believed the delegation, comprising Deputy Chief Minister, Tara Chan... | |
| | | | Peace formula eludes All Party Delegation for now | | Mass transfers amongst peace rank and file locally | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Kishtwar, Aug 20: All party delegation that is visiting kishtwar to broker peace between the two communities has reportedly failed to break the dead lock with both the communities holding on to their stated positions.
The delegation that held detailed parleys with both the communities is yet to arrive a compromise formula as the meeting was still on when the reports last came in. Reports suggest that both the communities have struck to the positions they held during the lasst meeting that was chaired by the Dy CM Tara Chand earlier. It is pertinent to mention here that the delegation is desperate to reach a compromise formula so that Curfew restrictions that have been imp... | |
| | | | Pathan inaugurates Kashmir's indigenous version of IPL | | | | Javaid Naikoo
Srinagar,Aug 20 : Amidst lack of vision and initiative on part of the state government to promote sports, local corporate sector of the state has come up an indigenous version of celebrated Indian premier league.Indian cricket team's star all-rounder, Yusuf Khan Pathan today threw open the much awaited, Downtown Champions League (DCL) T20 Cricket tournament in Srinagar. According to the details received, DCL is a private initiative by few former cricketers of the Kashmir valley which will function in collaboration with many private business houses and will be solely responsible for purchasing the cricket teams on the pattern of IPL. On the opening ceremony Tuesday, In... | |
| | | | Super Hercules aircraft lands in Leh | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 20: Flexing its muscles in eastern Ladakh, where the Indian and Chinese armies have had face-offs in recent months, IAF on Tuesday morning landed a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft at the Daulat Beg Oldi airstrip close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
"The commanding officer Group Captain Tejbir Singh and the crew of the "Veiled Vipers" squadron, along with senior officers of Air Headquarters, touched down on the DBO airstrip, located at 16614 feet (5065 meters), in the Aksai Chin area after taking off from their home base at Hindon," sources said.
DBO is an important Army forward area post which links the ancient silk route to China. This base was bu... | |
| | | | Stone pelting on KP residential quarters Children among several injured | | | |
Early Times Report
PULWAMA, Aug 20: In what seems to a deep rooted conspiracy to scare away the Kashmiri pandit families who have been employed in the valley under Prime Minister's special employment package as part of an initiative to rehabilitate the community back in the valley, the housing cluster of these KP families were targeted by miscreants who resorted to discriminate stone pelting leaving several including children injured and frightened.
Some 60 KP families were targeted by youth reportedly enraged over action of local administration to pull off an illegal encroachment near the camp.
Officers of the district administration and MLA rushed to the spot and assured KP families ... | |
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