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| Beyond Omar's Rasool obsession | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 7: Omar's repeated and uncalled for tweets over selection of Parvez Rasool, a cricketer from J&K in India A, an IPL team and finally in the national squad that toured Zimbabwe recently where he was not fielded in the five ODIs that India played, has to quite an extent exposed Omar's regional bias as he has repeatedly referred to Rasool as a kashmiri cricketer rather than a Cricketer from the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Disturbingly for the people of Jammu, while Omar was going gaga over Rasool on twitter, he had to be reminded of another cricketer from state who belonged to Jammu and was part of the national under 19 squad presently touring Sri Lanka. While Rasool did not get an opportunity to exhibit his skills, Shubham Khajuria hit two half centuries in the first two matches that he played opening the batting for his team.
Meanwhile, many are questioning Chief Minister's indifference towards State's another budding talent, a ten year old singer Anmol Jaiswal, who is warming the hearts of entire nation through his melodious singing and faces thre... | |
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| Militancy reviving due to wrong policies of Govt | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 7: With wrong policies of State and Central governments the militancy is gaining a new lease of life in the strife torn state with more and more mercenaries entering the state from across the border and indulging in terrorist killings.
According to sources, not only the mercenaries have become active in the State for last quite some months but the local youth are also joining militants ranks to indulge in terrorist activities. The killing of cops at Srinagar over a month back following by attack on a police man in Pulwama township of Pulwama district resulting in his instant death and killing of another cop in Yari Pora town of Kulgam district of South... | |
| | | | Govt websites mock at official claims | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu Aug 7: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has been highlighting his achievements in various sectors through press releases . The Chief Minister claims that J&K has made a great development in the sector of Information Technology and E Governance but when one practically goes through the official district websites of J&K Govt it portrays as if we are living in a stone age. Earlier Early times highlighted the issue of J&K Government’s official website (www.jammuandkashmir.nic.in) which has been defunct since years but when it comes to the websites of the J&K’s different districts they too sail in the same boat. The question is that will the new Information Technology... | |
| | | | Unproductive, dreggy meetings marring the functioning of the agriculture department | | | |
Mustansir
Jammu, Aug7; For some top bureaucrats holding the posts of commissioner secretaries, convening dreggy and non-productive review meetings and distracting the officers from their assigned jobs is the only business-they are familiar with.
Though bureaucracy in Jammu and Kashmir has always been iniquitous and detrimental to the interests of the people of the state, however, some of them have earned notoriety in keeping the filed officers hostage for hours together on daily basis in unproductive meetings and even undertaking tours to the length and breadth of the state.
“They are keeping the entire administration virtually hostage for hours in unproductive meetin... | |
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