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| Shrine Board to widen road between Baltal and Cave | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 13: It's very good news. The Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, which is headed by State Governor NN Vohra, has agreed to widen the road between Baltal and the Holy Cave Shrine of Baba Amarnath. It may start the work soon. The objective is to make the annual Amarnath Yatra a smooth affair. If all goes well, work would be completed well before the commencement of Yatra in 2013. The Shrine Board has not only agreed to widen the road between Baltal and the Holy Cave, but also agreed to create more facilities for the pilgrims to ensure that no pilgrim meets the fate which over 100 pilgrims met this year. More than 100 pilgrims lost their precious lives this year due to the absence of the required facilities, including healthcare facilities, en-route the Holy Cave Shrine.
It was none other than the Shrine Board lawyer who informed the Supreme Court only the other day that the Shrine Board will do two things at the earliest. First, it will widen the road leading up to the Cave Shrine. Second, it will create all the required facilities for pilgrims. Significantly, ... | |
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| `SKIMS compromises on purity of oxygen' | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 13: Kashmir's lone super-specialty hospital Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) which consumes substantial portion of the budget meant for health care is in shambles due to mismanagement, corruption and fraud in purchase of machinery and equipment. It has resulted in poor patient care and alarming deaths.
The constant conflict between the Director (Dr Showkat Zarger) and the employees coupled with defective equipment has resulted in total deterioration of the patient care and degeneration of SKIMS. During last 1 ½ years more than 3500 deaths have been reported in the SKIMS," sources said.
Sources said that the Oxygen Plant has stopped workin... | |
| | | | NC agrees to give reservations in District board of panchayats | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 13: The National Conference has finally conceded to the demand of Cong of giving reservations to SC and ST in the district development and planning board- the third tier of the Panchayati Raj System.
The NC, which had off late succumbed to the Cong pressure, agreed in principal to make these reservations as per the 73rd Amendment. The elections for the DDPB will be held after the Block Development Council scheduled on Nov 7.
The NC leadership agreed to it after two-day meeting between NC and Cong. In the lengthy deliberations Cong party impressed upon the NC leadership that Cong can't go back from its stand and Government must agree it.
It's the most impo... | |
| | | | Amazing life of blast victim: He survived 3-limb amputation, now wife does all his works from feeding to cleaning | | All his hopes are now pinned on Govt for a job to survive | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Oct 13: It was surely the blackest day for Somi and his family when he lost his arms and a foot in a bomb blast just outside his residence at Kalri, about 10 km from here near Kot-Bhalwal, on January 23, 2001, when he was 14.
He had instantly lost his arms, right foot and a portion of the left thigh muscle in the explosion that went off directly underneath him and almost killed him. "As I somersaulted through the air, I watched my arms fly off," he said.
Somi landed back in the blast crater, but despite the grievous injuries he had sustained, he remained conscious.
Two days before the explosion, i.e. on January 21, army had gunned down six Pakistani militants in an... | |
| | | | 'Leadership Training' program for PYC at Patnitop | | Functionaries from Kashmir to stay away...? | | | ET Report
JAMMU, Oct 13: After experiencing tough time for so many days on account of agitational programmes it undertook with zest and zeal in support of empowerment of Panchayats , a brief relaxing break is what J&K Pradesh Youth Congress would observe for nearly a week amid the cold yet solacing environs of famous tourist resort Patnitop. Its parent body IYC has organized training programme for the newly formed PYC committee and other functionaries of the youth wing of Congress during which they would be formally made aware of their role, functions and line of action as well as strategy to followed on important issues.
Even as this training program is meant for the functionari... | |
| | | | Is PDP capable of carrying Jammu with-III | | | | Bashir Assad
SRINAGAR, Oct 13: Now, when the regional character of the politics is debated and the roadmaps offered by the regional political of Jammu and Kashmir are before us, the question still remains as to how the people of Jammu could identify themselves with the regional political formations having their ideological locations in Kashmir.
First, the demographic realities have to be accepted and for that any argument is certainly fraught with dangerous consequences and is likely to widen the persisting divide along religious lines. Given this hard reality the demand for separate statehood as the demand was combined with the empowerment by some people, could be even more dange... | |
| | | | BAJ for ending discrimination with Jammu Pradesh | | Meeting With Shinde | | | Neha
JAMMU, Oct 13: Bar Association Jammu (BAJ) is one non-political organization in Jammu Pradesh which has consistently fought for the general political and economic rights and interests of its people. It, like the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), has seldom missed any opportunity that came its way to project the case of grossly ignored and politically marginalized people of Jammu Pradesh. It has been active particularly since the 1980s, when the then Chief Minister Faroooq Abdullah planned to end the age-old practice of Durbar move and establish the civil Secretariat in Srinagar on a permanent basis. Farooq Abdullah had to eschew the move under pressure from Jammu. Ever since the... | |
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