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Junior doctors heighten confrontation 104 apply for posts as Police blocks medicos’ GMC march 10/26/2009 11:49:53 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 26: The conflict between doctors and the government today further deepened as despite a warning process of making new recruitments of Registrars and Demonstrators the agitating medicos instead of relenting or feeling insecure about their jobs took a direct upfront with the administration. In an apparent bid to weaken the agitation, the government had notified for recruitment of new Registrars and Demonstrators at the Government Medical Colleges of Jammu and Srinagar after 50 medicos were either suspended or repatriated to the Health Department from the Medical Education Department. The government was expecting this notice of recruitment post-suspension as a last warning to the agitating medicos. However, the striking junior doctors today heightened their confrontationist approach several notches up. Since the government had called for walk-in interviews for the posts of Registrars and Demonstrators to fill in the vacancies caused by suspension or reversion of agitating medicos, the Medical College at Jammu was today the epicenter of the tussle. The ...   READ MORE

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Reveal your Kashmir plan, BJP asks Delhi 10/26/2009 11:49:23 PM Jammu/New Delhi, 26: While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s upcoming Kashmir visit is being seen as watershed in revival of peace discourse, the main national opposition party Bhartiya Janta Party is voicing concerns on New Delhi’s policy on Jammu and Kashmir. Senior leaders of BJP, both in Delhi and Jammu, assert that they are averse to dialogue process but want its contours to be known. BJP seems to have taken strong exception to Home Minister P Chidambram’s description of Kashmir as a ‘political problem’. During his Srinagar visit two weeks back, Chidambram had said that Kashmir is a political issue and needs to be discussed through dialogue. It was the Home Minister’s ‘political’ de...   READ MORE   Wajahat’s oath deferred 10/26/2009 11:49:00 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 26: Despite clearance of all decks for his swearing in, the J&K State Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah’s oath taking had to be deferred till the Central Government finds his replacement at the Central Information Commission. Wajahat Habibullah was expected to take oath in Srinagar today which is now likely to take place in Jammu in next few days. Habibullah deferred his oath since his successor at the CIC is yet to be appointed. "I was planning to take oath of office today but I have been asked to continue till the new Chief Information Commissioner is decided. I cannot join the new office until relieved from my duties here," Habibullah s...   READ MORE   Battery car service resumes at Vaishno Devi route 10/26/2009 11:48:21 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 26: Vaishno Devi pilgrims finally heaved a sigh of relief after the battery car service, which was suspended five months ago, resumed yesterday up to Bhawan situated in the Trikuta Hills of Reasi district, sources here today said. Sources said out of the 20 battery cars, eight were made functional after registration while the remaining would also be pressed into service in coming days. ''Due to the non-fulfillment of some documents, the battery car service from Adh Kuwari to Bhawan remained off track since June 15 and with the registration of eight cars, the service was resumed yesterday afternoon,'' official sources told UNI. Hundreds of pilgrims includin...   READ MORE   4 KAS officers transferred 10/26/2009 11:47:30 PM Early Times Report Srinagar Oct 26: The government today ordered transfers and postings of four officers of the Kashmir Administrative Services. Vivek Sharma, SDM Bani and Mr.Rohit Khajuria, Assistant commissioner(General) Jammu shall exchange their place of postings. Pritam Lal Atri, collector, Thein Dam, Basholi and PS Rathore, SDM Basholi shall exchange their place of postings. ...   READ MORE   The brigadier who performed great feat in military history 10/26/2009 11:47:08 PM SANT KUMAR SHARMA Jammu, October 26, 2009: The saviour of Kashmir, Brigadier Rajendra Singh, fought many grim battles against the Lashkars led by Pakistani officers. His tenacious fighting checked the onward march of the marauders for full four days. He had initially dug in his heels at Uri on October 22 reaching there at midnight. He had to retreat, every day, as the men at his command continued dying. On October 26, he retreated with his small band of men to Baramulla which was a prosperous town then. They fought gallantly but died, one after another. This retreat encouraged the enemy troops who reached Uri. Regrouping his troops the Brigadier rushed to Uri. In Uri Rajinder Singh f...   READ MORE   Arrested scribe’scomputers beingsent to Hy’ad FSL 10/26/2009 11:46:47 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 24: The scribe of News Agency of Kashmir (NAK) Farooq Ganai who was arrested on 24th October by Special Operation Group is being interrogated in Domana Police station for further information. Sources informed that he was on three days police remand and today he is again to be produced before court to get police remand again so that his detailed questioning would be done and police reach on appropriate conclusion. Earlier scribe complaint of chest pain and he was put on medical treatment and doctors prescribed medicines to him till the medical reports received. Sources also informed that the seized computers and his personal laptop are being sent to Hydera...   READ MORE   What’s in PM’s bag? 10/26/2009 11:46:25 PM ABID SHAH New Delhi, Oct 26: What Delhi has up its sleeves for the people of the troubled State of Jammu and Kashmir? This is the question in the minds of most people on the eve of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the Valley. And sources here say that a slew of development measures might well be announced when Prime Minister visits to inaugurate Qazigund-Anantnag section of newly built 18-kilomtres-long railwayline connecting the Valley with Jammu and therefrom with the rest of the country. Strengthening the infrastructure has generally been the hallmark of Manmohan Singh’s economic policy for the entire country and vis-à-vis Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister has been for the r...   READ MORE   3 militants killed in Shopian Maisuma back in stone pelting mode after Geelani’s release 10/26/2009 11:46:09 PM AHMED ALI FAYYAZ SRINAGAR, Oct 26: While Police and security forces today claimed to have killed three of the top wanted commanders of Hizbul Mujahideen in a fierce gunbattle in Shopian area of South Kashmir, JKLF Chairman Yasin Malik’s residential locality of Maisuma in the capital city has returned to the stone pelting mode in days of the release of some prominent separatist leaders, including Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Shabir Ahmed Shah, from months of detention. Geelani has, meanwhile, called a shutdown of two days on occasion of the anniversary of the Indian troops’ first arrival in the state in 1947 on October 27th and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s scheduled visit to Kashmir val...   READ MORE   CM’s plaint cell is creativebut things just don’t move 10/26/2009 11:45:01 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 26: Opening grievance cell without changing the work culture has forced Chief Minister Secretariat to circulate fresh notification for the revival of the cell. In its fresh notification time period for any complaint to be sorted out was prescribed five days but even after about 15 days have passed not a single complaint has been sorted out as per the Complaint Monitoring Portal (CMP) status. “Already overburdened authorities at the helm of affairs transfer complaints to districts magistrates without going through the particulars of complaint, which in turn causes unnecessary burden to district magistrate offices and to release the pressure complaints are fu...   READ MORE

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