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Taj's office in GMC yet nothing moves; academic, medical facilities going from bad to worse 11/6/2013 12:03:13 AM Syed Junaid Hashmi JAMMU, Nov 5: Despite Minister for Medical Education Taj Mohiuddin having set-up an office inside the campus of Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu, academic as well as medical facilities have been going from bad to worse with no signs of improvements in the very near future. Taj's fantastic ideas have failed to improve the situation. What these ideas have done is that old, worn out walls of GMC Hospital as well as Medical College are being painted over and again. A new lift, whose entry is on way towards mortuary rooms of GMC Hospital, is in operation. Cleanliness continues to be an issue but the old emergency has been put to use again with both the doors open. But inside the college, according to an assessment report of Medical Council of India (MCI), there are no revenue records available to indicate proof of ownership and possession of the land. Hence, Government Medical College (GMC) is set-up on land which belongs to the state government but was never transferred to the Health and Medical Education department for construction of college as well as h...   READ MORE

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Deadline expired, 50 % deptts yet to submit scheme/project wise details Release of SPA amounting Rs 2064 Crores 11/6/2013 12:03:08 AM Akshay Azad Jammu, Nov 5: Blame it on the lack of accountability on part of the administrative heads of various departments, clouds of uncertainty are looming large over the release of Special Plan Assistance (SPA) amounting Rs. 2064 Crores under Annual Plan 2013-14 by Planning Commission of India, as after expiry of November 5 deadline, around 50 percent departments are yet to submit scheme/project wise details in the prescribed format for being uploaded under CAS-MIS system. Sources informed Early Times that the Planning Commission of India (PCI) had withheld the release of SPA component to the tune of Rs. 2064 Crores out of total Rs. 7300 Crores annual-plan, and had unambiguously dir...   READ MORE   Throwing norms to wind, Directorate of Technical Education issues premature transfer orders Some ITIs continue to function without instructors 11/6/2013 12:03:00 AM Jehangir Rashid SRINAGAR, Nov 5: Throwing all rules and regulations to the wind Directorate of Technical Education has issued premature transfer orders of officials posted at the different Industrial Technical Institutes (ITIs). The issuance of such orders has upset the daily functioning in these ITIs. At ITI Budgam the Cutting & Sewing Instructor was transferred vide order number 272 of 2013 dated March 28, 2013 to ITI Ganderbal only after six months being posted at ITI Budgam. A workshop attendant was promoted as instructor and posted in ITI Budgam. Only after four months this instructor was transferred from ITI Budgam to ITI Anantnag. The official who was to be posted to Budgam in ...   READ MORE   GS involved in SBI loan scam, criminal activities Setback to JKPYC 11/6/2013 12:02:36 AM Sumit Sharma Jammu, Nov 5: The Jammu & Kashmir Pradesh Congress, a wing of Indian National Congress, constituted to clean the image of Congress and to reach the grass root level, received a setback in Jammu and Kashmir State when various scams and criminal activities against its General Secretary surfaced. Abid Imtiyaz Bhat alias Abid Kashmiri, who was appointed as General Secretary of PYC in Jammu and Kashmir state is involved in number of criminal activities besides a SBI loan scam in which he prepared and submitted forged document to the bank to avail the loan facilities. The complaints in this connection have been filed to the Congress Party High Command in Delhi. A complaint of la...   READ MORE   Omar showers praise on Rahul to stay in power 11/6/2013 12:02:26 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 5: Omar Abdullah has showered praise on Rahul Gandhi and this gesture of his has been perceived as an act of appeasement to stay in power. Omar Abdullah had on Monday said NC is a committed ally of UPA and again today made it a point to appease Rahul Gandhi by stating that NC can never be a part of BJP led NDA. According to reports, senior politicians privy to important developments had said Omar owes his power and also his continuation in power to Rahul Gandhi. "Rahul Gandhi preferred Omar over Dr Farooq Abdullah as CM and then when Centre was about to dismiss Omar's government after death of 110 people in state, it was Rahul again who stepped in and s...   READ MORE   Information Department turns into Event Management Coy for Pradesh Congress Works overtime for success of Rahul's rally 11/6/2013 12:02:21 AM Akshay Azad Jammu, Nov 5: The state Information department which has a defined role and mandate as an important arm of the government functioning has reduced itself into a private event management company of Congress Party as it is working overtime to ensure the success of All India Congress Committee (AICC) vice- president's rally scheduled for Tuesday. For last few days, the entire official machinery of the department is leaving no stone unturned to ensure all required arrangements at the venue of the rally- obviously on the instructions of the political big wigs in the ruling coalition. This is being done despite the event being a purely political show of the state Congress and its...   READ MORE   Kamaal not misquoted but spoke his heart out: Tariq Hamid Qarra Omar changes statements like clothes 11/6/2013 12:01:58 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Nov 5: Accusing National Conference for thriving on flip-flop politics, People’s Democratic Party senior leader Tariq Hamid Qarra today alleged that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah changes his statements like clothes. "It is absurd that Chief Minister term the accession of Kashmir with India conditional on one day while the next day he describes the accession final. His statements are confusing which amply makes it clear that NC believes in double-speak," Qarra told a local news agency adding that it is the history of NC to thrive on flip-flop politics. Former Finance Minister said that people of Kashmir are laughing at Omar Abdullah and they are surprised the ...   READ MORE   Kamaal backtracks from his statement on Modi Politics of U-turns 11/6/2013 12:01:51 AM Bashir Assad Srinagar, Nov 5: In less than twenty-four hours the National Conference leadership including the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah have backtracked from their statements. First it was the Chief Minister who denied having "ever questioned" the state's accession with India and termed Jammu and Kashmir an 'integral part of the Union of India'. "I have never used the word `conditional' or `incomplete'. Check the Assembly record and see what I have said. You should not put words in my mouth", Omar said while replying to a media query about his earlier remarks about accession of Jammu and Kashmir with Union of India. Today his uncle and additional general secretary of National ...   READ MORE   Omar Abdullah acknowledges the truth Modi effect 11/6/2013 12:01:34 AM Rustam JAMMU, Nov 5: The political scene of the country has been fast-changing since May. It was this month that the BJP high command appointed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as chairman of the central election campaign committee. It happened at Goa amid great applause. His appointment as the chairman of election campaign committee had electrified the country's political scene with the BJP cadres and supporters pulsating with renewed vigour. The political scene further changed dramatically on September 13, when the Central Parliament Board of the BJP presented to the nation Narendra Modi as the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 general election. It was this decision of t...   READ MORE   Omar, Kamaal pulling in different directions 11/6/2013 12:01:25 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 5: On Monday, National Conference working president and Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and the party additional secretary and Omar Abdullah's uncle, Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal made two very interesting statements. Omar Abdullah, who spoke extensively on the issue of the accession of the state to India, made a categorical statement that he is very much part of the UPA and that there is no question of the NC becoming part of the so-called third front. "He has nothing to do with any Third Front. I am with the UPA," he, inter-alia, said while talking to reporters on the occasion of the opening of the biannual durbar in Jammu. He also talked about the BJ...   READ MORE   NC just cannot fool the nation Accession-merger controversy 11/6/2013 12:01:19 AM Neha JAMMU, Nov 5: On the opening day of the biannual Durbar in Jammu, NC working president and J&K CM Omar Abdullah said that he never questioned the state's accession to India, that he never said that accession of J&K was conditional and that J&K is is a part of India. "Please do not put your words in my mouth. I have never used the word conditional nor the word incomplete...I have never used such words. You pull out the Assembly record and see what I had said. J&K acceded to India and J&K is a part of India. There are no two ways about that. There may be difference about how the state acceded to India as compared to other states but that does not call into question the accession" he, ...   READ MORE   Factionalism within PCC re-emerges ahead of Rahul's rally Azad faction ignored in extending invitations 11/6/2013 12:02:12 AM Akshay Azad Jammu, Nov 5: Despite claims of unity within the Azad and Soz factions of the Pradesh Congress, the differences have come to the open again ahead of the hyped rally of AICC vice president Rahul Gandhi. Carrying on the legacy of factionalism, the faction led by Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee president Saif-ud-din Soz has invited only selected persons of his faction in the rally of All India Congress Committee vice-president Rahul Gandhi. Sources said that along with invitations to Panchayat representatives, many senior leaders of Soz faction were also invited in the function by organizers but invitations were not sent to senior functionaries of faction led by ...   READ MORE   Says NC camp lives in a make believe world BJP aghast over Kamaal backtrack 11/6/2013 12:01:44 AM Javaid Naikoo Srinagar, Nov 5: Soon after National Conference leader, Dr Mustafa Kamaal backtracked from his statement on supporting Modi, the BJP said that the NC double speak will not lead it anywhere. Kamaal had said yesterday that NC would support BJP if Modi becomes the Prime Minister. However, today he denied the statement saying the decision on any alliance shall be taken by the Party High Command. Giving the NC mind, Kamaal yesterday spoke of supporting the BJP if it comes to power. However, keeping up the NC traditions, he denied the statement saying BJP did not support the autronomy resolution of the NC so "we cannot support them." Taking a strong note of the recent state...   READ MORE

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