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| Bureaucracy subverting selection process of Director SKIMS | | Post advertised 3 years after High Court order; No Selection Committee constituted; CS calls CVs of applicants to Civil Secretariat | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Dec 22: With blatant disregard to directions of Jammu & Kashmir High Court as well as decision of the hospital Governing Body, headed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, bureaucracy has begun to interfere with the process of selection of the regular Director for Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS). Even as the top post has been finally advertised with delay of over three years and 13 candidates have submitted their applications, all of their documents and CVs have been forwarded by the autonomous hospital to the Chief Secretary's office in Civil Secretariat without properly constituting a Selection Committee.
Previous PDP-Congress coalition government, headed by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, had lost little time in removing Prof Meraj-ud-din as Director of SKIMS on account of his "deep connections" to Dr Farooq Abdullah, his family and the National Conference. Beneficiary of the change of guard was obviously a senior Congress leader's son-in-law and HoD Cardiology, Dr Sheikh Jalal-ud-din. Mufti-led government started the proce... | |
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| Freedom of expression, a basic fundamental right: Javed Mir | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 22: In the democratic arrangement of a political system, the freedom of expression is one of the basic fundamental rights that a free state carries along. Jammu and Kashmir, of late, has emerged as the enslaved state ruled by an incapable leader who after wreaking havoc in one region of the state now has returned to another to strike a clamp down on the free voice of the people, said PDP leader and MLA Chadoora Javed Ahmad Mir. Javed said in this wake banning of advertisement to the most emergent newspaper ET apparently hints towards his government's machinations to stop free flow of facts to the people.
This is highly condemnable and against the ethical free... | |
| | | | ET being victimized for highlighting truth: Murtaza | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 22: "It is unfortunate that newspapers are being victimised by the government for highlighting truth and loopholes in its func-tioning........the attitude of stopping advertisements to Early Times speaks of hollowness in the claims which this government makes in respect of believing in freedom of press", the PDP leader Murtaza Khan said. All these tactics are not only unfair but reflect the double standards of the government in not allowing the largest pillar of the democracy function independently, Murtaza said adding that government must shun its oppressive and repressive approach so that the newspapers can act as mirror of every aspect of its functioning. R... | |
| | | | Govt's attitude towards ET reflection of Discrimination: Khajuria | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Udhampur, Dec 22: State Governments attitude towards fourth pillar democracy particularly with Jammu bases newspaper Early Times shows reflections of Discrimination with Jammuties which is being done by successive Kashmiri rulers from last sixty years.
Showing concern over the attitude of Government towards Jammu Print media Senior Bar member Udhampur Bar and Ex Public Prosecutor G.R Khajuria said that Early time is being targeted by government only for its bold voice which paper raises in favor of Jammu people particularly highlighting discrimination with region .
He added that recent visit of interlocutors in Rajouri and Poonch district has clearly shown that people... | |
| | | | BJP may declare today its empower-Jammu formula | | | | NEHA
ET REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 22: Almost all the national BJP leaders, including the party president, former Deputy Prime Minister and Leaders of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, would be in Jammu on Thursday and hold, according to some insiders, a "very important" meeting on the troubled-state. Some of them would address the "Maha Rally" to be held on Friday. It is perhaps for the first time that all the BJP bigwigs would be in Jammu, the City of Temples, also known as the city of persecuted refugees numbering about 1.5 million.
Since the top-ranking BJP leaders would be here to discuss issues relating to the troubled and militant and separatist-infested state and address th... | |
| | | | Chances of Rajive Gupta decimated to favour blue eyed | | Selection Committee constituted for BOSE Chairman | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 22: The State Government has finally started the process to select the Chairman of State Board of School Education (BOSE). In this connection, School Education Minister Peerzada Mohammed Sayeed today constituted a five-member selection committee.
According to highly placed sources, members included in this committee include Commissioner/ Secretary School Education Naseema Lanker, Commissioner Excise GA Peer, Commissioner/ Secretary GAD MS Khan, former BOSE Chairman JP Singh and Director Colleges Jammu University Prof Rajive Gupta.
Sources disclosed that the Minister has desired the committee to complete the selection procedure in a month. BOSE Secretary Dr S... | |
| | | | Poonch MLA's ancestral village has school with 2 classrooms to accomodate 175 students | | In the absence of toilet, girl students go to fields | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
ET REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 22: One way to block the channels of knowledge and information is to let schools and other centres of learning remain underdeveloped. MLA's ancestral Maidan village in Sabjian, Poonch, has one such school.
Built on a small piece of land, the only government middle school in the dusty village is devoid of adequate space to accomodate all its 175 students.In the name of a building, it has only two rooms. As about 175 students from class I to VIII cannot be accomodated and taught in two classrooms, classes are taken by teachers in open in the adjoining fields.During rainy days, however, majority students are officially given off due to the dearth of spa... | |
| | | | Long wait for 'short mail' ends, prepaid subscribers left to fend | | Ban on SMS services revoked | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 22: In a significant decision which has sent jubiliations among the mobile phone subscribers across the state, the coalition government in J&K today revoked the ban imposed on Short Messaging Services (SMS) on all post-paid mobile phone subscribers in state. However, the government refrained from withdrawing it on pre-paid cell phones. The ban deprived lakhs of sub-scribers of this facility was imposed in June this year on account of widespread unrest and agitation in Kashmir Valley with intent to prevent fuelling of the situation with objectionable stuff through the SMSes.
In what can also be seen as the new year gift from the government to the sub-scribers,... | |
| | | | HM hideout busted, 2 shells recovered | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 22: Two rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) shells recovered from a militant hideout in Goni forests of Mendhar in Poonch here today.
Police sources said during searches in Goni forests, security forces came across a hideout of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militants. Its search led jawans to the recovery of two RPG shells measuring two feet each. The hideout was later busted by the troops, the sources added.... | |
| | | | Raju Chopra's sons allege political pressure to save culprits | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 22: Raju Chopra's sons -- Puneet and Rohit -- have alleged that some politicians were exerting pressure on police to save the murderers of their father, mother and sister.
Raju Chopra alias Rajinder Bhushan Chopra, his wife and daughter were murdered at their Trikuta Nagar residence about four years back.
The duo said though police claimed to have arrested main accused Sangram Singh, political pressure was being exerted on police to save those who had conspired to kill their parents and sister.
They said it was astonishing that even after four years of the incident, police had failed to solve the case. They said Raju Chopra was killed because some politicia... | |
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