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| Yet another feather in Principal GDC, Srinagar's cap; blocks promotion of senior docs | | Abuses, harasses female doctors regularly | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Feb 28: Principal Government Dental College (GDC) Srinagar, Dr. Riyaz Farooq has turned law unto himself despite the fact that he is neck deep in corruption and at the same time meting out harassment to the staff including the senior faculty members of the college.
Sources told Early Times that Dr. Riyaz continues to harass the staff in the college and has in fact blocked the promotion of some of the senior doctors of the college. The sources said that Principal GDC, Srinagar has many times threatened the doctors more so the juniors to fall in line or face the axe.
"There are many female doctors working at Government Dental College, Srinagar and all of them have been terrified by Dr. Riyaz. Without caring for anything whatsoever he hurls choicest abuses on the female doctors. Most of these prefer to remain silent and are not willing to share details with their family or friends in order to avoid embarrassment," said sources.
Sources said that promotion of at least six senior doctors has been blocked by Dr. Riyaz and the basic reason for the same is t... | |
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| Class XII paper leak: Govt assures probe, action | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 28: Incident of leak of class XII question paper of the J&K School Board today rocked the State Legislative Assembly, prompting the Government to assure a probe to bring the guilty to the book.
The issue was raised by the JSM MLA from Bishnah Ashwani Sharma, who making a reference to the infamous BOPEE paper leak scam rued that this was becoming a routine and the government was not doing enough. "This is a shame" Ashwani said making a reference to the failure of Education Department in ensuring fair examination system. Following reports of paper leak, the class XII exam scheduled for Friday were postponed by the JKBOSE.
Reacting to the issue raised by the ... | |
| | | | `Kejriwal using Farooq Abdullah's profile to gain some popularity' | | Kamaal sees agency hand' behind AAP interest in JK | | | Javaid Naikoo
SRINAGAR, Feb 28: National Conference additional general secretary, Dr Mustafa Kamaal has said that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) interest in Kashmir was yet `another attempt by the agencies to defame National Conference and Dr Farooq Abdullah."
As AAP Kashmir candidate Dr Raja Muzafar who while talking to early times minutes after his name appeared in AAP's second list of Lok Sabha candidates yesterday said that Arvind Kejriwal has promised him to visit Jammu and Kashmir next month to campaign against Dr Farooq Abdullah and announce election manifesto of AAP formally from Srinagar.
Kamaal today said that visit of Arvind Kejriwal to Kashmir and campaigning only against Dr Far... | |
| | | | HC directs 14 DCs to show-cause on contempt proceedings | | Polythene ban | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 28: A Division Bench of Jammu and Kashmir High Court has asked 14 Deputy Commissioners to show-cause why proceedings under contempt of Court Act be not initiated against them on account of the non-compliance of its directions on use of polythene and polythene carry bags in the state.
The Deputy Commissioners include that of districts Baramulla, Kupwara, Shopian, Anantnag, Srinagar, Ganderbal, Budgam, Bandipora, Jammu, Leh, Kargil, Samba and Rajouri.
"We also accept the suggestion by the amicus curie, Advocate Z A Shah, requiring all the Deputy Commissioners to file undertaking that each one of them would be able to achieve the target of polythene free dis... | |
| | | | Kishtwar Communal Riots: CoI fails to submit report, exhausts 6 deadlines | | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
JAMMU, Feb 28: Government has admitted that the one-man Commission of Inquiry (CoI) appointed by it to probe into August 9 Kishtwar communal riots has failed to submit its report in stipulated time frame.
In reply to a question of Congress MLA from Inderwal constituency, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori, who was seeking the status of Commission of Inquiry and payment of compensation paid to the victims, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah through written reply in Legislative Assembly admitted that after the laps of more than six months the Commission of Justice (retd) RC Gandhi failed to submit the final report and missed another deadline of February 22.
"The Commission of Inquiry const... | |
| | | | Legislators bury differences over falling sex ratio | | LA adopts PDP MLA's resolution | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Feb 28: Despite striking ideological differences over scores of issues, Members Legislative Assembly found their sync on the vital question of falling sex ratio in the state Friday, when defying party affiliations, the MLAs in one voice supported the Private Member's Resolution on female foeticide moved by PDP MLA Choudhary Zulfikar Ali along with the amendment moved by Nizam-ud-Din Bhat thereto.
Expressing their grave concern over the declining sex ratio in the state, the members cutting across party affiliations today urged the government to take serious steps so that the decreasing sex ratio could be improved.
Earlier, while moving the resolution, Choudhary Zu... | |
| | | | Highest unemployment rate comparing to neighboring states | | 2.45 Lakh unemployed youth in JK | | | Sandeep Bhat
JAMMU, Feb 28: Unemployment is a social issue of serious concern at present, both at national as well as state levels. The state of Jammu and Kashmir like most of the states of the country has been facing the problem of unemployment since long. The problem of unemployment gains more importance because of higher incidence of unemployment among the educated section of youth in the state. Almost 70% of the population is directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture and allied activities which continue to be a subsistence sector. However, it may be mentioned that near about 70% of the said marginal workers are associated with the agricultural and allied sector contributing very ... | |
| | | | CB launches hunt to nab 'tainted' students | | BOPEE paper leak scam | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 28: Crime Branch Kashmir has set up 8 teams to nab the students and their parents and other accused allegedly involved in the Common Entrance Test paper leak and selling scam. Reliable sources said that the fugitives may likely be declared proclaimed offenders in case they did not surrender before the Crime Branch.
After presenting challan against 12 students, the Crime Branch in its second challan has indicted at least 9 students and their parents and the challan was presented before the court of anti-corruption judge M.L. Manhas wherein the CB informed the court that the notices has already been sent to accused to present themselves before the CB. Howev... | |
| | | | An opportunity to bring J&K at par with other states | | Life of Assembly | | | Neha
JAMMU, Feb 28: Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Saifullah Mir on Thursday allowed a private member's bill of CPM MLA from Kulgam, Kashmir, Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, that sought reduction in the life of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly from six to five years. Jammu and Kashmir is the solitary state in the country where the life of the Assembly is six years. The life of the Lok sabha and state assemblies in the country is five years.
It needs to be noted that it was Sheikh Abdullah Government that enhanced the tenure of the assembly by one year after the government of Indira Gandhi amended the constitution after declaring emergency in 1975 to save her chair and increased the life o... | |
| | | | Congress to pay a heavy price in Jammu | | Delimitation Issue | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Feb 28: The NC-Congress coalition government on February 26 again disappointed people of Jammu province by rejecting an important private member's bill that had sought constitution of delimitation commission to delimit the assembly constituencies de novo and give due representation to this province in the Assembly as per the criteria laid down by the Representation of People's Act (RPA). The manner in which the ruling coalition rejected the bill established that the people of Jammu province have little or no say in and that the NC-Congress coalition continues to pursue the same old ignore-Jammu line to ensure that the ruling elite in Kashmir remains in the driver's seat. It b... | |
| | | | How taxpayers' Rs 53 lakh was spent on NC's kitchen bribe scam | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 28: Believe it or not but it is perfectly official that the State's poor taxpayers were made to pay an amount of Rs 52.96 lakh on winding up the ruling National Conference's in-house bribe scam involving three of the party activists---including the Chief Minister's so-called constituency representative.
In reply to PDP MLA Basharat Bukhari's un-starred question in Assembly today, Minister for Law Mir Saifullah revealed that the State government spent a huge amount of Rs 52.96 lakh on Justice H.S. Bedi Commission. The amount is incredibly stupendous when compared to the total expenditure made on other Commissions of Inquiry ordered since January 2009.
Ministe... | |
| | | | Kashmir Economic Alliance asks state government to de-seal commercial properties without further delay | | KCC&I hail legislators for passing Municipal Laws Bill | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Feb 28: Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) has impressed upon the state government to implement the recently passed Act seeking moratorium on the sealing of 'illegal' commercial properties in letter and spirit so that relief is provided to people whose properties were sealed.
KEA Chief Spokesman, Siraj Ahmad while welcoming the legislation passed to impose moratorium on the sealing of commercial properties by March 2015 said that the role played by legislators of opposition parties is highly deplorable. Siraj said that legislators should have ensured smooth passage of the Bill so that people who suffered losses on account of the closure of their business units... | |
| | | | Dy Speaker questions NC MLA's outrage | | | | Abodh Sharma
JAMMU, Feb 28: Dy Speaker M S Madani was today taken aback by the aggression exhibited by the NC MLA from Vijaypur Surjit Singh Salathia when the latter sprang up during Question Hour in the State Legislative Assembly Friday in a bid to make his point.
While the Dy Speaker was making fervent appeals to the irate PDP MLAs led by Abdul Haq Khan, MLA Lolab, who were seeking a statement from the Government on the situation in Lalpora Lolab to assume their seats, S S Salathia got up aggressively and started shouting in a bid to be heard amidst the din.
Dismayed at the sudden outrage of the NC MLA, Dy Speaker Madani said, "Salathia Saahb aap bhi?" The MLA however was not amused by... | |
| | | | Newly constructed hospital with Rs 12 Crore sans facilities, staff | | | | Neeraj Badyal
Samba, Feb 28 : See the fate of government structures constructed with hefty amounts that they are proving to be of no use for the general public, as recently constructed District Hospital Samba sans facilities and staff owing to which general public is facing problems.
The people of Samba have expressed grave concern over deteriorating Condition of District Hospital abandoned by health department after shifting to new building. An expert said that the district having an estimated population of 3 lakh people is all dependent this hospital. The hospital is also a ray of hope for Army
and BSF personnel. Even the shortage of machinery has been highlighted several times by... | |
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