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| Can Minister bring new faces overnight? | | Crucial Plus-2 exams are underway but functioning of BOSE collapse..? | | | ET Plus report
Jammu, Mar 10: The decision of recalling of top brass of Board of School Education (BOSE) including its chairman and Secretary, by Ministry for Higher Education has been taken in complete violation of set norms.
Furthermore, if all officials are recalled with immediate effect, the functioning of BOSE will virtually collapse as there will be no one to take important decisions as the crucial annual examination of Plus-2 are underway. Can Ministry for Higher Education play with the careers of thousands of students?
Highly placed sources in the government revealed that "the decision of recalling the top officials sent on deputation and for specific time period in BOSE has also surprised many senior bureaucrats as top politicians including sitting legislators as according to them rules and procedures have not been followed before issuing such an order".
On March 8, Principal Secretary, Higher Education Department, K B Agarwal issued an order that five top officials posted at top positions in BOSE are recalled to their parent department, with
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| JKTDC earns crores but defaults in paying its power dues | | | | ET PLUS report
Srinagar, Mar 10: While JKTDC recently claimed to have earned substantial revenue of Rs.16.35 crore till Dec. 2012, it is a pity that it continues to be a major defaulter by not paying a whooping amount of more than Rs 50 lacs towards power tariff in Pahalgam hill station alone where it has more than 40 tourist huts.
The documents received from Chief Engineer PDD Kashmir under RTI Act available with Early Time Plus reveal that JK TDC hasn't paid power dues for last over a year and the tourist huts are illegally using the electricity at Pahalgam.
Early Time Plus recently exposed many Government departments for not paying power tariff worth lakhs. The major defaulters of ... | |
| | | | 335 accidents, 223 deaths in 4 years, yet Kishtwar lacks trauma hospital | | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Jammu, Mar 10: Peripheral roads in Jammu and Kashmir have turned red with human blood year after year, leaving innumerable dead, grievously injured and even one orphaned, yet despite quite a few initiatives by the government, the gory incidents of road mishaps have continued unabated.
As per the report of the experts and state estimate committee headed by MLA Mohammad Yousaf Tarigami, poor roads and insufficient and inadequate health infrastructure to meet such incidents of trauma are the two main reasons for high death toll.
In last four years, Kishtwar District of Jammu province witnessed 335 accidents in which 223 people lost their lives, beside 579 received injur... | |
| | | | Valley administration chooses to follow separatist calendar | | | | et plus report
Srinagar, Mar 10: The Valley has been on the edge for the last many days and its immediate fallout is being witnessed on the tourism industry which is the second largest supporter of Valley's economy after horticulture.
During scores of stone pelting incidents the state police said left 600 hundred police and CRPF personnels injured, many tourist carrying vehicles have also been damaged. Sources in the tourism industry have said most of the tourist bookings for the coming two months have already been cancelled because of the prevailing law and order situation in the Valley.
Ironically, the state administration has been following the separatists while trying to tackle the d... | |
| | | | Tourist season likely to take beating in Kashmir | | | | ET Plus report
Jammu, Mar 10: The tourist season, which generated about Rs 1000 crores for the Kashmir economy in the last season, is likely to take beating. Disturbing signs and signals have started coming pointing to this apprehension. A group of tourists who had come from Kolkata had a narrow escape when their cab was attacked by stone pelters in Bijbehara about three-days back, when protests were continuing in the valley.
The cab had number plate of Jammu and this was enough to provoke stone pelters. "We had come to perform darshan of Vaishno Devi and then decided to go to Srinagar. But now we have decided never to come back," told Shri Kumar Chakarboti to a local media.
This i... | |
| | | | Public anguished by conduct of MLAs, disenchanted with LA proceedings | | | | Bashir Assad
Jammu, Mar 10: While the Legislative Assembly has chalked out a calendar of 11 days for debate on grants of different departments beginning March 12, for 11 days, people in general refuse to be enthused or impressed by the antics of the legislature and show no interest in the business of the House.
For varying reasons, the people of the state who once used to attribute great significance to the budget session of the bicameral legislature of the state, this time around, show no interest in the business of the house.
Some argue that the state assembly has become a theatre and the legislators 'act' to invite the attention of the media. As for the genuine concerns of the peop... | |
| | | | Cong Govt allows Malik to go scot-free | | Defending The Indefensible | | | Neha
JAMMU, Mar 10: JKLF chairman and the so-called Gandhian Yasin Malik yesterday returned to India after campaigning against the Indian nation in Pakistan, where he also shared dais with India's enemy number one Lashkar-e-Taiba/Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, who in collaboration with Islamabad masterminded the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, which culminated in the gruesome killing of 166 innocents, besides police personnel. He stayed there in Pakistan for more than one month, organized dharna in Islamabad to protest the hanging of Afzal Guru, held meetings with his masters to discuss ways and means to disintegrate India and did all that he could to tarnish India's image.
His sharing of... | |
| | | | Tokenism needs to halt, 'Gen Y' needs due recognition | | | | KUNAL SHRIVATSA
JAMMU, Mar 10: The International Women's Day was observed across the globe on this March 8 like past years and J&K was no exception where the day was also celebrated with much hullabaloo, however, the latest figures on 'Generation Y' -the fairer sex unemployment in the state has nothing to cheer about either for the women folk or the Government as the number of unemployed females, according to latest data, is alarmingly high in the State.
On the occasion of Women's Day, the various State Government agencies did not miss an opportunity to make tall claims on taking slew of measures in getting women empowered and improving their overall condition in every function related to... | |
| | | | BJP office in Srinagar safe, 'attack' rumour turns false | | | | ET plus report
Srinagar, Mar 10 : The friction between separatist camp and some organizations protesting against the former, this time focus being on Yasin Malik arrival resulted in some rumours of BJP office in Srinagar to be attacked late last night. Acting swiftly on some intelligence inputs as well, the deployment of forces was reinforced in the middle of the night. However, the office remains safe as nothing untoward happened.
Soon after the arrival of Malik on Saturday from Islamabad to New Delhi , the rumour seemed for real for some time when the deployment around the office at Jawahar Nagar locality was increased to foil any such attempt from any quarter. Interestingly, BJP ... | |
| | | | Azad's kin booked for selling LPG cylinders on exorbitant rates | | | | et plus report
Jammu, Mar 10: Doda police today booked an LPG gas agency running in the name and style of Faridia Gas Agency and registered a case against the owner under section 420/471/468 RPC against FIR NO 39/2013 for selling LPG cylinders and new connection on exorbitant rates.
The agency is owned by Javed Azad of Bhaderwah who happens to be the kin of Union Health Minister GhulamNabi Azad.
The FIR was lodged two days after the statement by Minister of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, Choudhary Muhammad Ramzan
who directed LPG dealers to provide new LPG
connections strictly on the rates already fixed by all the Oil Companies.The minister also directed the conc... | |
| | | | "Non-fulfillment" of dowry; Father of would-be bride commits suicide | | | | eT Plus report
Jammu, Mar 10: Shocking! Under the rule of "worthy", Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, a father of a young girl, who was likely to be married in April this year, allegedly committed suicide by hanging self, to a tree, here today.
The sensitive case leads towards police jurisdiction of Domana Police Station.
According to police, the moment area police received the information, a police team reached the spot and initiated the investigation. During the preliminary investigation, the deceased was identified as one fifty year old Manga Ram, son of Kirpu Ram and resident of Pallawa.
The official police versions claims that one 50 year-old man, Manga Ram who allegedly failed to coll... | |
| | | | Azad expresses unhappiness over functioning of medical institutions in J&K | | 'Medical colleges in state running purely on intercession' | | | NAVNEET DUBEY
Jammu, Mar 10: Expressing unhappiness over the functioning of medical institutions in the state, Union Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad today disclosed that all the four main hospitals in Jammu and Kashmir are functioning due to the intercession of central government, failing which they would have been derecognized by Medical council of India.
Azad was speaking in a function during the foundation stone laying ceremony of Medical Collage Hospital for Sant Manjit Singh Institute of Medical Sciences and Research at Jeevan Nagar here, today.
Laying emphasis on the importance of faculty in the medical institutions, Azad said, "I do not know for how much time these four hospitals... | |
| | | | Ex-conventee overnight turns 'Sadhvi', surprises Jammuities | | Colour coded, fashionable self-claimed 'god-mother' | |  et plus report
JAMMU, Mar 10: Clad in a saffron sari, an ex-convent school student Aruna Gupta who miserably failed in the 'teaching profession' she professed prior to overnight turning into a Hindu godmother or 'Sadhvi' with new name 'Maa Aruna'.
Wrapped in a saffron sarong, Aruna effortlessly becomes a spiritual beacon for a curious bunch of truth seekers in Phoenix. From a modern, outgoing Aruna Gupta, she is now 'Maa Aruna', a highly spiritual lady capable of ridding the society of all t... | |
| | | | Ladakhis 'non-entity' in J&K? | | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Mar 10: Ongoing budget session for year 2013-14 has re-ignited debate over Ladakhis being non-entity in Jammu and Kashmir. Despite having six representatives in the state legislature including
two ministers (Nawang Rigzin Jora of Congress and NC's Feroz Khan), Ladakh region has innumerable grievances, which often go unheard. Other four legislators, of whom two are MLAs (NC's Qamar Ali Akhoon and Tsetan Namgyal of Congress) and two MLCs (Narboo Gialchan of Congress and Aga Syed Hassan Rizvi of National Conference) do raise issues but due to inability to speak clear 'Urdu' or Hindi, they are unable to raise their issues forcefully.
They raise even extremely seriou... | |
| | | | PDD acts against defaulter politicians | | Shafi Uri, Kar, Sayed Bashir, Sohrawardy, others face disconnection | | | et plus report
Srinagar, Mar 10: Tightening the noose around "powerful and wilful" defaulters, the Power Development Department (PDD) disconnected electricity connections of some defaulter politicians.
They have been asked to clear the pending electricity dues immediately.
The politicians whose electricity connections were disconnected on Sunday include ruling National Conference Member Parliament Mohammad Shafi Uri who has balance of Rs 129330, opposition Peoples Democratic Party MLA Rajpora, Syed Bashir Ahmad who has balance of Rs 55 thousands.
Similarly, PDP MLA Pampore Zahoor Ahmad Mir's connections was disconnected for being the defaulter of Rs 37512, Vice President State Congress ... | |
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