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| Negligence, some formalin costs child’s life | | SMGS authorities shift blame, inquiry ordered | | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu | Mar 11
The allegedly casual and irresponsible administration in the Government SMGS Hospital has cost an innocent life but none seems ready to take the responsibility and fix the guilt.
A minor, Fareed Ahmed, son of Zulfikar Ahmed of Surankote in Poonch district was brought in to the SMGS Hospital on Monday for a surgery following a head injury. However, the minor died during the operation allegedly due to the negligence of doctors. Family of the deceased and sources in the hospital say that it was a case of the negligence of doctors but the operating team points out towards casual approach of the administration.
When Fareed was under operation in the theater, somebody sprinkled formalin in the nearby room. Formalin is a pungent smelling chemical which also causes breathlessness. It is an aqueous solution of formaldehyde and is generally used as a disinfectant, as it kills most bacteria and fungi.
Smelling formalin, the doctors who were performing operation, threw open the doors and windows of the operation theater. This, instead of reducing the congesti... | |
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| Fake currency flowing in J&K | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 11
The security forces are happy that the militancy is on decline in Jammu and Kashmir. However, the investigators have found that instead of bringing in the arms, the saboteurs are now smuggling in fake currency from the other side of Line of Control.
Recent haul of fake currency in Jammu, Rajouri, Kathua and Srinagar districts is a pointer in this direction. Though the quantum of fake currency pumped in through the Line of Control bordering Jammu and Kashmir is not as much as it is coming through Nepal and other area but the security and enforcement agencies are worried over the trend.
In a recent presentation to the Interpol Regional Conference, the... | |
| | | | Mir out of loop; launches anti-Mufti diatribe | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 11
After being expelled from the Peoples Democratic Party, rebel legislator and former legislator Ghulam Hassan Mir was today at no loss of words to hurl choicest of invectives against Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Mehbooba.
Addressing a press conference here today, Mir said, the father and daughter have reduced the Peoples Democratic Party to an autocratic regime of a family. He announced a Third Front would soon emerge in Kashmir to contest next assembly elections.
"Third front is bound to come up as many political leaders and parties are not in line with the aims and objectives of coalition partners Congress, PDP and Opposition National Conference", Mir,... | |
| | | | Omar questions brakes on jobs | | Coalition playing with career of youth | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 11
The National Conference top brass is these days on package distribution spree –promising moon and sky wherever it is visible. The father son duo is also promising jobs to the unemployed and have questioned the government intentions of withholding the recruitment process which was already underway.
A day after former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah vowed to pack the army back to bunkers, if voted to power, the National Conference president Omar Abdullah today promised bumper package for the Kandi areas of Jammu region.
The audience of packages, however, was different. Farooq was declaring his pledge in Srinagar and Omar made the announcement in Kat... | |
| | | | Award: at 76, five years in jail after 23-year trial | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 11
After 25 years of litigation, facing trial and attending hearings, a 76 years old retired government employee has been sentenced to undergo a five years jail term.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Kathua today VS Bhou awarded five years imprisonment and fine Rs 2000 to Avtar Krishan, 76, the then cashier of Agriculture Department, a resident of Kathua. He was facing investigating and trial from 1983 for misappropriation of government money worth more than Rs 57000.
According to the prosecution case that District Agriculture Office Kathua on March 24, 1983 lodged a complaint with the police station Kathua. The police registered a case under section 409 RPC ... | |
| | | | Operation influencing assembly elections out come chalked out by ruling partners | | Offering 70,000 jobs, releasing withheld old age pensions | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Mar 11
News Analysis
The ruling coalition partners in the state have chalked out a comprehensive plan of action to influence the out come of polls to be held towards this year end. Realizing that the extension of loan waiver scheme to the farmers to J&K, including brining horticulturists under its ambit in this state being not sufficient to influence the voters, the government is contemplating to offer job packet as election bait, to offset the adverse affect of incumbency factor.
The government has kept at hold the recruitment for government jobs, as an election strategy. The coalition government wants to sell these jobs as an employment packag... | |
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