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| Three top Babus pushed to corner | | 8 IAS officers transferred; 9 Naib Tehsildars re-employed | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 18
CABINET DECIDES
In an exercise of selective transfers and postings, the state government today relegated to sidelines three top officers while restored important assignment to Khizar Mohammad Wani who was given an insignificant department recently.
The cabinet which met here late evening under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad appointed Khurshid Ahmed Ganai as Financial Commissioner Revenue. This post was lying vacant after the retirement of GD Wadhwa on November 30 last year, even though lately Madhav Lal was holding temporary charge.
Commissioner Secretary Power Development Department Basharat Ahmed Dar has replaced Ganai as administrative secretary of the General Administration Department.
The Vice Chairman of Jammu Development Authority, Ashok Parmar who had been earning wrath of many local Congress leaders has been posted as Secretary, Science and Technology –one of the most insignificant departments. Similarly, Atal Dullo Commissioner Secretary Forest department has been sent to the Special Tribunal.
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| 22 surgeries fixed postponed; all four OTs closed suddenly | | Doctors found busy in private nursing homes, patients go unattended | | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu | Mar 18
While the patients have been waiting for their turn to undergo surgical operations for the last aix months to two years, the doctors posted in Government Medical College Hospital were found over busy in performing operations in the private nursing homes, leaving the ill afforded patients high and dry.
It may seem incredible but is a fact that as many as 22 operations, which were fixed for today, were abruptly postponed without any sound reason. The patients, one of them the cancer patient, who have been waiting for the last six months to two years for their turn, were astonished to hear that their operations fixed for today have been abruptly postponed without... | |
| | | | Sons of India, orphans of system | | No policy yet for rehabilitation of West Pak refugees | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 18
Hundreds of questions and as many answers over 50 years but neither the state government nor the central government has ever assured with a single word that what exactly they want to do with the West Pakistan refugees.
They are declared as “citizens” of India, living in Jammu and Kashmir but have no rights to own properties or take government jobs. They can not vote for the state legislature though their voting right for the Parliament elections comes in handy for the political parties to promise them rehabilitation.
They can vote for Parliamentary elections but are barred from exercising their franchise in Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls.
This p... | |
| | | | Infiltration lowest ever: Jaiswal | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 18
Infiltration from Pakistan into Jammu and Kashmir in India was the lowest in 2007 in the last five years, Minister of State for Home Affairs Sriprakash Jaiswal told the Lok Sabha Tuesday.
Jaiswal informed the house that an estimated 1,373 people had crossed the border along Jammu and Kashmir to enter India in 2003 but the number of infiltrations fell drastically to 537 in 2004 when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) came to power.
The number was 535 in 2007. No infiltration had been reported in January 2008, Jaiswal said.
The central government, along with the state government, is working under a multi-pronged strategy to contain cross-border infi... | |
| | | | Kashmir lawyers accord hero status to Jammu protestors | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 18
A Youth Wing of Brahmin Pratinidhi Sabha may not have got the importance, identity and fame for several years as much the Kashmir High Court Bar Association has accorded to it.
The Bar Association which is a constituent part of the Hurriyat Conference is out to allege that life of its members is under danger from the Kranti Dal and Parshuram Dal –the youth wing of the Brahmin Pratinidhi Sabha. Interestingly, the danger aroused from the verbal protest which these organization lodged when Bar members were visiting the Kot Bhalwal jail to meet detenues.
The Bar Association reacted to the extent that the work in Srinagar wing of the High Court and distr... | |
| | | | Azad sets foot at village rarely visited by MLA | | | | Early Times Reporter
Rajouri | Mar 18
There are no two opinions about Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s efforts to reach the unexplored areas. This afternoon the Chief Minister addressed a gathering and listed the achievements of his government at a place where the local MLA would have hardly visited after seeking election.
Peeri is a secluded hamlet in Budhal tehsil of Rajouri district which is yet to see a road connection. Chief Minister’s presence at Peeri assumed a symbolic significance in itself even though he did not offer the local people any big package as they might have expected.
Azad said sectors like road connectivity, drinking water, education, healthcare and power were... | |
| | | | SRTC strike gets murky, dirty | | Govt engineers factionalism, regionalism to break ice | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 18
With no positive breakthrough in the SRTC strike, the government is apparently attempting at a divide and rule policy which too so far has not been able to break the ice.
The Transport department here this evening organized a press conference for an association leader and announced that the Jammu based SRTC employees have called off the strike. At the outset, it seemed a clear division on regional lines but later the employees association clarified that there is no question of calling off the strike.
At the press conference, the working President of Jammu unit of SRTC worker Pawan Kumar and Managing Director of the Corporation Manzoor Ahmad Lone an... | |
| | | | Grand strategy to decimate PDP in valley through pro separatist competitive politics | | But Indian nationalism to be ultimate loser | | | Early Times Special Correspondent
Jammu | Mar 18
News Analysis
If 2002 assembly elections in J&K were a sort of referendum over the performance of six year rule of National Conference, between 1996 and 2002, with all the political parties targeting the ruling National Conference, though separately, ultimately censuring it, 2008 elections are going to be a sort of referendum on the six year performance of two major ruling coalition partners, Congress and the PDP. But it is the PDP which is going to be the subject of target by various political formulations, jointly as well as separately.
A grand strategy is being worked out by the leaders of various formulations to corner the PDP, partic... | |
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