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| Minister failed to keep his word on increase in MBBS seats | | Bird in hand not worth two in bush | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 27: More than 22,000 aspirants have appeared across Jammu and Kashmir in the combined entrance test (CET) conducted by the board of professional entrance examinations (BOPEE) this year.
Passing the CET is not an easy task because every year thousands of candidates attend coaching courses both inside and outside the state to find a place in the CET select list. Undoubtedly, it is still the MBBS course for which the competition is fiercely fought. The fortunate ones make it to the select list and then ultimately the state's healthcare facilities including various super specialty hospitals, provincial, district and village level dispensaries are manned by these candidates.
It must be said to the credit of the BOPEE that selections and merits are very efficiently, transparently and without even a shade of doubt worked out by it. Last year, BOPEE declared the result within a record period after the candidates appeared in the competitions. This year the BOPEE plans to announce the results within just three days. The tests were held across the state on Sat... | |
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| Doc, two engineers placed under suspension for misleading minister | | 'GMC Principal inefficient' | | | Sumit Sharma
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, June 27: A doctor and an Assistant Electrical Engineer were both placed under suspension while an executive engineer is likely to be penalized for blatantly lying with a minister of the ruling coalition.
The three officers tried to dodge the minister. Sources said that raid was conducted on the basis of a complaint. During raid in OPD section of Orthopedics, minister found that a junior doctor was sitting on the chair of Head of Department (HoD) Sudesh Sharma and on being asked about the HoD, junior doctor Irfan Banday (PG orthopedic) allegedly told him that HOD had left the office a little while ago.
Sources further disclosed that his lie was ... | |
| | | | Two cheats held in JU for selling stamp papers illegally | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 27: Two cheats were today apprehended by police while they were unauthorisedly selling stamp papers to students at Jammu University, seeking admission to different courses.
Acting on a complaint, cops of Gandhi Nagar police station raided the campus and arrested both the cheats as they did possess any licence to sell stamp papers.
Police sources identified them as Abid Hussain, son of Mohammad Shafi of Bhaderwah, and Kamal Kumar, son of Kashmiri Lal of Zainakadal, Srinagar. While Abid was at present putting up at Gujjar Basti, Kamal had taken a room on rent at Mubarak Mandi, Panjtirthi.
A case was registered against them at the Gandhi Nagar police station.... | |
| | | | Reenzu to Reenzushah to Reenzushahanshah | | | | Early Times Entertainment
SRINAGAR, June 27: With the exception of a small section of bureaucracy, hardly anybody in the state knew it until the other day that the government's spokesman and Director of Information, Farooq Reenzu, himself was one among the complainants and litigants against the government. Notwithstanding burning his midnight oil in projecting the government and promoting Bulbulshahi cult of the Islamic mysticism, Reenzu has been at the receiving end of the establishment that has been benevolent to everybody pro-Azadi and pro-Pakistan.
Omar Abdullah's government realized Reenzu's importance and utility within weeks of his transfer to Local Bodies Kashmir last year. He wa... | |
| | | | Time to upgrade, utilize own infrastructure for an 'upbeat' govt...? | | Arbitrary rates in bumper tourist season pinch pockets of tourists | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 27: The state government is upbeat about what is being seen as bumper tourist season in Kashmir this year rightly so, as the influx of tourists is heavy perhaps much more than it expected. The Chief Minister in one of his recent tweets expressed satisfaction on an optimistic note that peace must prevail for sustaining this spree. Riding high on this wave, does the government realize it is actually faltering in many ways in this direction…?
With situation calm and comfortable, everyday thousands of tourists are thronging world famous spots and resorts of Valley. The hotel owners , houseboat owners and many more associated with the industry say there is hundr... | |
| | | | Advani right when he holds Nehru responsible for K problem | | Contempt For Jammu | | | Rustam
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, June 27: BJP veteran and former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani is right when he holds Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi responsible for the Indian troubles in Kashmir and says that the "Kashmir problem is the Nehru's gift" to the country. All of his charges against Nehru and Indira Gandhi are well-founded. For example, had Nehru accepted the Maharaja Hari Singh's offer of accession to India without making Sheikh Abdullah, who had no locus standi in the matter, a party to the accession, things in the state would have been totally different and there would have been no Kashmir problem. Hari Singh's offer of accession was based on the constitu... | |
| | | | LeT diktat to Mendhar girls: Wear burqa in schools | | | | Early Times Report
RAJOURI, June 27: After its failed attempt to keep Muslims of Mendhar, Poonch, away from the recently concluded panchayat polls, the pan-Islamic Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant outfit today issued a diktat to girls to attend schools in burqa.
The warning was issued to the Mendhar girl students through two posters which were found pased on a wall in the main market there, according to police sources.
However, after the matter came to their notice, police rushed to the spot and took the posters in their possession, the sources added.
Through the posters, LeT had asked girls to attend schools in burqa and traditional dress. A suggestion was also made to Muslims not to use... | |
| | | | Govt employee shot dead in Gbl | | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, June 27: Suspected militants shot dead an employee of Irrigation and Flood Control department in central Kashmir's Ganderbal district Monday morning.
Superintendent Police Ganderbal, Imtiyaz Hussain told KNS that 50-year-old Mohammad Yaqoob, son of Haji Habibullah Kasana of Gujar Basti, Prang, was intercepted by two militants of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen in Najwan forest area of the district early this morning and shot dead from close range.
Yaqoob, a government employee died on the spot.
The SP identified one of the assailants as Ghulam Nabi War alias Haq Nawaz of HM outfit.... | |
| | | | Hats off to the extremist Geelani | | Leaderless Dogras | | | Neha
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, June 27: Tehrik-e-Hurriyat (TeH) leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani is an extremist, pro-Pakistan and disturber of peace. It's true. Geelani disrupts economic activities in the Kashmir Valley by enforcing shutdown at regular intervals. It's also true. It's also true that he is unreasonable, unaccommodating and anti-minorities. It's also true that he wishes to have in Kashmir a particular type of dispensation under which democracy, secularism and liberal ideas would have no place whatever and that the dispensation he has been striving to have for the people of Kashmir would be one particular sect-centric. It's true that he stands for Talibanization of Kashmir or pr... | |
| | | | Engineering college student beaten | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, June 27: A student of Govt College of Engineering and Technology was today beaten by two other students at Canal road here today.
Police said Sanjeev Sharma of Ward no 10 Rajouri was beaten by Ashwani and Rajinder after they come out of the examination hall of the college on Canal road. Sanjeev was admitted to GMC Hospital .Police had registered a case against accused under sections 341,323 and 147 of RPC.... | |
| | | | Search operation in Budhal | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Rajouri, June 27: Search operation stars in Budhal after the clues of having four to five militants hiddeed in thick forest area of district Rajouri here on late Monday night.
Sources said that, a group of four to five militants taking the advantage of the thick forest since two days to protect them selves in the dark nights. However police party and the security forces launched search hunt in the thick forests of Rajouri, however they were failed to arrest any militants till last reports.
Reports comes to us that, the security forces had been started search operation since last two days; however there was no reports of any human lose till now.
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| | | | 2 ultras killed at Tral | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 27: Two local militants of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) were today killed by police and army in a joint encounter in Tral area of South Kashmir.
Based on a specific input about the presence of militants in Kavil area of Tral, a joint operation was launched by 42 Rashtriya Rifles and police late Sunday night.
When the contact was established, the militants were asked to surrender, but they resorted to firing on the troops. Fir was returned. In the exchange of fire that ensued, HM's Muzaffar Ahmad Malla alias Chota Maulvi of Tral, and JeM's Sohail Ahmad Khan of Dadsar were killed. Two AK rifles and other war like stores were recovered fr... | |
| | | | Omar seek 'advice' on Kashmir from Matoo | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, June 27: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday made an open offer to noted academician Amitabh Mattoo to return to the state and "advise us".Mattoo, a former vice chancellor of Jammu University and currently Director, India Australia Institute, Melbourne, was recently in Kashmir to visit his family there.Abdullah, in a retweet to one of his followers on the micro-blogging site, said: "The day he wants to come back from Australia full time to help/advice us, he's welcome to."
Mattoo, an authority on international relations, was appointed as Vice Chancellor Central University of Jammu, but he declined and instead accepted the offer of the i... | |
| | | | Unnatural offence: Accused's bail rejected | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, June 27: Duty magistrate and 2nd additional munsiff Renu Dogra today rejected the bail application of Ravi Kumar Tandon who was arrested by Kanhachak police for allegedly committing unnatural offence on a 7-year-old girl.
Rejecting the bail, she observed that the accused was alleged to have committee unnatural offence on a minor girl of seven years and police had registered a case against him under section 377 of RPC.
The allegation against the accused was of very serious nature. It was not an ordinary case of sodomy but a case of unnatural offence on the minor girl who could not be in a position to save herself from the clutches of accused.
With these observ... | |
| | | | Hoteliers block NH1-A in protest, allege discrimination with Jammu | | Patnitop observes complete shutdown | |  KUNAL SHRIVATSA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
PATNITOP, June 27:
The hill resort of Patnitop on Jammu- Srinagar National Highway, which is famous for its unmatched calmness, however, was seething with anger today as the shopkeepers, hoteliers and members of Patnitop Development Association (PDA) observed a day long compete ‘bandh’ and blocked NH1-A in protest against the state government’s ‘indifferent’ attitude towards development of tourist spots in Jammu region.
Alleging gross discrimination with ... | |
| | | | How secure are our girls ? | | Kishtwar MMS scam again raises issue | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 27: In yet another case of how our society is heading towards moral ruin, a recent case of sexual exploitation of B.ed girl has again exposed the vulnerability of our sisters and daughters.
Though the accused have been arrested by the police while he was fleeing towards Kashmir, but it raises lot of question about the moral degradation of our society, which has long tradition of ‘Guru-Shiysha’ concept.
Sources said that it could be a tip of the ice berg as there are number of people who are exploiting the innocent girls.
However the concern is how to stop this menace which is like a curse on our society.
A college student said that at times girls face... | |
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