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| Politicians, bureaucrats at work to hush up Health appointment scam --- (3) | | Minister Sham Lal: All delinquent officials, illegal appointees since 1996 will be punished soon | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, July 12: Even as Minister of Health, Sham Lal Sharma, today asserted that all the officials of his department involved in the infamous Health appointment scam, as also all the 1,000-odd illegal appointees, would be punished, dozens of influential bureaucrats and politicians, including Ministers, have begun sustained efforts to once again hush up the matter.
Minister of Health, Sham Lal Sharma, called this Correspondent from Jammu to make it clear that the appointment scam involving officials of his department spanned over the last 16 years. "This is a fact that a couple of hundred appointments have taken place in 2009-2011 period but this mess has actually begun in 1996", Sharma asserted. He admitted that 1,000 to 1,200 men and women had been fraudulently appointed in Health Department since 1996 but claimed that most of these were the illegal beneficiaries of 1996-2008 period. In its current series on the scandal, Early Times had reported yesterday that the number of illegal appointees in Health Department was believed to be around 1,000.
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| Complainants take U-turn, police left in high and dry | | Army Major Wife's swindling case | | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu, July 12: The police is left in a Catch-22 situation when the two complainants out of six taking U-turn completely denied any incident of swindling at their outlets by one Archna Choudary, wife of Major Dinesh Choudary, posted in 8 Sikh Regiment at Nagrota for swindling lakhs of rupees .
Sources said that two exclusive showrooms who earlier had filed complaints of being duped by a woman now have rejected any such incident. And this virtually had left the police in fix and infact the investigating agency is in a spot 'what to do or what not to do' .
Sources revealed the names of two complainants who took U turn as City Walker Show Room,Gandhi Nagar and Titan Watch sho... | |
| | | | In the name of CM's Grievance Cell, miscreants blackmail Govt officials..? | | | | ET Report
JAMMU, July 12: Jammu Rural Police is learnt to have received a serious complaint against certain miscreants that are blackmailing Government officials after impersonating themselves as officials from Chief Minister's (CM's) Grievance Cell.
Startling revelation came to light yesterday when a group of three miscreants visited the office of Director, School Education, Jammu at Muthi area, here and introduced themselves as officials from CM's Grievance Cell. The trio detailed the staff members about certain complaints received by CM's Grievance Cell and further asked to present the details about the working of some Chief Education Officers (CEOs) posted at various districts. They p... | |
| | | | Puri Shankaracharya flay SASB, J-K Govt for Amarnath deaths | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 12: Puri Shankaracharya today expressed concern over the rising number of deaths of Amarnath pilgrims and alleged there was no co-operation between Jammu and Kashmir Government and Shri Amarnath Shrine Board on the management of yatra and medical services.
"Apart from counting the number of pilgrims and collecting huge donations of pilgrims at cave shrine of Amarnath, Board should make efforts to save the lives of the pilgrims-- death of 67 Amarnath pilgrims, mostly due to cardiac arrest, have taken place in just 17 days of the yatra," Puri Shankaracharya , Swami Adhokshjanand Tirtha, told reporters here.
The Shankaracharya, who concluded 8-day long visit o... | |
| | | | Today martyrs will take turns in their graves! | | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, July 12: Mainstream politicians, separatists, bureaucrats and the general public shall lay wreaths on the graves of July 13 martyrs who laid down their lives while fighting autocracy. Eighty two years down the line, a question remains unanswered. Has autocracy really ended?
Last year, some quarters talked about change of guard in National Conference. The general public and the National Conference workers eagerly waited for the day when the affairs of the organization would no longer remain a `private affair' of the Sheikh family.
However, the `plan' was shelved for obvious reasons by former Chief Minister and chief patron of the organization, Dr Farooq Abdul... | |
| | | | DD's DDG Rafeeq Masoodi placed under suspension | | CEO's action sequel to approval of Rs 52 Cr worth programmes in 3 months at DDK Srinagar, wrong facts about casual labours | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, July 12: Doordarshan's Deputy Director General (DDG) Dr Rafeeq Masoodi has been finally placed under suspension on account of fraudulent approval to inhouse programmes to the tune of Rs 52 Cr in just three months of the year 2011 and projection of wrong facts regarding engagement of casual labours at Doordarshan Kendra (DDK) Srinagar.
In his first meeting with a delegation of private producers and directors here on Wednesday, Prasar Bharti's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Jawahar Sircar, revealed that former Director of DDK Srinagar and presently DDG at DD's New Delhi quarters, Dr Rafeeq Masoodi, had been placed under suspension on account of gross irre... | |
| | | | Shall there be a day for Kargil Martyrs? | | Martyrs' Day | | | Abodh Sharma
JAMMU, July 12: Not just the separatists, the mainstream polity of the Valley is bubbling with enthusiasm in observing Martyr' day in the memory of those who died while trying to fan the maiden sentiments of separatism and alienation in the Valley. In the backdrop of these celebrations, many ask if there will ever be a day for those who laid down their lives in a bid to keep the country united.
A saint who was recently on a visit to the State, was very categorical in pointing out that the three regions of the State of Jammu and Kashmir had nothing in common that could lay the basis of their staying united. "People of Jammu and the Valley are so different in so many ways that ... | |
| | | | Displaced Pandits to repay Geelani in same coin | | KP organizations holding parleys to launch united movement for homeland | | | ET Report
JAMMU, July 12: In view of the recent outbursts of Hurriyat hardliner faction leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani fixing conditions on return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits to Valley and opposing their settlement in certain colonies, Kashmiri Pandits are re-thinking on forming a joint front to intensify and accelerate the struggle for separate homeland for over seven lakh Pandits in Valley.
Serious discussions and debates are going on among the various KP organizations over the issue in view of the recent statement of Hurriyat leader. Some KP leaders from Delhi who are in the Winter Capital at present and have visited here to participate in the all parties condolence meeting an... | |
| | | | 3 SPOs terminated, JEE among various suspects lifted | | Rajouri Brothel case | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 12: Three Special Police Officers involved in running brothel from a residence that too owned by a SPO, have been terminated from services while a Junior Electrical Engineer among various persons were lifted by police for questioning, police sources said.
They added the JEE was lifted on the disclosures of the arrested Shimla based pimp who was arrested during raid in Bela Colony. The hunt for couple cop was on till late hours by police.
Pertinently four persons including 3 Special Police Officers (SPOs) and a Shimla based pimp were arrested for running brothel from the residence of a couple cop in Bela Colony, Rajouri.
"Following a specific input that the... | |
| | | | Tight security arrangements ahead of martyrs day, separatist placed under house arrest | | | | Bashir Assad
srinagar, July 12: Stringent security measures have been put in place around the Naqshbandh Sahib graveyard where Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and other leaders will pay floral tributes on Martyrs Day tomorrow. The entire area around the martyrs' graveyard or "Mazar-e-Shohda" at the shrine of Khwaja Naqshbandh Sahib at Khwaja Bazaar has been put under a heavy security cover.
Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has already announced its programme to pay tributes to the martyrs. However, separatist leaders including Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Mohammad Yasin Malik, Shabir Shah, Nayeem Khan, Zafar Akbar Bhat and Shaid-ul-Islam have been pla... | |
| | | | Anti-India propaganda in London | | JK & British Media | | | Neha
JAMMU, July 12: India is in a very strong position. Its case in Jammu & Kashmir is very strong. An overwhelming majority of the people in the State are committed Indians and are prepared to make any kind of sacrifice to preserve the territorial integrity of India. They have done so in the past a number of times and defeated the undesirable by making supreme sacrifices. New Delhi can in a moment puncture the Pakistani balloon and isolate the handful of Kashmiri secessionists who are also fighting with each other, pulling each other's legs and are even after each other's blood.
It is appalling that New Delhi is not doing anything to defend itself. It is basically on the defensive. The ... | |
| | | | Omar challenges Delhi, says J&K not its internal problem | | Nehru, Indira & Abdullahs | | | Rustam
JAMMU, July 12: It is an open revolt against India and nothing else. How else should one interpret July 11 Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's Srinagar statement made on the occasion of 12th death anniversary of his grandmother Begum Sheikh Abdullah at her mausoleum at Hazratbal? Addressing party workers at the mausoleum, he said Kashmir is not an internal problem of India but a political issue between India and Pakistan. "It (Kashmir) is not an internal issue of India. It is a political issue between two countries (India and Pakistan) and unless they sit up and talk to each other to solve it politically, it will continue to remain there," Omar said. He also said, "Jammu & Kashmir is no... | |
| | | | Terror outfits in Pak feed on poor, youth to sustain militancy in J&K | | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, July 12: Like predators who always look out for young birds for an easy prey, the ISI and its terror outfits in Pakistan feed on the poor and under-privileged who do not have any work to do and whose families find it hard to provide them food and "expensive" clothes.
This section of the Pak population has always remained vulnerable to the militant ideology and the ISI's evil designs from the very beginning.
The statistics show that most of the Pak militants, languishing in J&K jails, are school dropouts and belong to poor families. Poverty is one of the reasons behind their becoming militants.
That the ISI and the militant outfits are still continuing with the s... | |
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