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| How all inquiries failed in Health appointment scam --- (4) | | Brazen nepotism, corruption ruled the roost in Anantnag, Kulgam | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, July 13: With most of the fraudulent appointments in the Department of Health happening in the South Kashmir districts of Anantnag and Kulgam, middle-rung officials enjoyed a field day in illegally absorbing scores of their relatives in addition to hundreds others against cash payment. Chief Medical Officers (CMOs), Block Medical Officers (BMOs), Accounts Officers (AOs) and Treasury Officers, alongwith their clerks, broke all records of fraudulent appointments from 1996 to 2011. While most of the complaints fell on the deaf ears of the authorities, others were paradoxically used to blackmail the beneficiaries and extort more money from them.
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Successive CMOs have been found to have issued most of the fraudulent orders under a particular pattern. In certain cases, they have simply issued transfer orders, shifting subordinate Class 3rd and Class 4th officials from one block to another. However, like in the infamous appointment scandal in Department of Education, that surfaced in 1993-95 period in Anantnag district, the transferred officials ... | |
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| `Lice witnessed gruesome murder of Laila and her family members' | | Laila Khan murder | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Kishtwar, July 13: Barely a few days after the Mumbai police recovered the bodies of Laila Khan and her family members; Early Times got access to a video filmed just before the murder.
The clips filmed on the morning of February 8 depict some happy movements of the family. One of the clips shows Laila, her mother and sister in a beauty saloon preparing for the party at Igatpuri farm house.
The video shows some lighter movements- Zarra Patel praising the hair of her mother while setting her own hair right. Zarra has been shown sitting on a chair with her hair ready to be curled while Laila is sitting on another chair inside the beauty salon.
After leaving the beauty salo... | |
| | | | Plan panel approves Rs 7,300 crore outlay for J&K | | | | Early Times Report
New Delhi, July 13: Planning Commission today approved Rs 7,300 crore annual Plan expenditure for Jammu & Kashmir for 2012-13, representing an increase of 10 per cent over outlay in the last fiscal.
The Plan outlay was finalised here at a meeting between the Commission's Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir Omar Abdullah here.
During the meeting, Ahluwalia complimented the J&K government for promoting economic activity and focusing on development of social and physical infrastructure.
The state government, he said, needed to further encourage private sector participation by creating an atmosphere conducive to investment. Educati... | |
| | | | Produce genuine medical certificates for Amarnath yatra: Omar | | | | Early Times Report
New Delhi, July 13: In the backdrop of the high casualty figure during the current annual Amarnath pilgrimage, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today advised people to get "genuine health certificates" which would enable the state authorities to make a correct assessment about their physical ability to undertake the arduous journey.
The statement of Omar comes in the wake of death of 72 pilgrims so far while undertaking the annual pilgrimage this year.
The Chief Minister was quick to point to "wrong" medical certificates being produced by the yatris during the health screening.
"On our side, we are trying to put in place a mechanism of health... | |
| | | | Army intends to institutionalize its role' Early Times Report | | Changing trends in Mirwaiz Hurriyat | | |
Early Times Report
srinagar, July 13: In a development that could have far reaching consequences on separatist politics in Kashmir, the chairman of the moderate Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said the Army intends to institutionalize its role in the conflict ridden Kashmir. He was talking to a New Delhi based newspaper the other day.
This is the first time when a separatist leader has issued such a statement. According to political experts, the statements reflect the changing trends in the separatist spectrum.
The change apparently seems to have roots in the CBMs pursued by Government of India and Islamabad. "In the contemporary era, India and Pakistan are interested in CBMs... | |
| | | | VC Jammu University centralises working, assigns multiple jobs to 5 chosen ones | | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, July 13: Vice-Chancellor of Jammu University Prof. Mohan Paul Singh Ishar has burdened five select officials with half of university's student related and academic work.
Sources do not hesitate in saying that these five officials are the only trustworthy lieutenants of newly appointed Vice-Chancellor. These include Prof. Deshbandhu Gupta, Jai Kumar, Prof. Kulwant Singh, R.D. Sharma and Dr. Jasbir Singh. Though there is nothing to indicate that VC has done this intentionally or under pressure but university officials already have begun questioning the logic behind centralising varied student related and academic works around few individuals.
Prof. Deshbandhu Gupt... | |
| | | | Pak soldier repatriated | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 13: A day after capturing young Pakistani sepoy, Indian Army respectfully handed him over to the Pakistani army.
Identified as Sepoy Arif Ali, the soldier had crossed over to the Indian side in Kerni sector of Poonch early Thursday morning. According to spokesman of the Ministry of Defence in Jammu, Pakistani soldier was handed over to the Pakistani army at Chakan-da-Bagh in Poonch around 10.00 a.m.
During his stay with the Indian Army, Sepoy Arif Ali informed that he had left his unit, due to certain unfavourable conditions prevailing there and had deliberately crossed over to the Indian side. The spokesman said, after having confirmed his identity as a se... | |
| | | | Captured foreign militants say they were trained by Pak army | | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, July 13: Though the foreign militants captured by security agencies in J&K have confessed to the involvement of Pak army in their training, the revelation of former ISI head Gen Ziauddin Butt that a Brigadier harboured Osama bin Laden for years with the full knowledge of ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf has now put Islamabad squarely in the dock.
Butt's statement has put Islamabad in an embarrasing situation as contrary to its stand on the Laden issue, the senior army officer has put official stamp on the reports that the Pak Government had given him shelter to save him from the US.
This was the first time that a senior Pak army officer had accused an ex-state hea... | |
| | | | `Those curbing Press can't be Champions of Democracy' | | | | Salil Raina
POONCH, July 13: Omar Abdullah, the chocolate face Chief Minister of J&K, is also famous for his handy comments on various issues on Twitter. His comments have at times evoked severe criticism. Off the Twitter, he also gave some political statements from various platforms several times on political and social issues which took political pandits by surprise and people started raising their eyebrows on his credibility and political maturity.
Just some days ago, while interacting with a group of people during his awami mulakat at Srinagar, he said that, he really appreciates the people who are now questioning the Government on several issues and this is the hall mark of his Go... | |
| | | | Amid shutdown, restrictions; mainstream pays tributes to 1931 martyrs | | Mufti takes Government head on for imposing restriction on the day | | | Bashir Assad
SRINAGAR, July 13: Though J&K Police and CRPF personnel had Thursday evening sealed Mazaar-e-Shohda or the martyrs' cemetery in Khawaja Bazaar where Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, his Cabinet colleagues, Opposition PDP leader Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and several other mainstream leaders offered fateha prayers and lay the wreaths at the graves of the July 13, 1931 martyrs this morning, tension gripped the Srinagar city as some separatist leaders tried to force their way though the posse of police personnel deployed outside their residences. Stringent security measures were put in place across the Srinagar city as normal life was disrupted due to a strike called by both f... | |
| | | | Omar Abdullah finally joins rhetoric rolled by Mustafa Kamaal | | | | ET Report
JAMMU, July 13: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said recently the Jamaat dress code for the tourists was in fact a diktat by the media and not from the Jamaat. In one of his tweets the CM said the Jamaat had already clarified that it did not issue the dress code.
Exactly two days after the 'hopeful assertion' by the CM, Syed Ali Shah Geelani issued a statement not only endorsing the Jamaat dress code for the tourists visiting the Valley, but also going a step further by saying that the Jamaat was fully justified in issuing the dress code.
Geelani's statement must have come as a bit of uncomfortable revelation for the CM. Of late, Omar Abdullah has been making statements those coul... | |
| | | | 13 July a day of Dogra-bashing | | "Martyrs' Day" | | | Rustam
JAMMU, July 13: On July 13, 1931, the police swung into action outside the Central Jail, Srinagar, to bring the situation under control. The supporters of a non-Kashmiri fanatic Abdul Qadir, who had for years communalised the situation in Kashmir and had been lodged in the Central Jail, had gathered in front of the jail to protest against his trial and demand his release, had created a serious law and order problem. The police maintained utmost restraint, but when the situation went out of control they opened fire in self-defence and the result was the killing of about 22 law-breakers, all rabidly anti-Dogra and anti-Jammu. Ever since then, the Kashmiri leaders of all hues have been... | |
| | | | PYC fails to 'deliver' on Panchayat empowerment program | | High Command sees 'legacy' of Rajiv Gandhi in danger in J&K | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 13: Disappointed with Pradesh Congress Committee, party's Ministers and MPs' failure in getting late Rajiv Gandhi's dream and legacy implemented in the sensitive State of J&K, Congress High Command has now pinned hopes on its youth body PYC only to find that the latter is handling the serious issue in even more disastrous manner. The newly appointed PYC leaders, both president as well as vice president, who took up the task as commanding instructions from New Delhi have utterly failed to make beginning on much hyped Panchayat empowerment program intended to educate the masses as also to build pressure on the NC led Government to go Congress way in giving mo... | |
| | | | Traders of J&K, POJK demand status of "Free Trade Zone" | | Bar Barve From Entering J&K | | | Neha
JAMMU, July 13: New Delhi-based controversial think-tank Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation (CDR) organized one more anti-India seminar in Kashmir on July 10 and 11. Actually, it organized cross-Line of Control (LoC) traders' conference. This was the first ever such conference organized by anybody in Kashmir. The Executive Director of CDR is Shshoba Barve, who has in the past organized scores of anti-India seminars was very much present in the conference and she had to be, as she was the organizer. Former Foreign Secretary Salman Hyder was also there. He is also known for his pro-separatist and pro-Pakistan views. He stands for a solution that also conciliates Kashmiri separatists... | |
| | | | Addl charge MD JAKFED claims 'goody- goody', employees cry for salary | | Messy affair in JAKFED continue!!!! | | | sumit sharma
jammu, July 13: The alleged messy affairs continue to hit the ailing JAKFED, as the employees and additional incharge Managing Director (MD) JAKFED are daggers drawn over the financial affairs of the department as employees cry for release of salaries stopped for financial crunch but in charge MD claims all is well within the department.
The JAKFED has been in news for the poor financial affairs and in what it could be called as clear cut case of political interference entitled JAKFED versus JAKFED employees. While present MD claimed all is well in department. But his tall claims claiming 'goody-goody' affair in department have been doused by the bemoaning employees who pres... | |
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