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| SKIMS faculty humiliated, hounded out MCI assessors | | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Aug 18: Habituated of violating norms and turning street fights into battle for Azadi, management of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura not only humiliated college assessment team of Medical Council of India (MCI) but virtually hounded them out of the institute.
The faculty led by Director of the Institute Dr. Showkat Zargar did not cooperate with the assessors on the day of the inspection i.e. May 30 and 31, 2014. They refused to allow the assessors namely Dr. P.E. Natekar and Dr. Ashok Anand to check original certificates and used harsh language while replying to the queries. Dr. P.E. Natekar is Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Grant Medical College (GMC) Mumbai, Maharashtra.
The other assessor Dr. Ashok Anand is Professor and Head of the Department (HOD) of Anatomy in Government Medical College (GMC) Panaji, Goa. Both the assessors have officially communicated these happenings to the Medical Council of India (MCI) in their assessment report of the physical and other teaching facilities availabl... | |
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| If Omar fails to call Cabinet meet Govt will fall: Soz | | War of Words | | | Soz playing dirty tricks, looking for excuses to withdraw support: NC
Fazal Khan
SRINAGAR, Aug 18: War of words between the two coalition partners National Conference and Congress snowballed into a major controversy as the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) chief Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz today said that if Chief Minister Omar Abdullah fails to call the Cabinet meet Government would lose its "constitutional validity" and fall automatically.
Prof Soz while talking to reporters here today said, "If the Chief Minister fails to convene the Cabinet meeting or if the Coordination Committee meeting was not held, Government will fall as it would have no constitutional validity."
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| | | | Observing resentment in cadre, Congress likely to announce its new district presidents | | Focus on Assembly Polls | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 18: Eyeing on upcoming Assembly elections here in Jammu and Kashmir, Congress high command may go for major overhauling of its District Level Committees, it is learnt.
Highly placed sources in Congress party revealed that "new panels have been made jointly by three party stalwarts including Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha and former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, AICC General Secretary and party affairs in-charge, J&K, Ambika Soni and Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC), president, Saif-ud-Din Soz. The panels are likely to be submitted before party high command for its approval."
The new move is being viewed as putting new energy in the party to counter i... | |
| | | | Separatists reaction against Omar's statement unjustified | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 18: Expectedly Kashmiri separatists have reacted against Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, who had stated that the politics of boycott had not allowed separatists to achieve anything. Omar has virtually blamed separatists for having added to the level of political uncertainty. He chided them for following "boycott politics." Though Omar Abdullah has been totally right in his assessment of the futility of politics of boycott while referring to the process of election, the Chief Minister seems to have been worried about the impact of the separatists call for poll boycott during the ensuing Assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir. It is in this context that Omar... | |
| | | | JU VC turns recruiting agent for political masters | | Senior politician's relative adjusted as Physiotherapist | | | K Koushal
JAMMU, Aug 18: The Vice Chancellor (VC) of Jammu University (JU) Mohan Pal Singh Ishar has turned to be a recruiting agent for the political masters which seems evident from a recent appointment in health centre of Jammu University where the relative of a senior politician has been adjusted as physiotherapist.
The appointed blue eyed relative of the senior politician and close relative of the ruling Cabinet Minister has been appointed today. The student organisations have resented the appointment. They have informed the Raj Bhavan about the development, sources said.
The appointment is seen as an attempt by the Vice Chancellor to appease the political masters as he is left wit... | |
| | | | Modi's way of handling Kashmir likely to embarrass Omar | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 18: Modi-led NDA Government at the Centre has given its first indication of acting tough against the separatists and Pakistan . It is also a signal to the mainstream Kashmir based parties to stop peddling on soft-separatism and perpetuate and stoke feelings of 'Kashmir nationalism'.
Modi had indicated his tough approach on this account on his recent visit to the Ladakh region. However, the separatists, accustomed to the Congress way of handling, didn't take the message seriously and decided to go ahead with the talks with the Pakistan envoy.
They have been doing this act for quite long but this time they had it from the Central Government, which has a new ... | |
| | | | Health Deptt fails to tighten noose around non-punctual doctors | | **Why not bio-metric attendance system for doctors in hospitals? | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 18: The repeated incidents of clash between doctors and attendants in Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) have failed to make any difference in the approach of administration which has so far failed to tighten noose around some non-punctual doctors, who are always found busy in their private clinics even during duty hours.
The bio-metric attendance system could be a solution but despite repeated complaints of patients and their attendants about absence of doctors from their chambers, administration has failed to do anything in this direction.
Some officials of GMC and attendants informed Early Times that as per Government rules, the duty time ... | |
| | | | Did constable Sanjay Singh shoot himself?.... No says the family; alleges conspiracy | | ' Why autopsy not conducted on killed women?' | | | Avinash Azad
JAMMU, Aug 18: Refuting the reports that Constable Sanjay Singh of Nowshera shot himself after killing two sisters of Kalakote at Thermal colony Kalakote of district Rajouri on July 27, the family members of Sanjay Singh have refused to buy the theory of police alleging a well planned conspiracy hatched by some influential people of area to save their skin.
Contesting the claims of Police, the family members of Sanjay Singh have been questioning how Sanjay Singh fired three bullets from his service rifle, one into his head and two in his stomach?. The family members, who are alleging involvement of some influential residents of area and Police officials in killing of their so... | |
| | | | Desperate for victory, NC emptying state exchequer | | Pre-election bonanzas | | | Neha
JAMMU, Aug 18: National Conference working president and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is desperate to win the coming Assembly election. Since he knows the times are not in his favour, he has been announcing bonanza after bonanza to win over the estranged Kashmiris, who are turning to the PDP with each passing day, thus further adding to his frustration and desperation.
Interestingly, his announcements, including regarding establishment of new administrative units, withdrawal of the recruitment policy, enhancement in the Government employees' retirement age and upper age limit for seeking Government jobs, decision to make adhoc and daily wage Government employees per... | |
| | | | Congress sore over CM's arbitrary slashing of power tariff | | Demands Cabinet meet immediately | | | Javaid Naikoo
Srinagar, Aug 18 : Terming the announcement in reduction of electricity tariff by Chief Minister without a cabinet meet unjustified, state Congress today said that they want meeting of the state Cabinet immediately.
Talking to Early Times, state congress vice president, Ghulam Nabi Monga today said that Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah's decision on the eve of Independence Day to reduce electricity tariff by 12% was arbitrary as such a decision cannot be taken without discussion in the state cabinet, especially in a coalition government.
He said that state congress wants cabinet meet within hours to solve some long pending issues of people. "we have some important issues t... | |
| | | | 6324 girls, 7822 boys without toilet facility; 4350 toilets lying defunct | | Poonch, Baramulla, Udhampur, Reasi school see least construction of toilets | | | Bivek Mathur
Jammu, Aug 18 : Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech has shown concern over degrading toilet facilities in some schools of India, particularly the schools having no toilet facility for girls because of which many of them are quitting studies at an alarming rate, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah as well as Education Minister Tara Chand, it seems, need another decade or two to plan a strategy to construct the same as the situation is worsening in the case of Jammu and Kashmir.
As per a data available on the website of Union Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD)-DISE data, 6,324 schools in Jammu and Kashmir sans girls' toilet facility and 7,8... | |
| | | | 4 year on, BSNL authorities fails to provide connectivity to Warwan tower; Subscribers suffer | | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Kishtwar, Aug 18: BSNL subscribers of remote Warwan tehsil in Kishtwar have been deprived of services as the Nigam has failed to provide connectivity to the tower erected four years back.
People in Marwah informed " Early Times" that despite availability of all equipments at Marwah, the BSNL authorities failed to erect towers at Nawapachi Marwah and also at Sounder Dachhan since last four years. The locals said that despite repeated request to the administration and government, they failed to push BSNL authorities to complete the work with regard to erection of BSNL tower so that the area which is deprived off from road and electricity since independence could at least ... | |
| | | | Tribunal breaks all records, directs deceased petitioner to deposit compound fee | | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Aug 18: A Tribunal set up by the state government to look into the cases of violation of the Municipal Act in the summer capital of the state broke all records as it allowed a petitioner to pay more than Rs one lakh despite the fact the petitioner had already passed away at the time of decision.
Chairman, Jammu & Kashmir State Tribunal, Pramod Jain, ordered the petitioner, Mukhtara Begum to deposit Rs. 1, 33, 650 as compound fee with Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) after it was found that the petitioner had violated the Municipal Act. This order was passed on April 25, 2011 and by this date the petitioner had already passed away.
Mukhtara Begum passed a... | |
| | | | NC ridicules Soz, says Omar not bound to convene cabinet meeting | | Reservation to 'Paharis', OBCs | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Aug 18: The relations between NC and Congress, coalition partners, have turned so bitter that the NC is openly ridiculing JKPCC chief Saif-ud-Din Soz. The latest attack on him was launched by the NC on Saturday and the reason was not that strong that should invite a strong reaction from the NC. The JKPCC chief had only urged Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to convene cabinet meeting at the earliest so
that a final decision on reservation to the "Pahari"-speaking people and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) is taken. Omar Abdullah on August 15 announced five per cent reservation for the Pathowari-speaking people and two per cent for OBCs. In fact, the declaration formed part of hi... | |
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