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| Omar, Kamaal face to face with each other | | Eyes on Hazratbal | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Aug 5: The relations between NC working president and J&K CM Omar Abdullah, who is looking for a "safe" seat in the Valley and his uncle and party's additional general secretary Mustafa Kamaal, who has been dormant for a few weeks now, particularly after NC president Farooq Abdullah appointed Ali Mohammad Sagar as the party's general secretary, may turn more bitter in the coming days. Mustafa Kamaal, who had won the Hazratbal seat in the 2008 Assembly elections, had hoped that he would find a berth in the NC-Congress coalition Government, but his nephew didn't consider him for Ministership. Of course, Kamaal didn't make out an issue out of it, but he was not happy over the development. The fact that he on occasions criticized Omar Abdullah for making certain important announcements unilaterally or without taking the party into confidence was an indication that all was not well between the two. For example, Kamaal had openly criticized Omar Abdullah for his 2013 statement on pre-poll alliance with the Congress. He had said that what Omar Abdullah said was his personal... | |
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| 2 years on, Blood Storage Units sanctioned in four CHCs fail to take off | | Patients forced to flock district hospitals or GMCH | | | Akshay Azad
Jammu, Aug 5: Beyond Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's recent claims that his Government assigned top priority to healthcare, the failure of Jammu and Kashmir Health department to provide basic facilities and infrastructure in primary and tertiary health institutions across Jammu province has been causing huge load on district hospitals and Government Medical College and Hospital Jammu.
The tall claims of State Government and Health Minister to provide basic infrastructure and manpower have failed to yield results as even after nearly two years of sanctioning of Blood Storage Units in four Community Health Centers (CHCs), none has started working.
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| | | | 22 years on, 92 daily wagers waiting for their regularization in PHE | | | | GS Asgotra
Jammu, Aug 5: Notwithstanding Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah's claims made publically that the services of daily wagers, need base workers and daily routine workers would be regularized, around 92 daily wagers in Public Health and Engineering (PHE) department have been waiting regularization for the last 22 years under SRO-64.
Sources told Early Times that the SRO-64 of 1994 was implemented by the then Governor on January 26, 1994, following which most of the daily wagers who were engaged in various Government departments before January 31, 1994 were regularized.
However, in PHE department several casual workers are still waiting for regularization of their services .
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| | | | Molestation case: Shabir Khan exempted from today's hearing | | | | S Sabaqat
SRINAGAR, Aug 5: Minister of State for Health and senior Congress leader Shabir Ahmad Khan was exempted by a local court here from attending today's hearing in connection with a molestation case filed against him by a lady doctor in February this year. Khan, sitting MLA from Rajouri, has been charged by police under sections 354 RPC (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 509 RPC (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman).
The chargesheet was filed before Chief Judicial Magistrate Srinagar V S Bhou on April 3.
As the case came up before the CJM, counsel for Khan appeared before it with an application seeking exemption fr... | |
| | | | Ahead of elections backdoor appointments galore in JK | | | | Javaid Naikoo
SRINAGAR, Aug 5: With an intention to gain votes ahead of Assembly elections, political appointments through backdoor are on sale these days for Rs 5 to 8 lakhs. Sources said that people are asked to get recommendation letters from either Ministers or officials of the rank of Director. Then initially posts without any advertisement of need base kind are created for them in Government departments and later within days they get regularized after paying huge sum of money ranging from Rs 5 to 8 lakhs.
A spree of illegal recruitments according to sources in Department of Urban and Local Bodies is going on these days in various Municipal Committees of Kashmir in which executive o... | |
| | | | London can't be allowed to discuss Kashmir | | Interference in internal affairs | | | Neha
JAMMU, Aug 5: It's outrageous; it's naked and blatant interference in the internal affairs of India. New Delhi has to assert its sovereign authority and tell London in unequivocal terms that it will not tolerate any interference in the country's internal affairs and that it is the sovereign nation to deal with the Kashmir situation in the manner it should be done. Delhi has to assert its authority without losing a single moment.
Why should Delhi act and act very fast to tell London that it is crossing the line and it is an attack on the sovereignty of India, which cannot be tolerated by any self-respecting nation? Why because the House of Commons of British Parliament has agreed for ... | |
| | | | CMO files FIR against NC leader after heated exchange at medical camp | | 1,000 taken ill due to PHE’s contaminated water in Budgam | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 5: Authorities have sounded a high alert and declared medical emergency after the entire population of over 1,000 people at Chhoon, near the district headquarters, complained of diarrhea and gastroenteritis, allegedly due to consumption of the contaminated water by Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department.
“Yes, it is an extremely serious situation as panic has spread in the whole department. Many of our colleagues are attempting to suppress this news of the epidemic with their contacts in media”, a senior official at Directorate of Health Services Kashmir told Early Times. He disclosed that a tiff was going on between the Health and the PHE departments... | |
| | | | 5 security men among 13 injured in Tangdhar recruitment drive | | | | Syed Tahir Bukhari
KUPWARA, Aug 5: Thireen persons including five security men were injured in clashes triggered during an Army recruitment drive at Tangdhar near the LoC today morning. According to sources "everything was going on smoothly when the supporters of one faction allegedly instigated others for violence'.
"Thousands of unemployed youth went for Army recruitment at Chamkote area of Tangdhar sector which is very close to the Line of Control (LOC) at the end of the day it proved fatal, sources said.
An eyewitness told Early Times that, "two factions were the main source of trouble. To get their supporters adjusted in the Army, these factions created chaos and fuss as a result co... | |
| | | | Yet another case of misappropriation of funds in JKCA | | General Secretary granted anticipatory bail | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 5: The Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) is shamed by another funds scam allegedly involving its newly elected officer bearers who have transferred funds to some private bank accounts.
Meanwhile, a Srinagar court today granted anticipatory bail to JKCA General Secretary Moti Lal Nehru against whom a lower court on August 2 had ordered registration of FIR besides directed authorities to freeze the bank accounts of the Association. Second Additional District Judge Parvez Kachroo has granted anticipatory bail to Nehru who had moved a bail application through the standing counsel for the JKCA. In his order, the CJM Srinagar on August 2 had ordered S... | |
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