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| Key posts vacant in department, Minister's intentions ambiguous | | 8 days on, Director Health awaits official order | | | Akshay Azad
Jammu, Aug 8: Eight days after the announcement, Dr. BS Pathania is still awaiting formal order of his appointment as Director Health Jammu, besides several key posts in Directorate of Health Jammu and Kashmir are lying vacant despite availability of eligible candidates, casting a shadow of doubt on Minister's intentions.
Sources informed Early Times that BS Pathania had taken over charge of Director Health Jammu on verbal orders, following the retirement of BD Sharma on July 31. "Since then no formal written order has been issued in favour of BS Pathania owing to which he has no official authority to take any decisions, leaving Director Health office Jammu, defunct", sources said.
Sharing more details about Health department, sources said, several key posts have been lying vacant in Directorate of Health office Jammu and Kashmir since long. Despite the fact that there are several eligible officers, awaiting promotions since long but Minister has stayed indifferent raising a question mark over latter's intention.
"On March 31, Director Family Welfare Kuldeep Kesar h... | |
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| Instigates people to protests on auspicious day | | Geelani's sinister Eid plan | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 8: Separatist are likely to revive 2010 like conditions in Kashmir on eid day to disturb lawlessness and give birth to a long season of strikes and curfews. According to the details received, as the hardliner separatist faction led by Syed Ali shah Geelani has called people to protest on Eid day against the hanging of parliament convict Afzal Guru in Tihar Jail and asked people to demand with much stress his dead body from the Government, sources revealed that environment is being created to disturb law and order and give birth to a season of strikes and curfews for a longer time this time in Kashmir.
Sources inside the separatist factions said that a pr... | |
| | | | Can Omar observe black day today? | | August 9 | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 8: Sher-e-Kashmir's only roar cost him his chair and liberty. This happened on August 9, 1953 for `seeking independence of Jammu Kashmir'. However, strangely enough, the `roaring lion' accused |New Delhi of ditching him and observed August 9 as black day. Even after assuming power with Congress support in 1975, he continued to observe it as black day. But times have changed and so has the situation. Today's NC is more interested in a six-year term of Omar Abdullah rather than Sher-e-Kashmir's legacy. And with Congress and PDP making inroads in what used to be strong NC bastions, Omar has other problems to address.
People by and large believe that Sher-e-Ka... | |
| | | | Guru, Maqbool Butt poster appear on walls of Kishtwar town | | Attempt to vitiate harmony on Eid | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Kishtwar, Aug 8: Taking security forces for a ride, some unidentified activists of Freedom party head by separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah managed to paste inflammatory posters with photographs of Afzal Guru hanged by the government for his role in Parliament attack and Maqbool Butt, the founder of JKLF.
The posters appeared in various parts of Kishtwar town despite presence of heavy security cover in the town. The poster not only appeared outside various mosques, but also in lanes and by lanes of the town. Two such posters also appeared less than 100 meters away from MoS Home's residence. Police after receiving an information about the appearance of poster deputed var... | |
| | | | How wages drawn without records, questions CIC | | Appointment of consolidated workers in JKPCC | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 8: An scam of illegal appointments has surfaced in the J&K Projects Construction Corporation (JKPCC) wherein scores of workers (more than 40 ) have been illegally appointed since last few years on consolidated basis.
According to sources most of the appointees have paid bribe in lieu of the appointments. When a whistleblower Zahoor Ahmad Dar sought the names of such appointees under J&K RTI Act 2009 the Public Information Officer (PIO) of JKPCC who happens to be the Financial Controller of the Corporation denied to provide the same. An appeal was also moved by the RTI applicant before First Appellate Authority (FAA) of JKPCC (GM) but the details of the i... | |
| | | | At CM's Ganderbal | | Over 300 causal labourers denied wages for 3 years | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 8: Over 300 causal laborers working in Sub Transmission Division Ganderbal are without wages for last three years.
The workers are at the verge of starvation as the authorities of the Power Development have failed to release their salaries till date forcing them to come to streets and resort to road blockade on busy Srinagar -Sonamarg route.
The protesting casual labourers who shouted slogans against the Government were demanding release of the wages on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr falling tomorrow. Terming it a total callousness of the authorities the protestors alleged that it is unfortunate that they have not even been paid the wages on this Eid. They said... | |
| | | | 23 District and Sessions Judges transferred 7 newly appointed adjusted | | Major reshuffle in higher Judiciary | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 8: In the full Court meeting held Wednesday under the chairmanship of Chief Justice MM Kumar, 23 District and Sessions Judges have been transferred and 7 newly appointed sessions Judges have been adjusted.
According to the order NO 335 dated August 8, 2013 issued by Registrar General Of J&K High Court Suresh Sharma, Sanjay Dhar presently Presiding Officer MACT Jammu has been transferred and posted as Principal District and Sessions Judge Leh, Mohammad Akram Choudhary Principal District and Sessions Judge Ramban has been transferred and posted as Presiding Officer MACT Jammu, Rajesh Sekri Principal Sessions Judge Reasi has been transferred and posted as ... | |
| | | | HM diverts funds to his home district | | Charity begins at home | | | Arun Singh
Jammu, Aug 8: Giving a damn to the tall claims of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's equitable distribution of funds among three regions of the state, Minister for Health Shabir Khan diverted the state plan funds to his home district Rajouri leaving other district in lurch. Sources told Early Times that State Planning Department had released 50 percent of funds in its second phase to the Health Department for funding the various schemes proposed by health department.
"As soon as the health department received the funds, entire funds was diverted to district Rajouri on the direction of Minister concern for various schemes without looking at other districts just to consolidate his... | |
| | | | Outraged nation wants UPA to adopt pro-active Pak policy | | Chakan-da-Bagh massacre of Jawans | | | Neha
Jammu, Aug 8: The outraged Indian nation wants Congress-led UPA Government to abandon its weak-kneed Pakistan policy and adopt a pro-active policy towards Islamabad so that the enemy country is defeated comprehensively and India saved from the menace of terrorism. People across the nation have been holding protest demonstrations against Pakistan, which on last Monday night massacred our five soldiers in cold-blood, and also denouncing the Congress and the UPA Government, saying they have converted India into a soft state.
What has angered the nation all the more was the Defence Minister AK Antony's outrageous statement that about 20 terrorists, along with a few men in Pakistan Army u... | |
| | | | NC & demand for trifurcation | | Is BSP also anti-national? | | | Rustam
Jammu, Aug 8: The other day, the NC condemned the PDP, the BJP and the JKNPP and dismissed the protagonists of division of Jammu and Kashmir into three states as anti-national. Interestingly, it spared the BSP. Why? The NC needs to make its position clear so that people understand why the NC has two yardsticks, one for the parties like the JKNPP, which has been demanding reorganization of the state and separate Chief Minister and separate Assembly for Jammu since years, and the BSP, which has not only started opposing Article 370 but also started demanding trifurcation of the state.
Only last week, the BSP national general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP, Narinder Kashyap, along with ... | |
| | | | Separatists opposed to Omar trying to become a midwife for delivering dialogue baby | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 8: Kashmiri separatists are not prepared to accept Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, performing the role of a midwife while trying to arrange the rebirth of the stalled Hurriyat-Delhi parleys.
Separatists, especially those belonging to the All Party Hurriyat Conference, led by Molvi Umar Farooq, do not know the reason for Omar announcing his intention to facilitate a fresh process of dialogue between Delhi and Hurriyat leaders. They believe that possibly the Chief Minister would like to keep the separatists in good humour to enable him to claim that he has proved that he has been the architect of peace and normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir.
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