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Vigilance Organization recommends removal of Dr Riyaz Farooq as Principal GDC Srinagar GAD sleeps over matter, file yet to reach Chief Secretary's office 10/29/2015 12:43:04 AM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Oct 28: Despite the recommendation of Vigilance Organization to take 'punitive' action against Principal Government Dental College (GDC) Srinagar, Dr. Riyaz Farooq, the General Administration Department (GAD) is yet to act on the same with allegations being leveled at the highest level in this regard. Sources told Early Times that few days back the Vigilance Organization wrote a letter to GAD and asked the department to take 'punitive' action against Dr. Riyaz since a First Information Report (FIR) stands registered against him in the multi-crore purchase scandal that surfaced at GDC Srinagar. "The Vigilance Organization mentioned in the letter that the Principal GDC, Srinagar is harassing the witnesses in the case that stands registered against him. Through the letter the Vigilance Organization recommended to GAD that Dr. Riyaz should be removed from his present position without any further delay," said sources. The sources said that since Dr. Riyaz is yet to be confirmed as the Principal of Government Dental College, Srinagar he can...   READ MORE

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On last day of 'Darbar' in Srinagar, Ministers stay away from Secretariat 10/29/2015 12:42:53 AM Peerzada Ummer Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Oct 28: Several Ministers stayed away on Wednesday from the Civil Secretariat on the last day of 'Darbar Move' in Srinagar, adding to the woes of people. Long queues were witnessed outside the Secretariat gate. Security men had to thrash many people who tried to queue-jump. Several people who had come from far off places burst into tears after their effort of leaving home at dawn and reaching Srinagar yielded no results. Ghulam Nabi Dar, 73, said he had left his home at Kupwara at 8 am amid cold. He boarded a bus for Srinagar at 9 am and reached here at 11 am. "After waiting in a long queue for more than two hours, I was allowed to go inside ...   READ MORE   Health Deptt's 'abnormal' order: No training and skill development for docs MCI guidelines flouted brazenly 10/29/2015 12:42:45 AM Arun Singh ET Report JAMMU, Oct 28: The Health and Medical Education Department has issued a bizarre order which would deprive doctors of mandatory training recommended by the Medical Council of India. The concluding paragraph of the order issued by the Commissioner Secretary directs principal of the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) to repatriate all those doctors who have been on deputation for last more than six months. Several doctors who chose to speak to Early Times on the condition of anonymity termed the order "arbitrary and illogical." "It is an onslaught on the basic right of doctors and in sheer violation of the MCI guidelines which entitles the doctors to have...   READ MORE   PSIs run the show in police deptt; SIs sidelined 10/29/2015 12:42:33 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 28: Probation Sub-Inspectors (PSIs) are virtually running the show in the Police Department across the State especially in Jammu district. The influence of these PSIs can be gauged from the fact that most of them are delaying their probation test as they don't want to leave in-charge police post. Ironically, the confirmed sub-inspectors are moving from pillar to post to get themselves adjusted as in-charge police post. In the order of establishment board, eight in-charge police post including 12 officers were adjusted. However, sub-inspectors were adjusted as investigation officers in police stations. One of the SIs wishing anonymity rued that senior offi...   READ MORE   Partial budget allocation to deptts, treasuries accept no bills after 14th day Financial 'crisis' in PDP-BJP Govt at its peak 10/29/2015 12:42:20 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 28: Six months on after passing of budget the PDP-BJP alliance Government continues to struggle in the melee of financial mess with many departments yet to get full budget allocation made in the budget for current year. A fresh circular issued by the Government has only added to woes of people as the treasuries in this order have been given instructions not to honour or entertain the bills of any kind after 14th day of every month. Sources said financial mismanagement for the Government in its first year is at its peak as it is able to handle and prioritize things in terms of expenditures on various heads. As nearly half of the current financial year has pass...   READ MORE   Abdullah, Mir, Tarigami say J&K withering away Maintaining Kashmiri hegemony 10/29/2015 12:42:03 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 28: Not one but three Kashmiri leaders have upped the ante against the PDP-BJP coalition Government and accused it of pursuing policies which have the potential of pitting one region against the other and setting the followers of one religion against the followers of another. The leaders who have during the past couple of days expressed the view that the State would wither away if the current dispensation continued to function in the manner it functioned after assuming power include NC president and former J&K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, JKPCC chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir and CPI-M State secretary Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami. Farooq Abdullah told a leading journal...   READ MORE   GMC leaves aspirants in lurch after advertising 124 posts 10/29/2015 12:41:47 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 28: Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) here has left hundreds of candidates in lurch. These job aspirants had applied for various posts which were advertised 2-years ago, since then GMCH authorities are sleeping over the issue indicating that "blue-eyed" candidates have been selected through backdoor and deserving have been left out. Aspirants while talking to Early Times said the then Principal GMC Dr Shashi Guptahad issued a notification in 2013 to fill various posts at Associated Hospitals of Government Medical College Jammu. "One post of House Keeper, 30 posts of Senior Staff Nurse, one EEG Technical-II, three post of Assistant Programmer, One...   READ MORE   BJP gives credit to Sheikh Abdullah for State's Accession to India Insulting Shyama Prasad Mookerjee 10/29/2015 12:41:39 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 28: Something is fundamentally wrong with the BJP. In fact, the power-hungry BJP has lost its way. It doesn't know what it says and what it says sometimes is highly despicable and deplorable. Some of its leaders have turned so irresponsible in their desperate bid to cultivate the Kashmiri leadership that they don't mind ridiculing leaders like Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, the founder of Jan Sangh and the one who sacrificed his life in Kashmir on June 23, 1953 for the national cause in the State by opposing the pro-autonomy and anti-Jammu J&K Wazir-e-Azam, Sheikh Abdullah. Mookerjee died in mysterious circumstances in a make-shift jail in Kashmir. He had entered t...   READ MORE   State Govt allows Er Rashid to divide society by spitting venom Why law-breaker MLA is roaming free? 10/29/2015 12:41:21 AM ET Report JAMMU, Oct 28: Fanatic Independent MLA Engineer Rashid, who had brazenly violated rule of law by organizing a beef party in public place, is still roaming free and spitting venom to divide society on communal lines but State Government has failed to take action against him. Not only Engineer Rashid had arranged a beef party openly to hurt sentiments of minority community in J&K but he had allegedly enacted drama of ink attack at New Delhi to further instigate people of Kashmir Valley. Initial investigation conducted by the investigating authorities has raised doubt over involvement of activities of some Hindu groups in throwing ink on Engineer Rashid. Those who threw ink on Eng...   READ MORE   Jaziya on pilgrims to continue: BJP Ministers barter peoples' emotions for lust of power 10/29/2015 12:41:11 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 28: Nearly two months have been passed when State Government had imposed "Jaziya" on the devotees of Mata Vaishno Devi but no step has been taken so far to with the most controversial and communal decision of the coalition Government. It appears that leadership of so-called pro-Hindu party BJP, which is part of the Government, has compromised on the emotional issue due to pressure from the party Ministers in the Government. For the last one month, all BJP leaders have tighten their lips on "Jaziya" issue because, as per credible sources in the party, they were snubbed by the national general secretary of the party, Ram Madhav for raising the service tax issue...   READ MORE   Patnitop fast losing its rich flora, forest deptt unnerved! 10/29/2015 12:40:52 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 28: The lush green valleys of famous hill resorts of Patnitop and Nathatop are alarmingly getting barren with each passing day as the trees, the real treasure of these places are being cut down in a meticulously planned method. The indiscriminate cutting of green gold right from Patnitop to Sanasar is more than visible to anybody but concerned authorities have turned a blind eye to unlawful activities. The methodology adopted to cut down trees in the 20 kilometers long stretch between Patnitop and Sanasar is being executed in such a manner that a lay man cannot ever imagine that the land blessed with nature’s abundant gift of greenery is getting dep...   READ MORE   Acquittal may land IO in trouble Beware of Corrupt in Police! 10/29/2015 12:40:43 AM Sumit Sharma Early Times Report JAMMU, Oct 28: To plug corruption and unprofessionalism in police department in respect of entangling of innocent with criminal cases, the Home Department ordered Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) to constitute a committee to fix the Investigation Officer (IO) for punishment if acquittal is made in criminal cases. The Home Department took cognizance after Supreme Court in the case titled ‘State of Gujarat Vs Kishanbhai’ issued directions to the Home Department of every state in this context. Pertinently, in the aforementioned case, the Supreme Court in 2014 had issued various recommendations to home departments of each state to ensure that ...   READ MORE   PM likely to announce package on Nov 7 Rs 80,000 Cr package for JK on Nov 7 10/29/2015 12:40:28 AM PM likely to announce at Sgr Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Oct 28: Online ‘operations’ have finally proved costly for the militant group of Hizbul Mujahideen led by Burhan Muzaffar Wani in south Kashmir as four of his close aides got killed in surgical strikes within a week. Security officials have ascribed the reason for success to tips gathered from the group’s online activities. Two of the “techie militants”, who were handling the online operations of the outfit, and would even recruit youth through “online indoctrination”, have been killed within four days. Given the high quality intelligence input, sources said, the strikes were almost surgical in nature as the security fo...   READ MORE   After embezzlement in NREGA works, payments being released “illegally” at Budgam 10/29/2015 12:40:01 AM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Oct 28: After allegedly embezzling huge amount of public money meant for MG-NREGA works, the authorities particularly the district rural development department Budgam have allegedly released money in favour of a local panchayat of Palpora inspite of the fact that most of the members of the village panchayat have been involved in this alleged embezzlement. Details available with Early Times reveal that few years back around 20 lakh rupees were allegedly embezzled by the local panchayat of Palpora in Budgam district of central Kashmir . As many as one dozen works were not at all executed in the village but payments were made illegally by the local BDO off...   READ MORE   DB overrules Single Bench judgment, directs Govt to proceed with process Recruitment of 1651 Assistant Professors 10/29/2015 12:32:30 AM Akshay Azad Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 28: In a major respite for thousands of aspirants for Assistant Professors' posts, the Division Bench of Jammu and Kashmir High Court stayed the order of single bench of Jammu court and Directed state government to go for recruitment as per the 2014 notification. As per latest verdict of High Court's double bench, M.Phil is now no eligibility for Assistant Professor posts while the students having qualified Ph.D, NET or SLET would be eligible. Sources informed Early Times that division bench of JK High Court chaired by Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey and Justice BS Walia while hearing the Letters Patent Appeal (LPA) filed by Higher Education Depart...   READ MORE

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