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| Disgraced lady medico vows to fight for justice | | Gets support of medical fraternity, Jammuites | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 15: As the stalemate continues between the medico and the minister brawl that has taken the entire Jammu waiting for a logical decision, nothing seems to reach a conclusion.
The doctor who alleges to have been abused by the minister had been waiting for a police response which came negative to her. She has now decided to move court for justice.
But as the things are taking some other shape with social, local and some political organizations, besides doctors, too coming in her support, she has expressed her gratitude to all saying that she would wait for incident to take shape of a movement before some action is initiated from some quarter.
" No doubt, I would be pursing this incident to the logical conclusion, but I am blessed by my medical fraternity as well as the unprecedented support being extended from all quarters which I think would shape up in a movement in the town and then only the government in slumber will wake up, " said Dr Gurmeet kour , the aggrieved medico who was challenged by the minister for health and medical Lal Singh who she ... | |
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| Will not compromise on Art 370: Dinesh Bharti | | |  Arun Trisal
Early Times Report
Kathua, Mar 15: "Vishav Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal and Rashtriya Swayam Sang, RSS will not compromise on Art 370 and will not tolerate Separatists in J&K who brutally butchered innocent Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir," Dinesh Bharti, preacher VHP today warned separatists through an impressive Sammelan organized by Vishav Hindu Parishad on Golden Jubilee year of organization at Shaheed Bhagat Singh Town Hall, Kathua.
Besides preachers, MLA Kathua Rajeev Jasrotia... | |
| | | | Electric poles damaged in Valley areas due to heavy snowfall | | | | S.Tahir-Ul Haq
Early Times Report
KUPWARA, Mar 15: The Chowkibal-Tangdhar road was re-opened to traffic Friday afternoon after two weeks, but the power supply in many far flung areas of Tangdhar and Keran has not been restored so far. Most of the villages in this border district of north Kashmir are grappling with darkness due to non-availability of electricity which got disrupted due to heavy snowfall in the past weeks.
According to sources, heavy snowfall snapped vital electricity lines in most of the far flung villages of Kupwara district. The upper reaches have received the heaviest snowfall in the past weeks, which threw life out of gear and triggered high-danger avalanches and sn... | |
| | | | Pro-women’s rights activists drag feet on issue of Lal Singh disgracing lady doc | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 15: These so-called pro-people leaders, who would call a press conference on the issues of water scarcity, misuse of funds, discrimination with Jammu and many other such issues, are astonishingly silent over health minister Lal Singh allegedly disgracing a lady doctor in a function on March 9 last.
Harsh Dev Singh (ex-minister and JKNPP leader)
An advocate by profession, Harsh has always tried to remain in the forefront on any issue related to the welfare of the people, especially of Ramnagar assembly segment from where he lost the recent state elections. He would give many logics in support of his arguments but in the case of Lal Singh showing disgrace ... | |
| | | | Officer had helped Singh to retain 200 kanals of land in Kathua | | Lal Singh awards KAS officer with OSD post | | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 15: In an implicit example of quid-pro-quo, Health and Medical Education Minister Choudhary Lal Singh has rewarded a KAS officer by posing him as his Officer on Special Duty (OSD), who had allegedly benefited Singh, during his posting as Assistant Commissioner Revenue (ACR) Kathua.
This KAS officer had allegedly benefited Lal Singh by not retrieving nearly 200 Kanls of excess land from the possession of Lal Singh's family Trust, in village Karandi Khurd of tehsil Hiranagar, during his posting as Assistant Commissioner Revenue (ACR) Kathua.
The story begins with a complaint in Vigilance department and surprise check by a team of Vigilance C... | |
| | | | Lal Singh "misbehaving" with lady doctor: It will be improper to drop this issue | | One wonders if he is a man of intellectual outlook! | | | Early Times Times
JAMMU, Mar 15: We, at Early Times office, are guided by the feeling that it will not be proper to drop the issue of health minister Lal Singh displaying arrogance while allegedly disgracing Dr Gurmeet Kour, a registrar at the psychiatrist hospital here, in a hospital function on March 9 last and then causing her mental agony. Committed to public service and showing respect to the womenfolk, we will continue to highlight this issue notwithstanding the police role in the case. It remains to be seen if the government or the law enforcing agencies take any cognizance of the lady doctor's complaint against the minister or not.
Being a minister, Lal Singh is supposed to be w... | |
| | | | Lal Singh plays cricket, fractures lady doctor's arm | | | | Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 15: The Health Minister Chaudary Lal Singh is again in the news, this time for playing cricket and fracturing an arm of a lady doctor who was assigned the job to click the pictures of the shots being played by the Minister.
Sources told Early Times that the incident took place when Minister inaugurated the first Young Achievers, Cricket Tournament at Kathua Stadium on Saturday and played cricket.
Lal Singh's shot hit a female doctor Dr Deepika Sankhyadhar's arm as she was clicking pictures on the leg side. She fell on the spot after ball hit her. Doctors present there examined her and came to know that she has broken her arm and has rece... | |
| | | | Govt deptts consume electricity lavishly | | |  Shiv Dev Thakur
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 15: Contradicting the well known slogan of the Power development department "Electricity Saved is Electricity Generated",
various government departments of Jammu and Kashmir are consuming electricity lavishly.
The government departments used to consume more electricity by running heavy heaters in the winters and not only this, the lazyness of such departments is noticed by the daytime running of the lights. A similar case came to the notic... | |
| | | | Mounting liabilities on various heads add to fiscal mess in state | | | | Mudasir Tariq
SRINAGAR, Mar 15: Government treasuries across the state are running short of money with the liabilities amounting to Rs. 500 crores on account of General Provident fund bills, highest ever in the history of the state. Pensioners have also been badly hit by the fiscal mess that the state is going through. The pending bills include salary bills, GP Fund withdrawal bills, works bills and even the old age pension bills. "Although we release the pension but the main liability is gratuity commutation and GP fund. The GP fund liability in our treasury is more than nine crores now and this figure is increasing every day," said a treasury officer at Srinagar, wishing anonymity. As... | |
| | | | Swamy's statement hurts BJP's interests in Valley | | Party leaders call for restraint | | | Saahil Suhail
Anantnag, Mar 15: Senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy's controversial statement on mosques has invited flak from his own party men from all across the country.
BJP leader from South Kashmir's Anantnag district on Sunday termed Swamy 'sick minded' for his unwarranted remarks. Reacting to the controversial remarks of senior Party Leader, Khurshid Ahmad Malik who unsuccessfully contested 2014 assembly election from Kokernag assembly segment in Kashmir onBJP ticket, termed the leader sick minded and advised him refrain from issuing such statements . "In strongest possible words we condemn the statement of Subramanian Swamy." Malik told reporters, adding only sick minded people... | |
| | | | Despite GoI support, JK drug policy remains a distant dream | | | | Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 15 : Even as the central government intends to renew overall health system of the country to check spurious/substandard drugs the long pending demand to implement 'Drug Policy' in Jammu and Kashmir remains a distant dream.The union Minister for Health, JP Nadda in the Lok Sabha said that government allocates financial support to states like Jammu and Kashmir to draw up action plans in health subject as per their need and added that under the National Health Mission (NHM), financial support is provided to the States for strengthening their healthcare delivery system including support for provision of free drugs to those who access publ... | |
| | | | PMGSY working at snail's pace in Kishtwar | | 13 Kilometer road stretch not completed in 12 years | | | Bijay Charak
Jammu, Mar 15: The department of Roads and Buildings, has failed in the execution of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) which aims as providing road connectivity to the inhabitants of the far flung areas, as it has not been able to complete as stretch of road measuring 13 kilometers in Kishtwar district in more than 12 years. Sources informed Early Times that 13 kilometer road project from Shiv Nagar to Sranwan in district Kisthwar was sanctioned by Union Government in the year 2003 at an estimate cost of Rs. 5 crore, but after the lapse of 12 years, the agency could construct only 8 kilometer stretch.
They further said that four years on, the construction work on t... | |
| | | | What the interlocutors on J&K stood for? | | Throw report into dustbin | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 15: A Saturday's report quoting a senior Ministry of Home Affairs suggested that the Union Government is likely to ask the Jammu & Kashmir Government to give its views on the October 2011 report of the interlocutors on the state. The UPA Government had appointed three interlocutors - Dilip Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and MM Ansari in October 2010 in the wake of widespread protests in the Valley which resulted in more than 110 killings of hooligans and anti-India elements. The report which appeared in several local dailies in the state, if correct, should cause concern, as the report that was prepared by the interlocutors was not just divisive and pro-separatis... | |
| | | | Thanks to PHE, WSSO dies of miscarriage | | | | Arun Singh
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 15: The lackadaisical attitude of Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department can be gauged from the fact that it had constituted a Water and Sanitation Support Organization (WSSO) as facilitating agency to prepare water security plan nearly five years ago but organization is lying defunct as it has done nothing in this regard till date.
Sources in PHE Department told Early Times that in order prepare water security plan to ensure the availability of clean drinking water in rural areas of the state and under State Water and Sanitation Mission (SWSM), PHE Department had set up Water and Sanitation Support Organization during 2010.
"The Water a... | |
| | | | Moves afoot to defame Mufti | | Noorani terms CMP anti-Kashmir, pro-RSS | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 15: The Common Minimum Programme (CMP) devised by the PDP and the BJP has not gone down well with the pro-Pakistan, pro-China and pro-Syed Ali Shah Geelani commentators. They have unleashed a vilification campaign against patron of the PDP and J&K Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and accused him and those who sealed a deal with the BJP of selling out the Kashmiri interests for the sake of power.
One of the commentators is none other than A G Noorani, who has been championing the anti-cause of Pakistan, China and Kashmiri separatists for more than five decades now. He even writes in the Pakistani dailies like The Dawn against the Indian interests. The o... | |
| | | | Deva's appointment as PSC chairman an expedient step by Mufti Govt | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 15: Finally, J&K's most crucial and prestigious body Public Service Commission will get set into functional mode after months of it remaining dysfunctional, thanks to expedient step taken by the new coalition government led by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed who announced its chairman and other members formally today. A few months back when the then Chief Minister Omar Abdullah sent a panel of names to Governor NN Vohra for the highest appointing body to select one for the post of Chairman, the latter rejected entire panel and kept the matter pending apparently for want of appropriate choice . AS Deva is the bureaucrat who has been named for this coveted post by the M... | |
| | | | Cabinet approves Deva's appointment as PSC chairman | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 15: The Cabinet which met here under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed approved the appointment of Abdul Latief Deva, IAS as Chairman, Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission. The other members of the Commission approved by the Cabinet include Prof Reshi Dogra, ex Registrar, Prof Mushtaq Ahmad Wani, retired Principal, Indu Kelam retired Professor, G.R Bhagat, retired IAS officer and Munshi Muzzaffar Hussain, retired KAS officer.
Pertinently, Governor N N Vohra had rejected the PSC panel which was recommended by the erstwhile NC-Cong regime last year.
The erstwhile regime had approved appointment of Khurshid Ahmad Ganaie, IAS, F... | |
| | | | Rana is IG Jammu, JP is IG Traffic | | Cabinet shuffles Police | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 15: The Cabinet which met here today under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, has ordered the following transfers and postings in Police department with immediate effect.
Dr. B. Srinivas, IPS, IGP CID has been transferred and posted as IGP Home-guards vice J P Singh. Srinivas would also hold the charge of the post of ADGP Home-guards till further orders.
A K Choudhary, IPS, IGP (Pers) PHQ has been transferred and posted as IGP (Hqrs) PHQ vice Deepak Kumar.
Deepak Kumar, IPS, IGP ( Hqrs) PHQ has been transferred and posted as IGP, Armed Kashmir vice Mukesh Singh.
S J M Gillani, IPS, IGP, Crime has been transferred and posted ... | |
| | | | Administrative reshuffle: Symbolism works, but not quite! | | Several tainted officers attached, few still escape the eye | | | Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 15: State Government sent mixed signals with regards to its commitment to check the menace of corruption in the state, through the administrative reshuffle affected by the State Cabinet on Sunday. While many an officers who had been rewarded with plum postings by the previous government despite their heavy indictment in corruption cases and tainted record, have been attached in the first administrative reshuffle ordered by the PDP-BJP coalition generating lot of optimism, there are others who have still managed significant postings despite heavy baggage of allegations on their backs. Cabinet that ordered major reshuffle in top and middle rung b... | |
| | | | Cabinet overhauls administration | | Parvez gets PHE, I&FC | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 15: The Cabinet which met here today under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, ordered major transfers and postings in administration.
Rakesh Kumar Gupta, IAS, Principal Secretary to the Governor, has been transferred and posted as Principal Secretary to the Government, Forest Department, vice Mohammad Afzal Bhat. Suresh Kumar, IAS, Principal Secretary to the Government, Home Department, has been transferred and posted as Director General, J&K Institute of Management, Public Administration and Rural Development, relieving Mohammad Ashraf Bukhari, IAS, of the additional charge of the post. Braj Raj Sharma, IAS Principal Secretary to th... | |
| | | | Mufti begins with bang; bright, honest officers to head PSC, SSRB | | | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 15: Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed has begun on a right note by choosing bright and honest officers to head two important institutions.
He has delivered the message loud and clear. "Perform or perish," seems to be message that has been conveyed to one and all. Mufti has left no virtually no space for favourites and in complete contrast to what was being discussed in political as well as administrative circles chosen a lesser known administrative face of the administration, Lateef-uz-Zamaan Deva to head the all important Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) and seniormost KAS officer Dev Lata Sharma to overhaul Jamm... | |
| | | | Khurshid Ganai's hopes dashed as Mufti govt appoints Latief Deva as new Chairman PSC | | Former nominated members also replaced by fresh faces | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 15: In a major setback to Financial Commissioner, Industries and Commerce, Khurshid Ahmad Ganai the state government headed by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today ordered for the appointment of Abdul Latief Deva as the chairman of Jammu & Kashmir Public Service Commission (J&K PSC). Deva's appointment as J&K PSC Chairman comes as a virtual shock to Financial Commissioner, Industries and Commerce who was in October last year appointed as head of the J&K PSC. However, this could not materialize as objections were raised by Governor Narendra Nath Vohra over the appointment of some members to the Commission by then National Conference-Congress sta... | |
| | | | Administrative reshuffle: Seniority ignored as juniors get postings to higher positions | | Vested interests concealed Court directions from Cabinet | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
jammu, Mar 15: Many a senior officers have been superseded by their juniors to manage higher and more significant postings in the maiden administrative reshuffle ordered by Mufti Government, causing heartburn and dissatisfaction amongst the KAS officers.
Reliable source informed the Early Times, that Additional Deputy Commissioner Srinagar Ghulam Mohammad Dar, who is junior most as per the seniority list both impugned as well as the tentative seniority list issued by the General Administrative Department (GAD), has been posted as Deputy Commissioner Shopian. Dar figured at serial No. 150 in the tentative seniority list much below the other officers i... | |
| | | | Omar in fact requires to laugh at self | | He "sarcastically" helped Delhi police to identify Rahul but "unintelligently" failed to anticipate "wrong deeds" of J&K police when Wazir, Nago were booked in Chopra family murders | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 15 : There is a well known saying in Dogri -- "O keri marhi jithe paabho ni khari". This means that one is in the habit of getting involved in every activity, often in a way that other people laugh at and do not approve of. Ex-chief minister Omar Abdullah is too in the habit of poking his nose in every development which may and may not fall in his domain. He yesterday "laughed off" at Delhi police for seeking "unwarranted" and "weird" inquiries about AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi. "There is a spate of robberies in Lutyens Delhi and police reach Rahul Gandhi's office to find out what he looks like. You have to laugh," Omar wrote on micro-blogging site Twit... | |
| | | | Govt to appoint VCs of SAB shortly | | Panel for PSC members being finalized | | | Bashir Assad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 15 : The PDP-BJP coalition government will soon appoint the Vice-Chairpersons for different State Advisory Boards, sources told Early Times on Sunday.
Sources said the Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has directed the Finance Minister, Haseeb Drabu to work-out the details of appointing VCs with the coalition partner BJP so that the process of appointing new VCs is started at the earliest.
Pertinently the State Government had ordered termination of the appointment of Vice-Chairpersons of different State Advisory Boards on March 10 besides termination of the term of Chairperson of J&K State Commission for Women.
The VCs who services wer... | |
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