Day: April 6, 2016

Mewar University suspends 16 Students from J&K post T20 Clash

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Sixteen students from Jammu and Kashmir have been suspended by the Mewar University for their alleged role in the scuffle over the India-West Indies T20 World Cup match last week, a media report said today. Earlier, police had arrested nine students and one employee — all from Jammu and Kashmir —on Thursday after they got into a fight after the match, which India lost to West Indies. The students were, however, released on bail Monday. “We have decided to take strong disciplinary action against these students. It needs to be…

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Decisive measures needed to end despair in JK : Mehbooba

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Mehbooba Mufti is the first ever woman Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. A day after taking over, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said “decisive measures” would be required to end the scenario of “despair and trust-deficit” in the state and informed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had committed full support from the Centre. “The Prime Minister called me this morning, immediately on his return from Saudi Arabia, reassuring me of full support from the Government of India in mitigating the sufferings of the people of…

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The Men Who Ruled us

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……… and finally we have awoman in the officce “ Good Government is no substitute for Self Government.” Mahatma Gandhi M ehbooba Mufti has finally put an end to an era of men who ruled us. Ever since the ‘ Conditional Accession’ of Jammu & Kashmir with union of India, for the last seven decades, the Jammu & Kashmir caught in a political turmoil, was ruled by eleven men, as Prime Ministers and Chief Ministers, whose failure of politics, political courage, conviction and empathy has made Kashmir to burn time…

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Gulmarg to host SnowShoe championship on Sunday

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Winter sports resort of Valley, Gulmarg is going to host first ever Snow Shoe championship on Sunday. The competition would be organized by SnowShoe Federation of India in collaboration with Directorate of Tourism, Kashmir. In the event SSFI keeping limited number of equipment available in State in mind has only allowed selected athletes of Valley to participate. “It will be first time that SnowShoe event would be held in any part of the Country. Gulmarg will get the distinction of hosting that. It is more of introducing Snowshoe activity in…

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Key departments, including Home, to remain under CM’s control

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Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti will be heading key departments in Jammu and Kashmir, including Home, Planning and Tourism. On Monday, after being sworn-in as the first woman Chief Minister of J&K, Mehbooba assigned portfolios to 16 ministers in her cabinet. Six ministers of state were also assigned the charges. The departments under Mehbooba include Home, Tourism, Planning, General Administration, Information, Hospitality and Protocol, Civil Aviation, Horticulture, Ladakh Affairs, and Tribal Affairs. Earlier during the day, Mehbooba withdrew charge of the Tribal Affairs Department from ChoudharyZulfikar Ali. The Mehbooba-led cabinet was…

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Clashes in NIT Srinagar after non-local students ‘assault’ police officer, HRD team to arrive in Srinagar

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HRD team to arrive in Srinagar, Singh calls Mehbooba Tension gripped the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar after a group of students clashed with police on Tuesday. “A group of NIT students, all of them non-locals, marched to the gates of the institute shouting slogans,” a police officer said. “A senior police officer advised them not to go out of the campus as that could result in a law and order problem. The students refused to listen and some of them manhandled the officer,” he said. He said police…

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Private practice by govt docs hits patient care badly

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DAK terns it root cause of ‘health care mess’ Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that the private practice by government doctors in Jammu and Kashmir particularly in teaching hospitals has badly hit patient care. Calling for complete ban on private practice, President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said that it is the root cause of healthcare mess and patients suffer the consequences. “It is ironical that full-time government doctors are allowed to run private clinics depriving poor and underprivileged of essential health care,” Dr Hassan said…

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Roads or Ruins: Horrors of travelling

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No one questions authorities who are responsible for planning and building of roads Sehar Saleem The National Highway 1A (NH1A) is a traffic horror story in itself with traffic gridlocks spanning on it at numerous places, starting from Sonawar, to Badami Bagh, Athwajan, Pantha Chowk, Pampore and so on. One of the biggest worry for Kashmiris is traffic jams and bad roads. Being a regular traveler on NH1A since the last five months, I have seen traffic jams last for hours. I have seen ambulances get stuck in traffic, desperate…

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Kashmir Inc pins hopes on CM for revival of state economy

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Congratulating Mehbooba Mufti for becoming Jammu and Kashmir’s first woman chief minister, business community here has pinned all their hopes on new CM for revival of the ‘beleaguered’ economy and bailing out the state from the current financial difficulties. Post 2014 floods, Kashmir is yet to come out from the business losses and economic slowdown. JK in fiscal year 2014-15 witnessed negative growth of more than half percent in its GSDP. The Prime Minister’s package had allocated only Rs 800 crore as relief to provide succor to the flood hit…

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SKIMS officials fake burglary to escape probe

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Sale of expired surgical equipment, consumables The officials of Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura have gone to a new low to cover up their frauds and medical negligence by allegedly faking a burglary in the institute’s Drug Store, a day after exposing the fraud. On April 3, this newspaper has carried news about sale of expired surgical equipment and consumables by the SKIMS at its Drug Counters. As per official sources, the surgical equipment and consumables like Endoscopy Band, Platelet Theresis Set, and Prolene Mesh were being sold…

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