Month: April 2016

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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ERA told to conduct safety audit of flyover projects

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The Jammu and Kashmir Economic Reconstruction Agency has been told to conduct safety audit of under-construction flyover projects in the state following the recent flyover collapse in Kolkata. “Keeping in view the recent unfortunate flyover accident in Kolkata, the state government has ordered for safety audit of all the under-construction flyover projects in the state, including the two flyovers being constructed by the ERA in Srinagar and Jammu,” Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) spokesperson Muhammad Azhar said after a meeting of a four-member team of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), led…

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PM reassured support in mitigating people’s suffering: Mehbooba

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Asks ministers to throw open doors for people Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti Tuesday urged his ministers to throw open their doors for people and told public if they fail to redress their grievances, they should register complaint against the ministers with the CM’s office. Addressing a gathering of people at the Chief Minister’s residence at Wazarat Road in Jammu, Mehbooba in presence of her senior cabinet colleagues Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu, Education Minister Naeem Akhtar and Minister for IT, Youth Services and Sports, and Technical Education, Imran Raza Ansari told…

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Leading from front remains Mehbooba’s main challenge

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It is very easy to list the tasks ahead for the new Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who is a wearing a crown of thorns as this is the “most difficult state to govern”. She told the inaugural meeting of her Council of Ministers on Monday, “It is not my challenge only. It is a challenge for all of you.” The answer is that primarily it is a challenge for her only. She is the leader and it is for her to give the direction and inspire team spirit among her…

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BJP extends olive branch to PDP

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‘Art 35-A, beef and State flag issues trivial, shouldn’t be raised’ The rightwing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday extended an olive branch to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) promising no one should raise issues that disturb peace in the State. Talking to us in his civil secretariat chambers in Jammu, senior BJP leader Chaudhary Lal Singh termed the issues like revocation of Article 35-A, which ensures a special status to Jammu Kashmir, consumption of beef and unfurling of State’s flag raised by rightwing parties during the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed-led PDP-BJP government as…

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Unrest on NIT Srinagar campus as outstation students protest, lathicharged; CRPF deployed

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About 500 NIT Srinagar students in shape of mob carrying banners tried to take out a march out of NIT Srinagar. Unrest was witnessed again on Tuesday at NIT Srinagar, the scene of last week’s clash, with outstation students expressing a sense of insecurity and attempting to leave the campus, leading to a confrontation with police which resorted to lathicharge in which some were injured. With the situation being tense, CRPF was tonight deployed at campus and Jammu and Kashmir government assured full security to the students from other states…

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