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Hospitals for Srinagar, Jammu planned Azad to respond positively to ceasefire Couple among 4 killed in J&K ‘Razor man’ held for injuring 3
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meet to begin new chapter on peace: Mufti Srinagar, September 12 “I sincerely hope that the two visionary leaders will not allow this opportunity to go a waste and take courageous steps to bring the peace and composite-dialogue process back on rails”, Mr Sayeed said in a statement here today. Mr Sayeed hoped that the two leaders would not allow “vested interests” to disrupt the dialogue and peace process. He added that peace for the people of Jammu and Kashmir was not a choice but a necessity as it was a question of life and death for them. The PDP patron called for complete cessation of hostilities within the state to pave the wave for peace and normalcy in tune with the people's yearnings, who had been suffering the miseries of turmoil and strife all these years. He further said there should be free flow of ideas, goods and services across the Line of Control (LoC) to workout the peaceful resolution of the Kashmir problem. To push ahead the peace process, he suggested various Confidence Building Measures (CBMs), including improved communication links across the LoC, resumption of air links, opening of more trans-LoC transit points, frequent and hassle-free movement of the people and goods and cross exchange of tourists, pilgrims, students and faculties of universities.
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Free heart surgery for J&K boy New Delhi, September 12 While Razak would often suffer from breathlessness and weakness, he was detected to be having atrial septal defect(ASD) and pulmonary stenosis at a local medical camp in Udhampur. For his father Muhammad Salim, an employee with a gas agency and managing his family on a meagre monthly salary, getting his son cured would have been a rather difficult task had little Razak not been covered and brought to Delhi’s National Heart Institute(NHI) under the Rotary Club’s Gift of Life Project. What is more, at the same camp, Salim also discovered that his second son, one-and-a-half-year-old Muhammad Rakib, was also suffering from similar heart problem. But today, sitting happily on his grandmother’s lap at a function to celebrate the success of his four-and-a-half hour long surgery, Razak looked anything like the weak, sick child he was till the Rotary project came to his family’s aid. Incidentally, with this he also becomes the first child from Jammu and Kashmir to benefit from the project. Dressed in a green T-shirt and quite comfortable with his grandmother Sapura Begum and grandfather Nazir Muhammad and flanked by senior cardiac surgeons from the NHI and officials of the Jammu and Kashmir House in the Capital, Razak looked and behaved like any other three-year-old his age, asking for water and sweets Sapura Begum was carrying. Sapura Begum and her husband were all blessings and praise for Rotary and the NHI, where Razak was treated free of cost and the family provided accommodation. Hopefully, little Rakib too would undergo the life-saving surgery under the project once he reached the age of three. Razak’s case, says NHI manager R. Srivatsan, is the first free surgery under the project for anyone belonging to Jammu and Kashmir, which will be followed up by several more from the state. Under the Gift of Life project, as many as 300 children, including 16 from Pakistan, who had suffering from heart ailments have been provided free of cost medical treatment at Chandigarh, Delhi, Bangalore and Trivandrum hospitals under the project. Rotary International’s Sushil Gupta said the target now was to provide treatment at least 1,000 children every year under the project. |
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Hospitals for Srinagar, Jammu planned Srinagar, September 12 He was speaking at a high- level meeting attended by Minister for Health and Medical Education Mr Mangat Ram Sharma and other senior officers here on Saturday. The meeting was told that Rs 200 crore from the Centre and Rs. 40 crore from the state government had been earmarked for the upgradation of medical colleges of Srinagar and Jammu. The Chief Minister emphasised that keeping in view the urgent need of sophisticated hospitals and modern health infrastructure, urgent steps were required to be taken for utilising Rs 240 crore on upgradation and reconstruction of various health facilities in the hospitals, on priority and speedy manner. Others who attended the meeting included senior officers of Ministry of Health, Government of India, Chief Architect of Hospitals, Government of India, senior- level doctors of the PGI, Chandigarh, and senior officers and doctors of the state. The Chief Minister said the agencies, engaged for the construction of these hospitals, would be held responsible by putting penal provision in the contract and agreement documents, for any delay beyond 18 months. He assured that necessary security for executing the work on these hospitals would be provided round the clock, so that with the timely completion of these hospitals long pending demand of the people of Srinagar and Jammu is redressed. He said keeping in view huge investment allocated for these two mega hospitals, super-specialty wards and wards catering to all kinds of diseases and ailments are established.
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Azad to respond positively to ceasefire Srinagar, September 12 The ceasefire should not limit to the holy month of Ramazan only, but can be extended beyond that period in case militants declare to shun violence, the Chief Minister said in a statement here yesterday. Mr Azad said the time had come to declare stoppage of all kinds of violence, attacks on innocents, throwing of grenades, planting of IEDs and resorting to harassment of people, by militants. “In view of the holy month, people will appreciate the same, and from the government side, he will be happy to respond”, the statement added. The Chief Minister hoped that this would not only help in progress and development of the state, but would provide opportunity to the people to get rid of violence and miseries for ever. Militants will also accordingly realise that peace is the demand of the people and gun culture has no relevance in any civilized society, when matters can be sorted out on table through dialogue in a peaceful atmosphere, he added.
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Srinagar, September 12 Two persons were injured when an IED, planted by militants, exploded on the Sherpora-Kharpora road in the Kulgam area of Anantnag district this afternoon, a police spokesman said. The IED was detonated by militants when the motorcade of local Congress leader and district president Inayatullah Rather was passing through the area at around 1 p.m. However, the Congress leader escaped unhurt, he said. The spokesman said two militants were killed in an encounter with the security forces at Malangam in Baramula district last night. Militants shot dead 50-year-old Jamal Din and his wife Guddu Begum in their house at Thandi Dhok in Rajouri district last night. — PTI
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‘Razor man’ held for injuring 3
Srinagar, September 12 Nicknamed “razor man”, 23-year-old Javid Ahmed Kumar was arrested this morning after his victims, which include two schoolchildren, identified him, the police said, adding that he was mentally-unstable. Javid had allegedly attacked a nine-year-old boy Yaseer Iqbal Bakshi at Kalashpora last night, wounding him in the neck and hand. The boy was rushed to a hospital where his condition was stated to be out of danger. Earlier, Kumar attacked eight-year-old Mubarak Shah in front of his school in downtown city, the police said. “I was about to enter the school when a man called me near the school gate. He brandished a razor when I stopped and injured me in the neck,” Mubarak said. He had also reportedly attacked a middle-aged Doda resident, Sajad Ahmed, outside a mosque in Khanyar on Sunday.
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