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Hospital directed to pay relief 3 porters buried under avalanche
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CM trying to change state’s demography: Mirwaiz
Srinagar, December 21 “The recent passage of the act by the coalition government in the state assembly is a dangerous move and would spell disaster,” the Awami Action Committee (AAC), a constituent of the Hurriyat Conference, said. The committee, headed by former Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Moulvi Omar Farooq, said in a statement here that the Mufti government was trying to change the demography of Jammu and Kashmir by allowing the people of other states to settle in the disputed territory. The assembly has passed the Act, which authorises the Power Development Corporation of India or any other central agency to acquire land mortgaged to it by the state government against any loan. National Conference President Omar Abdullah accused the state government of having a tacit understanding with certain forces to dilute the special status of the state. “Such enactments were part of a larger design being carried out at the behest of forces inimical to the people of the state,” said Mr Abdullah, former Union Minister of State for External Affairs. He said the present government was making concerted efforts to further erode the autonomy of the state. However, he warned that such acts would have a long term bearing on the future of the state. Jammu and Kashmir Awami National Conference, headed by former Chief Minister Ghulam Mohammad Shah, described the move as “anti-people and unwise”. Threatening to start a statewide campaign against the Act, the committee spokesman in a statement here alleged that government had bowed before the Centre and betrayed the people of the state. — UNI
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Mufti govt survives toppling bid Jammu, December 21 According to senior PDP circles, the bid to overthrow the Mufti government was initiated when the Chief Minister was in London recently. A couple of legislators belonging to the Congress and the Peoples Democratic Forum joined hands with a group of MLAs from the National Conference and two senior bureaucrats. They promised the dissidents in the ruling coalition Rs 50 lakh in cash and Cabinet berths in case they defected from their parent organisation. The National Conference, with 28 members in the state Assembly, needed the support of 16 MLAs for overthrowing the government. It had succeeded in getting the support of at least 10 MLAs. When the Chief Minister received the report regarding the matter in London, he directed his trusted men to foil the plan. The toppling bid, however, continued till the fag end of the special session of the Assembly, which ended here last week. Those who had initiated the plan of dislodging the government tried their best to secure the support of majority of MLAs for defeating the Bill on the management and regulation of Wakf property. However, the Chief Minister, his deputy Mangat Ram, and Finance Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig saw that the Bill was adopted in the House. What surprised the Mufti was the way a couple of MLAs, belonging to the ruling coalition and who had been appointed as heads of public sector corporations recently, had agreed to help the anti-Mufti forces. Those legislators from the Congress, who were approached by the Opposition leaders, were reluctant as they feared that they could face expulsion under the anti-defection law. The Congress dissidents needed the support of seven party MLAs for defecting to the other side because the party has a strength of 20 members in the Assembly. |
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BJP’s anti-govt posture Jammu, December 21 Mr Nirmal Singh, who was unanimously elected the state BJP chief recently, told this correspondent here today that the coalition government was “friendly towards the terrorists who killed innocent people”, and was discriminating against the Jammu region. Mr Nirmal Singh alleged that the Mufti government was discriminating against the Jammu region in providing employment to the victims of terrorism. While about 1550 victims of militancy had been given government jobs in the Kashmir valley, only about 530 victims were employed in the Jammu region. The number of victims was high in border districts of Poonch and Rajouri where people were being massacred by the ultras daily, but the victims there had been denied government jobs in equal proportion. He said the BJP would highlight the “exploitation” of the technocrats and the youths by the coalition government, which was employing trained teachers on a fixed remuneration of Rs 1500 per month, engineers on Rs 2500 per month and doctors on Rs 3500 per month. He said farmers and industry were suffering badly because of frequent power cuts. The rural areas were being denied power for about 14 hours daily. He accused the coalition government of having miserably failed in checking corruption flourishing at high places and government offices. He described the recent termination of 15 “tainted” employees an “eyewash” as those compulsorily retired were small fries and not a single senior officer or bureaucrat had been touched. |
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6 Pak infiltrators killed in Poonch
Jammu, December 21 The spokesman said six infiltrators were killed after they crossed the LoC and were trying to cross the anti-infiltration fencing put by the security forces 2 km inside the border. The detection of infiltrators belies reports that there has been a lull in infiltration since the ceasefire came into effect. The reports were collated by the National Security Council along with inputs from the RAW, the IB, Military Intelligence and the BSF. According to the reports, there had been a dip in attempts of infiltration even during November itself. Armed forces recovered five AK rifles, 23 magazines, 21 grenades, nine UBGL grenades, three pistols, 318 rounds, five IEDs, three radio sets besides medicines, documents from the militants, the spokesman said. Srinagar: Militants shot dead two persons, including a woman, and injured another suspecting them to be informers of security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said here on Sunday. The police recovered bodies of Ghulam Rasool Lone, alias Gul Poonchi (60), and Sharifa Begum (37) from Darakashi village in the Tangmarg area of North Kashmir’s Baramula district, the sources said. Lone and Sharifa were dragged out of their houses at Darakashi village by militants and shot dead. In the Pattan area last evening, militants shot at and injured a government employee, Fayaz Ahmad Bhat, who was believed to have persuaded his militant brother to surrender before the security forces a few months ago, the sources said. Bhat, who sustained bullet injuries on his leg at his in-laws residence at Vail village, was admitted to a hospital here where his condition was stated to be stable, they added. — PTI
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Hospital directed to pay relief
Srinagar, December 21 The commission passed its order on a complaint filed by Manzoor Ahmad Wani, a resident of the border district of Kupwara, whose wife Reshma was diagnosed with a stone in her kidney by doctors at SMHS Hospital. However, when she was operated upon on January 24 this year, the doctors did not remove the stone saying that it could be removed with “lithotripsy (ESWL)” but the facility was not available at the hospital. Disposing the case, the commission came down heavily on the doctors for criminal negligence and directed the state to pay the expenses of the patient for lithotripsy and make arrangements to conduct it at any prestigious centre in the country. The judgement observed that the attitude of the doctors in the case was criminal in nature. Meanwhile, junior doctors in the government-run hospitals deferred their 10-day-old strike for four weeks following assurance by Health Minister Lal Singh. The doctors who were on indefinite strike from December 11 had intensified their strike after the government refused to enhance their salaries and threatened to take stern action against them. They were demanding salaries on par with their counterparts at Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences. — UNI
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3 porters buried
under avalanche Baramulla, December 21 They said all three were buried alive under a huge avalanche. The bodies were recovered this morning and taken away by the police, the sources said. With this, a total of six porters have been killed since North Kashmir experienced heavy snow on December 12. Three porters were killed in a similar incident at Kupwara last week.
— UNI
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Jammu, December 21
