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Tahir Mushtaq  GNS JAMMU, Dec : While crores have been spent on up gradation of infrastructure in the hospitals across Jammu and Kashmir in past eight years, but lack of trained manpower has rendered these newly created facilities useless.  One such example is the unutilized four Operation Theatres (OT) in the new emergency block of the Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu which have remained non functional even after eight months of inauguration.  Sources said that provision for these OTs were made to enable doctors to attend the emergency cases in minimum possible time, particularly road accident victims and to ease pressure on the existing operation facilities but these have so far not been used due to shortage of manpower.  Sources said that these new operation theatres are even without the required equipments, putting a question mark on the huge investments made on the building of the new emergency block in the premier hospital of Jammu region.  “Last year

Suhasini Haidar Award winning journalist Suhasini Haidar, is a Sr. editor and prime time anchor and India’s leading 24-hr English news channel CNN-IBN, also hosting the signature show, “ World View with Suhasini Haidar ” (www.ibnlive.com/worldview) . She is a regular columnist on Indian Foreign Policy and Strategic Issues for national dailies such as  The Hindu, Business Standard  &  the Indian Express Over the course of her 17-year career, Suhasini has covered the most challenging stories & conflicts from the most diverse regions including Pakistan, Sri Lanka,  Libya, Lebanon and Syria.  In India, she has covered the external affairs beat for over a decade and her domestic assignments include in-depth reportage from Kashmir. In 2011 she won the  Indian Television Academy-GR8! Award  for ‘Global news coverage’,and the Exchange4Media ‘Enba’ award for best spot news reporting from Libya. In 2010, She won the  NewsTelevision NT “Best TV News Presenter” Award . S

NC led regime failed to carry forward peace, development agenda:Mehbooba GNS Rajouri, December : Reiterating resolve of her party to aggressively purse the pro-people agenda, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehooba Mufti today said that PDP led regime, during its short tenure, had not only resorted peace in the state but also laid strong foundation for accelerating developmental activities in all regions and sub-regions. Addressing public meetings at Darhal and Thanamandi areas of Rajouri district, Ms Mufti said that new routes of communication were opened in the twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri which were the worst victim of seize after the partition. “Opening of cross LoC routes and construction of Mugal road has opened new avenues in this region which was neglected by the successive National Conference regimes”, she said and added that there was A huge tourism potential in this belt and opening of such routes would attract foreign tourists". She

GNS JAMMU, Dec :  The State Government today ordered an inquiry into conversion of over 700 kanals of agriculture land for non-agriculture purpose and pressure used on farmers from various quarters to sell it to State Times Editor Raj Daluja alias Raji at village Raipur Jagir near Seri Rakwalan in Gho Manasan area under the jurisdiction of Kanachak police station. A spokesman of the Revenue Department told the Excelsior that a `secret inquiry' has been ordered to find out how such a large chunk of agriculture land on Tawi river bed was managed by a non-agriculturist. He confirmed that Raji or his wife Suman Daluja or any other family members didn't fall in the category fixed for sale of more than four kanals of agriculture land. “Such a big sale of agriculture land can take place only between the agriculturists'', he said, adding that Raji or his family members didn't fall in any clause fixed for sale of agriculture land of more than four kanals. According to lo

GNS SRINAGAR, Dec  :   The Association of Self-Help Group of Engineers today alleged that the recently introduced e-tendering process has been tailor made to benefit contractors. While addressing a press conference, Syed Parvez Hussain, President Self Help Group of Engineers Association (SHGEA) expressed his fears that the e-tendering may eat into their interests saying that the process has been expedited for the benefit of the contractors. He said the imposition of district barriers would ensure that there is a bar on the allocation of works in a particular district. "We fear that our cards may be misused under the garb of e-tendering process. The scheme has been designed to suit the interests of contractors and they seem to be ultimate beneficiaries. There has been awareness about the e-tendering and everything has been done in a jiffy without any proper procedure," said Parvez. The SHGEA President said the higher ups of departments like Power Development Departme

GNS JAMMU, Dec :  In a major decision, the Government today ordered attachment of three senior police officers of Reasi district including SSP Keshav Ram Chaurasia while police arrested DySP Headquarters Mohammad Aslam Choudhary after Additional SP Reasi Anita Sharma lodged a FIR against him that he had hurled abuses on her during the public meeting of Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy and National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah. The Government has ordered an inquiry into the entire episode. IGP Jammu Dilbagh Singh would hold the inquiry, official sources said. SSP Reasi Keshav Ram Chaurasia, IPS, Additional SP Reasi, Anita Sharma, KPS and DySP Headquarters, Reasi, Mohammad Aslam Choudhary have been removed from Reasi and attached in the office of the IGP Jammu by a Government order. The Government has appointed IPS officer Atul Goyal as SSP Reasi, Mohammad Sharief Chouhan as Additional SP and Ajitha Begum, another IPS officer as ASP Headquarters, Reasi. Th