Brave heart

Mr. hameed was really a brave person. He was a year senior to me in DAV School Magarmal Bagh.I remember a fire incident near the school when he ran to extinguish fire and to help the inmates. That was the turning point of his life. He chose to be a fire officer. May God grant peace to his departed soul More

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Regularizing contractual

This refers to your letter about exploiting contractual lecturers. It was mentioned that government is going to regularize them without qualifying PSC. What aboutthose who are not working as contractual. Is government making it a norm for regularization. I oppose. Altaf Hussain More

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Heinous act

This refers to the recent incident of rape of a 13 year old girl by a “pir”. This incident highlights the need for an immediate intervention by the police so that such things don't happen under the garb of faith healing. T.Hassan BhatKulgam kashmir More

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Forty days

This refers to the news item "valley gets relief as Chillaikallan comes to an end" the actual period of Chillaikallan remains from 21 Dec. to 29 Jan, that is exactly 40 days. Therefore the last day of Chillaikallan is Jan. 29 not Jan. 30 as mentioned in the news item.Ahmad Kashmiri Tangmarg More

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Private practice

The recent government order to ban private practice of HoDs in hospitals is a welcome step to improve the ever falling healthcare standards of the state. Its high time that the private practice is banned for all doctors in government institutions so as to improve the availability and accountancy of More

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Senior doctors

I was referred from Uri to SMHS hospital for checkup. Here I came to know that private practice of senior doctors has been banned. I was happy to have a consultation by a senior physician. To my agony I was sent to a room where after waiting in queue for more than 2 hours, I came across some junior More

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Sheer imagination

The imaginary house which the learned Ms Santosh Bakaya had drawn in her imaginary world is more than real as it has the capacity to withhold the basic needs of the virtual owner (Gk 02/02/13).The maturity with which the picture of this house was compared with the daily routines of our life has More

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Proper screening

Government issued directions to PSC and SSRB to select candidates for government services through  three tier selection process. Screening test, written exam  and interview. A welcome step. It will stop entry of those candidates into government service who are obtaining degrees from dubious More

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