Month: January 2023

Despite the constitution of the divisional level Prescriptions Audit Committee (PAC), doctors in several hospitals of Jammu Kashmir aren't prescribing generic medicines to patients available at the hospital. Health officials on condition of anonymity told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that doctors at various hospitals are not prescribing generic medicines to the patients so as to give benefit to private clinics and to give their percentage as well. They said directions given to doctors to mention, the unit/department name on the prescription are also thrown to the wind so that the identity of doctors not prescribing generic medicines won't get disclosed. Meanwhile, attendants as well as patients talking to KNO said that the nexus between doctors and private clinics ...

The Jammu Kashmir police on Monday afternoon allegedly stopped media personnel from covering the Bharat Jodo Yatra in the winter capital of Jammu Kashmir. A media report by Jammu based Straight-line said that several media personnel were told to not move towards the spot of the Congress foot March which is in its final stage. Though the Police personnel who stopped the media personnel from moving towards the venue refused to answer any questions from the media personnel in Jammu. Locals also alleged that they were being stopped from moving toward the venue of the Yatra. Meanwhile, a large delegation of Kashmiri pandits met the Congress leader and appraised him of various issues faced by the minority community. On Monday, Rahul Gandhi also said that despite the growing unempl...

A special court in Jammu on Monday ”closed” banned JKLF chief Yasin Malik’s right to cross-examine a prime witness in a 1990 case related to the killing of four IAF personnel after he refused to do so through video conference, a lawyer said. Malik, who is in Delhi’s Tihar Jail after being convicted in a terror funding case and has been demanding that he be allowed to cross-examine witnesses physically in the Jammu court, was present in court virtually. He was asked whether he would like to examine V K Sharma, a prime witness in the case. Malik refused and reiterated his stand that he would like to physically question Sharma in court, said Monika Kohli, senior additional advocate general and CBI counsel. ”However, the accused did not do that following which the court closed his rig...

A tourist hut was damaged in a fire incident in North Kashmir’s Kupwara. Sources told the news agency Kashmir News Trust that a fire broke out in a tourist hut in the Deedikoot Vilgam area of Kupwara, resulting in damage to the hut. They said firefighters and police doused the flames. Police Station Vilgam has registered a case to find out the cause of the fire. [KNT]