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Arnia encounter over, 5 civilians among 12 dead 11/29/2014 12:08:44 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 28 : The encounter in Arnia sector of Jammu region close to Indo-Pak border ended this morning after the remaining fourth militant was gunned down by security forces during the terror attack on an Army patrol that in all left 12 people dead including five civilians and three army personnel. "The encounter has ended and boys did a good job by preventing the militants from striking anywhere," Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police K Rajendra said here. "In all, we have lost three Army personnel and five civilians. All the four militants have been killed," he said, after the end of the encounter this morning which lasted over 24 hours following the fidayeen attack. Yesterday, it was stated that four militants were killed and one more was still holed ...   READ MORE

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Dead, retired officials, politicians, senior professors assigned poll duties JU plays crude joke with J&K election authority! 11/28/2014 11:54:46 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 28: Jammu University (JU) has seemingly played a crude joke with state administration by allegedly deliberately providing erroneous list of employees available with it for conducting Assembly elections in various constituencies of Jammu district. If the sources are to be believed, the University administration which was reprimanded by Deputy Commissioner (DC) Jammu Ajeet Kumar Sahu for not providing list of employees timely responded immediately and sent the only available list of employees. They added that the list contains names of several candidates who are contesting elections and several others who are either out of country since year...   READ MORE   23 out of 436 candidates indicted in criminal cases Beyond promises of clean polity! 11/28/2014 11:54:34 PM 9 face serious charges including attempt to murder, robbery, forgery Sumit Sharma Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 28: Despite political parties promising to give mandate to candidates with clean image, 23 out of the 436 candidates who are contesting Assembly election-2014 have been declared as criminal abused persons, nine of them facing serious criminal charges including attempt to murder, robbery, forgery and crime against women. The data provided to Balvinder Singh of Jammu and Kashmir Election watch by Election Commission of India upto phase -3 reveals that of 23 crime abused candidates, 3 are contesting elections on Indian National Congress (INC) ticket, 3 are contesting on Jammu and...   READ MORE   Hoon, Hasnain in race with Dr Karan Singh for Guv post Vohra likely to go after Assembly elections 11/28/2014 11:54:14 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 28: New Delhi is all set to replace Governor N.N. Vohra with another man either from army background or someone who has served in the intelligence Bureau (IB) and dealt with Jammu and Kashmir for a long time. Sources in New Delhi said that BJP had made up its mind to replace Vohra with former commander of the 15 Corps based in Srinagar Retired Lt. Gen. Syed Ata Hasnain who is currently visiting fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation, the conservative New Delhi-based think-tank whose founder and former director Ajit Doval is India's National Security Adviser (NSA). Hasnain has of late being writing on Kashmir frequently and ...   READ MORE   PDP manifesto misses nothing Includes settlement of migrant Kashmiri Pandits, PoK Refugees, effective governance and much more…… 11/28/2014 11:54:03 PM Javaid Naikoo Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Nov 28: The much awaited Manifesto of People's Democratic Party (PDP) promising self rule, original structure of article 370, revocation of AFSPA, besides remodel of Jammu and Kashmir, settlement of Migrant Kashmiri Pandits, POK Refugees and special status for Minority sections of the society on cards of PDP. Promising to strive for making Jammu and Kashmir politically empowered, economically self reliant, environmentally safe, socially cohesive a...   READ MORE   Ganderbal residents puncture Omar's claims for development of his former home constituency 'He never fulfilled promise of settling down in Ganderbal' 11/28/2014 11:54:01 PM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Nov 28: People of Central Kashmir's Ganderbal district that went to polls in the first phase on November 25 are aghast over the 'mal-treatment' meted out to them by the sitting legislator who is none other than Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah. Sharing their views with Early Times a group of people of the district said that Omar failed them since he could not pursue developmental agenda as promised by him. The residents said that it would have been very difficult for the Chief Minister to retain this assembly segment. "We can accept that every constituency should develop equally, but when it comes to the constituency being represented by Chief M...   READ MORE   Panicked by his likely defeat, NC MLA had rushed to separatist Geelani 11/28/2014 11:53:48 PM ET Report JAMMU, Nov 28: Panicked by his likely defeat because of the strong anti-NC wave gripping the state for its alleged failure on almost every front during its 6-year rule, a party MLA did not shy away from rushing to separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani to "indirectly" seek his support. NC legislator Mohammad Ashraf Ganai is contesting on party ticket from Sopore constituency which has a sizeable number of Kashmiri Hindu migrant voters. A majority of them do not cast their vote in favour of NC as, apart from separatists and militants, they also hold the party responsible for their mass exodus from the Valley in 1989-90. Ganai knew that Kashmiri migrants were unlikely to vote for him b...   READ MORE   "Congress tou Munni se bhi zyaada badnaam hai": NS Sidhu BJP abuses expelled, entertains abusers to woo voters 11/28/2014 11:53:38 PM Shiv Dev Thakur Early Times Report KATRA, Nov 28: BJP is using a new strategy of attracting people of J&K by abusing its leaders after expelling them from the party. Not only this, the State BJP have started campaigning for its candidates in Bollywood Style. A new tactics of BJP's attracting people was seen in Katra when in a campaigning rally the senior BJP leader used to blame the Congress party in his own style in Bollywood manner. Comparing Congress with the Bollywood item girl 'Munni', Senior BJP leader and BJP candidate for Amritsar assembly, Navjot Singh Sidhu charged Katra Congress party and Baldev Raj Sharma (ex MLA Reasi and former BJP candidate Reasi Assembly) of looting peo...   READ MORE   BJP drops core issues for share in JK governance 11/28/2014 11:53:26 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 28: The BJP is deliberately and intentionally dropping its core issues to get a share in governance of the J&K. It's trying to get close to the National Conference and could offer CM post again to the Omar Abdullah. "We will think of giving support or getting their (BJP) support if the party acknowledges that state has separate constitution and Art 370 will not be abrogated," the Omar Abdullah had said. His statement comes hour after the BJP in its vision document didn't make any mention of these issues. "It seems that both parties have got into an understanding. Infact BJP is going extra mile to appease Omar and it is not mere coincidence that his statemen...   READ MORE   BJP mision 44+ in jeopardy 11/28/2014 11:53:18 PM Masood Malik Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 28: The BJP released its so-called Vision Document on Thursday hoping that it would help it win 44+ seats in Jammu & Kashmir. Even a superficial glance at the document would make even a naive to conclude that it would surely mar its electoral chances in Jammu province in the remaining four phases of assembly election. The reason is that the BJP made certain promises which it cannot fulfil so long as Article 370 exists and discard its ideology to "appease Kashmiri separatists". The sharp reaction it has evoked from leaders of refugees from West Pakistan, Scheduled Tribe communities, Other Backward Classes, Refugees from PoJK and other stakeholde...   READ MORE   After dumping Art 370, party describes pro-people Roshini scheme ploy to benefit land mafia BJP makes mountain out of mole hill 11/28/2014 11:53:09 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 28: After dumping abrogation of Article 370, Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) is running short of ideas about how to woo the voters in Jammu region. Realizing that party is losing the momentum in the poll bound state and Modi wave is not enough to take the party across the line, BJP in its recent "Aarop Patra" alleged the Congress led coalition government in 2007 had floated the Roshini scheme to "benefit the land mafia." Pertinently, the state assembly on February 10, 2007 had passed the Roshni Bill aimed at giving free of cost ownership right on 16.60 lakh kanal of the State land under the occupation of farmers in JK. By giving ownership right to farmers on st...   READ MORE   What happened to BJP's manifesto after all? 11/28/2014 11:52:57 PM Masood Malik Early Times Report JAMMU, Nov 28: In-charge of BJP in Jammu and Kashmir Avinash Rai Khana and state BJP president Jugal Sharma Thursday in response to queries from press persons said the "party would soon release its manifesto and clear all the doubts raised by them about the intentions of the party as well as its stand on Article 370". Many press persons grilled the BJP leaders, who released the "Vision Document" in a press conference and told them on their face that the BJP will "not release its manifesto" because it wanted to "get votes in Kashmir". They failed to answer even a single question. Khana and Sharma, who were clueless and appeared quite shaken, only cut a sorry...   READ MORE   Mufti vows to pursue PDP vision document `Massive participation will ensure accountability' 11/28/2014 11:11:48 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Nov 28: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Friday said the greater participation of the people in the electoral process is imperative to safeguard the distinct identity of Jammu and Kashmir. "Overwhelming people's participation in the electoral process will not only make the public representatives accountable before the people but it is a must to safeguard the special constitutional position granted to the state in view of its peculiar historical background," he said while addressing public meetings in Sopore and Handwara. Mufti said PDP has been able to inspire confidence, among a majority of the people in all the regions of the s...   READ MORE   Group LeT ultras waiting opposite Hiranagar in Abhiyal Dogra village 11/28/2014 11:11:35 PM Sanjay Pathak Early Times Report KATHUA, Nov 28: Even as long drawn out encounter near Kathar village of Arnia sub-sector in Jammu district came to an end today, a group of four to six terrorists of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba have been reported to be staying in a house in Abhhiyal Dogra village of Pakistan on other side of the Indo-Pak border opposite Hiranagar sector of Kathua district. If Intelligence agencies are to be believed these terrorists, owing their allegiance to Jamat-ud-Dava of Hafiz Saeed, are staying in the house of one Amir aka Kaka in Abhiyal Dogra village. "They are being escorted by Subedar Malik of 325 Field Intelligence Unit of Pakistan and they are waiting for an opport...   READ MORE   "Successive Governments looted JK for 30 years" 11/28/2014 11:06:07 PM Bivek Mathur Early Times Report Udhampur, Nov 28: Charging successive governments in Jammu and Kashmir of looting the people, the Indian Prime Minister and BJP star campaigner Narendra Modi said that development has been stopped in Jammu and Kashmir for the last over 30 years while the political families have become richer day by day. In his maiden political rally in Udhampur town, Modi said that some political families are looting, blackmailing people emotionally for the last over 3o...   READ MORE   Forcibly stopping of bike by traffic cop turns fatal 1 killed, 1 hurt; DTI among 4 traffic police personnel suspended 11/28/2014 10:59:57 PM Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report Jammu, Nov 28: On the fourth Tawi river bridge at Bhagwati Nagar here, the forcible stopping of a motorcycle by traffic police copsSunday turned out to be fatal. According to police sources, two youth on a motorbike were on their way from Ware House to Bhagwati Nagar via fourth bridge on river Tawi. While they were about to cross the bridge, they spotted a traffic police naka. The youth, who was driving the motorcycle, was not wearing a helmet. Eyewitness...   READ MORE

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