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Separatists maintain criminal silence over Sarpanch's killing Panchayat representatives soft targets for 'frustrated militants' 12/14/2014 12:09:19 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 13: The abduction and subsequent killing of a Sarpanch in north Kashmir's volatile Sopore town one day ahead of fourth phase of the assembly elections in Srinagar, Anantnag and Shopian districts has once again proved that Panchayat representatives are soft targets for the militants and when they (militants) fail to strike in a big way they make it a point to at least kill a Panch or a Sarpanch. Pertinently suspected militants abducted Ghulam Mohammad Mir, 62, from Tarzoo area in Sopore last night and his body was recovered from a field in Shalabugh area of Sopore town this morning. A week ago, the militants had shot dead a Sarpanch Mohammad Sultan in south Kashmir's Shopian area, while another one was shot at and injured in Pulwama. In May this year ahead of the Parliamentary polls militants created fear ahead of polls in south Kashmir by targeting Panchs and Sarpanchs but this time around due to tight security and intensified vigil militants couldn't succeed in inflicting much damage despite making desperate attempts. An analyst while talk...   READ MORE

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Ex-Ministers Gulchain, Shabir among 14 face criminal cases 5th phase of J&K Assembly Elections 12/14/2014 12:09:00 AM Sumit Sharma Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 13: Out of the 213 candidates from 20 constituencies who are contesting in the fifth phase of Jammu and Kashmir 2014 Assembly Elections, 14 have declared criminal cases against themselves in a self sworn affidavit and 9 among them are those who are facing serious criminal cases including attempt to murder, kidnapping and crime against women. Two of them are Shabir Ahmed Khan-Health Minister in Omar led coalition government and Gulchain Singh Charak-former Minister of Higher Education, PWD. 3 out of 20 candidates from INC, 2 out of 20 from JKNC, 4 out of 19 candidates from JKNPP and 4 out of 70 independent candidates have declared criminal cas...   READ MORE   BJP hoodwinking women by making false promises Party with no difference 12/14/2014 12:08:44 AM Masood Malik Early Times Report JAMMU, Dec 13: External Affairs Minister and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, who knows nothing about Jammu & Kashmir, on Friday declared that the BJP would create a history in Jammu & Kashmir by getting absolute majority just as it had achieved landmark figure in Lok Sabha elections followed by Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly polls and said return of peace in the State would lead to vast opportunities in tourism, industrial and employment sectors. She made this statement while addressing two election rallies at Mahanpur (Basohli) and Bani Assembly segments in Kathua district. There was nothing abnormal when she claimed that the BJP would get absolute maj...   READ MORE   Acting VC takes rightwing route for permanent appointment, appeases BJP leadership in JU 12/14/2014 12:08:33 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 13: Faculty in University campus these days is intensely debating acting Vice-Chancellor Prof. R.D. Sharma's rightwing shift and apparent appeasement of a selected few. If the university faculty members are to be believed, Sharma violated sanctity of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) to appease none other than BJP's senior leader and candidate from Billawar constituency Dr. Nirmal Singh by allowing his wife, who is a contractual employee to campaign for her husband. Prior to this, faculty members maintain that Sharma bestowed Prof. Rajnikant with the charge of Academic Staff College (ASC). They added that acting VC did this to purportedly appease Dr. Nirmal S...   READ MORE   Post-poll scene in J&K may be more interesting than ongoing poll process 12/14/2014 12:08:26 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 13: Assuming that the ongoing Assembly election throws up a hung House what shape the coalition rule may assume? Will it be the Congress-NC coalition Government, a repeat of 2008 experiment? Will it be a congress-PDP coalition rule, a repeat of the 2002 experiment? Will it be the BJP-NC or BJP-PDP coalition Government? These questions have started surfacing in Jammu and Kashmir even after the leadership of the Congress, the NC and the PDP claim that they would get comfortable majority to run the Government on its own. People and political leaders have not yet dubbed the BJP's ambition of achieving +44 mission as mere wishful thinking. Since 2002 elections...   READ MORE   This is the worst Congress ever It is even worse than it looks 12/14/2014 12:08:18 AM Bharat Bhushan Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 13: The state Congress is no good, very bad Congress. It is faced with the constipation of ideas and is dubbed as "do-nothing Congress". Except for NC criticism, it has nothing to offer to the electorate. In his series of public meetings, party veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad has repented on having an alliance with NC. AICC chairperson Sonia Gandhi too has accused NC and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for their failure to implement UPA schemes in J&K. The top Congress leadership is nowadays busy in NC bashing without realising the fact that it needs to first set its own house in order. Not outsiders but its own ministers have caused it a greater harm a...   READ MORE   Omar's attack on Valley- centric BJP misplaced State Subject Laws 12/14/2014 12:08:05 AM Masood Malik Early Times Report JAMMU, Dec 13: Outgoing Chief Minister and working president of the National Conference Omar Abdullah instead of appreciating the BJP is attacking it. He is telling his communal constituency in the Kashmir Valley that the BJP would erode the state's special status and change the state's demography by repealing the State Subject Laws if it succeeded in achieving its Mission 44+ and forming the next government in the state. "It's not that BJP is eyeing 44+ seats in the legislative assembly but their actual mission is to erode the special status enjoyed by the state and they want to begin with the State Subject Law by virtue of which they will try to erode th...   READ MORE   All eyes on Srinagar as fourth phase of Assembly elections being held today Fate of Mufti, Omar, Sagar, Peerzada, Mir set to be sealed in EVMs 12/14/2014 12:07:54 AM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Dec 13: Stage is all set for the holding of the fourth phase of Assembly elections in the state. Fate of various political heavyweights of the different political parties would be sealed tomorrow as and when the polling would come to an end. More than 14 lakh and 73 thousand voters are eligible to cast their votes in the fourth phase with elections spread across the Kashmir and Jammu regions of the state. Electors in 18 assembly seats would get a chance to choose among 182 candidates fighting the elections during this phase of elections. Elections are being held in 16 assembly seats of Kashmir valley and Samba and Vijaypur seats in the Samba...   READ MORE   After a gap of 27 years, 2014 elections draw Salah-ud-Din's relatives to polling booth 12/14/2014 12:07:44 AM Shakeel A Khan Early Times Report BUDGAM, Dec 13: Call it anti-National Conference sentiment or wave of People’s Democratic Party, even the close relatives of United Jehad Council Chairman Syed Salah-ud-Din couldn't resist the temptation this time. After a gap of about 27 years some close relatives of the UJC chief exercised their franchise. Besides casting his vote, one of his immediate relative rendered the services of a polling agent to a party from dawn to dusk and without any shyness on his face. It was the rarest of rare sight and it continues to be hot issue in the native village of the UJC chief and in the adjacent villages as well. "Election in this area is nothing new in our a...   READ MORE   BJP rebel asks people to press NOTA Campaigns against Jugal Kishore's brother in Nagrota 12/13/2014 11:37:32 PM K Koushal Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 13: Terming BJP a party of 'crooks', disgruntled party leader, Pawan Gupta, sidelined by Bharatiya Janta Party, has resorted to anti-BJP campaigning in Nagrota constituency and is asking people to elect a candidate of clean image otherwise press None of The Above (NOTA). The BJP insiders said, Pawan Gupta, raised the banner of revolt after the BJP State President and MP Jugal Kishore Sharma handed over the party mandate from Udhampur constituency to a new face and a Brahmin candidate Pawan Khajuria. Sources said Pawn Gupta by running an anti-BJP campaign in Nagrota is trying his best to cut the votes of Nand Kishore Sharma, brother of the...   READ MORE   CAPD blames people for failure to hold survey under NFSA 12/13/2014 11:26:26 PM GS Asgotra Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 14: The Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) department has thrown blame on common masses, for the failure of department to complete the surveys for implementation of National Food Security Act (NFSA) in Jammu province. According to sources, the CAPD department has published a notice, completely blaming the common masses for the failure of department to complete the surveys. Sources informed that for the implementation of National Food Security Act 2013 in Jammu and Kashmir, the department had reportedly decided to complete the surveys. In March this year CAPD department had appealed the people to fill up the declaration forms in o...   READ MORE   Every state needs leader like Modi: Mufti 'My Muslim friends in Gujarat were happy with transparency under Modi' 12/13/2014 11:22:57 PM Bivek Mathur Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 13: The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today praised the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for turning Gujarat into a model state. Addressing an election rally at Hari Singh Park here organized in favour of the PDP candidate from Jammu East Bharat Choudhary, Mufti said, "Every constituency, every state needs a Modi or a leader at par with Modi's stature for seeing multifaceted development as he turned Gujarat into a model s...   READ MORE   People rue new LPG connection formalities 12/13/2014 11:13:29 PM Asif Iqbal Naik Kishtwar, Dec 13 : The people of Kishtwar, who assembled outside the LPG distribution centre here today rued the new formalities and verification of the LPG connection so as to link it with Adhar card to avail the direct benefit of government subsidy to be implemented from January 2015. While talking to Early Times, several of them complained about the new set of procedure and demanded fast tracking of the formalities and setting up of more LPG distribution counters in the district for their convenience. "I am coming daily for the last 4-5 days but have failed to get the LPG cylinder even as I have completed all the formalities" said 70 year old Jevan Dhar. He said that t...   READ MORE

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