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| Kejriwal denies exclusive audience to AAP leaders from JK | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 24: In yet another alleged embarrassment for the Aam Aadmi Party in Jammu and Kashmir, the AAP leadership “denied exclusive audience” to leaders from JK, who were on a visit to New Delhi to attend party’s national meeting.
Sources said a group of senior leaders of the AAP, which is facing “volley of resignations”, were expecting to hold a one-on-one meeting with Kejriwal to discuss the “ongoing collapse” of the party in JK.
Sources said party leadership wanted to tell the AAP chief that the “frequent” change of guard in JK in particular was proving detrimental for the party.”
The sources said in the wake of corruption charges against the Delhi government, Kejriwal apprehending “awkward questions avoided the prospective meet.”
Political observers said given the fact the scores of party leaders and cadres are resigning from AAP in J&K, Kejriwal should have held a separate meeting with the regional leadership to know their feedback on what needs to be done for “course correction.”
“But the fact remains that by shying away from doing so, he (Ke... | |
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| Cong celebrates declaration of holiday on Maharaja’s birthday, forgets it failed Dogras during its tenure | | | 
Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 24: Congress leaders on Friday joined the celebrations held in Jammu region to celebrate Maharaja Hari Singh’s birthday and Jammuties succeeding in their endeavor to make the government declare the late Maharaja’s birth anniversary as a public holiday across J&K.
Congress leaders congratulated the people over the success of the struggle of holiday on the birthday of Maharaja Hari Singh and termed it a hard earned holiday by the Dogras especially the youths l... | |
| | | | Resignations of Mayor, Deputy Mayor raise many eye-brows | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 24: Resignations of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) Mayor Chander Mohan Gupta and Deputy Mayor Purnima Sharma have raised many eye-brows within BJP circle because no discussion was held in the party in this regard.
Credible sources in the BJP said that decision to ask both Mayor and Deputy Mayor to submit their papers was taken a week back but only few leaders were aware of this development. “Like chairpersons of different committees BJP leadership has earlier decided to allot Mayor and Deputy Mayor posts to different leaders on rotational basis but due to pressure of some senior leaders this system was not followed”, a source said and added that after ... | |
| | | | Six corporators front-runners for Mayor post | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 24: After asking the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) to submit their papers, BJP leadership is trying to evolve consensus on the name of the new Mayor of the city. Highly placed sources said the party leadership of BJP has decided to take all corporators on the board before taking any final decision on the name of Mayor and Deputy Mayor.
Sources said that the party has decided to announce the names of the new Mayor and Deputy Mayor just after the resignations of Chander Mohan Gupta and Purnima Sharma but the announcement was withheld due to a lack of consensus.
Highly placed sources in the BJP said that six corporators ar... | |
| | | | Army engages with China on equal footing: Defence Minister | | | |
Agencies
New Delhi, Sept 24: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday asserted that the Indian Army has the capability to give a befitting reply to any power looking at the country with evil intentions and when it engages with China now, it does so on an equal footing.
Mr Singh made these remarks at an event to release a five-volume book on Deendayal Upadhyay in the presence of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar.
When China conducted the first nuclear test in 1964, Deendayal Upadhyay was the first one who spoke in favour of India conducting its nuclear test, Mr Singh said.
When India carried out its first nuclear tests in 1998 in Rajasthan under the leadership of then prime minister ... | |
| | | | Woman gives birth in ambulance on Jmu-Sgr highway | | | |
Early Times Report
Ramban/Jammu, Sept 24: A 22-year-old woman gave birth to a boy in an ambulance as shooting stones from a hillock disrupted traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Ramban district today, health officials said.
Shaheena, a resident of Dharam-Sangaldan in Gool, delivered her first child with the help of 108 Ambulance support staff after the vehicle was caught in a traffic jam on its way to the district hospital, the officials said.
Traffic on the highway was disrupted since morning due to the stones sliding off a hillock overlooking the highway at Cafeteria, Mehar. Several vehicles suffered damage after being hit by the stones but there is no report of any c... | |
| | | | Massive crackdown on narco-terrorism modules; SIA conducts raids in Kashmir | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 24: Continuing the offensive against narco-terrorism, sleuths of the State Investigation Agency (SIA) are carrying out raids at multiple locations in central and north Kashmir on Saturday morning.
Sources said that these raids are part of the investigating agency’s campaign to bust cross-border modules involved in smuggling narcotics to fund terror groups active in different parts of Jammu and Kashmir.
During the last year, security forces have busted some gangs involved in narco-terrorism. Gangs comprising narcotic smugglers and Over Ground Workers (OGWs) of different terror groups are involved in collecting consignments from across the border and smu... | |
| | | | 2 migrant labourers shot at in Pulwama | | | |
Early Times Report
Pulwama, Sept 24: Two migrant labourers were shot at and injured in Kharbhatpora locality of Ratnipora in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday evening.
An official said that the labourers identified as Shamshad Ahmad son of Islam Sheikh and Faizan Qadri both residents of Bihar were shot at by militants in Kharbhatpora locality.
He said that soon after the incident both were shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment, where their condition is said to be stable.
The official said that the area has been cordoned off to nab the attackers.... | |
| | | | Amit Shah in J&K for 3 days from Sep 30; will visit Vaishno Devi, address 2 rallies | | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 24: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be on a three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir from September 30 where he is planned to pay obeisance to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine, address two rallies and review developmental activities, party leaders said on Saturday.
J-K BJP general secretary and former minister Sunil Sharma told a press conference here the visit should not be linked to yet-to-be announced assembly polls, even though a senior leader said on the condition of anonymity the “rallies will be the beginning of the BJP’s election campaign”. Sharma told the media, “Election is the prerogative of the ECI (Election Commission of India) which is an autono... | |
| | | | 2 rusted mortar shells found in Samba | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 24: Two mortar shells were found in the forward villages along the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Samba districts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday.
A live mortar shell was noticed by villagers at Pragwal in Akhnoor sector on the outskirts of Jammu this morning, they said, adding the bomb disposal squad is working to defuse it.
Another mortar shell was detected by the Border Security Force (BSF) during patrolling in Regal area of Samba district late on Thursday, they said, adding the shell was safely defused by experts.
The officials said both the shells had gathered rust, indicating that they had remained undetected during cr... | |
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