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| Historical debacle: Senior Cong leaders fail to get double-digit votes on their native polling booths | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 24: The Congress leadership has decided to review the polling booth-wise performance of the party’s senior leaders in the just concluded Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir in general and Jammu region in particular.
Highly placed sources said that the majority of senior party leaders have failed to secure respectable votes for the party candidates in their respective polling booths.
“There are as many as 275 members in the present Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee. Out of these 275 PCC members, only two dozen were successful in getting respectable votes in their respective polling stations”, a senior Congress leader, wishing anonymity, told the Early Times.
“What to say of PCC members even some senior leaders failed to get respectable votes in their polling stations”, the Congress leader said and added that in polling booths of some leaders, party candidates failed to get double-digit votes.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the fact-finding panel on Thursday requested party workers and leaders to give their inputs regarding the poor... | |
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| Special Judge Bala Jyoti sends accused Patwari to 12-day judicial remand | | Bribery Case | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 24: Special Judge CBI Bala Jyoti today sent Mohammad Ayaz Bhatt, Patwari of Halqa Chhan Khatrian to 12 day judicial remand.
Bhatt was caught red-handed by the CBI while accepting bribe money of Rs 10,000/.
Today accused Mohammad Ayaz Bhat, Patwari, Patwari Halqa, Chhan Khatrian, Tehsil Hira Nagar has been produced in proper custody from CBI, ACB Jammu by Investigating Officer Lalit Kumar, Dy. Superintendent of Police CBI ACB, Jammu who has prayed for judicial... | |
| | | | CM Omar Abdullah meets PM Modi in Delhi | | |  New Delhi, Oct 24:
Agencies
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday during his first visit to the national capital after assuming office last week.
Abdullah is expected to hand over a resolution passed by his cabinet urging the Centre to restore the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir.
In a remarkable victory in the recent assembly polls in the union territory, the first in 10 years, Abdullah’s National Conference won 42 of the 90 a... | |
| | | | NDA Govt ready to work with J&K CM: Rajnath Singh | | |  New Delhi, Oct 24:
Agencies
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said that the NDA government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is keen on collaborating with Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to promote the region’s progress.
Defence Minster Rajnath Sing wrote on X “Met with the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah in New Delhi.
The NDA Govt under PM Narendra Modi is looking forward to working with him for J&K’s progress.”
Singh m... | |
| | | | 2 Army porters martyred, 3 soldiers among 4 injured in Gulmarg terror attack | | |  Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 24: Two porters working with the Army were martyred on Thursday while four people, including three soldiers, were injured as terrorists attacked a vehicle of the force six kilometres from tourist hotspot Gulmarg in north Kashmir, agencies quoted officials as having said.
They said the terrorists opened fire on the Army vehicle in the Bota Pathri area in the evening, when it was headed for the Nagin post in the Afrawat range.
Citing initial reports, the o... | |
| | | | Grenade goes off in court evidence room | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 24: A policeman was injured in an explosion in the evidence room of a court in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district, officials said on Thursday.
“A grenade (collected as evidence in a case) exploded inside the ‘malkhana (evidence room)’ of a court in Baramulla town on Thursday,” a police official said.
One policeman was injured in the explosion and he was taken to a hospital, he said. ... | |
| | | | Terrorists target non-local labourer in Tral | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 24: Terrorists shot at and injured a labourer from Uttar Pradesh in the Tral area of Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir Thursday morning, officials said. Shubam Kumar, a resident of Bijnore, received a gunshot injury in the arm when the terrorists fired at him at Batagund village, the officials said.
They said Kumar has been rushed to a hospital for treatment.
This is a third attack on non-local labourers in Kashmir in the past one week.
Six non-local labourers and a local doctor were killed in a terror attack on a construction site in Ganderbal district on Sunday, while a labourer from Bihar was shot dead by terrorists in Shopian district on Oc... | |
| | | | Terrorist captured in CCTV footage | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 24: A CCTV grab of a Pheran-clad terrorist allegedly involved in the Gagangir attack in Jammu and Kashmir has emerged here but investigators said they are yet to ascertain if the AK rifle-wielding assailant carried out the October 20 assault that left seven dead.
The ultra could be seen entering a prefabricated hut, believed to be at the Gagangir tunnel construction site — where seven people including six non-local labourers — were killed in the terror attack, official sources said.
However, security officials are trying to ascertain the authenticity of the image on various counts, the sources said.
The screen grab has ‘January 27’ as the date stamp... | |
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