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| EC in Valley, final call soon | | State may go to polls by mid-Nov | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 7: With the arrival of full Election Commission of India in Kashmir for last and final assessment exercise, political parties are expecting announcement of the assembly elections anytime towards middle of this month.
The Election Commission of India, led by the Chief Election Commissioner, N. Gopalswami, today reached in Srinagar on a two day visit to make an assessment of the situation for the forthcoming elections to the J&K Assembly. The Election Commissioners, Navin Chawla and S Y Qureshi and two Deputy Elections Commissioners accompanied Gopalaswami.
After a meeting with top officers of the state administration, the team is slated to have separate meeting with representative of all political parties in Srinagar tomorrow. Sources said that the activity is picking up for elections and announcements can be expected in the middle of this month.
Reliable sources privy to various election related development told EARLY TIMES that Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections may be held in three phases beginning November 15 with the last phase of polling b... | |
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| Ganguly decides to quit | | | | AGENCIES
BANGALORE, Oct 7: Sourav Ganguly, the most successful player to captain the Indian cricket team, announced he would be retiring after the Test series against Australia. The announcement puts to a close a magnificent career spanning 16 years, filled with milestones that place him among the greats of international cricket.
“I have informed my team-mates that this series would be my last,” an emotional Sourav Ganguly told reporters at a special press conference.
“Thank you all for your support. Hopefully I’ll go on a winning note,” he added.
On being asked about pressure before the series, he said, “Every series has pressures attached to it, you have to play well every time.... | |
| | | | Valley limps back to normalcy | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Oct 7: Normal life resumed in Kashmir today after authorities lifted the two-day-old curfew from all 10 districts of the Valley as the situation remained peaceful during the restriction period, official sources said.
Curfew was imposed in Kashmir Valley from Saturday midnight "to prevent any loss of life or property" in the wake of separatist leaders' call for a march to Lal Chowk on Monday in support of their demand for right to self determination.
The decision to lift the curfew from 5 am today was taken by the state government after reviewing the situation in the valley yesterday after huge deployment of security forces and sealing of entry and exit points... | |
| | | | BJP to go alone in Jammu | | Jaitly says looking for alliances in Valley, Ladakh | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 7: Bhartiya Janta Party will go it alone in Jammu region and consider tie up with like minded individuals and groups who have a nationalistic outlook in the ensuing Assembly elections in Kashmir valley and Ladakh region.
This was stated by BJP National general secretary, Arun Jaitley while interacting with media persons have in Jammu. He further said that the party will contest all the seats from Jammu region and will go all alone and will not have any track with any political party. But to strengthen the nationalistic forces. BJP will align with those individuals and groups in Kashmir and Ladakh region, which have a nationalistic outlook. He said they are... | |
| | | | KAS officers transferred | | Rana Dir Lib; inducted officers get deptts | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Oct 7: The Government has ordered fresh transfers and postings of nine officer of the Kashmir Administrative Services while services of -------more recently inducted in the Junior Scale of KAS have been placed at the disposal of different partments.
According to the orders issued today, Nimal Sharma, Director, Handlooms has been transferred and posted as Director, Command Area Development, Jammu vice Bashir Ahmad Dar. Malik Manzoor Ahmad, under orders of posting as Additional Commissioner, Commercial Taxes (Administration), Kashmir has been posted as Member, Services Selection Board vice Mushtaq Ahmad Mir;
Charanjit Singh, Additional District Development Com... | |
| | | | PM to dedicate Baglihar project | | War-footing preparations for Oct 10 launch | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 7: Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is expected to formally launch the Baglihar hydro-electric power project on river Chenab in next few days.
Sources told EARLY TIMES that the Prime Minister may launch the 450 MW prestigious state-sector power project on October 10. It is learnt that the Prime Minister may again visit Jammu and Kashmir on October 21 to launch Srinagar-Muzaffarabad truck service and a part of the Qazigund-Baramulla train. Government officials, however, refused to confirm the program even though they did not deny.
It may be mentioned here that after surviving prolonged diplomatic rows, geographical hurdles and bureaucratic red-tapism, J&K's... | |
| | | | GMC Jammu as AIIMS: Isn’t it a farce? | | For fair deal, Jammuites look towards Governor for SKIMS type autonomous institution | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 7: For past six years, the successive regimes –at Center and State –have been promising an upgradation of the Government run Medical Colleges at Jammu and Srinagar upto the level and patterns of All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS but medicos and expert of the field see this as nothing beyond a ridicule.
A Rs 240 Crore project is underway –at the rate of Rs 120 Crore for each GMC –for modernizing and expansion of infrastructure and facilities. However, what all is being done is mere expansion of buildings and some proposed addition of equipments which in no way is likely to take the GMCs anywhere closer to the AIIMS or even the Srinagar based She-e... | |
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