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| White House gets black President | | History creator, Obama says change has come to America | | | AGENCIES
WASHINGTON, Nov 5: Declaring that "change has come to America", Barack Obama created history on Tuesday with a resounding win over rival John McCain, crossing the country's "colour line" to be elected the country's first African-American President.
"Change has come to America," the Democratic candidate said, addressing the country as the President-elect from an open blue stage with flags waving behind him before an ocean of people in his hometown of Chicago.
"It's a long time coming, but because of what we did on this day, at this defining moment, change has come to America," he said to deafening roars from his supporters, many of whom, particularly blacks, wept at the achiev... | |
| | | | Elections not linked to K-issue: Farooq | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 5: In sharp snub to the Peoples Democratic Party, the National Conference patron and its Chief Ministerial candidate Dr Farooq Abdullah has said that elections are for governance and have nothing to do with the resolution of Kashmir issue.
As it did in 2002, the Peoples Democratic Party has been projecting its political program as a roadmap to the resolution of Kashmir issue and has been asking people to vote for lasting peace and stability in the region.
Former chief minister Farooq Abdullah today said the elections were not to solve the 60-year-old Kashmir issue.” The elections are not for resolution of the Kashmir dispute. These are for good governance ... | |
| | | | First poll violence | | Clash in Puran, Iqbal groups, several injured | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
RAJOURI, Nov 5: First ever case of election related violence broke in Rajouri today following clash between supporters of and independent candidate and a Congress nominee for Darhal constituency of the district.
Police had to fire gun shots in the air and resort to cane charge to quell the unruly mob which had taken on each other with stones and batons in the town after filing nomination papers for Darhal constituency. Two persons have been arrested by the Police in this connection.
Trouble broke out when supporters of independent contestant Mohammad Iqbal Malik nearly barged into an enclosure where Congress nominee for Darhal constituency Thakur Puran Singh had arra... | |
| | | | ‘Advt party’ wrapped up | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 5: As the embarrassment of “advertisement based elections” reached from Kashmir to Chennai, the Janta Party –once founded by stalwart of honest politics Jayaprakash Narayan –has wrapped its Jammu and Kashmir unit till further decision.
The J&K President of the Party had been extensively publicizing that its national president Subramaniam Swami is visiting Jammu ‘very shortly’ but before that the local leader has been asked to wrap up.
The Janata Party today announced dissolution of its Jammu and Kashmir unit with immediate effect following a media expose claiming "cash for candidates post" scam by the local head.
In a statement issued from Chennai, Janata... | |
| | | | Intervention only if India, Pak request | | UN on Kashmir | | | AGENCIES
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 5: UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has said the world body was ready for intervention in Kashmir if both India and Pakistan approached it on the dispute.
“If and when both parties to this issue request ... ask me to provide my good offices, I am willing to do that,” Ban told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York on his return from his four-nation tour of Philippines, India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
But New Delhi has always opposed any international intervention on the Kashmir issue.
“But as you know, good offices (of the UN Secretary General) are available when and whenever there is some agreed requests from both parties,” Ban said in response to a... | |
| | | | Who conspired against JCCB chairman? | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 5: Controversy has erupted over the election of Chairman for the Jammu Central Cooperative Bank Ltd as its 'outgoing 'Chairman says that the Peoples Democratic Party and National Conference conspired against him to lower his morale.
Mohammad Sharief Tariq was till recently the Chairman of the Jammu Central Cooperative Bank and also a senior leader of the Peoples Democratic Party. On being denied ticket by the party, Tariq jumped into fray as independent candidate from Rajouri constituency.
While he was away campaigning in the constituency, the Board of Directors of the Jammu Central Cooperative Bank removed him from the post of Chairman and elected his succe... | |
| | | | | | | Self Rule –Mufti’s poll eve gift to PM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 5: In the election season as political parties do autopsy of the Peoples Democratic Party’s political programme by dubbing it secessionist in tendencies, its patron and former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today handed over the document to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for ‘study’.
Mufti, who met the Prime Minister in New Delhi this evening, also called for release of the various separatist leaders detained under different laws including the Public Safety Act for their anti-poll activities.
According to a party communiqué
The PDP Patron, in his hour-long meeting with the Prime Minister here this evening, ex... | |
| | | | Even political minions stake claim for power | | | | NIRBHAY JAMMUAL
JAMMU, Nov 5: The season for making claims and counter claims has set in with pre-poll campaign in causing sleepless nights to political leaders in Jammu and Kashmir. All the six major mainstream political parties seem to be getting ready for forming the Government in the state.Ask any senior political leader he will not hesitate for a minute to shout loud"we will form the Government.” The mood in the Panthers Party is upbeat. Why? Its leaders claim that they will form the next Government. If one asks the Panthers leaders the reason for their optimism on forming the Government they have this much to say:People have tasted and tested the Governments run by the Congress, the ... | |
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