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| BJP takes lid off: Leela, Nirmal LS nominees | | Intense race in Congress; Lal, Jugal, Chib vie for Udhampur, Madan safe | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, March 19: Taking lid off the much stressed suspense, the Bhartiya Janta Party today declared names of its nominees for two Lok Sabha seats of Jammu Division.
BJP’s Central Election Committee today cleared the names of Leela Karan Sharma for Jammu-Poonch Lok Sabha constituency and Dr Nirmal Singh for Kathua-Udhampur-Doda constituency. Both candidates were felicitated here at the BJP heaquarters by the party activists.
Leela Karan Sharma recently resigned as convener of the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti which had spearheaded two-month long agitation on Amarnath land row in Jammu during July-August last year. Dr Nirmal Singh, who recently lost Assembly elections in Gandhi Nagar constituency, will be contesting Lok Sabha election for third time. He had earlier unsuccessfully contested 2001 by-elections and 2004 general elections on Jammu-Poonch Lok Sabha constituency.
Jammu and Kashmir has four Lok Sabha constituencies in all and Jammu division has only two of them. Both constituencies were held by the Congress in the outgoing Lok Sabha. It was in... | |
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| CRPF troopers booked for murder | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, March 19: The Jammu and Kashmir police today filed a case against Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel for allegedly killing a civilian in his home in Pulwama district even as the Force ordered a court of inquiry and placed four of its personnel under suspension.
"Police has filed a case under section 302 against CRPF personnel for killing a civilian in his home last night and has asked the Force to hand over the men involved for an identification parade before the victim's kin," official sources said today.
They said the step was taken to cool the tempers of the villagers who are up in arms against the force personnel demanding punishment to tho... | |
| | | | SHO Akhnoor suspended | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, March 19:SSP Jammu Manohar Singh has suspended SHO Akhnoor and ordered inquiry against SHO Kanachak. SHO Akhnoor Zahid Wani was suspended on the allegations of negligence of his duties and misbehave with SDPO Mohit Gupta of the area. SHO Akhnoor was asked by the SP Rural to hold nakas in the area following the inputs presence of some suspects in the area but he did not make his presence in the nakas and an inquiry was initiated aginst him in this regard and today he misbehaved with the SDPO of the area and SSP Jammu on this allegations suspended him where as some people of the Misir Wala area approached to SSP Jammu and alleged that SHO Kanachak Rajesh Sharma... | |
| | | | Mayawati’s rally on March 30 | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 19 : Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati would address a public rally here in the winter capital on March 30 in the wake of Lok Sabha elections, official sources here said.
''Ms Mayawati will address a large election rally at Parade Ground here on March 30 to woo the voters ahead of the coming 'parliamentary' elections,'' Narender Kashyap, national general secretary said here yesterday.
Meanwhile, the BSP has also announced candidates for the Lok Sabha elections for five seats from Jammu and Kashmir.
Hussain Ali, a Gujjar leader, would contest elections as BSP candidate from Jammu-Poonch seat while Rakesh... | |
| | | | No visitor to PoK, 24 guests arrive | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 19 : As many as 24 guests arrived here from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) while the Karvan-e-Aman was empty as no Kashmiri travelled to the other side.
Official sources said that 24 guests, including six women and two children, arrived here from POK to meet their relatives after their separation during the 1947 partition.
The guests travelled from Muzaffarabad, the capital of POK, to Chakoti, the last Army post on other side of the Line of Control (LoC) in a bus. However, they deboarded the bus and crossed the Aman Setu ( peace bridge) on foot.
Sources said no citizen of this part of the Kashmir travelled to POK today and the bus from here to Aman se... | |
| | | | Jaitley returns to BJP meetings | | | |
New Delhi, March 19: Arun Jaitley, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary and chief strategist, Thursday attended a poll panel meeting at party president Rajnath Singh's residence, in what appeared to be an exercise to paper over the much discussed cracks in the party.
A miffed Jaitley had reportedly been staying away from key meetings of the party after Rajnath Singh appointed businessman Sudhanshu Mittal as the co-convenor for the Lok Sabha campaign in the north-east.
The lawyer-politician drove down to Rajnath Singh's home Thursday morning to decide on the candidates for Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat and Bihar.
'Jaitley has been working for the party all day. But the... | |
| | | | Fairer sex claims share in thefts | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, March 19: Even as the Jammu Police have unearthed a series of burglaries and busted the vehicle lifting gangs by recovering stolen property worth rupees five millions over past six months, today there was a twist to the story –the fairer sex is now reported to claiming the share in thefts and burglaries.
The Police today claimed to have busted a ring of six women operatives engaged in thefts in different city areas. They were aged between 35 to 45 years and were all involved in petty thefts.
SSP Jammu Manohar Singh said that the Police busted three notorious gangs of thieves and vehicle lifters operating in the City and has recovered gold ornaments and 9 motor... | |
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