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| Bhagwat new RSS chief, KS Sudarshan goes off | | | | Agencies
Nagpur, March 21: KS Sudarshan on Saturday stepped down from his post as the chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), paving way for general secretary Mohan Bhagwat’s elevation to the top post, RSS sources said.
The change of guard in the Sangh Parivar hierarchy came during the RSS' ongoing three-day Akhil Bhartiya Pratinidhi Sabha, which is in progress at Reshimbagh Smruti Mandir here.
RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav, while talking to the media, said that this time a relatively younger person was chosen as the RSS chief.
On being asked about Bhagwat’s proximity to veteran BJP leader and party’s Prime Ministerial candidate LK Advani, he gave no clear response stating that... | |
| | | | 100 questioned in JU shootout case | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, March, 21: At least 100 youths and others were rounded up and summoned for questioning in connection with Jammu University shoot out case even as Police were expecting to arrest the main accused tonight.
Hundred persons were lifted for questioning to arrest the four accused who fired in the Jammu University’s Vice Chancellor’s chamber yesterday and escaped from the spot and out of hundred thirty persons were let free after questioning and interrogation of seventy persons are still going on to find the hideout of the accused. These persons were family members, relatives and friends of the four accused. Police have also been conducting raids in different areas ... | |
| | | | J&K presents world new Islamic calendar | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar. 21: A Jammu and Kashmir based engineer has come out with a 504-year cyclical chart so that countries celebrating Islamic holidays do not face confusion over Islamic calendar dates.
'I have revised a lunar calendar for 504-years. The work, the approach is totally unprecedented and in my assessment the whole thing will go a long way in preserving the chaotic conditions that we face time and again,' Bilal Ghulam Nabi Mir said.
Welcoming Mir's invention, President of Jamiat-Ahle-Hadis has forwarded his project to the Religious Affairs Ministry of Saudi Arabia for further analysis.
'I have sent a copy (of Bilal Ghulam Nabi Mir's research work) to the Religio... | |
| | | | Bomai residents put off mass migration | | | | Early Times Report
Baramulla, Mar 21 : The Bomai residents, resuming their normal activities today, decided to postpone their programme of mass migration from the village, following announcement by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah that the Rashtriya Rifle (RR) camp would be relocated.
Shops and other business establishments reopened in village Bomai, Sopore, this morning after two days of total shut down.
The Coordination Committee (CC), spearheading the agitation against the RR after two youths were killed in alleged unprovoked firing by them on February 21, said it decided to postpone the agitation, following Mr Omar's announcement.
The residents were up in arms demanding shifting of th... | |
| | | | Train crushes woman to death in Kashmir | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 21 : A woman was crushed to death by train at a railway station in south Kashmir today, police said.
Police said a woman Hassina was going to purchase ticket for Srinagar at Panzgam railway station when her burqa got tied with the running train.
She died on the spot before the train could stop at the railway station, it said.
This was the second accident since the rail was introduced between central Kashmir district of Badgam to south Kashmir district of Anantnag last year. The rail links has been extended to Baramulla this year.
A student was killed when he came under train at Chanapora bridge last year. ... | |
| | | | Tension erupts in Purkhoo, Police cane-charge farmers | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 21- The scene of two months long agitation was again this evening when farmers of Purkhoo area who were protesting on the highway became the subject of lathicharge by police inviting intervention of BJP leader and candidate from Jammu-Poonch Parliamentary Constituency Leela Karan Sharma.
The incident occurred when the farmers of the area protesting on the highway to register their resentment against authorities to allow the waters of Ranbir Canal flow, the repairable work of which was going on for the last quite months, as their crops require irrigation which without canal waters are dying. In the police lathicharge fifteen persons reportedly received injur... | |
| | | | Brahmin vs Brahmin, Rajput vs Rajput | | PDP, Panthers to play key role in two Lok Sabha segments of Jammu | | | ZAFAR CHOUDHARY
Jammu, March 21: With Congress and the Bhartiya Janta Party showing its cards for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections on two seats of Jammu province the battle is straight between the two parties but junior players in the region Peoples Democratic Party and the Panthers Party hold key to their success or failure.
Under the coalition arrangement the National Conference has opted out of the fray leaving field to the junior partner Congress. Though the Peoples Democratic Party on Jammu-Poonch seat and Panthers Party on Kathua-Doda seat are contesting with much seriousness but the contest is still straight between the Congress and the BJP.
Given the demographic structure of t... | |
| | | | BSF ups vigil | | | | Early Times Report
Kathua, Mar 21 : Ahead of general elections, Border Security Force (BSF) beefed up security at Indo-Pakistan international border in Jammu following political upheaval in Pakistan.
BSF personnel have been put on high alert and routine patrolling has also been increased along the international border from Paharpur to Akhnoor in Jammu division.
"There are lots of things happening in Pakistan. And its direct impact falls on the work of BSF. We can expect any infiltration from various places during such situation. We have beefed up our security. We hope that if any such activity takes place, then we would be successful in dealing with it at the border area itself." said AK... | |
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