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| Jammu and Kashmir security set-up satisfactory: EC Pannel | | Candidates with ''criminal backgrounds'' under EC scanner: Chawla | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, APRIL 10 – Election Commissioner of India Mr. Navin B. Chawla has said that Election Commission was satisfied with the poll and security arrangements made for holding free, fair and transparent Parliamentary elections in Jammu and Kashmir beginning April 16. He also congratulated the Civil and Police administration for holding a landmark Assembly election last year and hoped that they will provide similar Lok Sabha election this year with the same level of fairness.
The Election Commissioner said this while addressing a crowded press conference, here this evening, after holding several meetings with political parties and Divisional Administration.
Mr. Chawla, along with Deputy Election Commissioner of India, Mr. R. Balakrishnan, arrived here this morning from New Delhi to review the poll preparedness for the first and second phase of Lok Sabha elections in the State. Chief Electoral Officer, J&K, Mr. B. R. Sharma was also present on the occasion.
Reiterating the Election Commission’s resolve for zero tolerance to violation of the Model Code of Con... | |
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| Four Pak outfits united against India: PC | | | |
NEW DELHI: Threat levels in India are high with Pakistan-based terror outfits deciding to work in tandem even as there are reports of
infiltration again increasing across the Kashmir Valley, Home Minister P Chidambaram said Friday.
"We simply have to keep our powder dry. Make sure that we remain on high alert because four organisations are working in consort. That means the level of threat is pretty high," Chidambaram told the NDTV news channel in an interview.
He said the four terrorist organisations - Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Jamat-ul-Mujahideen (JuM) and Hizbul Mujahideen - were earlier operating separately but had come together now.
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| | | | We were not successful in stopping terrorist strikes: PM | | | |
New Delhi, April 10 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said there was a serious threat to disturb the elections through militant incursions and admitted his government had failed to ward off terror attacks.
“There is a serious threat. There is no doubt that terrorists have not given up the evil design to destabilise our country to interfere with the poll process. The successful poll process in Jammu and Kashmir has not been liked by some forces abroad,” Manmohan Singh said during an interaction with women journalists.
“Every effort is being made to disrupt the poll process through infiltration. We are alert and have to be alert to deal with the menace,” he said.
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| | | | ‘Govt to be made accountable for its incompetence’ | | Where did Dr Abdullah spend Rs 20 cr MPLAD fund: Mehbooba | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 10 - Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti has said her party would make the Government accountable for its incompetence in addressing the security and developmental concerns of the people. “We will not allow the National Conference to repeat its age-old tactics of taking votes by promising sky to the people and then bartering their interests and that of the State for the comforts of power,” she said.
Addressing a day-long convention of the PDP workers from Sonawar constituency here today, Mehbooba accused the NC leadership of resorting to emotional blackmail and divisive tactics to hoodwink, for political gains, the emancipated citizens... | |
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Jammu , Friday, April 10
It has been one of the most challenging periods for Indian security forces in Kashmir. Of late, they have been encountering some of the most motivated and well-trained terrorists ever to cross over into Kashmir.
Now, after an 18-day operation in Kupwara, eight terrorists with clear links to Pakistan have been caught.
According to the army, passports issued in Pakistan to five of the eight of them prove their Pakistani origins.
Also, all of them were trained at handling weapons in Pakistan. This latest catch only adds to the growing worry on the border over the unprecedented spurt in infiltration bids.
This year there have alread... | |
| | | | 10 Injured in Clashes in J&K | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar | Apr 10, 2009
At least ten persons, including two policemen, were injured as police fired teargas shells and used batons to disperse stone-pelting separatists in Srinagar and Baramulla districts of Jammu and Kashmir today, official sources said.
Shouting "anti-election" slogans, groups of youth took to streets shortly after Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid in downtown Srinagar and indulged in stone-pelting on police and paramilitary forces, the sources said.
The sources said police immediately swung into action and resorted to firing tear gas and baton charge to restore law and order.
The clashes were continuing at Kawdara, Nowhatta, Rajouri Ka... | |
| | | | Reservation for SCs, STs not must at prelims:SC | | | |
New Delhi, April 11
Observing that vacancies are not filled by "charity", the Supreme Court has said the government is not under any Constitutional obligation to provide reservation to SCs, STs etc, in preliminary tests conducted for filling up official posts
"Judging of merit may be at several tiers. It may undergo several filtrations. Ultimately, the constitutional scheme is to have the candidates who would be able to serve the society and discharge the functions attached to the office. Vacancies are not filled up by way of charity," the apex court said.
A bench of Justices S B Sinha and Cyriac Joseph said preliminary examination is not a part of the main examination and as ... | |
| | | | Are elections for gains or losses ?? | | | |
Salman Nizami
Elections come and go but leave behind its impressions of profit to some and misery to all the commoners. As the campaigning initiated for the Lok Sabha polls in the state the shortage of public transport has become routine problems to be faced besides employment to rural masses, golden period for advertisers, transporters and of course to the winning politicians appear the characteristics of these elections.
The shortage of commercial transport has made it difficult for the common man to travel in and around the regions. “I visit Ramban and Banihal almost twice a day , always in a matadors but this month there is an acute shortage of vehicles said, Mohd Ayoub Wani, a hea... | |
| | | | BSNL to increase mobile connection capacity in J-K | | | | Early Times report
Sirinagar , Apr 10:State-run telecom services provider BSNL plans to increase the capacity of working mobile connections up to over 12 lakh lines by the end of 2009-10.
The expansion plan involves addition of about 494 Base Transreceiver stations (BTS), Telecom Secretary Siddhartha Behura told reporters here today.
BSNL will be able to provide mobile connections on demand with improved coverage and quality, he added.
The total number of BTSs, the equipment which facilitates communication between a network and a cellphone, would be 1,140 at the end of 2009-10, Behura said, adding that as on April 1, 2009, there are four mobile switching centres (MSC) with 646 BTSs and ... | |
| | | | PM's comment on Advani 'sign of frustration': BJP | | | |
New Delhi, April 10: The BJP on Friday dismissed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's comment on its prime ministerial candidate L K Advani as a "visible sign of frustration" and alleged that he is seeking to "make a virtue of his weakness as an orator".
"The Prime Minister's comments on L K Advani is a visible sign of frustration. He wants to be a survivor by inaction. Dr Singh became the Prime Minister by default and now he is making a virtue of his weakness as an orator," senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley told reporters.
"He is just a lucky politician. He cannot lead a campaign. He has never won an election and there is no possibility of his winning one now," he added.
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