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| 45 percent electors vote in Udhampur | | Turn out `48pc in Kishtwar, 45 Doda , 33 Ramban, 43, 40 Udhampur and 51 Kathua | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, April 23: Over 45 percent of the 1.3 million electorate cast their votes Thursday in Jammu and Kashmir's predominantly mountainous Udhampur parliamentary constituency amid tight security, officials said.The voting ended peacefully in the constituency some segments of which are close to the border with Pakistan and are prone to militant attacks.
Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), J&K, B. R. Sharma today said that polling in Udhampur Parliamentary constituency (PC), which went to polls in the second phase of the five-phased Lok Sabha elections, was peaceful and incident-free and added that tentatively nearly 45 per cent voter turnout was recorded, which is the same as in 2004 polls. He also said that 56.78 per cent polling was recorded for Bhaderwah Assembly seat, where bye-poll was held along with the Parliamentary elections today.
'There was no untoward incident across the constituency (during the voting),' a poll official said.
He said the final voter turnout in Udhampur was 45 percent, which is less than the average votes polled in the first phase. At le... | |
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| Sajjad Lone, Imran Rahi take oath of upholding India’s sovereignty and integrity | | NC’s Shariq, PDP’s Dilawar among 14 in Baramulla fray | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Apr 23: Champions of ‘Azadi’ in yesteryears, Sajjad Gani Lone and Ghulam Rasool Shah alias Imran Rahi, were among 10 candidates of different political affiliations who filed their nomination papers in the North Kashmir Lok Sabha constituency of Baramulla-Kupwara while swearing by God to uphold India’s sovereignty and integrity. With both the key contestants---National Conference’s Sharief-ud-din Shariq and Peoples Democratic Party’s Mohammad Dilawar Mir---turning up for the process before Returning Officer (RO), Latief-uz-Zaman Deva, today as many as 14 candidates have filed their nomination papers in Baramulla where the process would end in the afternoon on Frid... | |
| | | | Hurriyat U-turn, now calls for poll boycott | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, April 23: In a U-turn, the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference on Thursday went back on its decision not to call for a poll boycott in Jammu and Kashmir and asked the people to stay away from Lok Sabha elections.
"Election is no substitute to the wishes of the people of Kashmir. We will boycott the elections till Kashmir issue is resolved," Hurriyat chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq told reporters here after the working committee meeting of the separatist amalgam, which had only last week announced that it will not call for a poll boycott for the first after 15 years.
The April 16 statement by Maulvi Mohammad Abbas Ansari, who was the acting chairman of t... | |
| | | | HuJI militant arrested from J-K district | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar April 23,
A suspected Pakistan-trained militant of Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI) was arrested from Kupwara district in Jammu and Kashmir today, a police spokesman said.
On a specific information, a joint party of police and 30 Rashtriya Rifles arrested Abdul Razaq Ganie alias Abu Vakas from near Guloora-Kultoora in Handwara area.
An AK 47 rifle, its three magazines with 87 rounds and two hand grenades were recovered from his hideout. The ultra is a resident of Chanki village in Sopore township, the spokesman said.
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| | | | Indian PM votes in second phase of elections | | | | AGENCIES
New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh casted his vote on Thursday in Dispur, the capital city of the insurgency-hit northeastern state of Assam. India's northeastern region has been hit by a string of bomb attacks in the run till the elections. Singh, accompanied by his wife Gursharan Kaur, arrived at the voting booth amid tight security. The couple flew in from New Delhi to exercise their franchise. They stood in a queue along with other voters before entering the booth.
Singh expressed confidence in congress emerging victorious in these elections. "Congress will be victorious in Assam with a thumping majority. There will be a central government led by the Congress p... | |
| | | | Naxalism or Terrorism……… | | Which is more dangerous? | | | Sandeep Bhat
JAMMU, APR 23: The world’s largest democracy is nowadays facing two main threats, one naxalism and other is terrorism. Both naxalism and terrorism are like a two sides of a coin, believing in violence, blood-shed, extortion, killings etc. Terrorism which has been considered as global threat which India is a victim from the last two decades and still facing it. It was in the year 1989, when terrorism showed its ugly face in Kashmir valley, when lakhs of people have been forced to leave their native home and many were killed ruthlessly. After that mass exodus terrorism almost engulfed entire country and mostly in North-West parts of India. Incidents like attack on Mumbai in rece... | |
| | | | Reconsider fee structure or face action: Zahida Khan | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Apr 23- Taking strong note of the different set of complaints lodged by parents and social workers Director School Education, Jammu Zahida Parveen on Thursday directed private schools to reconsider their decision to hike academic fees beyond stipulated limit fixed by the state government.
Addressing a joint meeting of parents’ representatives and Principals of the private schools affiliated to the state board of school education Director School Education took strong note of the complaints and warned different private school managements to reconsider their fee structure at the earliest and publish them in the local news papers before admitting fresh students in ... | |
| | | | As Darbar moves security tighten along National Highway | | Secretariat, Move offices to close today; Darbar to open in Srinagar on May 4 | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, April 23 (NAK): Security has been intensified all along the 300 kilometer long Jammu-Srinagar national highway as the annual Darbar moves from Jammu to Srinagar, summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.
Official sources said that security arrangements have been intensified keeping in view the fact that the vehicles carrying Darbar move employees and official record of civil secretariat will start moving from Jammu to Srinagar from Saturday, when the Darbar officially closes in Jammu.
Following the 135-year-old traditions of ‘Durbar move’ for six months to Jammu during winter and Srinagar in summer, all the government departments started packing up to mov... | |
| | | | Omar not to use Hari Niwas as official residence | | Complex transferred to H&P for maintenance, use | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Apr 23- As the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah has decided not to use Hari Niwas in Srinagar as his official residence, the matters pertaining to its maintenance were discussed at a high level meeting chaired by the Chief Minister here today.
The meeting which was attended by the Chief Secretary, S. S. Kapur, Financial Commissioner, Planning, S. L. Bhat, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Khurshid Ahmad Ganai, Commissioner/Secretary, Finance, Sudhanshu Pandey, Commissioner/Secretary, General Administration Department Basharat Ahamad Dhar, Commissioner/Secretary, Forests, . Shant Manu, Chief Warden, Wildlife, A. K. Srivatsav, Director Hospitality and Protoco... | |
| | | | Heritage on the verge of extinction, value yet to be realized | | | | AD Singh
Jammu, Apr, 23:
Though the World Heritage Day also known as the International Day for Monument and Sites, established to celebrate the diversity of heritage throughout the world, was celebrated by the State Government by organizing Photo-exhibitions and other cultural and awareness programs but the realities on the ground seems to be far from realizing the dream of protecting our heritage for our generations. It is no doubt that the symbols of our heritage has suffered more due to the human vandalism rather than the score of weather and unfortunately the monuments and sites which as such reflect our cultural heritage are no doubt bait to the tourist visiting the state but till d... | |
| | | | India rubbishes Pak allegation about support to Balochs | | | | AGENCIES
New Delhi, April 23: India on Thursday rubbished Pakistan's allegations that it was backing the separatist outfit Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) for fuelling unrest in Balochistan.
"These are entirely baseless allegations and we see no reason to dignify them with a response," External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash said while commenting on allegations by Pakistan Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik that India is supporting BLA.
Malik claimed in the Senate yesterday that "The BLA was raised with funding from the Soviet Union (during the Soviet-Afghan war) and it is now backed by India."
BLA, a nationalist outfit, is engaged in a movement for separation from Pakis... | |
| | | | Pak wants good terms with India: Zardari | | | | AGENCIES
Islamabad, April 23: Pakistan desires good relations with India and wants the stalled dialogue process between the two countries to be resumed as soon as possible, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Thursday.
Zardari made the remarks when India's new High Commissioner to Pakistan, Sharat Sabharwal, presented his credentials to the President during a ceremony at the Aiwan-e-Sadr or presidential palace, sources said.
The President also told Sabharwal that durable peace in the region will be possible only if all outstanding issues are resolved through peaceful means, the sources said.
The composite dialogue between India and Pakistan, which began in 2004, was put off by New ... | |
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