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| NC likely to announce candidates in 2 days | | Dilawar Mir, Pir Hussain are PDP’s nominees in Valley | | |
ET Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 6: With just three days left for the last moment of filing nomination papers in the South Kashmir constituency, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today announced to field Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s confidante, Pir Mohammad Hussain, in Anantnag-Pulwama and former Minister, Mohammad Dilawar Mir, in the North Kashmir constituency of Baramulla-Kupwara.
At the end of a 4-day series of meetings at the Gupkar Road residence of the Muftis, PDP President, Mehbooba Mufti, disclosed to mediapersons that her party had given its ticket to Dilawar Mir in North Kashmir and Pir Hussain in South Kashmir. She said that a sitting councilor in Srinagar Municipal Corporation, Asiya Naqash, would the PDP’s candidate yet again from the Assembly segment of Hazrat. Candidates for Srinagar Lok Sabha seat and Sonwar Assembly segment would be introduced shortly, she said.
A senior political activist, Dilawar Mir has been representing his home constituency of Rafiabad in Baramulla district in the Legislative Assembly continuously since 1977 (with the exception of 1987-1990 ... | |
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| NC rule has returned with instability, uncertainty,insecurity: Mufti | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 6: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Patron, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, today claimed that the National Conference (NC) regime had returned in the state with a fast growing sense of instability, uncertainty and insecurity as the peace process and reconciliation, according to him, had taken a backseat.
Addressing a convention of the PDP workers from Hazratbal constituency here today, Sayeed said the atmosphere of relaxation and optimism that was visible in the State after the 2002 assembly elections following some landmark political and economic initiatives taken by the then PDP-led Coalition Government, is unfortunately being fast replaced by skept... | |
| | | | Voter I-card among 14 documents to identify electors | | | |
New Delhi, April 06: The Election Commission on Monday said 13 alternative photo documents would be used to establish the identity of voters if they failed to produce the Electors Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) at the time of exercising their franchise.
A voter would have to produce any of the 13 documents such as passports, driving licences, PAN cards, service identity cards issued by Central and state governments, public sector units, local bodies or public limited companies with photographs, Deputy Election Commissioner J P Prakash told reporters.
Other documents allowed are passbooks issued by public sector banks, post office and kisan passbooks, property documents such ... | |
| | | | Rev collection includes Rs 257 Cr from VAT | | Commercial tax revenue worth Rs 458 Cr in 11 months | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar : The Jammu and Kashmir Commercial Taxes Department (JKCTD) has earned a revenue of Rs 458.17 crore during the first 11 months of the last fiscal, an increase of 16.79 per cent over the corresponding period of 2007-08, a spokesperson of the department said on Monday.
He said this substantial increase has resulted due to introduction of Value Added Tax, which contributed Rs 257 crore to the total revenue collection.
Meanwhile, state Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather, chairing a maiden meeting of Commercial Taxes department, Kashmir division, here, took a serious note of huge arrears against various corporations, traders and other agencies and called upo... | |
| | | | Girl’s father claims she was already married | | J&K runaway couple yet again in trouble | | |
New Delhi, April 6 After being threatened by relatives for their inter-faith marriage, a runaway couple from J&K under police protection is in trouble again. The woman’s father now claims she was married to someone else earlier.
Anjum, 19, a Muslim, and Khemraj, 24, a Hindu, had eloped to Delhi last month. The Jammu and Kashmir police came chasing them after Anjum’s father Mohammed Hussain complained that she had been “kidnapped”. The couple sought protection from the Delhi High Court, which ordered the police here to ensure their safety and their presence in Delhi.
Now Hussain has alleged in the court that Anjum had married Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Inspector Zahid Ali in... | |
| | | | Elections 2009: | | All Class IV, thousands of other employees yet to receive Rs 10,000 each | | |
EC fails to disburse Assembly poll honorarium
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 06- Still waiting to receive their dues for their services rendered during the assembly elections, all class 4th employees and thousands of superior class employees in Jammu and Kashmir are finding themselves on a `sticky wicket’ as the Election Commission authorities are yet to make it clear whether the officials associated with the polling day duty for the Lok Sabha elections would get any honorarium or not.
Even as funds have been released for ultimate disbursement by the Election authorities to Drawing & Disbursing Officers and Deputy Commissioners, many of the superior class employees have bee... | |
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