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| Prof Soz has the last laugh but Mustafa Kamal raises his first cry | | Mehboob files papers in Anantnag as NC forced to surrender Ladakh | | |
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Apr 8: Much like its compromises on the share in the Council of Ministers as also in the distribution of portfolios between the coalition partners, National Conference (NC) has finally surrendered its claim on the safe seat of Ladakh and decided to contest from the PDP stronghold of Anantnag under strong pressure from the Congress party. Eating a humble pie in the climax of two-week-long high drama last night, NC today harnessed its South Kashmir ace, Dr Mehboob Beg, who filed his nomination papers before the Returning Officer and Deputy Commissioner of Anantnag.
Dr Mehboob Beg, who had lost the Assembly election to the PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in his home segment of Anantnag proper with a big deficit in December last, filed his nomination papers in the afternoon today before DC Anantnag Sheikh Mushtaq Ahmed. Though there was little enthusiasm and no smiles, he was accompanied by two of the NC MLCs, almost all of the recently defeated candidates of his party in Anantnag district besides some Congress leaders, including MLA Dooru Ghulam Ah... | |
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| Congress better alone: Azad | | | |
Allahabad, April 08: Defending the Congress' decision to go it alone in states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, senior party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said the party would have been better off if it had taken the decision a year earlier.
"We realised a bit late that walking with the help of crutches will only cripple the party. Had the decision to go it alone been taken a year before the elections, the situation would have been different and much more in favour of the Congress", the former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister told reporters here.
He also said that Congress was a party which did not believe in "playing politics over dead bodies (lashon ki siyasat) by dividing the soc... | |
| | | | Taliban in J&K: Real or Surreal | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 8: Amidst lofty claims of the government, state police and several security agencies that militancy is ebbing and infiltration is declining, ‘the intercepted inputs’ on arrival of Taliban in Jammu and Kashmir is hardly finding any takers even as the security forces are on back-foot in confirming the reports.
Union Home Ministry Wednesday sought a report from security agencies about the reports that Taliban groups may have entered into the Kashmir Valley though Army denied reports to this effect.
The move comes after a wireless intercept reportedly suggested that a group of nearly 20 militants, said to be Taliban, were fighting the Army in Gurez sector of... | |
| | | | 87 rigging fuelled militancy: Mufti | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 8: Describing the National Conference-Congress alliance as unholy power hungry arrangement, the Peoples Democratic Party patron and former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today held both parties responsible for fuelling militancy in Jammu and Kashmir allegedly by rigging elections in 1987.
Observing that the National Conference failed to fulfill its promises made during the recently held assembly elections, Mufti the opportunist coalition in the State has so far failed to come up to the expectations of the common masses.
“Enjoying power is the only reason for the formation un programmatic opportunist alliance between National Conference and Congre... | |
| | | | Soz aims barbs at BJP | | | |
Early Times Report
RS Pura, Apr 8: Taking potshots at the BJP, state Congress president and Union Minister Prof Saifuddin Soz today said that vote for Congress is necessary to defeat the politics of hate and opportunism.
Referring to historical role of Congress party and its secular ideals, Prof. Soz said that long back the first Prime Minister of the country and great visionary Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru had visualized that the nation has danger not from the external forces but from within itself, which he was referring to communal forces in the country. Soz was addressing series of election meetings at at Brijnagar, Narhi, R.S.Pura and Nai-Basti-Gulabgarh in R.S.Pura and Suchetgarh assemb... | |
| | | | ARO Bishnah replaced, another Inspector suspended | | | | Early Times Report
Bishnah,April 8
A day after the suspension of SHO Bishnah Jatinder Singh Samyal ARO Bishnah has been replaced and departmental inquiry is initiated against him for the violation of model code of conduct.With the incident other police officers have learnt a lesson and is implementing the model code of conduct in letter and spirit.The incident occurred when SHO Bishnah was asked by the observer to seize the vehicle which was violating the model code of conduct but before the SHO took any initiative he was shown the permission by ARO concerned and on the basis he let the vehicle go causing his suspension where as ARO was attached as he used the power beyond his limit... | |
| | | | Questions on class 8 Board result | | | |
SUMIT SHARMA
Jammu, Apr 8: While many schools, particularly in the private sector, are celebrating their ‘100%’ success in the recently declared board results for class 8, there are many yet casting aspersions on the entire examination system as schools were allowed by the Board to set up exam centers in their own premises.
The declaration of class 8 T2 External Examination Results in Jammu has led to doubts as majority of the students expecting to get distinctions and positions have been relegated to the background. Some of the school principals and the parents of the children who did not get the expected results alleged unfairness in the examinations system. They alleged the examina... | |
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