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| After mocking Early Times sources, Omar announces Mian Altaf’s candidature for Anantnag-Rajouri seat | | |  Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 1: In December 2023, when Early Times reporter had told National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah that ET has learnt from its sources that his party has decided to field prominent Gujjar leader Mian Altaf from Anantnag-Rajouri parliamentary constituency, Omar had mocked at the ET reporter saying, “Early Times kay sources pay jitna kam bharosa kiya jaya utna behtar hain (Early Times sources cannot be trusted).”
However, on Monday the National Conference announced that former minister and senior party leader Mian Altaf would contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls from Anantnag-Rajouri seat.
The announcement was made by none other than the NC vice-president Omar Abdullah.
“There will be no better candidate than Mian Altaf for the Anantnag-Rajou... | |
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| Announcement of Mian Altaf’s candidature provides ammunition to PDP | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 1: The announcement of Mian Altaf as a party candidate for the newly shaped Anantnag-Rajouri seat provided ammunition to the PDP to attack the National Conference by sabotaging opposition unity.
As reported earlier by this newspaper, the PDP was waiting for the coalition partner National Conference to unilaterally announce candidates for three Lok Sabha seats in Kashmir Valley.
Both parties are constituents of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Allia... | |
| | | | Over-confident workers, lackluster poll campaign worries BJP leadership | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 1: Worried over the lackluster campaign for the Lok Sabha elections, BJP leadership has decided to reach out to inactive and experienced party workers who have virtually withdrawn themselves from active politics.
Highly placed sources said that party leadership has approached a number of party workers who were very active before 2014 but now have been sidelined or isolated due to the joining of a large number of new entrants from other political parties.
“Mandal-level leaders have been asked to prepare a list of those workers who used to manage booths in their localities when the party was not a big force in Jammu”, sources said and added the experience o... | |
| | | | No change in IT regime: Finance Ministry | | |  New Delhi, Apr 1: The finance ministry on Monday said there is no change in the new income tax regime for individuals for the current fiscal year and individual taxpayers can opt out of the regime at the time of filing their ITR.
Clarifying on social media posts claiming certain changes in the new tax regime effective April 1, the ministry said, “There is no new change which is coming in from 01.04.2024.” A modified new income tax regime was rolled out from the financial year beginning April 1... | |
| | | | India needs to become economically self-reliant: PM Modi | | |  Mumbai, Apr 1: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India needs to become economically self-reliant in the next 10 years so that the nation is not impacted much by global factors.
Speaking on the 90th anniversary of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Prime Minister also said a lot of work will be generated for everyone once the BJP-led NDA assumes office for the third term in June We have to increase India’s economic self-reliance,” he said.
Modi said the banking sector has become pr... | |
| | | | New security mechanism, integrating technology being considered: DGP Swain | | |  Early Times Report
Kathua/Jammu, Apr 1: The Jammu and Kashmir Police is contemplating a new mechanism to integrate technology and physical infrastructure to strengthen the security, including for protected people who are facing threats, officials said.
“We want to promise that through the use of technology, such as CCTVs, physical infrastructure like security lights and sensors, security will be strengthened,” Director General of Police (DGP) R R Swain told reporters here.
By maintaining a... | |
| | | | Army spots Pak drone along LoC, opens fire | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 1: Army troops opened fire after observing movement of a Pakistani drone and suspected persons at two different places along the Line of
Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Monday. While the drone movement was picked up in a forward area in Sunderbani, the suspicious movement of some persons believed to be terrorists was noticed in Keri sector during the intervening night of Sunday and Monday, the officials said.
They said troops fired at least four rounds to shoot down a Pakistani quadcopter soon after it entered Indian territory but it returned to the other side of the LoC in the face of firing.
Troops also fired a... | |
| | | | 5 booked under PSA | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Apr 1: Five people have been booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district for their alleged involvement in anti-national activities, police on Monday said.
“Acting tough against the anti-national elements,
police in Baramulla booked five persons under the Public Safety Act after obtaining formal detention orders from the competent authority,” a police spokesman said.
The five accused have been identified as Asif Ali Bhat, Mohammad Yaqoob Bhat, Waseem Mehraj Farash, Bashir Ahmad Sualiah and Bilal Ahmad Dar alias Shakir, he said.
The spokesman said that the accused persons have been detained and subsequently lodged in ... | |
| | | | ‘One vehicle, one FASTag’ norm comes into force | | | | NEW DELHI, Apr 1: State-owned National Highways Authority of India’s ‘One Vehicle, One FASTag’ norm, which aims to discourage the use of single FASTag for multiple vehicles or linking multiple FASTags to a particular vehicle, has come into force from Monday, a senior official said.
The NHAI had extended the ‘One Vehicle, One FASTag’ initiative compliance deadline to March-end, in view of the problems being faced by Paytm FASTag users.
Multiple FASTags won’t work… People who have multiple FASTags for one vehicle won’t be able to use all of them from today (April 1),” the official said.
To enhance the efficiency of the electronic toll collection system and provide seamless movement at toll... | |
| | | | Aircraft trial run on Jmu-Sgr highway | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Apr 1: Traffic has been suspended on the Wanpoh-Sangam stretch of the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in view of an aircraft trial run on the emergency landing strip at Bijbehara later on Monday, officials said.
The work on the 3.5-kilometre emergency landing strip was started in 2020 and completed late last year.
Officials said that security has been heightened along the emergency landing strip with additional personnel deployed to ensure that people do not stray close to the area.
“Traffic on the highway has been diverted from Wanpoh to Sangam to bypass the Bijbehara emergency landing strip where trial landing and take-off of an aircraft was scheduled,” ... | |
| | | | GST collections hit Rs 1.78 lakh cr in March | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, Apr 1: GST collections in March grew 11.5 per cent to Rs 1.78 lakh crore, buoyed by domestic transactions, the finance ministry said on Monday.
The gross GST collection for the last fiscal (April 2023-March 2024) stood at Rs 20.14 lakh crore, 11.7 per cent higher than the mop-up in the preceding fiscal. The average monthly gross collection for FY24 stood at Rs 1.68 lakh crore, exceeding Rs 1.5 lakh crore in the preceding fiscal.
“Gross Good and Services Tax (GST) revenue for March 2024 witnessed the second highest collection ever at Rs 1.78 lakh crore, with a 11.5 per cent year-on-year growth. This surge was driven by a significant rise in GST collection from domest... | |
| | | | Gadkari vows to eliminate Petrol, Diesel vehicles in India | | |  NAGPUR, Apr 1: As part of his ambition to make India a green economy, Union minister Nitin Gadkari wants to slash GST on hybrid vehicles and has vowed to rid the country entirely of the over 36 crore petrol and diesel vehicles.
“One hundred per cent,” Gadkari, the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, said when asked whether it is possible for India to get rid of petrol and diesel cars altogether
It is difficult but not impossible. This is my vision,” Gadkari said in an interview... | |
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