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PDP’s loss: Jamaat on boycott, Pulwama district lukewarm NC’s loss: Cong, CPI (M) turn out with just modest support 4/30/2009 11:50:33 PM South Kashmir polling turnout falls to 26% Ahmed Ali Fayyaz ANANTNAG, Apr 30: With both, ruling National Conference (NC) as well as the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), failing to get sizable vote from their declared and undeclared electoral allies, the South Kashmir Lok Sabha constituency of Anantnag-Pulwama recorded a modest turnout of 26 percent when the first phase of polling was conducted today in Kashmir valley in the backdrop of Hurriyat-sponsored shutdown. Chief Electoral Officer, B R Sharma, told Early Times late tonight that aggregate turnout of 26.25% had been recorded in the sixteen segments spread in Anantnag, Pulwama, Shopian and Kulgam districts of South Kashmir. Even as the voter turnout has considerably fallen to just 26.25% from an impressive 57.60% recorded in the Assembly elections of December 2008, Mr Sharma asserted that it was an improvement of nearly 12% over that of the Lok Sabha elections of May 2004. After the lowest ever turnout of 6% in the Lok Sabha elections of 1989, Anantnag-Pulwama had recorded voter turnout of 15.04% in th...   READ MORE

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SHO Miran Sahib suspended 4/30/2009 11:37:00 PM Early Times report Jammu, April 30: Station House Officer of Police Station Miran Sahib Paramjeet Singh has been placed under suspension on charges of indiscipline. SSP Jammu Manohar Singh informed that SHO Miran Sahib was suspended on the grounds of indiscipline. ...   READ MORE   Two ultras dead in Bhaderwah encounter 4/30/2009 11:36:32 PM Early Times Report Jammu, April 30: Two militants were eliminated and an army jawan received gun shot in the encounter going on in the Bhaderwah.Two Lashkar militants identified as Mudisir and Ashraf were killed in the ensuing encounter,a army spokesman told.Security forces on basic information cordoned off Chanote area and challenged militants but they resorted to firing resulting fierce encounter and in the ensuing encounter two militants and an army Jawan received bullet injuries. He was rushed to district hospital for treatment.One AK 47 rifle was recovered from their possession.Encounter was on till filing of the reports.Pertinet to mention here that this is the third time that encou...   READ MORE   Pak moves 6,000 troops from Indo-Pak border to fight Taliban 4/30/2009 11:34:03 PM Agencies Islamabad, April 30: Concerned by Taliban moving deeper into its territory, Pakistani authorities decided to move as many as 6,000 troops from Indo-Pak border to its Western border with Afghanistan, according to a news report. Pakistan has been under immense pressure from US since its Swat peace deal with Taliban and then the Buner district also going to the extremists. US had lauded the redeployment of the troops by Pak but reiterated that it is not doing enough to eliminate the Taliban factor in the region. Pakistan Army had launched ground offensive against Taliban in Dir district and later launched operation in the Buner district on Tuesday. On Thursday Pak Army claimed to h...   READ MORE   Protesting KP voters beaten up, 2 injured 4/30/2009 11:30:05 PM SANDEEP BHAT Jammu, April 30: Over 300 activists of Jammu and Kashmir Nationalist Movement, All India Kashmiri Samaj and Jammu and Kashmir National United Front demonstrated outside a polling booth in Jammu to protest deletion of names of pandits from the voter list. Two persons were injured as police resorted to lathicharge. In a bizarre incident which occurred at KP’s polling booth at Director School Education office in Muthi suburbs when KP voters turn furious on watching their names missing from the voter lists despite filling of M-forms. Later workers of Jammu and Kashmir Nationalist Front (JKNF) came out in a shape of protest and burnt the effigy of the Election Commissioner of In...   READ MORE   Farooq questions Mufti’s ‘poll boycott’ 4/30/2009 11:29:13 PM Early Times Report Srinagar April 30: The President J&K National Conference Dr. Farooq Abdullah, has denounced the dual standard of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed for not casting his vote in today’s conducted polls for Anantnag parliamentary constituency in Kashmir division. Questioning the credibility of PDP’s Patron, Dr. Abdullah asked him to openly declare before the people to whom he and his owned party represent. “What can they expect from others when they themselves do not cast their vote”, he said. Dr. Farooq Abdullah was reacting to Mufti Sayeed’s abstaining from vote in the today’s held Parliamentary polls. Ridiculing the dual and deceitful policy of PDP the National Conference Presid...   READ MORE   Oxford of South Asia: Where are JU’s outer campuses? 4/30/2009 11:28:45 PM Early Times Report Jammu Apr 28: The University of Jammu has long been claiming an identity of Oxford of South Asia with education of peoples’ doorstep in Jammu region but people are looking for the addresses of its outer campuses which apparently have been lost in the oblivion of negligence and red-tape. Between the political upheavals and the apathy of the authorities the students of the far flung areas in the state continue to struggle for realizing their fundamental right to education. Around a couple of years ago during the Gulahm Nabi Azad led coalition government and in the tenure of Prof. Amitabh Matoo as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Jammu the University inaugura...   READ MORE   High on charts, low in deed Health care craving for attention 4/30/2009 11:27:45 PM Early Times Report Jammu: The promises of providing better facilities of health care by successive governments speaks its volumes when one comes to know that instead of six CT-scan machines required in Government Medical college (GMC), not even a single is installed. Incidentally one installed remains most of the times non functional causing discontent to the patients and their attendants. Not only this but according to official records 699 Primary Health Centers, Aid Centers and sub Centers are lodged in private houses on rented basis instead in government hospital buildings. Out of ten district hospitals only six have TB Centers besides 15 mobile medical aid centers are roaming witho...   READ MORE   Phase III: 50% Voter Turnout 4/30/2009 11:27:13 PM New Delhi, April 30: An estimated 50 per cent of the 14.4 crore electorate today exercised their franchise in the third phase of Lok Sabha polls nine states and two union territories, which passed off by and large peacefully barring stray violence in Bihar and West Bengal. The 14 constituencies in West Bengal, where the polling was held for the first time in this election, recorded the highest turnout of 64 per cent followed by Karnataka (57), Gujarat (50) and Maharashtra (45 per cent). As soon as the polling began, Maoists exploded a landmine near a booth at Biramdih in West Bengal's Purulia district, injuring two Central paramilitary force jawans. Three policemen were injured when su...   READ MORE   Valley waiting for tourists eagerly 4/1/2009 12:25:46 AM Sandeep Bhat Kashmir is a region of the north western Indian subcontinent and it is bounded to the northeast by the sinking and to the east by Tibet, to the south by Himachal Pradesh and to the west by Pakistan and to the northwest by Afghanistan. Kashmir suddenly flashed into the world news when Pakistani marauders came over the mountains to annex Kashmir by force in 1947. Although repeated attempts to annex Kashmir on the flimsy ground of majority Muslim population, have been frustrated in the recent past, grim clouds of a more organized attempt, backed by modern arms and armoury, where as, India will again face such a situation with greater determination and united will and strengt...   READ MORE   Highest 17 lakh voters for Jammu LS seat 2,210 polling stations for voting on April 16 4/1/2009 12:25:17 AM Early Times Report Jammu Mar31- Jammu Parliamentary constituency, which is going to polls on April 16, has a total electorate of 17, 21, 696, which is the highest for any Parliamentary constituency. The total voters also include 23,674 service electors. Of these 8, 89, 562 are male and 8, 32,134 female voters for the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. In comparison, there were 18, 49, 989 voters for the 2004 elections. Madan Lal Sharma of INC won the Parliamentary seat in 2004 elections when he defeated his nearest rival Dr. Nirmal Singh of BJP by a margin of 17,568 votes.While Madan Lal Sharma polled 3,19,994 votes, Dr. Nirmal Singh polled 3,02,426 votes. The total poll percentage was recorde...   READ MORE   Militant killed in Kupwara 4/1/2009 12:24:59 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, March 31: An unidentified militant was killed in an encounter with security forces near the Line of Control (LOC) in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, a police spokesman said Tuesday. The militant was killed by the troops of 12 JAK rifles of the Army in the area of D-Dori near the LOC following an ambush, the spokesman said. He said Army had lodged a report with police post at Kralpora yesterday stating that intelligence inputs indicated the presence of militants in the area. An AK 47 rifle, four magazines, four hand grenades, a wireless set and Rs 600 were recovered from the slain militant, the spokesman said. Meanwhile, the spokesman s...   READ MORE   Case registered against management in Baramulla 4/1/2009 12:24:47 AM Early Times Report Srinagar: At-least sixty girl students were injured, five of them seriously, when roof of a school building caved-in Tuesday in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Eyewitness said that the roof of Islamia High School English medium Bangla Bagh collapsed at around 1100 hours while students of 8th, 9th and 10th standard were offering morning assembly prayers on its fourth floor. Meanwhile, the district administration has ordered an inquiry into the incident and has filed a case against the school authorities. Sixty students were hurt. Five of them seriously in the incident, the sources said. Sources said that as soon as the incident occurred, pedestrian, school ...   READ MORE   Police conducts raid in Poonch on RDD officials BDO among 7 arrested while making fake bills 4/1/2009 12:24:25 AM Early Times Report POONCH: Police Tuesday thwarted a plan by some officials of Rural Development Department Balakote in Poonch district when it arrested seven officials who were allegedly preparing fraud bills to swindle state exchequer of rupees one million. Sources said that Station House Officer Balakote, Farooq Hussein Shah, after specific information raided a residential house of a Village level worker, Haji Muhammad Hanief and arrested red-handed besides other Block Development Officer Balakote, Muhammad Sidiq, Accountant Muhammad Anwar Khan, store keeper, Muhammad Bashir, VLWs Muhammad Sharief and Haji Hafiz Khan. The officials, police said, were preparing fraud bills to the ...   READ MORE   Militant surrenders in Jammu 4/1/2009 12:24:07 AM Early Times Report Jammu, March 31 A militant of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, identified as Abdul Qayoon Wani, surrendered to army troops in Ranbirsingh Pura, a border town about 30 km west of Jammu, Tuesday. According to defence ministry spokesman Lt. Col. Biplab Nath, the militant, who also went by the alias of Saifullah Tirzay surrendered with an AK-56 rifle, two magazines, 96 rounds of ammunition and one Chinese grenade. It is rare for a Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militant to be found in this belt, as the plains of Jammu are believed to be free of militants ...   READ MORE   Harsh dev harsh on notification scheme HC issues notice in 2 petitions challenging RS polling 4/1/2009 12:23:56 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar31- In two election petitions filed by JKNPP legislators Harsh Dev Singh and Balwant Singh Mankotia challenging the notifications issued by the Election Commission of India dated January 12, 2009 whereby it has been decided to hold three bi-annual elections for filling-up the vacancies for Rajya Sabha, Justice Nirmal Singh of Jammu and Kashmir High Court today issued notice to Election Commission of India through its Secretary New Delhi, Union of India through its Home Secretary, Saif-ud-Din Soz MP Union Minister for Water Resources, Ghulam Nabi Azad MP, Dr. Farooq Abdullah MP, Mohammed Shafi Uri MP, Ashok Vijay Gupta and Chairman Rajya Sabha New Delhi re...   READ MORE   Swindling of public money CB presents challan against Co-op officials 4/1/2009 12:23:34 AM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 31- Crime Branch Jammu today produced challan against the accused including the then Assistant Registrar and Deputy Registrar Cooperative Societies Rajouri for misappropriating lakhs of rupees and diverting the same for their personal use. The challen was presented in the court of law in a FIR 03/2003 U/S 420/ 409 /467/ 468/471 of RPC r/w 5(2) P.C Act against Shafiq Ahmed Choudhary son of Mohd. Hussain of Ward No.I Rajouri the then Assistant Registrar Co-operative Societies cum General Manager Marketing Society Rajouri and Kuldeep Sharma son of Chuni Lal Sharma the then Deputy Registrar Co-operative Societies Rajouri . The SSP Crime Branch said that act...   READ MORE   Azad calls for strengthening of secular forces 4/1/2009 12:23:12 AM Early Times Report Jammu, March 31: Hitting out at the BJP and PDP in the Kashmir valley, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday asked the people to strengthen secular forces and fight parties spreading communalism in the state and elsewhere in the country. These parties had created an explosive situation in the state for their vested interest last year that resulted in polarisation on communal lines, Azad said, apparently referring to Amarnath Yatra agitation. "BJP had drawn the advantage from it in Jammu and PDP in Kashmir in the assembly elections later," the AICC general secretary said, while addressing an election rally in support of party candida...   READ MORE   LS polls 2009 Over all development, main concern for Kashmiris 4/1/2009 12:22:52 AM By Salman Nizami The world looks at Kashmir as a source of dispute between India and Pakistan, a trouble spot but people who will vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections are more worried about local issues, then Kashmir problem. “Our priority is local issues like unemployment, roads and development, my participation in the Lok Sabha elections is nothing to do with the resolution of the Kashmir dispute” Till that (resolution) happens, my children cannot sit idle around and waste their youth. Some thing has to be done to secure their future and unless we have to vote right person to represent us, such bringing issues cannot be allowed to waste” said Mushtaq Ahmed a daily wager of Srina...   READ MORE

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