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‘Recalcitrant’ Hurriyat leaders will remain behind the bars: Farooq None in Sheikh family is match to Geelani in contesting elections’ 5/10/2009 11:57:38 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, May 10: President of the ruling National Conference (NC), DR Farooq Abdullah, has said that the Kashmiri separatist leaders would remain behind the bars in all elections in case they persisted with their “negative politics”. In Take One TV’s current affairs programme “Face to Face with Ahmed Ali Fayyaz”, Dr Abdullah said it categorically that the separatist leadership would have to remain in detention whenever elections would be held in Jammu & Kashmir in case they continued with their “negative politics”. “If they continued to snatch away the livelihood of poor Kashmiri taxiwallas, ponywallahs, hotel owns and shikara operators with sloganeering and stone pelting, they will have to always remain in jail and write books on Kashmir’s history”, Dr Abdullah said. Dr Abdullah, who is himself contesting election from the Central Kashmir constituency of Srinagar-Budgam, said that the separatist leaders had been detained “in the interest of Kashmir’s tourism and poor man’s livelihood”. “Had they been set free, there would have been sloganeering and ston...   READ MORE

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3.4 million Mobile users, J&K telecom growing fast 5/10/2009 11:57:06 PM AD Singh Jammu, May 10: As all the top telecom players in India rush to the latest telecom hotspot, the competition has ultimately resulted into a phone ringing in almost of 32% pockets in J&K. With the entry of three new service providers in J&K market and two more to follow soon the market is going to be tough soon but the point of saturation doesn’t seems to be near as the decline in the call rates along with handsome offers and alluring schemes flooding the market has resulted into a substantial decrease in the mobile keeping cost which in turn has resulted into a steep increase in the total number of mobile users in the State swelling the figure of total number of mobile users in J&K ...   READ MORE   Mothers’ Day: a day of Gifts v/s Tears 5/10/2009 11:56:46 PM MUNISH GUPTA Jammu, May 9: Infact even in today’s modern world –a mother is the truest friend, a shoulder we have, particularly when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; as her kind precepts and counsels not only disperse the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. But question here is that if the mothers are getting the reward in similar noble gesture. It is an old saying – when the designated time came in He the Almighty created the mother and the child to give the best to his world. The word mother has so affection and warmth in it that now a days it is not restricted to human relations only but is also used frequent...   READ MORE   Mothers’ Day: a day of Gifts v/s Tears 5/10/2009 11:54:18 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, May 9: Infact even in today’s modern world –a mother is the truest friend, a shoulder we have, particularly when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; as her kind precepts and counsels not only disperse the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. But question here is that if the mothers are getting the reward in similar noble gesture. It is an old saying – when the designated time came in He the Almighty created the mother and the child to give the best to his world. The word mother has so affection and warmth in it that now a days it is not restricted to human relations only but is also used fr...   READ MORE   Omar promises to make LoC trade meaningful 5/10/2009 11:53:42 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Srinagar, May 10- While continuing to launch scathing attacks on opposition People’s Democratic Party, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday promised to end impediments of communication and currency in the cross LoC trade. “We want more trade and travel routes along the Line of Control. Traders will soon see restoration of telecommunication so that they get freedom to talk anywhere while currency issue would be settled soon as we crave for making the Cross LoC trade more meaningful so that it would benefit every person,” Omar Abdullah told an election rally at Dak Bungalow Baramulla. “These elections are being held to choose Prime Minister of India and there...   READ MORE   Candidates unfazed by militant infiltration Election campaign ending, shutdown beginning today 5/10/2009 11:53:31 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT Baramulla, May 10: Hectic campaigning by different contestants and leaders of mainstream political parties is reaching its end today---an hour before the hardliner Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani-sponsored shutdown for 50 hours would begin in the evening. In the fifth and the final phase of the democratic process in Jammu & Kashmir, polling is scheduled to be held in three districts of Baramulla, Kupwara and Bandipore besides two districts of Leh and Kargil on May 13th. With no regard for reports of infiltration of armed guerrillas from across the LoC, different political parties are out to woo the voters in the Baramulla and Leh constituencies. Baramulla con...   READ MORE   Sajjad Lone to Mirwaiz: Mind your own business ‘Kashmir issue is nobody’s monopoly’ 5/10/2009 11:53:11 PM AGENCIES KUPWARA, May 10- In a virtual snub to Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, People's Conference (PC) Chairman and candidate for Baramulla-Kupwara, Sajjad Lone, has asked the senior separatist leader to mind his own business as the Kashmir issue, according to him, was nobody’s monopoly. Debutant election contestant and the PC founder and 41-year-old son the PC founder, Abdul Gani Lone, is engaged in hectic campaigning for the May 13th polling and the crowds drawn by him are sending shivers down the spine of the ruling National Conference and opposition PDP leaders in certain areas of Kupwara district. Mirwaiz, who has been fighting for right to self-determinati...   READ MORE   Police contests Army's claims on terrorists killed 5/10/2009 11:52:46 PM AGENCIES Kupwara, May 10: The claims by the Army having neutralized a maximum number of militants, who sneaked into Kashmir recently, have been hotly contested by the local police, who have picked up trails of militants and the FIRs registered showing only 25 had been eliminated. Notwithstanding the recent claims of Brigadier General Staff of 15 Corps Gurmeet Singh that 32 militants had been killed and that there were only two infiltration bids since March, the figures with the local police have a different story to tell as they have spotted fresh batches in so far as Ganderbal and Bandipore areas of North Kashmir are concerned. As per the statement of a local militant who surrende...   READ MORE   PDP amalgam of rumour mongers: Omar ‘Public mood indicative of landslide victory for NC-Cong coalition’ 5/10/2009 11:52:26 PM Early Times Report BARAMULLA, May 10: National Conference (NC) leader and Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, today claimed that the ruling coalition of NC-Congress would make a clean sweep on all the six Parliamentary constituencies in the current Lok Sabha elections in Jammu & Kashmir. According to him, the public sentiment against the “politics of deceit” was a clear indication of the landslide victory of the coalition candidates on all the six seats in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. While addressing a series of public meetings in Baramulla, Rafiabad and Pattan segments during his whirlwind campaigning in Baramulla district, he said that people had understood the “tricky and deceitful poli...   READ MORE   IT refund in 4 months now 5/10/2009 11:52:04 PM AGENCIES New Delhi, May 10: Individual and small corporate taxpayers will get income or corporate tax refunds in four months, with the refund banker scheme spreading across the country soon. The refunds, arising out of tax payments and TDS collections, usually take more than a year to reach the average taxpayer. "Tax and TDS refunds will now reach the individual and small (corporate) taxpayers in about four months (by August 2009). The refund banker scheme may also be implemented across the country," a senior Finance Ministry official said. Taxpayers who have filed their returns for the assessment year 2008-09 should now write to their area Income-Tax Assessment Officers quotin...   READ MORE

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