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| High stakes for coalition, opposition | | BARAMULLA, LADAKH | | | ‘Lone’ separatist’s participation has all eyes glued
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, May 12: In the last phase of polling as the constituencies of Baramulla and Ladakh brace up for final showdown, it is zero-sum game for the coalition partners Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party even as the lone separatist swearing by India, Sajjad Lone become one of the most significant aspect of the current elections.
Although there are 13 candidates in the fray in the north Kashmir Lok Sabha constituency of Baramulla, the main contest is between the ruling National Conference (NC) candidate Sharief-ud-Din Sharriq, Muhammad Dilawar Mir of the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Lone of the People's Conference.
Lone, the son of People's Conference founder Abdul Gani Lone who was slain in 2003 by unidentified assailants, is the first separatist in Kashmir to contest the polls since a revolt broke out in Kashmir in 1989.
Although Lone terms his move "a change of strategy and not any change of ideology", the triangular contest in Baramulla is being keenly watched by everyone.
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| Let Farooq, Omar keep their word and punish sex scam criminals: Ansari | | ‘I didn’t take any tax amnesty from Mufti Govt as I had already cleared all liabilities’ | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, May 12: In an emphatic rebuttal to Dr Farooq Abdullah’s allegation that there had been a dubious quid pro behind Maulvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari’s admission into Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2005, the high-profile Shia cleric-politician today claimed that he had cleared all of his sales tax liabilities before joining then ruling party. While claiming that Sidhra satellite township scandal was former bureaucrat B R Singh’s and a senior BJP leader’s plot to sully his image through a fabricated fraud, Ansari said that even in the recent elections for some seats in Legislative Council, Dr Abdullah had managed to secretly get Ashok Khajuria... | |
| | | | 70 cross sides, infected garlic returned to PoK | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, May 12: Even as 72 persons crossed side through Line of Control via Chakkan-da-Bagh in Pooonch sector, at least 30 truck loads of garlic were returned to the Pakistan occupied Kashmir for carrying a pathogen infection.
Including four first times, 72 persons crossed sides through weekly Poonch-Rawlakote bus service along Chakan-Da-Bagh crossing point. 44 persons where on board the bus that left Poonch for Pakistan occupied Kashmir. While four of them were residents of Poonch district, the remaining 40 residents of PaK who returned home after completing their 28 days stay here to meet their relatives first time since indo-Pak partition.
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| | | | JK Bank raises Rs 750 million | | | | AGENCIES
Mumbai, May 12: Jammu & Kashmir Bank on Tuesday raised Rs 750 million via Certificates of Deposit (CDs), Thomson Reuters data showed.
It sold one-year notes carrying a coupon rate of 6.25 percent to banks.
The yield on the Reuters benchmark three-month CD <0#INCDBMK=> rose to 3.55 percent from Monday's 3.5 percent, and volumes in the secondary CD market rose to 3.2 billion rupees from 1.55 billion rupees on Monday.
A total of 1.5 billion rupees of CDs were issued on Monday.
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| | | | 56 air sorties airdropped poll material | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, May 12 : As many as 56 air sorties were made to air- lift poll officials, Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and other poll related matter to cut off areas in Baramulla and Ladakh Lok Sabha constituencies, going to polls tomorrow.
Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Jammu and Kashmir, B R Sharma today said that all arrangements have been put in place for free, fair and peaceful polls in these constituencies.
He said lifting poll parties to far-flung and remote areas was the most challenging job in this phase.
Sharma said nearly 56 sorties have been made to position poll parties and election-related material at the polling station set up in cut off areas.
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| | | | Separatists may intensify activities after polls | | | | NIRBHAY JAMMUAL
JAMMU, MAY 12: Indications are that the separatists may not suspend their activities after the end of the Lok Sabha elections. They have earned a lot of publicity from their anti-Assembly poll and the Lok Sabha election since October last when the schedule for the poll process started being announced. A section of people supported their "planned marches" from one end of Srinagar to the other. Strict measures taken by the Government agencies, during the Governor's rule between July and December, foiled the separatist plan of wrecking the election process and set the entire Kashmir on fire. They may not have succeeded in their plan but they demonstrated their capacity for reg... | |
| | | | Polls conclude today | | | | ET DESK
Jammu, May 12: The fifth and final phase of the most keenly fought Lok Sabha elections in recent times will conclude tomorrow with polling to 86 seats, but there is no clear picture of who would form the next government.
The general elections for 543 seats of the lower house of Parliament are widely expected to throw a hung verdict, but the struggle for power is mainly among the ruling Congress-led UPA coalition, the BJP-led NDA and the Third Front headed by the Left parties.
Campaigning during the month long elections have been acerbic, with leaders attacking the character and qualities of one another while the common people gave vent to their anger by firing footwear missiles ... | |
| | | | GI for honey: J&K sleeps, Punjab, TN make money | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, May 12: The honey produced in Jammu and Kashmir is believed to be one of the best and ‘most expensive’ in the world –rated at around Rs 1000/kg in international market –but what is exported out of India is actually a product of other states sold with a fake tag –courtesy the official slackness as no Geographical Indication (GI) has been obtained from Jammu and Kashmir honey.
Honey exporters of Punjab and Tamil Nadu have been alleged of selling inferior quality honey under the brand name ‘Kashmir’ similar to Jammu and Kashmir honey. While government is yet to act, some Kashmiri apiculturists have demanded legal action against the ‘brand theft’.
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| | | | 67% KPs set to miss poll bus | | M-FORM HURDLE | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU: Out of total 5982 votes only 2084 M-forms were received by the office of Assistant Returning Officer (ARO) of migrants for the fifth and final phase of Lok Sabha election schedule tomorrow for Baramula Parliamentary Constituency at all notified polling booths official sources informed. Out of remaining 37% voters who are entitled to cats their votes remains a matter worth to watch as KPs are angry with Election Commission of India for introducing cumbersome and hectic procedure of M-form system for which entire community expressed resentment widely.
Going by the bizarre episode of fourth phase wherein migrant voters of Srinagar Parliamentary Constituency fou... | |
| | | | City’s only gynea hospital crumbling under pressure | | Let MCC go, we’ll improve: Minister | | | SALMAN NIZAMI
JAMMU: Bursting at the seams, Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh (SMGS) hospital, predominantly a gynae and paediatrics hospital, here finds the going tough in the wake of an acute shortage of doctors, nurses and para medical staff. On an average 70 to 80 women deliver babies every 24 hours at the hospital’s 48 bedded labour room, that indicates about 30 caesarian cases, and to perform the deliveries, besides attending to obstetrician cases and OPD patients, the hospital has just 15 gynecologist excluding eight registrars.
A heavy rush at the 550 bedded hospital, which on any given day has over 100 percent beds occupancy, continues to take a heavy toll on hospital staff said a nurse.... | |
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