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| Omar spews salvo aganist PDP | | NC SAYS 'NOT INTERESTED' IN FORMING COALITION WITH CONGRESS | | |
Srinagar, Sept 06: President of the largest mainstream political group–National Conference, Omar Abdullah on Wednesday hurled choicest accusations on the People's Democratic Party, the rival group, of hoodwinking people of strife-torn Jammu and Kashmir by "deliberately keeping vague the actual meaning of their borrowed self-rule slogan." Regarding the expose of fissures within the coalition government after Muzaffar Baig's ouster from the cabinet and as the legislature leader of PDP, Omar said National Conference was "not interested in forming a coalition with the ruling Congress just in case the coalition collapses in wake of the recent crisis".
"Our party was never interested (in forming coalition with the Congress). May be if I had met Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi things may have been different," the Member Parliament Mr Omar Abdullah told the news conference here at party headquarters, Nawa-i-Subah complex.
Launching a scathing attack on PDP leadership Mr Omar Abdullah said that the "hidden agenda behind much trumpeted PDP's self-rule proposal was recently ex... | |
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| Waters recede in J-K rivers, 12 lakh people affected | | | | Srinagar, Sep 6 Water level in rivers and their tributaries in Jammu and Kashmir receded further today but nearly 12 lakh people spread over 495 villages were still reeling from floods which have damaged 382 houses and claimed 15 lives so far.
Water level in main river Jehlum was fast receding at upstream Sangam, 40 kms from here, in Anantnag district, but it was still flowing above danger mark at Ram Munshi Bagh in Srinagar, Shadipora and Asham downstream in Baramulla.
Water level in Jehlum at Sangam came down to normal level at 21.10 feet at 11 AM, the officials said.
However, it was flowing 2.20 feet above red mark at Ram Munshi Bagh and 3.32 feet at Ashram in Baramulla distric... | |
| | | | Flash floods toll is 19: Div Com | | | |
Jammu, Sept 6 About 19 people died and 22 others sustained injuries in the recent floods in different parts of Jammu division, the Divisional Commissioner said today.
Giving this information at a high-level meeting of officers chaired by the chief minister, the Divisional Commissioner Parmod Jain said preliminary reports stated that 286 cattle and sheep perished in the flash floods and heavy rains in the division.
Besides, 1212 houses were either partially or completely damaged in the heavy downpour and the number is expected to cross 2000 mark, he said.
Jain said torrential rains affected 6000 families in the division.
The authorties also evacuated 3,245 people to safer place... | |
| | | | Growing threat to India's northeast | | Serious is Bangladeshi Islamists' anti-India gameplan | | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI: Amid the renewed talk of the need for further improvement in the relationship between India and Bangladesh, New Delhi has been left with no alternative but to monitor the developing situation across the border, in Bangladesh. The situation is not quite favourable in view of the anti-India gameplan of Bangladeshi Islamists. And if there was any doubt about it, it was set at rest by the US Institute of Peace.
Created by the US Congress and partially funded by Washington, the US Institue of Peace (USIP) has raised concerns about the conections between rising terrorism in India and Bangladesh-based militant groups. This finding is contained in a new report pub... | |
| | | | Devotees to raise the bids | | Will Ganesh ladoo fetch Rs 3 lakhs? | | |
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 6: A number of devotees of Lord Ganesh from Delhi and neighbouring Punjab and Haryana States have left for Balapur in Andhra Pradesh to witness an interesting event. After art auctions and land auctions it is time for a laddoo auction.
A village in Balapur on the outskirts of Hyderabad comes together every year for a special auction and the item that is up for grabs is a 21-kilo Ganesh laddoo. Balapur villagers auction Lord Ganesha's favourite delicacy on the 10th day of immersion with the entire village converging at a pandal. Over two-three lakh people assemble at Balapur to witness the auction.
This is a tradition that has been go... | |
| | | | BJP president fails to inspire awe | | National Executive unlikely to toes his line | | |
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NEW DELHI, SEPT. 6: The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is divided, with a section of the partymen pitted against the beleaguered president, Rajnath Singh. Indications are by no means uncertain that Rajnath Singh is being quietly edged out by his colleagues. Both his friends and critics anxiously await the BJP's line of action from the National Executive of the BJP meeting at Dehradun from Thursday, September 7.
The BJP's National Executive was to focus on political and electoral strategies for upcoming Assembly polls in Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. But BJP's all-important general secretary, Arun Jaitley, took many, including Rajnath Singh, by surprise... | |
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