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| Can’t leave all LS seats in Kashmir: Cong leaders tell Rajni Patil | | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 17: While the National Conference has already started the campaign for three Lok Sabha seats for Kashmir, Congress leaders have made it clear to their party leadership that leaving all seats of Kashmir for coalition partners would prove disastrous for the party in the next assembly polls.
Highly placed sources said that during the meeting with AICC incharge J&K Rajni Patil, most of the Kashmir-based leaders emphasized contesting maximum Lok Sabha seats of J&K to further strengthen the party’s base in both the regions of the Union Territory.
“Kashmir-based leaders told Rajni Patil that apart from two Lok Sabha seats of Jammu province, Congress must contest on one Parliamentary seat of Kashmir Valley leave the remaining two for coalition partners”, sources said and added that Valley-based Congress leaders want to contest newly carved Anantnag-Poonch Lok Sabha seats.
As reported earlier, most of the National Conference leaders have suggested contesting all three Lok Sabha seats. The NC leadership is not ready to leave any Parliamentary seat for any... | |
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| PM Modi stops convoy, gives way to ambulance | | | 
Varanasi (UP), Dec 17: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday stopped his convoy to give way to an ambulance during his roadshow in Varanasi.
The convoy, with security personnel holding on to the Prime Minister’s vehicle, stopped on the side of a barricaded road while the ambulance sped away by its side.
The Prime Minister is on a two-day visit to his Parliamentary constituency where he will launch and inaugurate 37 projects worth more than Rs 19,000 crore for Varanasi and Purvanchal. It ... | |
| | | | Parliament security breach serious issue: PM | | | 
NEW DELHI, Dec 17: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the seriousness of the security breach in Parliament cannot be underestimated, and called for no squabbling over the issue amid Opposition’s protests over it in Parliament. In an interview to Hindi daily ‘Dainik Jagran’, Modi said probe agencies are investigating the incident and taking stringent measures, noting that it is equally necessary to go to the root of people behind it and their motives.
The newspaper said he described the b... | |
| | | | Participate in Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra to achieve 100% saturation of schemes: LG urges people | | ‘J&K on move with confidence towards goal’ | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 17: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, during this month’s Awaam ki Awaaz programme, called upon the PRI members, Youth, Women Self-Help Groups, entrepreneurs, voluntary organizations and every section of the society for their active participation in Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra.
He said: “Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra, largest-ever outreach initiative of the Government of India, will cover every Panchayat and Urban Local Body of J&K. Peoples' participation is impo... | |
| | | | Identify needs of weaker sections, empower them: RSS Chief | | | 
THANE, Dec 17: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat has said it is the responsibility of banks to identify the needs of the weaker sections and empower them.
He was speaking on Saturday at the conclusion of golden jubilee function of the Kalyan Janata Sahakari Bank in Kalyan area of Maharashtra’s Thane district.
Financial prosperity of the weaker sections is the foundation of banks, the RSS chief said.
Banks should give priority to social development, while maintaining all... | |
| | | | 3 hybrid terrorists involved in attack on policeman arrested: DGP Swain | | | 
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 17: Three “hybrid” terrorists involved in last week’s attack on a policeman in Bemina area of Srinagar city have been arrested, Director General of Police Jammu and Kashmir R R Swain said on Sunday.
Constable Mohammad Hafeez Chak was attacked on December 9 while he was returning home.
The DGP said the conspiracy was hatched by one Pakistan-based terrorist Arjumand alias Hamza Burhan who got in touch with a local mastermind Danish Ahmad Malla to carry out ... | |
| | | | ‘Balance traditions, innovations in armed forces’ | | | |
Hyderabad, Dec 17: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday stressed the need for maintaining traditions of the armed forces while adopting innovation and said there has to be a balance between both of them.
Addressing the Combined Graduation Parade at Air Force Academy at Dundigul near here, Singh opined that following traditions would only make the system like stagnant water in a lake, and if it is coupled with innovation, it will become a river always providing fresh water.
“Traditions are important in the armed forces, because they are time tested.
They served useful purposes for a long time. That’s why giving proper importance to the traditions is also necessary. There is one imp... | |
| | | | Gulmarg records minus 6°C after snowfall | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 17: Gulmarg records the season’s coldest night at -6.0C after higher reaches of Kashmir valley received fresh snowfall and plains were lashed by light rains.
Gulmarg received about 7 inches of snowfall and 132mm of rainfall during the past 24 hours till 0830hours today, the Meteorological Centre Srinagar said.
After snowfall Gulmarg recorded the season’s coldest night at -6.0C on Sunday against the -2.8C recorded the previous night. It was 1.2C below normal for the famous ski resort of north Kashmir.
Higher reaches of Kashmir valley received a fresh snowfall on Saturday that improved the night temperature at most of the stations, while ligh... | |
| | | | GST return filers up by 65 % in 5 years: Finance Ministry | | | |
NEW DELHI, Dec 17: The number of GST return filers rose about 65 per cent to 1.13 crore in 5 years till April 2023 as compliance by taxpayers improved, the finance ministry said on Sunday.
Also, the number of active taxpayers registered under GST increased from 1.06 crore as of April 2018, to 1.40 crore.
As per data shared by the ministry, 90 per cent of eligible taxpayers are filing GSTR-3B returns by the end of the filing month in current fiscal year, up from 68 per cent in 2017-18, the first year of GST rollout.
”Simplification in Rules and Procedure in GST has resulted in increase in return filing percentage by eligible taxpayers,” the ministry said in a post on X.
A nationwide Go... | |
| | | | Mughal, SSG Roads closed for traffic | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 17: The historic Mughal road and the strategic Srinagar-Sonamarg Gumri (SSG) road were closed for vehicle traffic as a precautionary measure following fresh snowfall, officials said on Sunday.
Mughal road connecting south Kashmir’s Shopian district with the twin district of Poonch and Rajouri in Jammu division were closed for vehicular traffic as a precautionary measure following accumulation of fresh snowfall on the highway, traffic police officials said. They said the traffic on the strategic Srinagar-Sonamarg-Gumri road connecting Ladakh was also suspended due to accumulation of snow on the highway.
The snow clearance operation is going on at both ... | |
| | | | ‘No cold wave expected in Northwest India’ | | | |
New Delhi, Dec 17: Indian Meteorological Department scientist Naresh Kumar briefed about the weather change expected in northwest India due to the Western disturbance in the Himalayan region.
Speaking to news agency IMD Scientist Dr Naresh Kumar said, “Right now, the temperature is normal in northwest India which may fall about one to two degrees in the next two days and two to three degrees in east India.
“There is a cloud patch in Jammu and Kashmir due to the western disturbance that is causing rainfall, and snowfall, all over the region. We are not expecting any weather change in the plains of northwest India. We are witnessing another western disturbance that will affect northwest I... | |
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