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2 senior police officers working overtime to get BJP mandate in assembly polls 2/12/2023 11:06:33 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 12: Although the Election Commission of India has yet not dropped any hint of conducting maiden assembly elections in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, two senior serving police officers are trying their best to get the BJP mandate for the coming polls. These days both police officers are regularly visiting BJP leaders as well as offices of the different offshoots to project themselves as ultranationalist. Highly placed sources said that two serving police officers, belonging to Jammu province, have expressed their desire to contest the coming assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir on BJP mandate. “The duo has already conveyed their message to local BJP leadership as well as top-brass of the Sangh Parivar”, sources said and added that both the service police officers have made it clear to BJP leadership that they are ready to take premature retirement if party leadership promised to give mandate in the coming assembly elections. Sources said that BJP leadership has not given any assurance to the party the mandate to both of them bu...   READ MORE

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India running on tracks of ‘Virasat and Vikas’: PM Modi 2/12/2023 11:06:27 PM Agencies New Delhi, Feb 12: India is expressing pride over its legacy with tremendous self-respect and is asserting that it will strengthen its traditions while ushering in modernity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday. He also said that the country's policies and efforts have no discrimination, and are aimed at serving the poor, the backwards and the deprived on priority. PM Modi made the remarks after inaugurating celebrations commemorating the 200th birth anniversary of social reformer and Arya Samaj founder Dayanand Saraswati. The prime minister also unveiled the logo of the birth anniversary celebrations. PM Modi said India is showing the way to the world in the f...   READ MORE   Justice Kotiswar Singh appointed Chief Justice of J&K, Ladakh High Court 2/12/2023 11:06:16 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Feb 12: Ministry of Law and Justice on Sunday issued the appointment order of Justice Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh, presently acting chief justice of Gauhati High Court as the Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court. The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court is without a Chief Justice since December and Justice Tashi Rabstan, the senior most judge, has been looking after the high court as the acting Chief Justice. On December 6, 2022, the Mi...   READ MORE   4 High Courts get new Chief Justices 2/12/2023 11:05:39 PM Agencies New Delhi, Feb 12: Four judges, including two who will retire later this month, were on Sunday appointed as chief justices of high courts. Justice Sonia Giridhar Gokani, senior-most judge of the Gujarat High Court, was appointed its chief justice. Once she takes oath, she will be the only woman chief justice of a high court. India has 25 high courts. Justice Sabina is functioning as the acting chief justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court. However, Justice Gokani will demit office on February 25 upon attaining the age of 62. Justice Gokani is drawn from the judicial service of Gujarat. "Besides being the senior-most judge, the appointment of Justice Gokani as Chief...   READ MORE   Traditions emanating from Kashi, Ayodhya, Mathura and Sarnath unite all Indians: Prez 2/12/2023 11:05:32 PM Agencies New Delhi, Feb 12: The traditions and sentiments emanating from Kashi, Ayodhya, Mathura and Sarnath unite all Indians in one thread, President Droupadi Murmu said on Sunday. Addressing a civic reception hosted in her honour by the Uttar Pradesh government at Lok Bhavan here, she said the warm welcome she received has made her first visit to Lucknow as president unforgettable. “The traditions and sentiments emanating from Kashi, Ayodhya, Mathura and Sarnath unite all Indians in one thread. Naimisharanya, Gorakhpur, Magahar and many other holy places of Uttar Pradesh have witnessed India’s flourishing spiritual power,” she said The spiritual energy of such holy places would c...   READ MORE   Doctors use WhatsApp to deliver baby in Kupwara 2/12/2023 11:05:09 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Feb 12: With snowfall ruling out the possibility of airlift, a pregnant woman who had a history of labour complications in the remote Keran in Jammu and Kashmir was assisted by doctors in delivering a healthy baby over a WhatsApp call. "On Friday night, we received a patient in labour at the Keran PHC (primary health centre) with history of complicated delivery with eclampsia, prolonged labour and episiotomy," Block Medical Officer of Kralpora Dr Mir Mohammad Shafi said. An air evacuation was required to take the patient to a hospital with maternity facilities as Keran remained cut off from the rest of Kupwara district during the winter. Continuous snow...   READ MORE   Petition challenging delimitation: SC verdict today 2/12/2023 11:05:02 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Feb 12: The Supreme Court will deliver its judgment tomorrow on a plea challenging delimitation of assembly and parliamentary constituencies in Jammu & Kashmir Union Territory. The Apex Court will pronounce its judgment on Monday (February 13) on the petition filed by two Srinagar residents-Haji Abdul Gani Khan and Muhammad Ayub Matto. On March 6, 2020, Union Ministry of Law and Justice (Legislative Department) had issued a notification in exercise of power under Section 3 of the Delimitation Act, 2002, constituting a Delimitation Commission, with former Supreme Court judge (Retd) Ranjana Prakash Desai as the chairperson. The exercise was completed on May 5...   READ MORE   Minimum temp drops in Kashmir, Gulmarg experiences seasons coldest night 2/12/2023 11:04:57 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Feb 12: Minimum temperature drops at most places of Kashmir valley as the tourist resort of Gulmarg recorded the season's coldest night at minus 13.5 degree Celsius on Sunday, officials said. The famed ski resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir recorded seasons lowest at 13.5 degree Celsius on Sunday which was also second lowest in a decade for this month of the year. It was 7.3 degree Celsius below normal during this period of the season, the Meteorological office said. Earlier on February 7, 2013 the minimum temperature at Gulmarg was recorded at minus14.2 degree Celsius while on January 16 this year the temperature plunged to minus 12.0 degree Celsius at t...   READ MORE

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