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| South Kashmir : Cong workers reluctant to support NC | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 7: Even as the Congress leadership has declared support to the National Conference candidate Mian Altaf on the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat, many hard-core party workers in some parts of south Kashmir are not ready to support the NC candidate.
Highly placed sources said many hard-core Congress, associated with the grand old party for generations, are reluctant to support the National Conference due to political rivalries.
“In some parts of south Kashmir dedicated Congress workers and voters have decided to support Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Anantnag-Rajouri seat”, sources said and added that it was all due to the association of these workers with the late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed that their first priority is PDP instead of NC.
Important to mention here that PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti is repeatedly reiterating her resolve to remain part and parcel of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc headed by the Congress.
Mufti repeatedly made it clear that her party is an inseparable part of the INDIA)... | |
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| BJP asks its leaders not to carry party flags during campaign in Kashmir | | Rajouri district | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, May 7: Amid confusion among hard-core voters of the party on three Lok Sabha seats of Kashmir Valley, the BJP directed its leaders and workers not to carry party flags or symbols while campaigning on these segments.
Highly placed sources said that the decision not to carry party flags and symbols has been taken to give a message to the opposition parties that the BJP is not directly involved in supporting any particular candidates on the Lok Sabha seats of Kashmir ... | |
| | | | Want 400 seats to foil designs of Congress: PM Modi | | | | DHAR (MP), May 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said he wants the BJP-led NDA to win 400 seats in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls to ensure the Congress does not bring back Article 370 in Kashmir and put a ”Babri lock” on the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
Addressing a rally at Dhar in Madhya Pradesh, Modi also slammed RJD president Lalu Prasad’s statement over favouring reservation benefits to Muslims. He said the opposition INDIA bloc’s ”conspiracy” is deeper and it wants all reservation of the SCs, STs and OBCs for its vote bank.
He also accused the Congress of belittling Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, adding the opposition party has started saying he had a very little role in framing the Consti... | |
| | | | Top LeT cmdr Basit Dar, among 2 terrorists killed in Kulgam encounter | | |  Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 7: Two terrorists, including top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Basit Dar, were on killed in an encounter with security forces in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Tuesday.
The security forces had launched a cordon-and-search operation in Kulgam’s Redwani village late on Monday night following information about the presence of terrorists in the area.
“Police and security forces, along with Army and CRPF had cordoned off the area … Operation continued thr... | |
| | | | 3 SPOs dismissed | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 7: Three Special Police Officers (SPOs) were on Tuesday dismissed from service for dereliction of duty and involvement in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district, officials said.
The SPOs -- Daljeet Singh, Bali Ram and Deepak Singh -- have been disengaged from service while disposing off two separate
departmental enquiries initiated against them among and other officials in 2023, they said.
The officials said that Daljeet Singh and Bali Ram were arrested in a case of murder registered at the Ramgarh police station but they escaped from police custody.
They were disengaged from service for derelicti... | |
| | | | High Court upholds PSA of habitual criminal | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 7: Justice Sanjay Dhar of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court upheld the detention under PSA of Paramjeet Kumar alias Jungi who is allegedly a habitual criminal.
Justice Sanjay Dhar while upholding the detention order, observed that a perusal of the grounds of detention, which are subject matter of the present case, reveals that, besides the aforesaid six FIRs, FIR No. 58/2022 of Police Station, Miran Sahib, FIR No. 64/2023 of Police Station R.S.Pura and FIR No. 87/23 of Police Station R.S.Pura also find mention in the grounds of detention. So, it is not a case where the impugned order of detention is based upon the same FIRs that were the basis of earli... | |
| | | | MeT forecasts dry, hot weather | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 7: Mainly dry and “hot” weather has been forecast over Jammu and Kashmir till May 10.
“Mainly dry and hot weather is expected in Jammu and Kashmir,” said meteorological department here in a statement for the forecast during the next 24 hours and subsequent two days. However, the MeT department has said that thundershower activity during the afternoon can’t be ruled out at a few places till May 10.... | |
| | | | ACB arrests Naib Tehsildar | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 7: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday said to have trapped and arrested Naib Tehsildar Khrew, Pulwama while a Constable was also held for allegedly facilitating the offence. The spokesman said J&K Anti Corruption Bureau received a complaint against Naib Tehsildar, Khrew, District Pulwama alleging therein that the said Naib-Tehsildar is demanding Rs 10,000 from complainant through his clerk namely Ajaz Ahmad for settlement of dispute of ancestral land at village Sathpokhran, Khrew Pulwama,
“The complainant approached the Tehsil Office Khrew several times for settlement of the dispute, but the Naib Tehsildar didn’t budge. Moreover the complainant has ... | |
| | | | Police attach properties of terror handlers | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 7: Police on Tuesday attached the properties of seven alleged terror handlers based in Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
Police said on Tuesday that after obtaining an attachment order passed by Additional Sessions Court, Baramulla attached properties (13 Kanals) land worth lakhs belonging to terror handlers based in Pakistan. “The action was taken under sections of 88 CRPC and are linked with case FIR No.04/2008 u/s 2/3 EIMCO Act, 121 RPC,7/25 IA Act, 13 UA (P) Act of PS Kreeri,” police said.
The property was identified as belonging to terror handlers during the course of the investigation and inquiry conducted by the police.
The al... | |
| | | | Man killed over land dispute | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 7: The Jammu and Kashmir police has stepped up their efforts in the ongoing investigation into the murder of a person over a land dispute here and have conducted multiple raids at the residences of suspects, officials said on Wednesday.
The incident occurred on May 1, when Avtar Singh (40), son of Balbir Singh, was hit on his head with an iron rod and died because of excessive bleeding during a scuffle between two groups, who staked their claim over the piece of land in Greater Kailash locality.
An angry mob, including the family and relatives of the deceased, blocked Kalu-Chak road on Jammu-Pathankot national highway and demanded a CBI probe into the kil... | |
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