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Battered PDP starts preparations to go alone in Assembly elections 6/26/2024 10:56:42 PM Early Times Report Jammu, June 26: Notwithstanding efforts of the Congress leadership to set up a grand alliance of all non-BJP parties in the coming Assembly elections in J&K, the battered Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) is preparing to go alone in the forthcoming Assembly polls. Sources said the top leadership of the PDP has directed its leaders to prepare panels of potential candidates for the coming Assembly elections in all the 90 seats of Jammu and Kashmir. “As the Congress leadership has betrayed PDP during the Lok Sabha elections by giving importance to the National Conference, the leadership of the party (PDP) has decided not to be involved in any dialogue of seat sharing with any other party”, sources said and added that message of fighting elections alone has already been conveyed to all district presidents. Sources said that PDP’s leaders from zone presidents to district presidents have also cautioned the leadership against entering into an alliance with any other party. Party leaders are of the view that surrendering some seats to other parties would demora...   READ MORE

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After facing ‘humiliation’ Nizamuddin Bhat says goodbye to Peoples Conference 6/26/2024 10:56:29 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, June 26: Outraged over not being invited for the core group meeting, former MLA Bandipora and senior leader Nizamuddin Bhat on Wednesday disassociated himself from Sajad Lone led People’s Conference. Bhat had won the elections on the Peoples Democratic Party ticket but had deserted the party after the political landscape changed in Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370. Bhat said that when he joined the party he was not actively involved. “I was appo...   READ MORE   3 JeM terrorists killed in Doda encounter 6/26/2024 10:56:15 PM Early Times Report Bhaderwah/Jammu, June 26: Three terrorists, suspected to be affiliated with the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit, were killed in a gunfight that lasted for more than six hours in a forest area in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district on Wednesday, police officials said. A policeman was also injured in the gunfight that broke out in Bajaad village in the Gandoh area around 9:50 am amid an intensified cordon-and-search operation launched by the police, Army and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), following twin terrorist attacks in the hill district on June 11 and 12, the officials added. Six security personnel were injured when terrorists attacked a joint...   READ MORE   G-20 meeting in Srinagar was turning point: LG Sinha 6/26/2024 10:43:42 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, June 26: Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Wednesday said that last year’s successful and peaceful G-2- working group meeting in Srinagar was the turning point in boosting the UT’s tourism potential and removing the scars from the once struggling tourism industry. He said post G-20 meeting foreign as well as domestic tourists started flocking to J&K in large numbers. Addressing the two-day Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Development Conclave-2024 ...   READ MORE   Improvement in law and order led to increase in tourist footfall: Chief Secy 6/26/2024 10:43:17 PM Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 26: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday said that crores of rupees are being spent on infrastructure projects in the Union Territory, which is set to give a boost to the economic activities like tourism. Stating that the improvement in the law and order situation has led to the increase in the footfall of tourists here, Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo while addressing a gathering at SKICC, said that J&K has seen transformative changes in the la...   READ MORE   Cop dismissed for his involvement in criminal activities 6/26/2024 10:43:03 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 26: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday said that it have dismissed a constable involved in criminal activities in Kishtwar district. The police said that it has dismissed a Police Constable from services for his involvement in series of criminal cases including a murder case. As per reports, one Constable namely Sham Lal No. 698/Ktr, PID No. EXJ-118739 joined District Kishtwar on 09-11-2023 while he was under suspension on account of his prolong absence and indulgence in criminal cases. The said Constable was granted 03 days permission from DPL Kishtwar on 12-11-2023 and was due to report back on 15-11-2023 but he failed to do so and subsequently was...   READ MORE   2 armed men spotted 6/26/2024 10:42:24 PM Agencies CHANDIGARH, June 26: Security forces were put on high alert after a villager claimed to have spotted two suspicious armed men in Punjab’s Pathankot, officials said on Wednesday. The Punjab Police, along with the Army and the Border Security Force (BSF), launched a massive search operation in Pathankot, a senior Punjab Police officer said. The search operation was being carried out in the Bamial area, the officer said. “We are on alert,” Deputy Inspector General (Border Range, Amritsar), Rakesh Kaushal, said. “A joint operation of the Punjab Police, BSF and Army is being carried out in the Bamial area,” DIG Kaushal added. According to sources, a villager in Pathankot’...   READ MORE   Searches launched in Reasi 6/26/2024 10:42:18 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 26: A search operation is underway in a forest area in Reasi district following suspicious movement of armed persons, officials said on Wednesday. The search operation was conducted in Kanda-Poni area where terrorists opened fire on a 53-seater bus carrying pilgrims when it was en route to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Katra from the Shiv Khori temple on June 9. The bus, ferrying pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi, plunged into a deep gorge following the gunfire, killing nine people and injuring 41 others. Some locals reported the suspected movement of three armed persons in Kanda area on Tuesday evening, prompting the Army, CRPF and...   READ MORE   Pensioners to get revised DA 6/26/2024 10:42:13 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 26: The J&K Government today ordered that the Government employees and the pensioners who are drawing their salary as per the pre-revised Sixth Pay Commission shall be paid a revised DA at the rate of 230% of their basic pay. ...   READ MORE   Soldier injured in accidental blast 6/26/2024 10:42:08 PM Early Times Report SAMBA, June 26: A soldier was seriously injured in an accidental grenade blast inside a camp in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said. The sepoy was handling a training grenade that exploded in his hand inside the camp at Diyani, they said. They said the trooper was admitted to the Military Hospital in Samba....   READ MORE   ACB books DySP 6/26/2024 10:42:03 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, June 26: The sleuth of Anti-Corruption Bureau Jammu on Wednesday booked an officer of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) rank in disproportionate assets case. The ACB spokesman said that a case has been registered in Police Station Anti-Corruption Bureau Jammu on the outcome of a secret verification conducted into the allegations that the accused namely Chanchal Singh, who is serving as Deputy Superintendent of Police in Jammu and Kashmir Police has acquired huge assets disproportionate to his known source of income. The verification so conducted has revealed that the accused officer during his posting at lucrative posts and indulging in corrupt practi...   READ MORE

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