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After getting no response from Delhi, anti-Vikar faction resorts to mud slinging Infighting in Congress 6/4/2023 10:59:17 PM Early Times Report Jammu, June 4: Returned empty-handed from New Delhi, the anti-Vikar Rasool faction in J&K Congress has started a vicious campaign against Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) chief to undermine his authority. The malicious campaign launched by the anti-Vikar Rasool group has intensified infighting in the J&K Congress which is claiming to counter the “united” BJP in the Union Territory in general and Jammu province in particular. As reported earlier by The Early Times, the anti-Vikar Rasool Wani faction headed by former minister Raman Bhalla was camping in New Delhi to have an appointment with either Congress president Sonia Gandhi or AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra but they returned empty-handed. “Instead of listening to their complaint against incumbent JKPCC chief Vikar Rasool Wani, Congress high-command has warned dissidents against indulging in indiscipline”, a source said. After returning from New Delhi, the anti-Vikar Rasoon faction has started organizing parallel meetings in different areas of Jammu districts to challe...   READ MORE

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Day after ECI’s letter Ravinder Raina demands assembly polls in J&K 6/4/2023 10:58:58 PM Early Times Report Jammu, June 4: A day after the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) letter to the five poll-bound states, Ravinder Raina, president of the Jammu and Kashmir BJP said that there was no reason to further delay elections in the Union Territory. Ravinder Raina, while interacting with media persons in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district said that the time is appropriate for holding the first-ever assembly elections in J&K which converted into a Union Territory as per Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act 2019. Raina is hopeful that the Election Commission of India will announce the poll schedule soon for J&K. “BJP is ready for assembly elections in J&K. We want ECI to a...   READ MORE   After war of words with BJP, infighting in Apni Party 6/4/2023 10:58:50 PM Early Times Report Jammu, June 4: A few days after the Apni Party leaders locked horns with their counterparts in the Bharatiya Janta Party in Srinagar, “infighting has worsened” in the Kashmir based party. Former MLA and senior leader of the Apni Party has alleged that the roads and drainage in Srinagar are dilapidated putting the people to inconvenience. “Dilapidated roads and defunct drainage system in Srinagar cause misery to the people in Srinagar,” the Apni Party leader said in his poster viral on the social media. It’s pertinent to mention that colony roads and drainage in Srinagar are largely under the Srinagar Municipal Corporation headed by Mayor from the Apni Party. Also...   READ MORE   Jambu Zoo disappoints visitors, e-rickshaws play spoilsport Animals haven’t arrived yet, facilities not put in place, allege people 6/4/2023 10:58:46 PM Early Times Report Jammu, June 4: People visiting recently inaugurated ‘Jambu Zoo’ at Nagrota are returning disappointed. While talking to a local news channel, visitors accused the e-rickshaws plying inside the zoo of duping them even after charging Rs 200/ per head. “According to the terms and conditions the e-rickshaws have to take the visitors from beginning to the end of the zoo and bring them back,” said a woman who had come to the zoo along with her two children. She said, “I paid...   READ MORE   All tracks at Odisha train crash site repaired: Railway Ministry 6/4/2023 10:58:20 PM Agencies Balasore, June 4: The government on Sunday said that both the Up and Down railway tracks at Balasore accident site have been repaired. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw tweeted that track linking Up-line has been restored and overhead electification work has also started. "Track linking of Up-line has been done at 16.45 hours. Overhead electrification work started," Mr Vaishnaw tweeted on Sunday. He had earlier tweeted that the down line which links Howrah has been restored. Officials said this implies that at least one set of railway tracks were now fit for trains, but more time will be required to fix all tracks, which include loop lines, at the Balasore accident sit...   READ MORE   Govt bans 14 fixed-dose combination drugs 6/4/2023 10:57:59 PM Agencies New Delhi, June 4: The government has banned 14 fixed-dose combination drugs including Nimesulide and Paracetamol dispersible tablets and Chlorpheniramine Maleate and Codeine syrup citing there is "no therapeutic justification" for these medicines and that they may involve "risk" to people. The Union Health Ministry issued a notification on Friday in this regard. The banned drugs included those used for treating common infections, cough and fever -- combinations such as Nimesulide + Paracetamol dispersible tablets, Chlorpheniramine Maleate + Codeine Syrup, Pholcodine +Promethazine, Amoxicillin + Bromhexine and Bromhexine + Dextromethorphan + Ammonium Chloride + Menthol, Parac...   READ MORE

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