FRONT PAGE STORIES |
|
|
| DPAP release first list of candidates, Saroori’s name missing | | Gharwapsi Rumours? | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 25: Ghulam Mohammad Saroori’s name missing from the first list of candidates issued by the Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) has raised many eyebrows as rumours are rife that some senior leaders of the party are in touch with the Congress for Gharwapsi.
Although the leadership of the DPAP has maintained a silence over missing Saroori’s name, the issuance of the first list of candidates without the party’s senior leader’s name has fuelled speculations th... | |
| | | | BJP to bank more upon new faces | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 25: The mainstream political party, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) will be banking on new faces and may repeat a few old stalwarts in the three-phase Assembly elections to the 90-member Jammu and Kashmir Assembly scheduled to be held on September 18, September 25 and October 1.
“The names of the candidates are almost final and submitted to the high command for final stamp and the party this time will be banking more upon new faces,” party sources said.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has already issued a notification for the first phase of voting for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly election, being held after a decade.
The notification sets August 2... | |
| | | | Our agenda same: Omar to Mehbooba | | | | Early Times Report
GANDERBAL, Aug 25: NC vice president Omar Abdullah on Sunday claimed the PDP has copied his party’s manifesto and asked the Mehbooba Mufti-led party to not field candidates against NC-Congress nominees for the betterment of Jammu and Kashmir as their agenda is the same.
Abdullah’s remarks came a day after Mehbooba said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would extend complete support to the Congress-National Conference (NC) alliance and leave all seats in the elections for the coalition if it accepts her party’s agenda.
The former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister was addressing NC workers in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, where activist Sayim Mustafa joined ... | |
| | | | Elections not for statehood: Mehbooba | | |  Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 25: Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said that for her, the upcoming assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir is not for statehood or seat sharing but for a "bigger goal." During the press conference for the launch of the PDP manifesto for the upcoming assembly polls, Mehbooba Mufti said, "For me, this election (upcoming Assembly elections in J&K) is not for statehood or seat sharing... We have a bigger goal... We are fighting for digni... | |
| | | | Crimes against women unpardonable sin: PM Modi | | |  JALGAON (Maharashtra), Aug 25:
Agencies
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday termed crimes against women an unpardonable sin, adding the guilty should not be spared. Modi’s strong remarks follow protests against the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital and the sexual abuse of two four-year-old school girls in Badlapur near Mumbai Speaking at the ‘Lakhpati Didi Sammelan’ in north Maharashtra’s Jalgaon, Modi said the safety of women should be ... | |
| | | | BSF seeks additional manpower for drone-affected Punjab border | | |  Jalandhar/New Delhi, Aug 25:
Agencies
The BSF has sought the deployment of an additional battalion to check the onslaught of cross-border drones carrying drugs and ammunition and curb infiltration along the Punjab front of the India-Pakistan border.
The force currently has about 20 battalions to guard the more than 500-kilometre-long front, out of which 18 are “actively deployed” at the border while the rest are mobilised in view of the requirements at the Attari integrated check post in... | |
| | | | 2 killed in Kupwara accident | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 25: At least two people were killed and another seriously injured when an oil tanker met with an accident in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
Police said the ill-fated tanker was on its way to Kupwara when it skidded off the road after the driver lost control over it and rolled down to a deep gorge at Machil late Saturday night. The driver and the conductor of the vehicle died on the spot, police said. They have been identified as Jasbir Singh Thakur, a resident of Balshama Sunderbani Rajouri, and Ankush Choudhary of Nowshara in Jammu division.
The seriously injured, identified as Anu Sharma of Sunderbani district, Rajouri, have been admitted to a n... | |
| | |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
STOCK UPDATE |
|
|
 |
| BSE
Sensex |
 |
| NSE
Nifty |
|
|
| |
CRICKET UPDATE |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
| |
|