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| Resignations spree going unabated in ‘disciplined’ BJP | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 30: After the party issued lists of party candidates for the Assembly elections, a spree of resignations is going unabated in the disciplined BJP as leaders resigned from the party to contest elections as rebel candidates.
Today two senior leaders namely Chander Mohan Sharma, a veteran politician, and Kashmira Singh resigned from the party against the wrong distribution of the tickets.
Chander Mohan Sharma is a veteran leader, who has been associated with the Saffron party since the days of Jan Sangh. Similarly, Kashmira Singh is the district president of the party's Samba district.
While Chander Mohan Sharma has announced to contest the election as an Independent candidate from the Jammu East Assembly constituency, Kashmira Singh has not announced a future course of action.
On Ramban's seat, a young and dynamic BJP leader Suraj Singh Parihar has already filed his nomination papers as Independent candidate against official party nominee Rakesh Thakur.
Within a week after starting of the campaign, Suraj Singh Parihar has added woes for the B... | |
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| Betrayed by Azad, DPAP leaders approach Cong for rehabilitation | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 30: As their political mentor Ghulam Nabi Azad has betrayed them at a crucial time, some senior leaders of the Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) have approached Congress for proper rehabilitation in the ongoing Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
Highly placed sources said that stunned by the decision of Ghulam Nabi Azad not to campaign during the Assembly elections, the fate some some potential DPAP leaders hangs in balance because their political... | |
| | | | NC had to ‘sacrifice’ many seats for alliance with Congress: Omar | | |  Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 30: National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah Friday said the pre-poll alliance with the Congress for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls was not an easy decision as the party had to “sacrifice” many seats it felt it had a chance to win.
Addressing a party function at the NC headquarters Nawa-i-Subah, Abdullah said the struggle for the “restoration of the rights” of the people of Jammu and Kashmir is a collective fight.
“This is not only our... | |
| | | | Taking policy measures to promote Fintech sector: PM Modi | | |  MUMBAI, Aug 30:
Agencies
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Government is making necessary policy changes, like removal of Angel Tax, to promote the fintech sector, even as he asked the regulators to take additional measures to check cyber frauds which can have a crippling impact on startups.
Lauding the fintechs for democratising financial services, Modi said the sector, which has attracted USD 31-billion investment in the last 10 years, has played a key role in denting th... | |
| | | | CJI hails Justice Hima Kohli | | |  NEW DELHI, Aug 30:
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Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud hailed Justice Hima Kohli on Friday, saying she is not just a woman judge but also a fierce protector of the rights of women.
The CJI was holding a ceremonial bench for Justice Kohli, who is due to retire on September 1.
Justice Kohli was the ninth in seniority among the apex court judges. With her retirement, the top court will be left with only two women judges — Justice B V Nagarathna and Justice Bela M Trivedi.
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| | | | J&K people have to choose between terrorism or peace: Reddy | | Says no one wants Article 370 back | | 
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 30: Firing salvos at National Conference, PDP and the Congress for promoting terrorism and separatism in J&K, Union Minister and BJP’s J&K incharge for elections G K Reddy Friday said that people of the UT have two choices in the upcoming elections: to choose Terrorism, separatism or Development, peace.
We have always been clear in our politics. Ever since BJP was formed, we had promised revocation of Article 370 and we did what we promised not to play polit... | |
| | | | India’s GDP grows by 6.7 % in Q1 | | |  NEW DELHI, Aug 30:
Agencies
India’s gross domestic product slowed to a quarter low of 6.7 per cent in April-June this fiscal against 8.2 per cent in the year-ago period, mainly due to poor showing by the farm sector, according to government data.
India remains the fastest-growing major economy, as China’s GDP growth in the April-June quarter was 4.7 per cent.
The agriculture sector recorded a 2 per cent growth, down from 3.7 per cent in the April-June quarter of 2023-24, as per the Nat... | |
| | | | Mughal Road closed | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 30: Traffic movement on Mughal road has been stopped due to inclement weather for the last couple of days in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Friday. An official said that all sorts of traffic movement has been stopped on the road due to inclement weather.
He said that the road has been closed as a precautionary measure as there are apprehensions of shooting stones and landslides on the stretch due to inclement weather.
“The road will be opened for traf... | |
| | | | Army recovers landmine | | |  Early Times Report
MENDHAR/JAMMU, Aug 30: Army troops on Friday recovered a landmine along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district, officials said. An Army party found the landmine in the Pattri Gali area during a patrol along the LoC, they said. The patrol party secured the area and called the bomb disposal squad to destroy the mine, they added.
Officials said the mine had drifted due to rains and ended up on the patrol track. ... | |
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