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| Poll preparations: After Farooq, Omar, Mehbooba starts Jammu’s tour | | Visits Poonch, Rajouri to retrieve lost ground | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 14: Amid reports that the Union Government is keen to hold assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir as soon as possible, all mainstream political parties have kicked start preparations for the polls.
Within days after the visit of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti reached Poonch to hold interactions with the party cadre of twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri.
Instead of reaching Jammu to visit Poonch and Rajouri, Mehbooba Mufti initially adopted the Mugal Road track to enter twin border districts.
On day one of her visit, Mehbooba Mufti vociferously raked up the issue of job and land rights to retrieve the lost ground of PDP i... | |
| | | | Safety our prime focus: GM Northern Railways | | Holds review meeting with departmental heads, DRMs | | | Agencies
New Delhi, Sept 14: General Manager Northern Railway, Ashutosh Gangal, on Tuessday held a safety review meeting with the departmental heads of Northern Railway and with DRMs through video conferencing, a statement said.
It said that amongst many issues deliberations were held on safety on tracks, enhancement of speed, freight, punctuality and train operations.
Gangal, according to the statement, instructed that works of passenger amenities like provision of escalators, lifts, washable aprons, improvement in station building, circulating areas etc. should be given priority and must be completed in a stipulated time frame. “Safety is the prime focus over Railways,” he said.
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| | | | Felicitates Tokyo Olympians of Northern Railway | | | |
Agencies
New Delhi, Sept 14: General Manager Northern Railways, Ashutosh Gangal, on Tuesday felicitated Tokyo Olympians of Northern Railway.
He congratulated the players and coaches for their stupendous performance in the Olympics.
The players and coaches who were felicitated are: Bajrang Punia, Bronze Medal winner, Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Silver Medal winner, Anil Maan, Rajeev Tomar, both men’s wrestling coaches and Kuldeep Malik, women’s wrestling coach. Additional General Manager, NR all PHODs, Secretary to GM, President NRSA and Secretary NRSA were present on the occasion.... | |
| | | | LG Sinha launches Mission ‘One Gram Panchayat-One DIGI-Pay Sakhi’ in J&K | | Distributes 80 Aadhaar Enabled Payment Systems under JKRLM to promote digital banking & financial services in remote areas | |  Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Sept 14: In order to promote door to door digital banking and financial services in remote areas of the UT, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today launched Mission 'One Gram Panchayat-One DIGI-Pay Sakhi' in the UT, here at Jammu & Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute, Pampore.
Initially, the DIGI-Pay facility will be provided in 2000 remote villages of the UT and in the first phase, 80 women from Self Help Groups from across the Jammu and Kashmir Divis... | |
| | | | 3 civilians injured in Pulwama grenade attack | | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 14: Three civilians were injured in a grenade attack by militants in south Kashmir district of Pulwama.
Official sources said that militants lobbed a grenade at a security force party at Rajpora in Pulwama. “The grenade missed the target and exploded at a distance, resulting in injuries to three civilians,” they said, adding the wounded were immediately taken to a hospital.
They said the militants managed to escape from the spot during the chaos created due to the explosion. “Additional security forces have been rushed to the area and a search operation has been launched to nab the attackers,” they added.... | |
| | | | India heading towards becoming significant defence exporter: PM Modi | | | |
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New Delhi, Sept 14: Just as its famous locks have been securing homes, Aligarh will work to safeguard the borders of India in the 21st century, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Aligarh on Tuesday while projecting the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor as an important step in the economic progress of the district and the state.
The Prime Minister said the country is moving from being a major importer of defence products to becoming an important exporter and Uttar Pradesh is going to be a key centre in India's changing identity.
Addressing a gathering after visiting an exhibition on the Aligarh node of the Defence Industrial Corridor, PM Modi asserted that UP was ... | |
| | | | India needs to be 'atmanirbhar' even with languages: Amit Shah on Hindi Diwas | | | | Agencies
New Delhi, Sept 14: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday urged the people of the country to take a pledge to use Hindi along with their mother tongue, saying that India needs to be 'Atmanirbhar' even with languages.
The Union Home Minister made these remarks while addressing a gathering on the occasion of Hindi Diwas.
“Being 'Atmanirbhar' is not just about producing within the country, we've to be 'Atmanirbhar' even with languages. If PM can speak Hindi internationally, what are we embarrassed about? Gone are the days when speaking in Hindi was a matter of concern,’’ Amit Shah said.
The Home Minister added, “The progress of India is contained in the coordination of mother... | |
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