| | BJP routs Cong in 3 states | | AAP creates history, halts BJP advance in Delhi | | | NEW DELHI, Dec 8 (Agencies): The BJP routed the Congress in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and emerged as the single largest party in Delhi on Sunday.
The Congress had smelt defeat but the magnitude of defeat would have caught it in surprise as the party has failed to win even one of the four states in the recently concluded assembly elections, results of which were declared today.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan achieved a hat-trick in Ma... |  | |
| | ‘Announce candidates for all 6 seats’ | | 4 states election results warning: Vakil | | | | SRINAGAR, Dec 8: Former minister and member AICC Abdul Gani Vakil today appealed Congress high command to announce its party candidates for all parliamentary constituencies in the state.
In a statement, he said this way the Congress party will remain alive in the hearts and minds of people particularly in Kashmir Valley because all other major parties have taken a lead in this behalf.
“It is high time to chose and field only those candidates... | | |
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| | AAP’s win a shock to Congressmen: Soz | | | | SRINAGAR, Dec 8: PCC president Prof Saif-u-Din Soz today said that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s debut win in Delhi has come as a shock for the Congressmen in the country.
Soz said the election elections results that have come in four states including Delhi must act as a warning for the congressmen in the country to work doubly and get awakened to the new challenges on the ground.
“This is politics and there are ups and downs but AAP’s win has come ... | | |
| | | Omar tweets away in election mode | | | | SRINAGAR, Dec 8: While closely watching the political developments in the country, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah seems to be taking lessons for the upcoming polls in Kashmir.
“I am glued to my television, waiting to watch the trends and results start coming in. Call it morbid curiosity,” Omar stated on micro-blogging site, twitter.
“So it's bell weathers versus breeched firewalls.”
In his series of posts, which he named ‘notes for self -201... | | |
| | | Elections can’t affect K issue: Mirwaiz | | | | SRINAGAR, Dec 8: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman Hurriyat Conference (M) today said the coming Lok Sabha and assembly elections cannot affect Kashmir issue. He was speaking at a seminar on human rights by his faction here.
“Elections were no substitute to right of self determination. Like in the past, the election process cannot affect the disputed status of Kashmir,” Mirwaiz said.
He viewed that the main cause of continuous bloodshed, torture... | | |
| | | ‘Mirwaiz family introduced Sheikh to Kashmir’s politics’ | | | | SRINAGAR, Dec 8: Taking a strong exception to the recent statement of National Conference, Jammu and Kashmir Awami Majlis Amal (AMA) today accused National Conference (NC) of bartering the aspirations and wishes of people of Kashmir in lieu of power and political gains.
A spokesman of AMA said the people of Kashmir have themselves witnessed the historical events and the people here have the full knowledge of the events when NC betrayed them at... | | |
| | | Agencies trying to cut PDP vote bank: Beig | | 'Pre-poll alliance or not Mehbooba winner' | | | SRINAGAR, Dec 8 :Stating that the possible pre-poll alliance in the forthcoming parliamentary polls
won't have any impact on the PDP, former deputy chief minister and senior PDP leader, Muzaffar Hussain Beig, today said that agencies are hell bent on damaging the vote bank of PDP.
"Agencies are all out to damage the vote bank of PDP and to succeed in their intentions they are adopting all the possible methods. In the coming days you will see m... | | |
| | | BSF puts anti-sniping measures along IB | | | | BOBIYA BoP, Dec 8(Agencies): The Border Security Force (BSF) has put up anti-sniping measures for the safety of its troops guarding the Indo-Pak border in Jammu frontier.
"We have installed anti-sniping measures for safety and security of our jawans guarding the borderline with Pakistan in Jammu frontier," DIG, BSF Virender Singh told reporters here. Anti-sniping measures are undertaken to prevent BSF troops to become targets of any firing by ... | | |
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| | Breach of truce: India, Pak troops trade fire in Mendhar | | | | MENDHAR, Dec 8: After a lull for over a month or so, Indian and Pakistan troops Sunday evening traded fire after the latter breached truce and opened unprovoked fire at Indian forward post on the Line of Control (LoC) in Mendhar sector of district Poonch.
The intelligence agencies and locals confirmed that the two sides exchanged fire for at least fifteen minutes on Sunday evening after Indian forward post in Mendhar was targeted by two Pakista... | | |
| | | Minimum temperatures above freezing point in Kashmir | | | | SRINAGAR, Dec 8: In further respite from cold wave for the residents of Kashmir owing to overcast conditions, the minimum temperatures in most parts of the Valley settled above the freezing point.
The minimum temperature in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, settled at 2.3 degrees Celsius, over a degree up from the previous night's 0.9 degree Celsius, a MeT Department official said.
The night temperature in the tourist resort ... | | |
| | | 12 lakh migratory birds flock to Kashmir | | | | SRINAGAR, Dec 8 (Agencies) : Over 12 lakh migratory birds from Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Japan have flocked to Kashmir, giving a vibrant look to the wetlands and water bodies in the Valley.
"Our conservative estimate is that there are over 12 lakh migratory birds in various wetlands and water bodies of Kashmir at present," Wildlife Warden Mohammad Maqbool Baba said.
Brahminy Duck, Tufted Duck, Gadwall, Garganey, Greylag Goose, Mallard... | | |
| | | Govt has neglected Rajouri in all spaces: PDP | | | | RAJOURI, Dec 8: Senior PDP leader Shahzad Khan said that Rajouri has been totally neglected by the present government in all spaces be it infrastructural development or holding on spot recruitments or other employment avenues for the youth or bringing Rajouri on the map of tourism.
Shahzad said that this present government has always befooled the people thereby holding back door entries and reemploying the retired persons again and again. Scho... | | |
| | | Mufti’s regime was golden period in J&K: PDP | | | | RAJOURI, Dec 8: Senior PDP leader Shahzad Khan conducted the tour of far flung areas of Rajouri wherein among discussions on various developmental issues he apprised the people of the rallies to be held by party president Mehbooba Mufti and appealed for their presence in large numbers.
In a press release issued here, Shahzad said that the party president will be conducting mass tours and rallies in Rajouri from December 17 onwards.
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| | | 4 states election results warning for Congress : Vakil | | Corruption to be a crucial and decisive factor in forthcoming polls | | | JAMMU, Dec 8: Former Minister and Member AICC Abdul Gani Vakil today appealed party high command to announce its party candidates for all parliamentary constituencies in the state so that Congress party remains alive in the hearts and minds of people particularly in Kashmir Valley because all other major parties have taken a lead in this behalf.
Addressing public meetings at Binner and Chotipora Rafiabad in Baramulla, he said that it is high t... | | |
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