Day: October 6, 2018

Twenty killed, scores injured as minibus plunges into gorge in Ramban

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Twenty people are feared killed and several injured, some of them seriously after a minibus which was allegedly overloaded plunged into a deep gorge in Ramban district on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway on Saturday morning, police said. Ramban’s senior superintendent of police Anita Sharma, however, told HT over phone that 20 were feared dead and 14 others were being shifted to the district hospital. The bus was travelling from Banihal to Ramban. Deputy Commissioner of Ramban, Showkat Aijaz Bhat also rushed to the spot. “The minibus was on its way…

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Rebel candidates hit out at saffron party for ‘Terrorising’ them

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For the last one week, Amit Khandari, Independent candidate from Ward Number 10 of the Poonch Municipal Committee, is moving from pillar to post to get security but to no avail. He alleges that his request is being ignored as he dared to contest election as a rebel against BJP’s official candidate. “By abusing power, the local BJP leadership has mounted pressure on the administration against giving security to party leaders who dared to contest as rebels,” Khandari told Kashmir Post. He said, “I have brought this matter to the…

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Post NC worker killings, BJP asks its cadres to be extra vigilant and not to leave safe places

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Hours after the killing of two National Conference activists in old Srinagar, Bharatiya Janta Party asked its candidates not to leave the secure places allotted to them by the government. “We have asked the candidates to be extra vigilant,” BJP general secretary (Organizations) Ashok Kaul told Kashmir Post. He condemned the killing of NC workers and termed it “unfortunate”. Kaul dismissed reports saying BJP candidates had resigned from the party or withdrawn from the contest. “Nobody is back tracking, these are rumours,” he said, adding that in the prevailing Kashmir…

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54% Independents candidates in Jammu making it tough for parties like BJP and Congress

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With just three days left for the first phase of polling in the urban local bodies elections, a good number of Independents with a clean image are turning out to be a potential threat to candidates from the mainstream political parties in the region. In the first phase, over 54 per cent of the candidates are Independents. Candidates of the BJP and Congress are feeling the heat as these Independents along with the rebels of mainstream parties are changing the poll dynamics. Interestingly, in some municipal wards of three districts…

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CIA names VHP, Bajrang Dal as ‘Religious Militant Organisations’ in World Factbook

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The CIA, in its recent edition of the World Factbook, categorised VHP and Bajrang Dal under “political pressure groups”, defined as organisations that are involved in politics or that exert political pressure but whose leaders do not stand for elections. The Central Intelligence Agency, in its recent edition of the ‘World Factbook’, has named the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal as “religious militant organisations”. The agency, the intelligence wing of the US government, has categorised them under “political pressure groups”, defined as organisations that are involved in politics or…

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