* Prof R D Sharma has taken over as In-charge Vice-Chancellor of Jammu University as Governor N N Vohra accepted the resignation of Prof M P S Ishar with immediate effect. * While BJP is going to release the first list of candidates for the first and second phase of Assembly elections in the State on November 2, four to five sitting MLAs out of 10 are likely to be replaced by new faces. * Today is show-time for the BJP, which will form its first government in Maharashtra with whats being billed as an epic inauguration ceremony at Mumbais Wankhede Stadium. * Full Election Commission of India will visit Jammu and Kashmir once again, this time for two days most likely on November 10 and 11, to review election preparedness of the administration and steps taken by the authorities to ensure massive turnout for five phase polling in the State. * Police have busted a militant module of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) who were tasked to disrupt Assembly elections in Srinagar city and are looking for more such modules operating in the city. * Overall development of all the three regions will be the main poll plank of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during the next month Assembly elections in the State. This was stated by the Minister of State in PMO with Independent charge of Science and Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh. * Vigilance Organization have apprehended two officials of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) for accepting a bribe of Rs 65,000 for allotment of shops at Al-Qadoos Market located at Exhibition Crossing Srinagar. * Two persons were killed while 24 others injured, four of them critically when a bus skidded off the road and fell into 150 ft deep gorge at Budhi Morh near Palma on Kotranka-Budhal road last evening. * Government has decided to give Rs five lakh each to the next of kin of 3,325 victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots triggered after assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. * The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has issued notices to the Government on a Public Interest Litigation seeking holding of examinations in Kashmir valley this year only. * Jammu and Kashmir High Court has directed six Srinagar based private schools to waive off the tuition fee and bus fare of the students for September and October when these schools were closed due to last month’s floods.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 07:01:38 +0000
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