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Gupkar Ahead But Independents Hold The Key “You cannot teach a man anything, you DDC POLLS Jailed PDP Youth Leader Eye Opener For BJP, can only help him find it Wins From Hometown within himself.” Its Proxy Party: Omar — Galileo PDP youth president Waheed Para, who is in PAGD Bags Over 100 custody of the National Investigation Agency National Conference vice president Omar Seats From JK, BJP Wins for alleged links with militants, on Tuesday Abdullah on Tuesday said people from Jammu won the District Development Council (DDC) as well as Kashmir have extended complete 73 DDC Constituencies elections from Pulwama district in Jammu support to the Gupkar alliance and endorsed JAMMU: The People’s Alliance for and Kashmir. its plan seeking restoration of J-K’s special Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), an amal- More On P8 More On P8 gam of seven political parties, won Board Exams over 100 seats while the BJP emerged as the single largest party after win- JKPCC Chief’s Son Centre’s August 5 Move Postponed Again ning 73 seats in the district develop- Tastes Defeat NEW DELHI: Union Education ment council (DDC) polls, as results Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Rejected: Mehbooba Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal for 260 of the 280 seats had been an- Committee (JKPCC) president Ghulam PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday “Nishank’’ on Tuesday ruled out nounced by late Tuesday night. Ahmad Mir’ son Naseer Ahmad Mir on Tues- said the results of the DDC elections have conducting board examinations As many as 47 seats were bagged day lost the District Development Council made it clear that the people of Jammu and for classes 10 and 12 till February by Independent candidates, while the (DDC) polls from Anantnag district of the An independent candidate celebrates his win with supporters Kashmir have voted for the Gupkar alliance next year in view of COVID-19 Congress party won 22 seats. union territory. outside a counting centre in Srinagar.—KO Pix: Abid Bhat and rejected the Centre’s unconstitutional situation. By winning three seats in Kashmir, More On P8 More On P8 He said a decision on when the BJP on Tuesday won an election for the exams will be conducted will the first time from any seat in the Valley Sikh Candidates Seal be taken later after due consul- while facing regional heavyweights tations and assessment of the like the National Conference and the Victory In Tral In A First, BJP Wins 3 Seats In Kashmir situation. More On P8 People’s Democratic Party. The NC and Two candidates from the minority Sikh the PDP are part of the Gupkar Alliance. community on Tuesday won the District SRINAGAR: The BJP on Tuesday won an Tulail seat in Bandipora district and Kakpora- faith in the prime minister and his policies. Bhutanese Woman As per the latest information from the Development Council (DDC) elections in the election for the first time from any seat II seat in Pulwama district respectively. This is a message that nationalists are pros- state election authority (SEA), the BJP restive Tral sub-district in south Kashmir’s in Kashmir while facing regional heavy- Crediting the policies of Prime Minister pering in Kashmir,” he told reporters outside Found Dead In Srinagar has bagged the highest number of 73 Pulwama district. weights like the National Conference and Narendra Modi and hard work of party work- the counting centre at SKICC here. SRINAGAR: A Bhutanese woman seats, followed by 59 seats by the NC, 26 More On P8 the PDP. ers for his success, Hussain said the DDC elec- Senior BJP leader and Union minister on Tuesday was found dead under seats by the PDP and 22 by the Congress. Aijaz Hussain won the Khonmoh-II District tion was a fight between the BJP and rest of Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi had campaigned for mysterious circumstances in As per the data, the newly setup Counting Stopped In North Development Council seat in Srinagar, while the parties. the BJP candidate in the predominantly Shia Eidgah area of Srinagar’s Old City. Apni Party bagged 11 seats followed by Aijaz Ahmad Khan and Mihna Latief gave the “This is a win for the BJP. The propaganda area of Balahama in the Srinagar district Amrita Lohar from Bhutan was seven seats by J&K Peoples Conference, Kashmir Over PcK Contestants party more reason to cheer by winning the has been bust as people have shown their periphery. More On P8 found dead under mysterious five seats by CPIM, three seats by J&K Counting of votes for Hajin-A and Drugmulla conditions in Takanwari locality People’s movement, two each by Jammu constituencies of DDC in Bandipora and of Eidgah on Tuesday afternoon, and Kashmir National Panthers’ Party Kupwara Districts was stopped as one of the news agency GNS reported. The (JKNPP) and the Peoples Democratic contestants happened to be a resident of body of Amrita, a labourer, was Front (PDF) and one seat by the BSP Pakistan-controlled Kashmir (PcK), reports at the house of her local landlord BJP won 13 of the 14 constituencies in said Tuesday. identified as Hafizullah Dar. Kathua district. Several former minis- More On P8 A police official said that a ters and legislators - Taj Mohideen, Aijaz case in this regard has been Khan, Gharu Ram, Abdul Gani, Jagjeevan Small Margin Wins In registered and further investiga- Lal won the DCC elections. tions taken up. Aijaz Hussain won the Khonmoh-II Kashmir Constituencies District Development Council seat in An independent candidate won by just three Guns Roar Again Along Srinagar, while Aijaz Ahmad Khan gave votes against his National Conference rival, as the party more reason to cheer by win- many winners of the just concluded District LoC In Poonch ning the Tulail seat in Bandipora district. Development Council (DDC) elections in JAMMU: Indian and Pakistani PDP leader Waheed Para, under arrest for Jammu and Kashmir succeeded by small troops on Tuesday exchanged his alleged links with militants, won from margins due to the low voter turnout recorded gunfire and mortar shells along his hometown in Pulwama constituency More On P8 the Line of Control (LoC) in by a huge margin. More On P8 Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir after a day’s lull. to a defence spokesperson, Pakistani troops opened fire and shelled mortars at forward posts Kulgam GUNFIGHT along the LoC in Poonch district J&K Logs Six on Tuesday. There was no report 2 Militants of any damage on the Indian Covid-19 Deaths side, he said. More On P8 ‘Surrender’ SRINAGAR: Coronavirus claimed lives of Sexagenarian Woman OBSERVER NEWS SERVICE six more people in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, even as the Union Territory Dies Of Burns SRINAGAR: Police on Tuesday reported 308 new cases, including four- SRINAGAR: A sexagenarian claimed that two Lashker-e-Taiba teen travellers during the last 24 hours. woman died of burn injuries at a (LeT) militants laid down their Among the six victims, officials said, hospital here on Tuesday, a week arms during a gunfight with gov- included a resident of Kashmir Valley—a after she allegedly set herself ernment forces in south Kashmir’s 65 man from Kupwara besides five per- ablaze in central Kashmir’s Bud- Kulgam district. sons from Jammu division—a 61-year-old gam district. Acting on a specific input about man Naseeb Nagar Jammu, an 80-year-old The 65-year-old woman from presence of militants, police, army’s man from Bhalwal Jammu, a 78-year-old Soibugh area of Budgam district 34 RR and the personnel of CRPF man from Vijaypur Samba, a 58-year-old succumbed to her injuries at 18 battalion laid a siege around woman from Doda and a 45-year-old man Srinagar’s SMHS hospital, news Tungdano village in the wee hours from Reasi. agency KDC reported Tuesday. Tuesday and launched a search op- With these deaths, the total fatality The sexagenarian, the report eration, a police spokesperson here count in J&K reached 1850—1169 in the said, was undergoing treatment said. The militants hiding in the Valley and 681in the Jammu region. at the hospital for burn injuries village, he said, fired a few rounds Srinagar district with 443 deaths which she had suffered after towards the search team. tops the list followed by Jammu (346), allegedly setting herself ablaze Instead of returning fire, the police Baramulla (170), Budgam (106), Kupwara at her home in Chan- Mohalla spokesperson said, the joint forces (89), Pulwama (88), Anantnag (82), Doda village on Tuesday last. showed “utmost restraint” and of- (61), Bandipora (58), Udhampur (57), Quoting unnamed officials, fered surrender opportunity to the Kulgam (53), Rajouri (54), Kathua (48), the report said that a case under holed-up militants.