Srinagar, Dec 6 : The stage has been set for the fourth phase of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir scheduled to take place tomorrow.
In this phase, twelve constituencies of Baramulla and Buddgam districts along with six other constituencies in Reasi and Udhampur districts in Jammu will go to the polls.
Earlier, an Election Commission of India team had reviewed poll arrangements for the remaining four phases of elections at a meeting in Srinagar.
The fifth, sixth and seventh phase of polls in the state will be held on December 13, 17 and 24.
Two phases of the seven-phased elections have been successfully concluded with the active participation of the people.
Sydney - An Australian rescue team was despatched to Papua New Guinea on Saturday after the Port Moresby government asked for help in searching for survivors of a mudslide in which at least 10 people have died.
Managers at Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp's Kianantu gold mine said that 10 people are dead and around 40 missing after heavy rains on Thursday triggered a mudslide that engulfed a village near the mine.
The Australian contingent includes sniffer dogs and paramedics. Spokesman Gary Littlewood told national broadcaster ABC that there was a chance some of the missing would be found alive.
Virginia (US), Dec. 6 : A Virginia businessman, Earl Stafford, has reserved a million dollars worth of rooms at Washington''s JW Marriott Hotel and plans to give the rooms away to the underprivileged during Inauguration week.
Stafford, who is black, said the swearing-in of America''s first black president makes the occasion that much more special, but added that he pursued his plans without knowing who would be elected.
He plans to offer the rooms, at no charge and has had hundreds of responses so far.
"Our telephones are off the hook. Our e-mails are going crazy," Fox News quoted him, as saying.
London, Dec. 6 : Key Chelsea players John Terry and Frank Lampard have reportedly questioned coach Phil Scolari’s coaching techniques.
Terry and Lampard went to see Scolari on Thursday to ask him to increase the intensity in training. Both stars feel the coaching has become too laid back and repetitive and that it is transmitting itself on to the field.
While Lampard publicly called for Chelsea to be less predictable, Terry questioned the desire of his teammates to make a go of it in both the Premier League and the Champions League.
LAQUINTA, Calif., Dec. 5 -- James Nitties and Glen Day shared the lead Friday midway through the six-round PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament in California.
Nitties went into the third round with the lead by himself and stayed atop the standings by firing a 3-under 69. Day, who won a PGA Tour event in 1999 and finished 15th on the money list in 1999, stormed through the field with a 64.
That left the co-leaders at 15-under 201. Geoffrey Sisk was alone in third at 203.
The low 25 finishers and ties will earn their way onto the PGA Tour next year. The Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course and Stadium Course at PGA West are home to the event. Every competitor will play each course three times.