07 passengers injured as 02 vehicles collide in Uri Baramulla
Baramulla : An accident took place at Gunpost Nambla Uri between two vehicles Alto Bearing registration number JK05J-8290 and Tata Punch bearing registration number JK05L-3712 resulting in injuries to 07 persons.
They have identified as Rehnaz Banu, Sameena, Afshana, Syed Ishtiyak, Bashir Ahmad, Mohammad Shafi and Mohammad Sharif who all are residents of Uri area. all injured were shifted to SDH Uri for first aid where from they were referred to GMC Baramulla for treatment.
“They’re related for sure,” Thune said of the debt limit talks and farm bill. “For better or worse, pretty much everything that we’re going to do subsequent to the debt limit discussion depends on how all that plays out.”
Fresh in Senate GOP leaders’ minds: The 2011 sequestration fight, which resulted in steep spending cuts to farm safety net programs popular among Republicans. One Senate GOP aide, who was granted anonymity to discuss internal discussions, warned that any “across-the-board cuts [included in legislation to raise the debt limit], may effectively reduce the investments we are able to make in the farm safety net, trade, research, and other priorities.” The person added that “debt ceiling negotiators need to use a scalpel, not an ax.”
Thune and Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, the No. 4 Republican in the upper chamber, are now among the handful of GOP leaders navigating the debt talks with the White House and the upcoming budget negotiations while trying to protect key farm bill funding. Ernst acknowledged the three legislative efforts are becoming increasingly entangled. As a result, the farm bill timeline could slip.
“We anticipate it’s going to take a while to get the farm bill done. Sooner is better than later, but it could take a little bit longer,” Ernst said.
GOP senators are largely supportive of their House colleagues’ demand for cuts to nutrition spending, which ballooned during the pandemic. But they’re less enthusiastic about the idea of slashing key farm safety net programs they’ve long tried to protect.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that he expects Senate Republican leaders will likely need to step in to protect certain pots of farm bill funding from House GOP cuts given “the importance of agriculture to our entire economy.”
While Senate GOP leaders haven’t drawn any redlines, Thune has noted the importance of the farm bill to the rural voters his party relies on. “I think the [House Republican] leadership … understands even though on their right they’ve been getting a lot of pressure to cut, cut, cut in different areas, there are also a lot of members from agricultural states who need a farm bill,” said Thune. That includes his own state, South Dakota, where agriculture is the largest industry.
And, he pointed out, “If you look at our map in 2024, we got a lot of rural state Republicans who are up.”
Up to this point, McConnell and Senate Republicans have deferred to House Republicans in the debt limit negotiations with the White House, even as the U.S. inches closer to the June 1 date when the nation could hit its debt limit, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. But McConnell will be attending a White House meeting Tuesday with Biden, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, which members of both parties are hoping could help begin to break the logjam.
Democrats, meanwhile, are warning that House Republicans’ proposals to slash spending as part of the debt limit deal threaten the viability of the traditionally bipartisan farm bill on Capitol Hill. Democrats are particularly incensed by the GOP push to expand work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the nation’s leading anti-hunger program for low-income Americans, which accounts for approximately 80 percent of farm bill funding.
Senate Agriculture Chair Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), who is also a member of Democratic Senate leadership, has warned the proposed spending cuts in the House GOP debt legislation would also hit key parts of the farm bill — including critical risk management programs for crop farmers that are still being impacted by the 2011 spending cuts.
“If the Republicans want to tank a farm bill that’s up to them,” Stabenow said in an interview. “This is the most important rural economic development and farmer safety net in our country.”
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Shahdol (Madhya Pradesh): The driver has been injured and two workers are feared trapped after two goods trains collided with each other near Singhpur railway station in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday, officials said.
👉After installation of KAVACH …a train anti collision technology . Q.The question is KAVACH was installed here or not ??? 👉Terrible train accident in Singhpur of Shahdol in #MadhyaPradesh, fire broke out after collision of two goods trains.#TrainAccidentpic.twitter.com/fbsO5tuWc2
Cairo: At least six people were killed and eight others wounded as a microbus collided with a farming tractor in Egypt’s Giza province adjacent to the capital Cairo, an Egyptian Health Ministry official said.
“The accident took place early in the morning as the microbus crashed into the tractor near an exit on Al-Kurimat Road in Giza,” Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar, spokesman of the Health Ministry, told Xinhua news agency, noting the injured people were taken to a nearby hospital.
Egyptian local media said that most victims were passengers of the microbus that was severely damaged, the news agency reported.
Road accidents claim thousands of lives in the most populous Arab country every year. Most of the accidents are caused by human errors including speeding and negligence of traffic rules, as well as poor maintenance of roads.
Over the past few years, Egypt has been upgrading its road network by building new roads and bridges and repairing old ones to ease traffic and reduce relevant accidents.
(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
“Open seats are the great resorting of the political dynamics in a given state,” said Jared Leopold, a Democratic strategist. “And in open races, you can end up with a game of chicken, where you’re trying to assess if another candidate will jump in, whether they’re holding off for the next one, whether you should hold off for the next one, given where the political environment may be — all of that is going into these calculations.”
And it can all change, depending on “if the winds shift,” so “you better be prepared to go in 2024 or 2028, too,” Leopold said, “even if you’re building a political operation for something you want to run for in 2026.”
How candidates approach the calculus of jumping into one of these open primaries can depend on the status of each state. In safe, blue states, the Democratic primary often functions as the single key election — and more candidates may jump in. In battleground states, a bloody primary can drain resources and put the party in a tough spot in the general election.
As a result, Senate Republicans said they plan to reverse their neutrality policy in 2024. But the House GOP arm still plans to largely stay out of them. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, meanwhile, took a hands-off approach to primaries in 2022, as did the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. But both entities weighed in on Republican primaries through their affiliated outside groups, attempting to shape who emerged from those contests — another more common practice.
But in 2018, the DCCC actively intervened in several competitive primaries on behalf of their preferred candidates, enraging some local leaders and progressives in the process.
“All’s fair in love, war and primaries,” said Dan Sena, a Democratic strategist who led the DCCC during the 2018 election cycle. That’s the backdrop against which a number of the rising stars elected that year are considering runs for higher office now or in the near future.
How the battleground states break down
Michigan Democrats now boast one of the party’s deepest benches of swing-state talent, when not a single incumbent Democrat lost their general election and the party flipped the state legislature last cycle. But the party’s better-than-expected midterm performance also set off a scramble for who might run for retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s seat.
Yet the field is narrowing, not growing.
Slotkin — who flipped a red seat in 2018 and became a fundraising powerhouse — jumped into the Senate race last week, raking in $1.2 million in her first 24 hours. But other top talent will not seek the office, like Gilchrist and Rep. Haley Stevens. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, who recently moved to Michigan, also opted out, as did state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, who rocketed to viral fame in 2021.
“We’ve got a set of Democrats who are willing to be pragmatic in these decisions, which is why what you’re seeing is playing out,” said a Michigan Democratic elected official, granted anonymity to speak candidly. “If we were not pragmatic, three people would’ve already jumped in, but we want someone who is going to win the seat and we also don’t want to have a primary that forces open a whole bunch of other offices below them, which then also need to be filled.”
The field isn’t clear for Slotkin yet. Notably, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who has built a national profile around defending election administration, hasn’t formally weighed in yet on her decision. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), too, hasn’t withdrawn her own consideration for a bid.
Hill Harper, an actor who was appointed to serve on President Barack Obama’s cancer panel, is also building out a campaign with plans to announce in April, according to a source familiar with Harper’s plans.
Many of those same candidates are also considering whether they will run for governor, which will be open after Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wraps up her second term in 2026.
Gilchrist, in particular, is eying a run for governor, and so is Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, several Michigan Democrats said. Should Benson decline to go for Senate, she’d also be well-positioned to run for governor.
Another would-be traffic jam could have materialized in Virginia, but Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) quickly headed off any chatter by launching his reelection bid last month. But another open primary is on the horizon: Virginia governor in 2025.
In recent weeks, both Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney and Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) have launched new PACs to help support state legislative candidates heading into their off-year cycle. Former Rep. Elaine Luria, who narrowly lost a red-leaning seat in 2022, also launched her own political action committee aimed at fundraising for local offices.
Safe blue seats
Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer served a combined 55 years in office, so it’s no surprise a seat with the potential to be that safe drew three Democratic congressional leaders and prolific fundraisers into the primary — setting up what could be one of the most expensive elections in American politics.
Rep. Katie Porter launched her bid before Feinstein retired, soon followed by Reps. Adam Schiff and Barbara Lee, after the 89-year-old Democratic senator formally announced her decision. All three are expected to get the backing from massive super PAC spending. The Senate primary also touched off a scramble to replace each of those members in Congress, as two represent safe seats of their own.
“California had a roadblock for years and nobody moved,” said Doug Herman, a California-based strategist who is not involved in the race. “We had one retirement and it created a wave of movement down ballot, all the way to the mayor’s race in San Diego.”
Herman noted that “it will take $50 [to] $60 million to win this race and that will be the ultimate bar to clear, because even with a vacant seat, one still has to raise the money to win.”
Another contest hovers on the horizon: governor. Gov. Gavin Newsom will wrap his second term in 2026, likely triggering a cascade of candidates from statewide officeholders to county leaders.
Another potentially bruising primary in a safe blue state in 2024 could come in Maryland, where Sen. Ben Cardin is still assessing whether to run again. At least three candidates — Prince George’s County executive Angela Alsobrooks and Reps. David Trone and Jamie Raskin — would all be well-positioned to jump into the race, likely kicking off a pricey intraparty battle.
A handful of other blue states may not see massive, expensive primaries this cycle, but they hover on the horizon. The trio of top leadership in Washington — two senators and the governor — have represented the state for over a decade, stalling out any upward momentum in a heavily blue state. In 2026, Illinois could feature two marquee statewide races for Senate and governor, should Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker and Sen. Dick Durbin, who is 78, decide not to run for reelection.
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SRINAGAR: A man died while another one was injured in an accident that took place in Sheeri area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Sunday.
Quoting an official, news agency KNO reported that a head on collision between two vehicles took place at Sheeri, resulting in injuries to two persons.
He said soon after the incident injured were immediately rushed to a nearby health facility, however, one of them was declared dead on arrival.
The deceased was identified as Bashir Ahmed Ahanger of Jalal Sahib Baramulla.
Meanwhile, police have taken cognizance of the incident.
Baramulla, Mar 05 : A man died while another one was injured in an accident that took place in Sheeri area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Sunday.
An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a head on collision between two vehicles took place at Sheeri, resulting in injuries to two persons.
He said soon after the incident injured were immediately rushed to a nearby health facility, however, one of them was declared dead on arrival.
The deceased was identified as Bashir Ahmed Ahanger of Jalal Sahib Baramulla.
Meanwhile, police have taken cognizance of the incident—(KNO)
Hyderabad: Four women died after meeting with a road accident in Dandumalkapuram village of Choutuppal mandal from Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district while several others were severely injured.
The tragic incident took place when a private bus collided with an auto rikshaw carrying the victims.
The persons injured in the accident were rushed to a hospital in Hayathnagar. They have been identified as D. Nagalaxmi (28), Varakantham Anasuya (55), Chiluveru Dhana Laxmi (35), and Devarapally Sirisha (30).
The police said that the victims were working in a company industrial park.
The police said that the condition of another labourer was said to be critical. They also said that a total of 12 labourers were travelling in the auto rikshaw at the time of the accident.
