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Team Anna to start poll campaign today 

New Delhi: Team Anna will begin their tour from Jan 21 (Saturday) from Uttarakhand and move through Uttar Pradesh in February. The members of Team Anna on Friday said they would not campaign against any party in the poll-bound states and their campaign will revolve around land acquisition and for a strong Lokpal and Lokayuktas. 
"There will be no campaign against any party, neither will we support any party in the polls. We will highlight the issues of land acquisition, Lokpal and Lokayukta - which have been sidelined by all the parties that are contesting elections," prominent Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal said at a press conference.The other states going to polls are Goa, Manipur and Punjab.Team Anna also accused all political parties of resorting to wooing voters on the basis of caste and religion.

J&K: IAF to airlift stranded people 

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government organized special Indian Air Force (IAF) sorties between summer capital Srinagar and winter capital Jammu to airlift stranded passengers as the Jammu-Srinagar highway remained closed Saturday morning due to highly slippery road conditions. 
"Although the road is being restored for two-way traffic today, we would prefer to clear those stranded before routine traffic is allowed to move on the highway. Therefore, no vehicle will be allowed to move from Srinagar or Jammu on the highway today," a senior officer of the traffic department said here.
"The state government is organizing special sorties of IAF aircraft for stranded passengers in Srinagar and Jammu. Preference is being given to stranded tourists in flights from Srinagar to Jammu and to locals in flights from Jammu to Srinagar," an officer of the provincial administration said here. 
The officer said the situation would be reviewed Saturday evening. 

Over 300 flights delayed at IGI

New Delhi: If you were flying in or out of Delhi on Friday, you couldn't have chosen a worse day. Near-zero visibility, an hour-long closure of air space for Republic Day practice and three VIP movements led to the season's worst disruptions at Indira Gandhi International airport. 

Almost all flights - about 300 - were delayed by 2-8 hours while 28 were cancelled and 19 diverted, as departures were held up completely between 7am and 9am, the peak operation time for domestic flights. Low-visibility procedures due to fog were lifted only at 12.50pm, more than 11 hours after being imposed. 

It was the season's third most severe fog cover. Met officials said such was its impact that the city's maximum temperature did not rise above 14.6 degrees Celsius, 7 degrees below normal - the season's lowest after 14 degrees recorded on January 17.