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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2000
 

About 65 pc turnout in final phase
JD leader, 7 booth grabbers among 17 killed in violence

NEW DELHI, Feb 22: Seven booth grabbers, three security personnel and Janata Dal (United) leader Ghulam Rasool were among 17 people killed in Bihar and Manipur today in the final phase of polls for four state Legislative Assemblies. ..........more

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44 Govt officials transferred

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 22: The State Government today ordered transfers and postings of 44 Government officials including two IAS and 42 KAS officials........more

Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah holding a meeting with the representatives of Kashmiri Pandit migrants in Jammu on Tuesday.
Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah holding a meeting with the representatives of Kashmiri Pandit migrants in Jammu on Tuesday.

Centre agrees to grant Rs. 38-cr assistance
More accommodation for KP migrants: CM

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb. 22: Government is contemplating to provide two-room tenements in place of one-room tenement to 4500 Kashmiri Pandit migrant families living in various migrant camps in Jammu division...........more

Miltant killed in Valley
5 civilians die in shelling

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Feb 22: Five persons were killed and six wounded as Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked shelling on Indian positions along the Line of Control in Tangdhar sector of Kupwara district in Jammu and Kashmir since yesterday, police said today. ......more

Bid to attack convoy foiled
Finland-made bomb seized on highway

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 22: For the first time, police have seized a Finland-made bomb from Chenani on Jammu-Srinagar national highway, which had been tied with a tree by the militants with a view to attack an army convoy..........more

Kukka Parrey was intended target
Nabbed ultra turns out to be a Govt employee

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 22: A Hizbul Mujahideen militant, arrested yesterday by police from Janipura, has turned out to be a Government servant and his intended target was the residence of Awami League supremo Jamsheed Shirazi alias Kukka Parrey at Roop Nagar......more

British law makers meet Governor, CM, others

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 22: A seven-members delegation of British law makers, led by chairman of Friends of Indian, Barry Gardner today called on Governor Mr Girish Chander Saxena and had an hour long meeting with him.............more

BJP heads for clear victory in 3 States

NEW DELHI, Feb 22: Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies are predicted to win an absolute majority in Bihar, Orissa and Haryana assemblies while Manipur is heading for a hung House, according to DRS exit polls telecast on Doordarshan after the final phase of polling today. ......more

Subramanyam Panel report to be tabled on Feb 24

NEW DELHI, Feb 22: The report of Subramanyam Committee that went into the Pakistan-backed intrusions in Kargil last year would be tabled in Parliament on February 24, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pramod Mahajan said tonight. .......more

Pak a breeding ground for extremists: CIA

From B L Kak

NEW DELHI Feb 22: India has warned that it would adopt tougher measures in the event of Pakistan continuing its moral and material support to anti-India militants and subversives. .......more

 



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