Agitating employees holding a rally at Raghunath Bazar on Monday. -Excelsior/Ashok

Negotiations only after Farooq’s arrival
Cabinet Sub- Committee to consult CM before next
round of talks

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Jan 10: The next round of talks between J&K Government Employees Joint Action Committee (JKEJAC) and Cabinet Sub-Committee could not take place today as the latter has decided to consult Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah before initiating any fresh negotiations with the employees...........more

IB fears attacks on vital installations
Delhi directs security personnel in J&K to be vigilant

From B L Kak

NEW DELHI, Jan 10: The Government has issued fresh instructions to the Army, paramilitary forces and police and intelligence agencies in Jammu and Kashmir to be in a state of preparedness. According to a top Ministerial source, these instructions have been necessitated after classified intelligence inputs clearly hinted that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan is planning to unleash further diabolical designs against India in certain areas, particularly in J&K.......more

Justice Khan transferred to Delhi High Court

Excelsior Correspondent

NEW DELHI, Jan 10: Mr Justice B A Khan, a Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has been transferred and posted as a Judge of the Delhi High Court. According to the Presidential communique issued today, Mr Justice Khan will be sworn-in as Delhi High Court Judge on January 14 and resume his functioning thereafter. A journalist turned Judge, Mr Justice Khan did his initial schooling from Baramulla in Kashmir. He graduated in 1962 from Kashmir University and later did his diploma in Journalism from Punjab......more

Police acts as parents protest
Jawans occupy Women College students berths in train

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Jan 10: Tension prevailed at Jammu Railway station as a group of army jawans captured a bogey reserved for the students of Women College, Gandhi Nagar in Puja Express. Students and their parents, who had come to railway station to see off their daughters, protested against forcible occupation of bogey by the armymen........more

Bus turns turtle near Sarore
Minor boy killed, 45 injured in accidents

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Jan 10: A minor boy was killed and 45 others were injured in two different road accidents on Jammu-Srinagar and Jammu-Pathankot national highways today......more

CM arriving today

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Jan 10: Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah, who was scheduled to reach Winter Capital today, is now arriving here tomorrow after-noon.....more

3 militants, 2 Armymen killed in Valley
Pattan on fire as 2 jawans killed in encounter

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Jan 10: At least 25 shops and two residential houses gutted during a fierce encounter between militants and security forces at Pattan this evening as two Armymen got killed and two more injured. Two militants were eliminated by security forces at Magraypora, Achhabal, in Anantnag district while as an elderly persons, described as a militant, got killed in another armed clash between militants and security forces at Dooraswani in Kupwara district today..........more

Grenades tied with bodies

Excelsior Correspondent

KATHUA, Jan 10: Militants had tied two grenades each with the dead bodies of Abdul Ghani Bhat, a BJP leader and Qamar Din, who were shot dead by them at Lohai Malhar in Billawar tehsil yesterday.........more