IAF to
get AJTs soon
 JAMNAGAR,
May 1: Air Chief Marshal A Y
Tipnis has said that the long-standing
demand of India Air Force (IAF) for the
aquisition of Advanced Jet Trainers
(AJTs) would be met soon and contracts
for such aquisitions would be finalised
very shortly. Talking to newspersons at
the Air Force base here yesterday, he
said a massive programme of modernising
and upgrading the existing defence
aircraft have been undertaken to enhance
IAF’s fire power and equip flying
fighter machines with optical imagery
cameras. The Air Chief said necessary
steps were being taken to implement
recommendations of the Kargil Review ....more
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Zia is
Director Radio Kashmir Srinagar
Sheharyar
appointed Controller of DD’s
Kashir
Channel
Excelsior
Special Correspondent
 NEW
DELHI, May 1: Prasar
Bharati has taken a serious note
of the glaring failures of
Doordarshan’s non-starter
"Kashmir Channel" and
Director of Radio Kashmir
Srinagar (RKS), Mr Fayyaz
Sheharyar, has immediately been
appointed as its Controller of
Programmes (CP). According to
Order No: 12 of 2000, issued by
the Directorate General of All
India Radio today, Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) Rajiv
Rattan ...more
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Youth
abducted from Gandoh
3 jawans
injured in Mahore encounter
Excelsior
Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, May 1: Three jawans of
Indian Reserve Police (IRP), deployed in
Gool area of Mahore block were injured
during an encounter with the militants in
forest area of Shokar village last
evening while a youth was kidna-pped by
some unidentified gunmen from Kahra area
of Gandoh in district Doda last night.
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Advani
expresses concern over
deteriorating internal security
 GANDHINAGAR,
May 1: Union Home Minister L K
Advani today expressed concern over the
deteriorating internal security in the
country and stressed the need for
measures to strengthen it. Inaugurating
the Rs 9.85 crore Police Bhavan building,
constructed to house offices of various
police departments here, the Union Home
Minister said it was the primary
responsibility of the police to maintain
a fool-proof security within the country
and at the borders. In the last five
years, the deteriorating security had led
to deployment of black commandos for the
VIPs, he said adding that it was time to
gain back people’s confidence in the
country’s security system. .....more
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Jaswant
warns Pak against Kargil-like
misadventure
JAIPUR, May 1: External Affairs
Minister Jaswant Singh has said that
after giving a befitting reply to
Pakistan’s misadventure in Kargil,
India has succeeded in diplomatically
isolating Pakistan in global arena.
Pakistan
had to pay dearly for the Kargil
misadventure and would have to suffer in
future if it made any more such attempts,
Singh said at a function organised by a
local daily in the memory of Kargil
martyrs here yesterday.
Lauding
the Indian armed forces for their
commendable job in pushing back Pakistan
forces from the icy heights, Singh said
Kargil was one of the toughtest
challenges for the Army and was very
different from 1971 Bangladesh war and
IPKF operation in Sri Lanka. . ..more
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HC
quashes detention of Lashkar militant
Excelsior
Legal Correspondent
JAMMU, May 1:
Mr
Justice O P Sharma of the State High
Court has quashed the detention under
Public Safety Act (PSA) of an alleged
militant of Lashkar-e-Toiba organisation
on the grounds that despite repeated
adjournments, the respondents failed to
file the counter and did not also produce
the record pertaining to his detention...
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Laden
changes all his bodyguards,
recruits new
 NEW
DELHI, May 1: As the
international campaign to nab Osama Bin
Laden, intensifies, the Saudi fugitive
has changed almost all his bodyguards and
recruited more than 150 Pakistanis and
Bangladeashis for this job. Bin Laden,
who has been declared most wanted person
by the United States, has retained three
Afghans as his bodyguards on the advice
of supreme Taliban leader Mulla Mohammed
Omer, according to diplomatic sources and
various press reports received here. It
is not immediately known why Bin Laden
has changed his bodyguards. ......more
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Bihari
labourer dies in a well
Mother
kills daughter in Kupwara
Excelsior
Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 1: In a bizarre
incident, a mother has allegedly killed
her daughter at Kalaroos in Kupwara
district today.. ...more
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Lady SPO
shot at
Captain,
Forest guard killed in Kupwara
Excelsior
Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 1: One Captain of
Indian Army as also a Forest Guard have
got killed in an encounter between
militants and security forces in Kupwara
today. Unidentified gunmen have fired
upon a lady SPO and left her critically
injured in Sopore....more
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