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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2000
 

Some ‘pro-India’ leaders in J&K working for ISI
Govt orders tight security along Rajouri, Poonch border

From B L Kak

NEW DELHI, Nov 1: The Government has ordered the Army and paramilitary personnel deployed in the troubled districts of Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu province to further tighten security and launch long-range patrolling along the Line of Control (LoC) to render ineffective Pakistani troops’ desperate attempts to push armed infiltrators and subversives into the Indian territory...........more


India’s fiscal deficit down 19 per cent

Excelsior Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, Nov 1: The fiscal deficit of the country has, in the first half of the current financial year, witnessed a 18. 71 per cent decline on the backs of higher revenue receipts and tight expenditure control................more

Mohammed AzaruddinAjay Sharma
Mohammed Azaruddin and Ajay Sharma

Prosecution of Azhar, Sharma under PCA
not ruled out: CBI

NEW DELHI, Nov 1: The CBI does not rule out prosecution of former skipper Mohammed Azaruddin and Ajay Sharma under Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) for allegedly receiving huge sums of money from bookies in match-fixing as they were "public servants"..........more

Muthiah called to meet on Nov 3
Guilty will not be spared: Dhindsa

Union Sports Minister Sukhdev Singh DhindsaNEW DELHI, Nov 1: Emphasising that guilty will not be spared, Union Sports Minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa said here today that he has called Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president A C Muthiah on Friday to discuss what action can be taken against the five players following their indictment by the CBI. Addressing a crowded press conference in which he released the 162 page report on cricket match fixing and related malpractices, Dhindsa said his Ministry is already in touch with the Law and Home Ministries seeking their views before taking any further action........more

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Azhar admits fixing matches

NEW DELHI, Nov 1 The one-day international between India and Pakistan in Jaipur last year, which the visitors won by 143 runs, was among the matches fixed by Mohammed Azharuddin, according to the CBI report. CBI says that the former Indian skipper had told it that he accepted money from bookie M K Gupta but did not underperform in most of the matches in which he had taken money.........more

6 houses damaged in Pak shelling in Machhil
Lashkar militant, civilian killed

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Nov 1: While as one militant and a civilian have got killed in different militancy-related incidents across Kashmir valley since last evening. half-a-dozen residential houses have been damaged in Pakistani troops’ shelling in Machhil sector of Kupwara district.........more

Brakpora, Pahalgam probe reports
Hizb, NC, BJP happy for different reasons

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Nov 1: Even as two different yardsticks have been adopted by the investigators, almost all the sections of opinion in Kashmir valley have expressed satisfaction over the inquiry reports on Brakpora and Pahalgam shootouts, albeit for different reasons..........more

Youth hurt in attack on CISF camp
Two more militants, jawan killed in Banihal; 4 held

Excelsior Correspondent

RAMBAN, Nov 1: Continuing their offensive against Pakistan-sponsored foreign mercenaries, the troops of Delta Force today eliminated two more dreaded militants in village Chambalwas in Banihal tehsil of Doda district but lost one more jawan in the gun-battle............more

Two militants, civilian, jawan killed in Rajouri

Excelsior Correspondent

RAJOURI, Nov 1: Two militants, an army jawan and a civilian were killed in two encounters at Laa and Sam Samad under the jurisdiction of Thanna Mandi police station in this district overnight. Of three militants killed in Nadli village of Surankote yesterday, one has been identified as Aamir Khan, a district commander of Masood Azhar’s Jaish-e-Mohammed outfit.........more

Two accused arrested
K oil black-marketing racket busted by cops

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 1: Trikuta Nagar police have arrested two shopkeepers from Narwal locality and unearthed a racket involved in black-marketing of kerosene oil. A large quantity of kerosene oil approximated 2500 litres, kept for black-marketing in the shops, was also seized by police.........more

Match-fixing at Rajghat !

NEW DELHI, Nov 1: Rajghat, the samadhi of father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi, was the venue for bribing a groundsman to prepare a tailor-made pitch as per the instructions of a bookie for a test match between India and Australia in 1996, CBI said in its probe report..........more Missing
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Jogi will provide a stable Govt: Cong ...



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