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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2000
 

Uma BhartiArun Jaitely
Uma Bharti & Arun Jaitely

Minor reshuffle in portfolios
Uma Bharti sworn-in, gets sports; Jaitley elevated
*Karia Munda declines to join Ministry

NEW DELHI, Nov 7: Uma Bharti was today sworn-in as a Cabinet Minister and Law Minister Arun Jaitely was elevated to Cabinet rank in a minor expansion and reshuffle of portfolios in the Vajpayee cabinet, but BJP’s tribal leader Karia Munda declined to join the ministry.......more


A KZF militant arrested by police. -Excelsior/Ashok
A KZF militant arrested by police. -Excelsior/Ashok

3 KZF activists arrested
Punjab-Kashmiri militants nexus in operation : IGP

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 7: Jammu Police today confirmed a nexus between Kashmiri and Punjab militants, which was working under the command of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and was involved in smuggling of weaponry and narcotics...............more

Militants fear force parents to marry daughters in teen-age
Mujahideens kill pregnant woman as she

resists rape attempt

From Dinesh Manhotra

MAHORE, Nov 7: Even as the hapless parents were marrying their daughters in teen-ages to ‘dispose-off’ their responsibility due to the fear of so-called Mujahideens, militants were now resorting to kidnapping married women, with whom they failed to marry, to fulfill their sexual desire. In the intervening night of November 5 and 6, a group of five militants, including two locals, with assault riffles in their hands, barged into the house of one Mohammed Rafiq of Sheladada village of this tehsil. Two of them dragged Mohammed Rafiq out of the house........more

Two cops hurt; 35 kg RDX seized
6 JeM militants shot dead in Poonch area

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 7: Poonch Brigade and Mandi police, in a joint operation this afternoon, gunned down six militants of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfit and recovered six assault rifles besides other weaponry from their possession. Five militants were still holed-up in the operation.......more

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Two ultras, Gujjar, SPO killed
Jawan dies as militants attack RR camp in Doda

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, Nov 7: Militants, suspected to be Fidayeens, attacked Rashtriya Rifles camp at Dessa in Doda district last night killing an army jawan while two militants, a Gujjar and a Special Police Officer (SPO) were killed in separate incidents in Udhampur-Doda range overnight......more

Lone waiting Centre's nod to attend son's marriage

NEW DELHI, Nov 7: Hurriyat leader Prof Abdul Ghani Lone, who has been camping in the capital for the past three days for permission to attend his son’s wedding in Pakistan, has approached the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for help..........more

Militants hijack ambulance at Lal Ded
Seven militants killed in north Kashmir

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR. Nov 7: Even as security forces have eliminated at least seven militants of two pro-Pakistan militant outfits in Kashmir valley since last evening, an ambulance of Lal Ded Hospital disappeared tonight in mysterious circumstances and security forces and Police have been put on alert throughout the Valley........more

ISI agents nabbed, Rs 9 cr heroin, weapons seized

AMRITSAR, Nov 7: Punjab Police arrested four operatives of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency and Babbar Khalsa terrorist outfit and seized from them explosives, weapons and heroin worth Rs 9 crore, State Director General of Police Sarabjeet Singh said today..........more

Nityanand Swamy likely to be Uttaranchal CM

NEW DELHI, Nov 7: Senior BJP leader Nityanand Swamy is likely to be the first Chief Minister of the new hill State of Uttaranchal scheduled to come into being tomorrow, party sources said today.........more

HC suspends sentencing of Rao, Buta in JMM
MPs bribery case

NEW DELHI, Nov 7: The Delhi High Court today suspended a trial court’s verdict sentencing former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao and former Union Minister Buta Singh to three years Rigorous Imprisonment in the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MPs bribery case.........more Missing
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PM walks unaided in swearing-in ceremony

NEW DELHI, Nov 7: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a picture of health as he walked unaided to attend the swearing in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan, his first public appearance outside his residence after the October 10 knee operation......more

C Subramaniam is dead ....

Pak forcing OIC to play assertive role on Kashmir....

GPCP splinter group MLAs join BJP ....



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