Transporters call off strike
CM announces 6-pt traffic checking on highways

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 23: Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah today announced traffic checking on six identified points on highways in Jammu and Kashmir instead of random enroute checking. Talking to a delegation of All Jammu and Kashmir Motor Transport Companies Association and senior officers here this evening, the Chief Minister instructed for traffic checking at Lakhanpur, Akhnoor, Bharakh Turning Point, Udhampur.........more

Fierce gunbattle in Bandipore
SOG cop, 2 civilians, 2 militants killed

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Nov 23: While as unidentified gunmen have shot dead one selection grade constable of SOG Budgam alongwith his wife as also a Jamaat-e-Islami activist in Kashmir valley since last evening, at least two militants got killed in a fierce encounter with security forces in Bandipore area this evening...........more

34 cross over to Pak
Romeo Force rescues another abducted boy

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 23: Troops of Romeo Force today rescued another kidnapped boy from the captivity of militants while 34 members of four families crossed over to Pakistan from village Kanari in Sabjian area overnight...............more

Former POK PM terms ceasefire as bold step

NEW DELHI, Nov 23: Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan, former Prime Minister of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), has described Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s declaration of ceasefire in Jammu and Kashmir during the sacred Ramzan period as an intelligent and bold step...........more

Hurriyat asks Centre to allow talks with militants

NEW DELHI, Nov 23: Hurriyat Conference chairman Abdul Ghani Bhat today said the organisation was willing to hold talks with militant leaders to work out a solution to the Kashmir issue provided the Indian Government allowed them to do so...............more

Kidnapped forest officials rescued
Major attached for acting like Gabbar Singh

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Nov 23: Army authorities in the counter-insurgent Victor Force have attached a commissioned officer who had allegedly indulged in timber-smuggling and kidnapped three officials of Forest Department in the upper Budgam area of Chrar-e-Sharif...........more

India, Pak agree to desist from firing on civilians

WAGHA BORDER (AMRITSAR), Nov 23: Indian and Pakistani forces deployed along the border have agreed to desist from unprovoked firing on civilians on both sides, a top BSF official said today....................more

J S Modi to conduct probe

Excelsior Correspondent

Jammu, Nov 23: The Government have appointed Mr J S Modi, KAS, Additional District Magistrate, Ramban as Magistrate to enquire into the incident of five truckers killings by militants at Sher Bibi on national highway on November 21...............more

No ambulance for massacre victim....

US asks Pak, militants to respond positively to ceasefire....

Punjab Minister’s election set aside ....