SRINAGAR,
Nov 30: North
Kashmir township of Bandipore and adjacent localities
remained tense today as people registered strong protest
against the arrest of nine young girls by Special
Operations Group (SOG) and Army. Security forces and SOG
had rounded up the girls, in a series of raids, with the
allegation that they had been working for
militants.............more
A
Pakistani border guard keeps an eye on traffic coming in
and out of Chaman border during a dust storm on Friday.
The United States focused its hunt for Osama bin Laden on
the caves of eastern Afghanistan as tribal warriors
closed in on the last redoubt of his Taliban protectors
in Kandahar in south.(Reuters/Adrees Latif)
ISLAMABAD, Nov 30:Asserting that Taliban have
been routed and terrorist mastermind Osama bin
Laden’s Al-Qaeda is on the run, the US today carried
out one of its heaviest bombardments on the
militia’s last stronghold of Kandahar with
anti-Taliban forces closing in on the city raising the
possibility of a ground war................more
JAMMU, Nov 30:In
continuation to the Revenue
Ministry’s drive to the un-earth the
various land scandals, the Government has
ordered the suspension of Mr Sheikh
Ghulam Rasool, Assistant Commissioner,
Nazool Srinagar and Mr Mohammad Shafi
Kochay, Agrarian Tehsildar
Sumbal-Baramulla............more
NEW DELHI,
Nov 30:Coming
out in support of police
personnel fighting terrorism,
Punjab super cop K P S Gill today
demanded review of the Srikrishna
Commission report indicting
police officials in the 1992-93
riots by a panel of three retired
Supreme Court
judges..............more
KATHUA, Nov 30:In a first
political killing, the terrorists
tortured and gunned down a prominent
Congress (I) leader, who was kidnapped
from Aasso, about three kms from Bani in
broad day-light yesterday afternoon
alongwith a Power Development Department
(PDD) lineman and a civilian, who were
released........more
JAMMU, Nov 30:Airing
apprehension that ‘much-talked
about’ Resettlement Act will further
aggregate woes of the 1947 refugees, Sikh
Sangat in unanimous voice today asked the
State Government to withdraw the said
act.........more
UDHAMPUR, Nov 30:Brakes
screeched and jet-speed motorcade came to
halt. Security personnel jumped out from
their vehicles just in front of a dhaba
near Dumel on Srinagar-Jammu National
Highway........more
MUMBAI, Nov 30:In the
backdrop of warming up of relations among
opposition parties, NCP president Sharad
Pawar, who parted ways with Congress
raising the issue of foreign origin of
Sonia Gandhi, has invited her to attend
celebration of his 61st birthday here on
December 12... .....more
CUDDALORE, Nov 30:At least 22
persons, including a woman, have died and
70 hospitalised after consuming illicit
liquor last night at Natham and Arungunam
villages, near Panruti in Tamil
Nadu’s Cuddalore district, police
said today............more
