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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2001
 

SSP Udhampur, Addl SP transferred
Meenakshi recovered from Indore; likely to
reach Jammu today
* Action Committee refuses to call off stir

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 26: Teen-aged Meenakshi, whose abduction had created large scale trouble in Jammu and Udhampur district for the last 16 days, was recovered today by her father and police from Indore in Madhya Pradesh even as a two-member CBI team reached Udhampur this evening to take over investigations of the case..........more


Railways’ Mata Vaishno Devi package popular
100 per cent populist rail budget introduced in Parliament
No increase in passenger fares, but freight rates increased

From B L Kak

NEW DELHI, Feb 26: The Railway Budget for 2001-2002 is literally a boon for the commuters, with no proposals to increase passenger fares of any class or category of trains in the country. Introducing the Budget proposals in Parliament on Monday, the Minister for Railways, Ms Mamata Banerjee, left none in doubt about the fact that political considerations had an important role to play at the time of the preparation of the 2001-02 Budget document..........more

Activists of Amar Kashatriya Rajput Sabha holding a protest demonstration in the City during Jammu bandh on Monday. -Excelsior/Ashok
Activists of Amar Kashatriya Rajput Sabha holding a protest demonstration in the City during Jammu bandh on Monday. -Excelsior/Ashok

Another complete bandh in Jammu

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 26: Normal life was thrown out of gear as another complete bandh was observed today in Jammu city and its outskirts in protest against kidnapping of Udhampur girl and illegal admissions in Government run medical colleges of the State.....more

*BJP dubs protesters as Bhagat Singh, Rajguru
Two ABVP workers intrude into Assembly gallery,
shout slogans

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 26: An unprecedented situation was created in the Legislative Assembly during the Question Hour today when two Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists found their way into Speaker’s gallery and shouted slogans against illegal admissions of PRIME students disrupting proceedings of the House for a brief period....more

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MLA alleges Govt links with ISI, HM
Oppn protests Minister’s role in encroachment of land

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 26: Role of a Cabinet Minister of Farooq Abdullah Government in encouraging Poonch and Rajouri migrants to encroach upon Government land at Ragoora in Sidhra resulted into uproarious scenes in the Legislative Assembly today with Opposition members alleging a deliberate attempt by the Government to create trouble in Jammu.........more

Oppn walks-out against rejection of SC, ST bill
Govt rejects bill seeking to induct word secular
in J&K Constitution

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 26: Six private members’ Constitution amendment bills fell in the Legislative Assembly today as treasury benches refused to admit any of them even as one of the Bill pertaining to quorum in the Legislative Assembly generating a lot of heat and debate and even Speaker directing the officiating Law Minister Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Shah to get the issue studied through Law Department.....more

GoM on security submits report to PM

NEW DELHI, Feb 26: A Group of Ministers (GoM), which reviewed the entire national security system in the wake of the Kargil conflict, today submitted its report to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and is understood to have recommended creation of a post of Chief of Defence Staff for greater coordination of the security apparatus..........more

5 militants killed in Kashmir

SRINAGAR, Feb 26: At least four militants of the Hizbul Mujahideen were killed in a fierce clash with security forces and the Jammu and Kashmir Police at Trehgam in south Kashmir while a militant was killed in a blast and three others were nabbed in the Valley during the past 24 hours......more

4 others still at large
Cong leader’s son held

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 26: Gandhi Nagar police tonight arrested son of a prominent Congress (I) leader and lodged an FIR against him and his four criminal associates for looting goods of a poor tea stall owner in Shastri Nagar last mid-night.......more

Shah asks Som Nath to switch over
SC members clash in House, targets Bhagat

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Feb 26: The Scheduled Caste members of Opposition parties today jointly clashed with Ram Chand Bhagat, BSP’s MLA from RS Pura, who has unofficially allied with the ruling party and generally speaks in favour of treasury benches.......more Missing Indian Kids - Children

15 injured in Doda blast....

Main accused in Kathua attack arrested....

60 kg RDX seized from Manjakote.....



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