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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2001
 


3 women, 4 children among casualties
10 pilgrims of 2 families drown near Reasi nullah
Van driver, two others rescued

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, June 17: Ten members of two families from New Delhi and Jaipur including three women and four children were killed when a Maruti Van (taxi) was washed away in a flash flood at Malhar nullah late last night. Three other persons including taxi driver were rescued by the people.......more


Union Minister of State for Power, Ms Jayawanti Mehta laying the foundation stone of Powergrid township in Jammu on Sunday
Union Minister of State for Power, Ms Jayawanti Mehta laying the foundation stone of Powergrid township in Jammu on Sunday

Use of optical fibre shortly: Jayawanti
Powergrid to diversify into Telecom business

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Jun 17: Equipped with Disaster Management techniques like emergency restoration systems to restore power, the Powergrid Corporation of India now plans to diversify its area of operation to become National Long Distance Telecom Operator by putting into use optical fibre in the transmission system. .............more

The AICC general secretary, Ms Mohsina Kidwai addressing a political convention of Pradesh Congress Committee in Jammu on Sunday Excelsior/Ashok
The AICC general secretary, Ms Mohsina Kidwai addressing a political convention of Pradesh Congress Committee in Jammu on Sunday Excelsior/Ashok

Suspension of 8 members revoked: Kidwai
Dissidents boycott Cong(I) convention

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, June 17: All India Congress Committee (AICC) has revoked a controversial order of Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief, Mohammed Shafi Qureshi wherein few days back, eight Congressmen from Jammu and Kashmir were suspended from the primary membership of the party for three years.....more

JKLF calls on India-Pak to grant independence to J&K

ISLAMABAD, June 17: The Amanaullah Khan faction of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) has asked India and Pakistan to take steps to solve Kashmir issue on the basis of independence to unified Kashmir. ......more

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Judicial activism should wake the executive: Jaitley

NEW DELHI, June 17: Union Law Minister Arun Jaitley today said judicial activism should be used as a powerful weapon to wake up the executive. "Judicial activism and restraint are two sides of the same coin," he said at a function organised on the 115th birth anniversary of K N Katju, former Home, Defence and Law Minister. ........more

Abu Zabra gunned down
4 SPOs’ houses burnt by militants in Surankot

Excelsior Correspondent

RAJOURI, June 17: Militants burnt six houses including four belonging to Special Police Officers (SPOs) at Jabbar Mehrot and Phagla villages of Surankot tehsil in Poonch district last night while army gunned down a hardcore Pakistani militant Abu Zabra in an encounter in Faisalabad, Surankot tonight.........more

Two army jawans killed in battle

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, June 17: Two army jawans were killed in an encounter with the militants tonight at village Faisalabad in Surankot tehsil of Poonch district........more

TMC MPs can inform Speaker,says Panja

KOLKATA, June 17: Describing the stand of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on rejoining the NDA as "vacillating and utterly childish", dissident leader Ajit Panja today said the party MPs could individually inform the Lok Sabha Speaker about their return to the BJP-led alliance. .....more

Hurriyat divided over Indo-Pak summit

NEW DELHI, June 17: With the summit level talks between India and Pakistan round the corner, Hurriyat Conference, the main seccessionist umbrella body in Jammu and Kashmir, is divided on what stand it should take vis-a-vis the parleys between the two countries. .....more

NC activist, son injured in grenade attack

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Jun 17: While as no militancy related incident was reported today from anywhere in Kashmir valley, a National Conference (NC) activist as also his son and PSO have been left wounded in a grenade attack in Pulwama last evening..............moreMissing
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Centre, Cong reject Pakistan demand for plebiscite........

Mirwaiz Umar’s nikahkhwani ..........

PoK Govt, Hurriyat support summit .....

Pant holds review meeting ....

1100 pilgrims registered........

3 rockets recovered from Bhatindi.........



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