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Finance Minister A R Rather presenting budget in the Assembly on Monday. Excelsior/Ashok

ST reduced on tyres, tubes, motor parts, jewellery, ornaments
Several concessions for liquor lobby in Rs 618 cr deficit budget
Entry Tax on electronic goods, PoP, Earthmovers
Govt employees get 3 pc DA, Pay Comm installment
‘Golden Handshake Scheme’ proposed for PSU staffers
Rs 2000 cr annual plan mooted for next year

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Mar 12: Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather today presented a Rs 618 crore deficit budget for next financial year in the State Legislature but mostly left the deficit uncovered. The budget, which had no major schemes for the next financial year, proposed several concessions for local liquor manufacturers by imposing an import fee of Rs 10 per LPL on the liquor brought from outside the State..............more

Two kins of Sarpanch shot at
Capt, Subedar killed in Banihal explosion

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Mar 12: An Army Captain and a Naib Subedar were killed in a powerful explosion at village Phagu near Dulligam, about five kms from Banihal in Doda district this afternoon while militants shot at and seriously injured two relatives of a newly elected Sarpanch in Mendhar tehsil of Poonch district overnight.....more

Hurriyat to depute Lone for seeking meeting with Annan

SRINAGAR, Mar 12: Hurriyat Conference today decided to depute its senior member Abdul Ghani Lone, considered a moderate, to New Delhi to explore possibilities of a meeting with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan during his visit to the union capital. .more

‘Election budget’ denied
J&K can never come out of financial crunch : Rather

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Mar 12: Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather today predicted that Jammu and Kashmir State will never come out of financial crunch though the State Government was trying to enforce financial discipline ......more

Sidelights of budget

* Finance Minister A R Rather, surrounded by a battery of photo journalists and electronic mediamen, entered Legislative Assembly only a minute short of 10.30 AM when he was scheduled to start his budget speech. ..more

Pak asked to change unfriendly attitude
Centre to soon hold talks with all parties on Kashmir:PM

NEW DELHI, Mar 12: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today firmly asked Pakistan to change its "unfriendly attitude" towards India and asserted that Government will soon hold talks with all parties to carry forward the peace process in Jammu and Kashmir. ....more

Six civilians, 3 militants among 12 killed in Valley
3 SOG officers killed in Lashkar attack

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Mar 12: In over half-a-dozen militant attacks on Police and security forces, at least three officials of the counter-insurgent Special Operations Group (SOG), equal number of militants besides six civilians have got killed in Kashmir valley since last evening. While as one civilian has died in a grenade attack at Hari Singh High Street in the capital city here, 28 civilians and four BSF personnel have sustained injuries this evening......more

Senior Bihar minister quits

PATNA, Mar 12: The dissidence against RJD president Laloo Prasad Yasav got a major boost today when senior party leader A Prasad Tekriwal resigned from the Rabri Devi cabinet demanding change of leadership. ......more

Walk out by opposition
Prithvi Chand marshaled out

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Mar 12: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA , Prithvi Chand was today marshaled out from the State Assembly during Question Hour while all BJP members and lone Janata Dal Secular member, Dr Jagdish Raj Dubey staged a walk out in protest against the failure of Government to fill up the vacant posts of Class fourth employees in various departments........more

4 baratis killed in accident ....

PM asks Pak to change "unfriendly attitude" .......

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