Hurriyat not averse to talks with Centre

NEW DELHI, Mar 21: Hurriyat Conference today said it would hold talks with the Centre on Kashmir issue only after having deliberations with militant outfits and the military regime in Pakistan......more

‘Lashkar’s dictate aimed at subjugating Kashmiris’

SRINAGAR, Mar 21: Army today said the Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashker-e-Toiba’s threat to Kashmiri people against working for army camps was aimed at subjugating the Kashmiris..........more

NEWS ANALYSIS
Vajpayee’s Kashmir gamble goes counter-productive
It’s rather Geelani who has isolated Hurriyat

From Ahmed Ali Fayaz

SRINAGAR, Mar 21: While the Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s gamble of the unilateral ceasefire is yet to work wonders at Washington and New York, by all indications so far it has miserably failed at home. Ever since Vajpayee’s announcement on November 18 last year, New Delhi’s socalled Kashmir experts were enthusiastic that the much-hyped peace initiative would not only draw a wedge between the Kashmiris-dominated Hizbul Mujahideen and the Pakistan-based pan-Islamist groups but the same would also trigger a rift between the "hardliners" and "moderates" in Hurriyat Conference...........more

CBI probing 9 major deals

NEW DELHI, Mar 21: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is going into nine major defence deals, including procurement of armaments like weapon locating radars, hand held directional finders and supply of smoke ammunition from South Africa for 155mm guns, Rajya Sabha was informed today........more

Attack on IRP camp repulsed
Woman killed in Mahore

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, Mar 21: A young housewife was killed in exchange of firing between militants and IRP jawans at village Mahakund in Mahore tehsil last night. IRP personnel repulsed militants’ attack on their camp after an hour long firing.......more

CBI quizzes Meenakshi

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, Mar 21: The Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) quizzed Meenakshi for more than three and a half hour here last night and recorded her statement and sequence of events during her kidnapping and alleged gang rape.......more

Tehsil office stoned, bandh in Chenani

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, Mar 21: A complete bandh was observed in Chenani today and mob stoned Tehsil office in protest against total failure of water supply for the last four days...........more

3 BSF jawans injured in grenade attack....

Tehelka team deposes before court of inquiry ....

PM rules out Brajesh Mishra’s resignation ....