Union Minister for Law, Justice and Company Affairs Mr Arun Jaitley addressing inaugural function of two days conference on Taxation and Corporate Laws at Jammu. -Excelsior/Ashok

Centre facing problems due to lack of majority in RS
Jaitley for hard decisions on economy

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 10: Stressing on the need of taking hard decision for the growth of economy, Union Minister for Law and Company Affairs, Mr Arun Jaitley today said that effective steps are required to compete the world. He asserted that Central Government was committed to bring radical changes in the irrelevant laws but for the want of majority in the Rajya Sabha these changes can not be taken place........more

A BLU-82 Commando Vault or "Daisy Cutter" a 15,000 pound conventional free-fall bomb is prepared for loading. The BLU-82 is the largest conventional free-fall bomb in the United States arsenal and was recently dropped on Taliban forces in Afghanistan. (REUTERS/HO/USAF)

Taliban admit Mazar-e-Sharif lost
Opposition captures 4 more provinces

JABAL-US-SARAJ, AFGHANISTAN, Nov 10: Afghanistan’s opposition Northern Alliance said they had swept into four more provinces in the north today and Taliban fighters put up a fierce resistance in some places...........more

'‘We too have a charge-sheet against America'
Laden says he has chemical, nuclear weapons

ISLAMABAD, Nov 10: Terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has claimed that his Al-Qaeda network possessed chemical and nuclear weapons and said that he reserved the right to use them if the Americans target them with such arms. "We have chemical and nuclear weapons as deterrent and if America used them against us, we reserve the right to use them," Bin Laden said in his first-ever press interview after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Laden spoke to Hamid Mir, Editor of Pakistan’s Urdu daily ‘Ausaf’, from his hideout near Kabul. Asked how he acquired the materials, Laden curtly asked the journalist to "go to your next question."..........more

Afghan terrorist shot dead near Rajouri

Excelsior Correspondent

RAJOURI, Nov 10: A terrorist was killed in a joint encounter with army and Special Operations Group (SOG) Rajouri in village Gurdan Pain this morning.....more

3 militants killed in Verinag
Fidayeen attempt foiled in Pulwama
2 SOG men killed, 40 shops gutted in Tral

From Ahmed Ali Fayaz

SRINAGAR, Nov 10: In yet another incident of over-reaction, Special Operations Group (SOG) of Jammu & Kashmir Police set ablaze at least 40 shops when militants ambushed a contingent, killing two personnel, at south Kashmir township of Tral this evening. In the same Pulwama district, Border Security Force (BSF) foiled a suicide attack of militants at Shajimarg while as three militants died in a gunbattle in Verinag area of Anantnag district today.......more

Fake doctor lands in police lock-up

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 10: Police today arrested a youth impersonating as a qualified doctor and recommending treatment to the innocent patients in a village of RS Pura tehsil..........more

Kalam replaced by Chidambaram

NEW DELHI, Nov 10: Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, high-profile Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government, has decided to demit office and Dr R Chidambaram, former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, has been appointed in his place, according to official sources..........more

US seeks Indian logistic facilities.....

9 Mech Enggs transferred.....