SRINAGAR,
Oct 25: Security
forces today suffered major damage as militants ambushed
Army and the paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) in
Bandipore and Kupwara areas of north Kashmir. Officials
confirmed the death of two soldiers and said that a dozen
others sustained injuries but eyewitnesses maintained
that 10 soldiers got killed and angry troops burnt about
a dozen houses in reprisal. ...more
UDHAMPUR,
Oct 25: Two
army jawans were killed and eight others were injured,
six of them seriously, when three fidayeens attacked a
Road Opening Party (RoP) of army, escorting Durbar move
employees, at Nowgam, about 10 kms from Banihal town this
morning. ........more
NEW DELHI, Oct
25: Gen. Parvez Musharraf,
though currently in the position of a man
who is having to pick up the broken
pieces of his shattered dream, has warned
India of serious consequences if her
troops in Kashmir continued to "heap
atrocities on the innocent
Kashmiris". .....more
NEW DELHI,
Oct 25:A new
anti-terrorism ordinance, banning
23 terrorist outfits including
Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Toiba,
Jaish-e-Mohammad and
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, has been
promulgated giving
"comprehensive"
definition to terrorism and
incorporating
"safeguards" for
detenues. .more
JAMMU, Oct 25: Accumulated losses
of State Road Transport Corporation
(SRTC) have touched an all time high to
Rs 310 crore, completely eroding its
paid-up capital of Rs 97.01 crore.....more
RAJOURI, Oct 25:A minor boy
was killed and his brother seriously
injured in a grenade explosion at village
Morha Lehran in Kakore area under
jurisdiction of Manjakot police station
this morning......more
ISLAMABAD,
Oct 25:The US for the
first time used cluster bombs on Taliban
frontlines as it intensified airstrikes
on the militia headquarters of Kandahar
and the key town of Mazar-e-Sharif amidst
reports that anti-Taliban Afghan forces
were gearing up to open a second front of
ground attack in Afghanistan....more
WASHINGTON,
Oct 25 :The number of
Americans taking Anthrax- fighting
antibiotics at the Governments
urging neared 10,000, while inspectors
found more of the deadly bacterium in a
Senate office building. The postal
service prepared to issue masks and
gloves for its 800,000 employees and was
testing ways to sterilize the
nations mail....more
CHANDIGARH, Oct 25:Punjab
Government has transferred four IPS
officers on promotion who have been
elevated to the rank of Additional
Director General of Police, while
shifting three ADGPs, an official release
said today. . ....more
ISLAMABAD, Oct 25:A hardline Muslim group will
send thousands of armed Pakistanis to
fight a holy war, or jihad, side by side
with neighbouring Afghanistan against the
US-led forces attacking the ruling
Taliban, their leader said today. ...more