YOU ARE THE MAN! As a Traffic Police head constable and 14 civilians sustained injuries in a grenade explosion at Dalgate on Friday, Srinagar Police lifted a pedestrian for questioning. Excelsior/Javed

Tangdar-Lipa turns into battlefield
Pak Brigade Hqs blasted in shelling

From Ahmed Ali Fayaz

SRINAGAR, Oct 26: Even as Pakistani troops attempted to destroy a Brigade headquarters at Tangdar as also two outposts on the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district, Indian Army retaliated with equal ferocity and blasted a Pakistani Army’s brigade headquarters in Lipa valley. Smoke and flames were leaping into the skies and blasts were heard in Karnah sector this evening but nobody had any idea about the casualties inflicted on the rival camp. .....more

Taliban captures Haq; Britain to deploy 200 special forces

ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: In a major setback to the US-led campaign in Afghanistan, Taliban today captured and executed a prominent resistance commander Abdul Haq and two of his associates trying to establish support for an uprising against the militia even as Britain announced deployment of 200 special forces to join the offensive against Osama bin Laden and his protectors......more

America’s Executive Order 12333
Will CIA ignore ban on assassinations?

From B L Kak

NEW DELHI: World’s sole superpower, the USA, has one-point agenda as it intensifies its war on merchants of terror. It is to liquidate Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda organisation. .....more

DSWO appointed 3 sisters in violation of norms
CAG castigates Social Welfare Deptt

By Avtar Bhat

JAMMU, Oct 26: The malfunctioning of the Social Welfare Department has come under severe criticism in the report published by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India for the year March 2000. ...more

C’wealth says no place for nations backing terrorism

LONDON, Oct 26: Strongly backing India’s position on terrorism, leaders of the Commonwealth — the largest grouping of democracies in the world - today declared that any member-state found to be supporting terrorism "should have no place in the Commonwealth." more

Anthrax in CIA office

WASHINGTON, Oct 26: Traces of anthrax spores have been found at a CIA building outside Washington, the head of the Office of Homeland Security said today. .............more

3 injured in cops firing at Manjakot

Excelsior Correspondent

RAJOURI, Oct 26: Army and police opened firing on civilians, who allegedly objected to a search operation at village Hayatpura in Manjakot area this afternoon causing injuries to three civilians including a woman....more

Truth will prevail: PM................

Two IEDs defused........

‘JeM intends to dismember India...............,,.......

HM replaces Dar.......