JALANDHAR,
Feb 8:Union
Home Minister L K Advani today find fault with those
criticising West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev
Bhattacharjee for his remarks on Madrasas saying he
should not be attacked...............more
Chief
Secretary, Ashok Jaitly addressing a high level meeting
on formulation of NH project in Jammu on Friday
JAMMU,
Feb 8:The
State Government is formulating a comprehensive project
for treating landslides and slips on the Jammu-Srinagar
National highway from Udhampur to Lower Munda stretch.
The project, likely to cost over Rs 45 crore as per
preliminary estimates, envisages treatment of 891 square
kilometer catchment area of the highway in 10
years..............more
NEW DELHI, Feb 8:Jammu and
Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah
today dared Hurriyat Conference to
contest the forthcoming Assembly
elections and said "this will
disillusion them about being the
representatives of the people of the
State."...............more
NEW DELHI, Feb 8:Minister
of State for External Affairs
Omar Abdullah, who is tipped to
be the new president of ruling
National Conference in Jammu and
Kashmir, today did not rule out
the possibility of contesting the
forthcoming Assembly elections
but said a final decision would
be taken by the party’s
working
committee..................more
SRINAGAR, Feb 8 :Two
militants holed up in a village mosque in
Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir
freed four civilians, including the Imam
of the shrine, who sought to negotiate
their surrender, after keeping them
hostage for several hours even as the
face off between ultras and security
forces continued............more
NEW DELHI, Feb 8:Additional
measures have been put in place to ensure
safety and security of the Prime
Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee and the
Home Minister L K Advani...........more
NEW DELHI, Feb 8:India and
Russia today failed to clinch a deal on
the acquisition of aircraft carrier
‘Admiral Gorshkov’ and leasing
of long-range Tu-22 M3 strategic bombers
and maintained that issue of nuclear
submarines did not figure in their
talks.............more
SRINAGAR/JAMMU, Feb 8:The Kashmir
valley today remained cut off from the
rest of the country for the second
consecutive day after the season’s
heaviest snowfall snapped electric and
telecommunication lines, severely
affecting normal life but a State
Government spokesman claimed that snapped
links were restored at many places in the
evening............more
JAMMU, Feb 8:A young
girl was missing from her house in
Ambphalla and was reported to have been
‘kidnapped’ by a youth of
adjoining Karan Nagar locality. Despite
day long searches by police, the girl
remained untraced...............more
ISLAMABAD, Feb 8: Pakistan President
Pervez Musharraf today said there has
been "significant progress" in
investigations to locate kidnapped US
journalist Daniel Pearl, even as police
charged three people in connection with
the case and continued nation-wide raids
to nab suspects.................more
