PC rebels defend participation in polls

SRINAGAR, Oct 7: Defending their decision to participate in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, two rebel leaders of Peoples Conference, a constituent of Hurriyat Conference, today said they decided to enter the fray since the separatist leadership refused to do so even after the Prime Minister promised to hold talks with elected representatives to resolve Kashmir issue. ....more

Yechuri charges Centre with ‘duplicity’ on Kashmir issue

RANCHI, Oct 7: CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechuri today charged the Centre with maintaining ‘duplicity’ on the Kashmir issue. Addressing newspersons here, Mr Yechuri said there could be no permanent solution to the vexed Kashmir problem till the issue related to its autonomy was discussed. Apparently the BJP led NDA was not in its favour, he said. ......more

Daughters not to lose State subjects on marrying
outside J&K: High Court

Excelsior Legal Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 7: In a landmark judgment concerning women-folk of Jammu and Kashmir, the Full Bench of the State High Court, with a majority view, has held that a daughter of a permanent resident of J&K, on marrying a non-permanent resident, will not lose the status of being the State Subject........more

‘Congress is bound to lose’
Jethmalani Committee is party to anti-NC plot: Omar

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Oct. 7: In a significant turn of events,the National Conference president, Mr Omar Abdullah, on Monday announced his party’s decision to snap contact or association with the Kashmir Committee, headed by former Union Law Minister, Mr Ram Jethmalani. ......more

Court of enquiry ordered
Nengroo roughed up by army personnel

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Oct 7: Food Minister B A Nengroo was today roughed up and injured by Army personnel near the Army headquarters here following altercation over regulation on movement of his car, police sources said. ........more

4 jawans killedin Pak shelling

SRINAGAR, Oct 7: Four security force personnel were killed and an equal number injured when Pakistani troops shelled Indian positions overnight in border town of Uri in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district. .....more

VHP flays BJP for abandoning Hindutva plank

NEW DELHI, Oct 7: Launching a fresh offensive against BJP, the VHP today attacked it for abandoning the Hindutva agenda and becoming "secular" under NDA pressure even as it termed Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Deputy Premier L K Advani as "two sides of the same coin"........more

IAF ready to reach its objectives in minutes: Krishnaswamy....

Salman remanded to police custody ......