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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2002
 

PCC(I) president Ghulam Nabi Azad with other Cong leaders soon after he was elected as CLP leader in Srinagar on Monday. -Excelsior/Javed
PCC(I) president Ghulam Nabi Azad with other Cong leaders soon after he was elected as CLP leader in Srinagar on Monday. -Excelsior/Javed

Cong stakes claim to Chief Ministership, PDP unrelenting
New Govt will be in place before Oct 17: Azad

Excelsior Team

SRINAGAR, Oct. 14: Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad expects the new Government to be in place in Jammu and Kashmir "before October 17". His Man Friday, Mr Taj Mohiuddin, has gone a step ahead by proclaiming here: "We can form the Government on our own and without the support of the People’s Democratic Party"..........more



Woman succumbs to injuries
Two jawans among 5 hurt in blasts

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 14: Five persons including two army jawans and three civilians were injured in three mine explosions and border firing incidents on the border today while a woman, who was injured in a grenade blast at Doda, succumbed to her injuries........more

Omar quits NDA Govt

NEW DELHI, Oct 14 : In the first fallout of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, National Conference president Omar Abdullah today resigned as Minister of State for External Affairs, citing that he was "needed more" in the State, but said his party would remain in the NDA........more

Independent candidate from Zadibal yet to
decide on joining any party

SRINAGAR, Oct 14: A newly-elected independent candidate from Zadibal constitutency in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Shahjahan Dar has denied having extended his support to any political party in Government formation.........more

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Laden hails heroic anti-western attacks

DUBAI, Oct 14 : The world’s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, today reportedly praised the perpetrators of last week’s anti-Western attacks in Kuwait and Yemen and warned the United States and Israel in a statement of more carnage to come.......more

Two Forest officials in Vigilance net

CHANDIGARH, Oct 14: Punjab Vigilance Bureau has initiated vigilance probe against two top officials of the State Forest Department after having detected financial frauds of a staggering amount of Rs 400 crore in a multi-crore project.......more

HM commander among 6 eliminated
4 intruders killed in Kupwara

SRINAGAR, Oct 14: Army today foiled an infiltration bid by Pakistan-backed militants killing four of them in Kupwara sector of north Kashmir, a Defence spokesman said.......more

Cong ropes-in Soz to talk to Mufti

SRINAGAR, Oct 14: With both parties claiming Chief Ministership, Congress today is understood to have roped in its senior leader Saif-ud-Din Soz to mediate with PDP chief Mufti Mohammed Sayeed in a bid to persuade him to agree for a Congress-led coalition in Jammu and Kashmir. .......more

Bhim meets Sonia

NEW DELHI, Oct 14: Panthers Party chief Bhim Singh tonight met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and said his party is willing to support Congress to form a Government in Jammu and Kashmir if its Chief Ministerial candidate is from the Jammu region........more

Kathua woman held with 365 kg of poppy husk

JALANDHAR, Oct 14: Police today arrested a woman and recovered 365 kg of poppy husk from her possession at Besant Nagar on the Jalandhar- Amritsar road.........moreMissing Indian Kids - Children
NC says options open on Govt formation....

Leh MLAs not to support any party....



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