Terrorists want to incite communal violence: Advani

NEW DELHI, Oct 16: Government has "information" on Pakistan-sponsored terrorists being asked to target religious places in India to incite communal riots, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani said today.........more

Desperate attempts to turn deadlock into ‘wedlock’

By B L Kak

JAMMU, Oct 16: The entire story, as it began to be told following the full and final poll results became a reality on October 10, has been interesting more for the characters it involved than for its content. And more interesting, if not distressing, have been comments passed by the ones whose groups did face the hostile electorate. Or the ones whose political platform—BJP, to be precise— drew a complete blank during the just-concluded battle of the ballot in Jammu and Kashmir..........more

Vigilance Judge of HC to hold inquiry
Fraudulently obtained power connection
sold for Rs 35 lakh

Excelsior Legal Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 16: In a rarest of the rare cases, wherein a power connection was fraudulently obtained for a non-existing industrial unit and later sold to another industrial unit for rupees 35 lakh, the Division Bench of the State High Court comprising Justice V K Jhanji and Justice S K Gupta, in a significant order, has directed District Judge Vigilance of the High Court to hold a detailed enquiry into this entire matter.......more

Salman’s bail plea rejected

MUMBAI, Oct 16: A sessions court today rejected the bail plea of film actor Salman Khan, charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the A-1 bakery hit-and-run case........more

Pak shelling again in Poonch
Two civilians shot dead

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 16: Terrorists gunned down two civilians including a woman and injured another in two separate incidents overnight while Pakistan army again resorted to heavy shelling in Poonch and Nowshera sectors today........more

Cong sticks to stand

NEW DELHI, Oct 16: The Congress today made it clear that it will not give up its demand to form a Government led by the party in Jammu and Kashmir, saying it was natural as it was the second-largest party in the State.........more

Trinamool severs ties with NDA

KOLKATA, Oct 16 : The Trinamool Congress, which had kept its ties with the NDA on hold over the bifurcation of Eastern Railway, today virtually severed all links with the ruling coalition at the Centre..........more

4 infiltrators among 6 killed...