SRINAGAR,
Sept 21:In
a suicide attack, militants today targetted Police
Housing Colony in Bemina area of the capital city here,
killing a sentry and causing injuries to at least seven
Police personnel. DIG Srinagar-Budgam, Farooq Ahmed, who
sustained splinter injuries in the grenade blast, had a
narrow escape. One or two militants occupied the
residential quarters of the non-gazetted Police officials
and engaged security forces in a fierce gunbattle which
was going on at midnight............more
Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah addressing an election
meeting at Rani Park in Digiana on Saturday. --
Excelsior/Ashok
JAMMU,
Sept 21:Chief
Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah today termed Congress-I as a
party full of ‘opportunists and thankless’
people and said that Congress leaders have a habit of
indulging into false and malicious propaganda to misguide
the people only to fulfill lust for power...............more
JAMMU, Sept 21:Chattisgarh
Chief Minister Ajit Yogi today declared
that Jammu and Kashmir was soon going to
be 15th State to be governed by the
Congress (I) saying he was convinced that
people of Jammu and Kashmir were
determined to uproot the National
Conference and the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP)................more
SRINAGAR,
Sept 21: President
of the Jammu & Kashmir
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, today
described phase-I of polling in
the State as "transparent,
free and fair". Expecting
"several big jolts" for
the ruling National Conference
(NC), Mufti claimed that,
throughout the State, there was
consensus among the electorate
over "change". He
explained the "change"
as the removal of Dr Farooq
Abdullah’s "Government
of corruption, inaction and
nepotism"............more
SAMBA/NAGROTA/AKHNOOR
Sept 21:Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister and vice-president of the
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Ms Mayawati
today exhorted the people to cast votes
in favour of the party candidates to
provide justice to the downtrodden and
neglected lot of the society...........more
SAMBA/VIJAYPUR/BISHNAH,
21:Taking strong exception of, what he
called, uncivilised languages used by the
Minister of State for External Affairs,
Omar Abdullah against late Maharaja Hari
Singh erstwhile ruler of Jammu and
Kashmir, the Pradesh Congress Committee
(PCC) chief Ghulam Nabi Azad today that
an ill-mannered person like Omar Abdullah
should not be allowed to contest even
Panchayat elections...............more
POONCH, Sept 21:Four
terrorists including a ‘district
commander’ of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)
outfit Abu Talawat were killed in two
encounters with security forces in
Mendhar tehsil today..............more
JAMMU, Sept 21:Chief
Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah today asked
his son and Union Minister of State for
External Affairs and party president Mr
Omar Abdullah to always keep in mind that
"Old is Gold".............more
JAMMU, Sept 21:Battle-hardened
Al Qaeda men are fighting alongside
insurgent groups in Jammu and Kashmir,
latest radio intercepts of militant
groups suggest, army sources said
today.................more
ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: Pakistan police
today arrested five militants including
two suicide bombers of the Harkat
Al-Alami outfit, allegedly involved in
the car bomb attack at the US Consulate
in Karachi that killed 14 people, and an
aborted bid on the life of President
Pervez Musharraf..............more
