Incident-free day in Valley
Police rank badges among recoveries

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Oct 30: Even as the Valley witnessed an incident-free day today, security forces and police conducted raids at several places and recovered quantities of arms and ammunition besides as many as 13 rank badges of J&K Police......more

Smuggled drugs recovered
Medical College staffer arrested

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 30: The security staff of SMGS hospital, an associated hospital of Medical College today arrested a hospital employee red-handed while smuggling drugs worth about Rs 10,000 from the SMGS hospital.......more

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 30: An alleged gambler was murdered in a scuffle with another gambler at village Patiyari in Samba tehsil this morning. The accused has been arrested by the police..more

50 Govt officers transferred

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 30: The Government have ordered transfers and postings of 50 officers:

Mohd Amin Khan, awaiting orders of adjustment is posted as Secretary J&K Legislative Council vice Mr Inderjit Singh. Mr Singh shall report to the General Administration Department for further adjustment. The post of Secretary J&K Legislative Council is declared equivalent in status and responsibility to the cadre post of IAS.........more

Vigilance books officers
Bunglings worth several lakhs detected
in Horticulture Deptt

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 30: Vigilance Organisation has established irregularities worth several lakhs in the office of Horticulture Department, Poonch in the purchase of fruit plants this year. A series of complaints persued and investigated by the Department unearthed the scam in which a number of officers were found involved, who have been identified......more

‘Vanar Sena’ disrupts traffic at Parade

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 30: Police and Traffic Police had to face a unique problem this evening in clearing the road blockade at Parade Ground outside the Govt College for Women. Police couldn’t use lathicharge or resort to teargassing as the road blockers were not the human beings but monkeys, the ‘sena’ of Lord Hanuman........more

Laloo, Mishra remanded to custody till Nov 13

PATNA, Oct 30: Former Bihar Chief Ministers Laloo Prasad Yadav and Dr Jagannath Mishra and five others, including three senior politicians, were today denied regular bail plea in a conspiracy angle case of the fodder scam and remanded to judicial custody till November 13 by a designated CBI court here.........more

CBI begins probe into Sharma cases

GHAZIABAD, Oct 30: CBI has launched investigation into two major cases relating to Romesh Sharma, suspected frontman of Dubai-based underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, and his alleged links with other key players......more

Pokharan test have exposed weaknesses of CTBT: AEC

MUMBAI, Oct 30 : The Pokhran II nuclear tests have exposed the weaknesses of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) monitoring system for its failure of seismic network to detect low-yield explosions, said Dr R Chidambaram, Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), today. ....more