Civilian shot dead in Prankote
Militants attack STF post with rockets

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 9: Militants gunned down a civilian in the captivity in Prankote and attacked a post of Special Task Force (STF) at Mahore with rockets in two separate incidents in Udhampur district.........more

Ms Sonia Gandhi,

Fotedar is ‘advisor number one’
Sonia for drastic, ruthless organisational revamp

From B L Kak

NEW DELHI, Dec 9 : The Congress president, Ms Sonia Gandhi, is giving final touches to her scheme of things, envisaging a drastic, ruthless and result-oriented organisational revamp. ..more

Court frames charges
Sports Council officers, MBBS student in Vigilance net

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec. 9: Hasnain Masoodi, Special Judge Anti-Corruption, Srinagar has framed charges against Nazir Ahmad Khan, the then Secretary Sports Council, Muhammad Afzal Malik, the then PRO Sports Council, and Ms Nada Sidique daughter of G M Sidique of Magharmal Bagh, Srinagar, in a case of police station Vigilance Organization, Kashmir......more

Placing everything in militants' account
High drama behind bank 'dacoity'

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Dec 9: Even as a press release of J&K Police Headquarters today claimed that some militants had looted cash worth Rs 13 lakh from Hyderpora branch of Ellaquai Dehati Bank, high drama is believed behind the episode which, by its face value, is hardly the.........more

Govt extends detention of Hurriyat leaders

NEW DELHI, Dec 9: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has extended the detention of 15 top Hurriyat leaders, currently lodged in Jodhpur jail, till September 2001, official sources said here today. ....more

Mandi House begins to open its eyes
DD team reaching today to set right DDK Sgr

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Dec 9: A high level Doordarshan team is reaching here on Friday to study the hardware and software apparatus of Doordarshan Kendra (DDK) Srinagar, which was being controlled by some private producers and officials during the last 10 years of Kashmir insurgency....more

Yusuf Jameel bereaved

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Dec 9: Khwaja Ghulam Rasool Shah, father of eminent Kashmiri journalist Yusuf Jameel, passed away today after a brief illness at Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura. He was 76...more

2 drowned at Baramulla

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Dec 9: Dead bodies of two young men have been fished out from the Jhelum today as both are believed to have died after having consumed liquor...more