Videshi tag can’t shake me: Sonia

Excelsior Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, May 23: Ms Sonia Gandhi has declared that she would not be intimidated by the vilification campaign about her foreign origin. "Pawar & Co cannot prevent me from working for the betterment of Indians and Indian National Congress", she asserted......more

Female dead body at LoC
BSF jawan, 3 civilians injured at Batmaloo

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, May 23: One head constable of BSF and three civilians got injured when militants made a grenade attack on paramilitary forces at Batmaloo this evening. Meanwhile, exchange of shelling has been going on.....more

Intrusions aimed at dominating strategic heights
Pak attempting Afghan war tactics in Kashmir Valley

LONDON, May 23: Pakistani Army is duplicating Afghan war tactics in Jammu and Kashmir in a bid to dominate strategic heights in key sectors along the Line of Control (LoC) overlooking vital highways, Jane’s Defence Weekly has said. .....more

Sonia’s foreign origin issue to haunt elections: Advani

AHMEDABAD, May 23: Union Home Minister L K Advani today said the issue of Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin will haunt the ensuing polls, and Congress by expelling three senior leaders had sown the seeds of unforseeable crisis for the party. Though developments within the Congress were its internal matter, "they are not devoid of national ramifications and could well become the turning point of the mid-term polls in September," Advani said virtually .....more

More top Cong leaders resign
Pawar to launch new party in Mumbai by June 10

MUMBAI, May 23: Expelled Congress leader Sharad Pawar today said he would launch his new political outfit at a national convention in Mumbai, to be held by June 10, even as the All India Congress Committee (AICC) indicated ......more

Blast rocks health centre
Army guns down two LET militants in Surankote

Excelsior Correspondent

RAJOURI, May 23: Army gunned down two militants and wounded another of Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit during a day-light gun battle today at Kopra forests, about five kms from Surankote in Poonch district.....more

Demand to convert LoC into IB opposed
ABVP for liberation of PoK

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 23: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidharthi Parishad (ABVP), a frontal organisation of Sangh Parivar, today urged the Central Government to immediately liberate parts of the Jammu and Kashmir State which have been illegally occupied by Pakistan since 1947.....more

Pak not responding to India's appeals: CM

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, May 23: Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah has said Pakistan is not responding with positive approach to India's will in resolving all matters amicably including improvement in relations and trade ties...more

India fighting costly war in Siachen

NEW YORK, May 23: Defending the Siachen Glacier costs India an estimated 350,000 to 500,000 dollars a day, Army’s Director General of Military Intelligence Lt Gen R K Sawhney was today quoted as saying. ........more

Gen Malik in Srinagar to review situation

SRINAGAR, May 23: Army Chief General V P Malik today reviewed the situation arising out of occupation of unheld areas by over 400 Pakistan-backed infiltrators in Drass and Kargil sectors of Jammu and Kashmir for the last fortnight, official sources said here. ..more