Saif-ud-Din Soz

Situation 'very bad' in Valley
Soz calls for dialogue with Hurriyat Conference

NEW DELHI, Nov 5: In a sudden turn around, former Union Environment Minister and expelled National Conference leader Saif-ud-Din Soz today said that the Centre should hold unconditional dialogue with secessionist Hurriyat Conference for settlement of Kashmir issue.......more

Civilian killed; ASI, cop injured
Police kills Pak militant, captures another alive

Excelsior Correspondent

POONCH, Nov 5: Police gunned down a Pakistani militant and captured another alive in injured condition after a fierce night-long gun-battle with the militants in a house at Seri Chowana in Surankote area of this district. A civilian, who was used as a shield by the militants, was also gunned down by the latter when they were trapped by the police party..........more

Cantonment attack toll 10
JKLI receives Major Purushottam’s body

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Nov 5: Amidst blowing of bugle and lowering of arms, Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JKLI) today received the bodies of Defence Public Relations Officer Major Purushottam and five other army personnel who fell to militants’ bullets inside the Badamibagh cantonment here on Wednesday. Covered with the national flag, the bodies were received with full military honours and are being flown to Delhi from where they...........more

Protest against cop’s murder
Mob disrupts traffic at Canal Road

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 5: A large number of people today held a massive demonstration and disrupted vehicular movement at busy Canal Road in protest against the murder of a Traffic Police constable Daljeet Singh early this week and demanding action against the accused............more

Lashkar asks PakArmy for help in Kashmir

MURIDKE (PAKISTAN), Nov 5: The militant Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, which on Wednesday stormed the Army headquaters in Srinagar killing seven army personnel, today asked the new military rulers in Pakistan to help the organisation in operations in Jammu and Kashmir.........more

Government opposes deletion of Rajiv’s name
from chargesheet

NEW DELHI, Nov 5 : The controversy over naming late Rajiv Gandhi as an accused in the Bofors pay offs case took a new turn today with the Government opposing in the Delhi High Court deletion of his name from the chargesheet filed by the CBI. Even before the Court issued any notice to the Government and CBI on a petition filed by an organisation seeking deletion of Rajiv’s name from the chargesheet, Additional Solicitor.....more

Madhuri has no immediate plans to quit movies

MUMBAI, Nov 5: Madhuri Dixit, the heart throb of bollyhood who tied arranged nuptial knots with a US-based doctor last month, has no immediate plans to say good-bye to the tinsel world but would prefer to settle down with Dr Shriram Nene sooner or later. Madhuri’s marriage was solemnised at the Los Angeles residence of her brother Ajit on October 17. She had a quiet honeymoon in Hawaii, even before the news of the wedding broke out. Sources close to her said that Madhuri, who has two films Pukar and Gajagamini, the latter a venture of noted painter M F Hussain, on the floor, would continue to act in movies............more

Gen Musharraf rules out early return to democracy

LONDON, Nov 5: Pakistani Chief Executive Gen Pervez Musharraf has indicated that former Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto might be debarred from participating in politics and ruled out early return to democracy in the country in the near future. Both of them have betrayed the trust of the people. They were elected twice and rejected twice, Gen Musharraf said in an interview published in the Times newspaper today. He said the future of the two former Prime Ministers.........more