School building collapse case
X-en, others acquitted from charges

Excelsior Legal Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 6: Special Judge Anti-corruption, Mr V K Phull has acquitted former Executive Engineer and other staff of PWD, R&B Division Bhaderwah in a case involving the collapse of school building in 1991.......more

Attack on Army cantonment
Fernandes orders inquiry

NEW DELHI, Nov 6: Defence Minister George Fernandes today said a probe has been ordered into the recent attack at the Army cantonment in Srinagar to ascertain whether there was any security lapse. A probe has been ordered to find out what led to such a serious development in which our officers were killed, he said after laying a wreath on the body of Public Relation officer Major Pramod Purushottam, who was killed by the militants in Srinagar on November 3...........more

Jawan guns down jawan

Excelsior Correspondent

UDHAMPUR, Nov 6: An army soldier gunned down his colleague in a camp of 12 Rashtriya Rifles in Doda district last night. The deceased has been identified as Naik Sat Pal and the accused...........more

An army jawan maintaining a strict vigil at Chilla Danga village in Samba tehsil. - Excelsior/Ashok

Troops take control of Chilla Danga, other villages
Police failure to act timely leads to ultras infiltration

From Sanjeev Pargal & Neeraj Rohmetra

CHILLA DANGA (SAMBA), Nov 6: Army has been deployed in some sensitive areas of Samba especially along a new infiltration route of Pakistani militants passing through Utterbehni and Chilla Danga villages and reaching upto Doda via Mansar and Udhampur. An Army Platoon has taken control of this small village and was maintaining a round the clock vigil in the village alongwith Village Defence Committee (VDC) members.............more

Most of casualties occur due to docs’ absence
21 killed, 26 injured in Bani bus accident

Excelsior Correspondent

KATHUA, Nov 6: In a major tragedy on the eve of Diwali festival, atleast 21 persons were killed and 26 others were seriously injured when an over-loaded passenger bus met with an accident at village Jandrali on Bani-Poond road in this district this morning..........more

Chautala drops 2, inducts 10 new Ministers

CHANDIGARH, Nov 6 : Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala in a sudden reshuffle today dropped Industries Minister Brij Mohan Singla and Transport Minister Narbir Singh and inducted three Cabinet Ministers and seven ministers of state into his three-month-old....more

Actresses dominate Amitabh’s list of beautiful women

NEW DELHI, Nov 6: Actresses Savitri Devi, Miss World Aishwarya Rai, and Madhuri Dixit along with his mother Teji and grand-daughter Navya-Naveli figure in superstar Amitabh Bachchan’s choice of the eleven most beautiful women of the past hundred years. Amitabh says that Savitri Devi, who is the step-mother of actress Rekha and wife of Gemini Ganeshan, had looks that were similar to Meena Kumari and Suraiya’s, but she had "a certain kind of youthful bubble which lent her vivacity............more

Musharraf ridicules Lahore declaration

ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: Pakistan’s strongman General Pervez Musharraf has ridiculed the Lahore declaration, saying that it had "no meaning" unless the Kashmir imbroglio was resolved..........more