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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1999
 

Army jawans stand guard at LOC in Tanjbhor Sector to ththe infiltration bid Excelsior/Amin War
Army jawans stand guard at LOC in Tanjbhor Sector to thwart infiltration bid
Excelsior/Amin War

No unprovoked firing on civilians
BSF-Rangers agree to ease tension on IB

WAGAH, Nov 21: The four day bi-annual meeting between the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Pakistan Rangers which ended at Lahore today resolved to ease tensions along the Indo-Pakistan border from the Jammu sector to the Rann of Kutch and as far as possible check incidents of unprovoked firing in the Jammu sector which had registered an increase in the aftermath of the Kargil conflict. .....more

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2 attacks on Srinagar cable operators
2 Armymen, 6 militants killed

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Nov 21: Three Pakistani militants of Mujahideen-e-Albadr and a civilian have got killed in the last evening’s twin operation of security forces and police at Sopore while as one soldier has got killed in Kupwara and yet another, who had got critically injured in an IED blast near Dyalgam on Saturday afternoon, has succumbed to injuries at hospital. In other militancy-related incidents, two cable operators have been attacked in the capital city...more

Handicraft Centre, Tech Park to come up in JK

NEW DELHI, Nov 21: Minister of State for Commerce and Industries Omar Farooq today said Centre will soon be setting up a Handicraft Centre and a Software Technology Park in Jammu and Kashmir to revive its economy which has been ravaged by decade-long militancy. ....more

More powers to check violations sought
NHRC opposes use of brute force in J&K

NEW DELHI, Nov 21: In its bid to overcome hurdles in checking growing civil liberty violations, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) will seek more powers and resort to wider interpretation of the law, its new Chairman Justice J S Verma said today. ....more

New ‘mantra’ of alternative negotiated settlement
Hurriyat ready for talks with Centre if invited

NEW DELHI, Nov 21: As the Centre has reservations on resuming talks with Pakistan unless the latter comes up with a concrete proposal to prevent cross-border terrorism, Hurriyat Conference has come with a new mantra of alternative negotiated settlement. ..more

Tension grips Ragunath Bazaar
Shopkeepers, CRPF cops clash

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 21: Tension gripped the busy tourist market of Ragunath Bazaar this evening following a clash between shopkeepers and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in which five persons were injured. The CRPF personnel also fired two shots in air to disperse the rampaging mob.....more

Woman robbed off male baby in SMGS hospital

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 21: In a rare incident of its kind, a CRPF jawan’s wife was robbed off her newly born male baby by another woman in Ward No. 2 of SMGS hospital today. The cheat woman remained untraced till late tonight......more

Debarred from clinical work
Gyne doctor attached for corrupt practices

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 21: A doctor in the Gynecology Department of SMGS hospital has been attached and debarred from clinical work by the hospital authorities following complaints that he had received money from two patients for their delivery in the hospital. ..more

Two brothers held for shoot-out

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 21: Border Police today arrested two brothers involved in a shoot-out at RS Pura town on November 17 in which one person was killed and four others were injured.......more

Rajnath, Thakur, Akalis may be inducted
Reshuffle in Cabinet today

NEW DELHI, Nov 21 : Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will undertake a reshuffle of his 70-member Council of Ministers tomorrow and is expected to induct a few new faces. .....more



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