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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1999
 

ITBP troops maintaining vigil along Chamba border.
ITBP troops maintaining vigil along Chamba border.

4 militants, 2 civilians among 8 killed in Valley
Cinegoer killed, 17 injured as Regal attacked on day one

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Sept 24: Even as the Regal Cinema, located in civil lines area here, resumed business after a 10-year-long pause of militancy today, militants launched a grenade attack on the cinegoers this evening in which one person got killed and 17 others injured. In other militancy-related incidents across Kashmir valley since last evening, BSF eliminated four militants in Kupwara district and unidentified gunmen shot dead three persons -- one each at Chhanapora, Arwani and Watlaar........more

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Border villagers in neck-deep miseries
Rangers resort to heavy firing, shelling in Hiranagar areas

From Dinesh Manhotra

LONDI (HIRANAGAR): Denizens of this entire border belt did not desert their homes and hearths when clouds of war were hovering on the sub-continent due to Kargil incursions and when entire border population from other areas had migrated to safer places. Though the tension between India and Pakistan has been eased to some extent.........more

Director Health Kashmir suspended
Vigilance raids drug stores; spurious medicines recovered

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Sept 24: Vigilance organisation today conducted simultaneous raids at various drug stores in Kashmir region and seized large quantity of spurious medicines...........more

RR guns down ultra, averts tragedy
Two civilians killed, one kidnapped in Poonch

Excelsior Correspondent

POONCH, Sept 24: Militants gunned down two civilians and kidnapped another in Mandi area while troops killed one militant and averted a tragedy in Surankote town of this district today. Troops also filed an infiltration attempt in Balakote area of Mendhar sector..............more

Delivery of Krivak’ frigates from 2002

MOSCOW, Sept 24: Russia will commence the delivery of the latest Krivak class multi-role frigates specially designed for India in year 2002, Rosvoorouzhenie Arms Exporting Corporation announced today.......more

‘Cong shall learn to sit in Opposition’
PM warns Pakistan against testing India’s patience

Prime Minister Atal Bihari VajpayeeBAHRAICH (UP), Sept 24: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today warned Pakistan against testing India’s patience, even as he rejected Congress charge that his Lahore bus journey was an image-building exercise. We want good neighbourly relations but Pakistan must not test our patience, Vajpayee said addressing an election rally here. Referring to the Kargil intrusion, he said we too could have crossed the borders during the conflict but we did not and our patience was rewarded at last. ......more

Traffic remains suspended for 3 hrs
Goods train derails at Bari Barahamana

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Sept 24: Traffic on Jammu-Pathankot section of Northern Railways remained suspended for more than three hours this morning due to derailment of a goods train near Bari Barahamana......more

Vigilance raids office
CPF employee nabbed taking gratification

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Sept 24: The Vigilance Organisation today trapped red-handed an employee of Contributory Provident Fund (CPF) office when he accepted gratification of Rs 1000 from an employee of National Garages to release his CPF.............more

BJP candidate shot dead

GUWAHATI, Sept 24: BJP candidate for the Dhubri Lok Sabha seat in Assam, Dr Pannalal Oswal, has been shot dead and his body with a bullet wound on his temple was recovered today, five days after he was abducted by suspected ULFA militants while campaigning...............more

Bihar DGP confirms assault on nun

PATNA, Sept 24: Bihar Director General of Police, K A Jacob, today said prima facie he was convinced that a nun of St Joseph Health Centre at Jalalpur was subjected to humiliation by two unidentified men who stripped her and forced her to drink their urine on September 20.........more

PPP wants UN official to observe Bhutto trial

ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: The Opposition Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) today alleged that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Government is blocking a United Nations official from observing the trial of its leader, Benazir Bhutto. ...........more



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