UDHAMPUR,
Dec 5: Chief
Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said that a new
atmosphere is building up in India and Pakistan that
would guarantee bilateral friendship and lasting peace in
the region................more
Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed addressing a public
meeting at Udhampur on Friday.
ABUJA,
Dec 5:Pakistan’s
efforts to get its suspension from Commonwealth revoked
failed today with the 54-member grouping holding that no
progress has been made for restoration of full
parliamentary democracy in the
country.....................more
MOSCOW, Dec 5: At least 40 people,
mostly students, were killed and over 151
injured when a suspected Chechan suicide
bomber triggered a powerful explosion in
a moving train in southern Russia near
the war-torn republic of
Chechnya..................more
SRINAGAR, Dec 5:Criticising
Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed for the Government take
over of Muslim Auqaf Trust and
Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of
Medical Sciences, former Chief
Minister Farooq Abdullah today
accused the PDP leader of trying
"to destroy" the
National Conference and the
legacy of its founder Sheikh
Abdullah...................more
JAMMU, Dec 5:Army and
police today gunned down two Al Badr
militants in an encounter at Niali,
Manjakote in Rajouri while police
apprehended a militant during another
encounter in Doda district in which an
army soldier was injured. A house was
damaged in Manjakote
gun-battle....................more
JAMMU, Dec 5:The
pilgrimage to the most revered shrine of
Mata Vaishnodevi today crossed the five
million mark for this year. It was
surging towards breaking the previous
record of the pilgrimage in one year,
which stood at 52.17 lakh in the year
2000....................more
NEW DELHI, Dec 5: Uma Shankar
Mishra, Special Director in CBI, will
take over as the new Director of the
investigating agency
tomorrow..............more
SRINAGAR, Dec 5: Three militants
and two civilians were killed since last
night in militancy-related violence in
Kashmir valley, where militants carried
out an abortive grenade attack on a BSF
post in Anantnag district, official
sources said today.......................more
UDHAMPUR, Dec 5:Nine
persons including four women were killed
and 35 others received injuries, nine of
them critically, when a bus carrying them
skidded off the road and rolled down at
Motershed, Chenani this
evening...............more
RAIPUR, Dec 5:Buoyed by
the victory in three states in the just
concluded assembly elections, BJP today
claimed that the main opposition Congress
would be "isolated" in a
political realignment prior to next
year’s Lok Sabha
Poll.................more
