Take up Wullar, Baglihar with Pak: Mufti to PM

Excelsior Special Correspondent

New Delhi, Dec 14: Chief Minister Mohammad Sayeed has urged Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to take up with his Pakstani counterpart during forthcoming SAARC summit some important and far-reaching Jammu and Kashmir specific confidence building measures to further normalise the situation...........more

11 posts advertised for 1500 diploma holders in Valley
Lal Singh may turn red over Govt's crude joke with paramedics

From Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

SRINAGAR, Dec 14: State Health & Medical Education Minister Chowdhary Lal Singh’s efforts of improving the health and medicare services at hospitals in Jammu & Kashmir have received a major setback as the "Screening Committee" has cleared just 1 to 10% of the paramedical vacancies for regular recruitment..............more

Student, militant among 5 killed

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Dec 14: Even as BSF fired upon a militant and captured him alive in a dramatic encounter on the National Highway Bypass in Bemina area today, two civilians got killed in the same incident. Meanwhile, militants have shot dead a student in Shopian and a labourer has been left critically injured in Pampore area of south Kashmir..............more

Poonch encounter toll 5
*Pak militant killed in Banihal

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 14: Army and police today gunned down one more militant at Nangali Top in Poonch taking the toll to five while another ultra was killed in Banihal tehsil in Ramban police district...........more

Administrator among6 arrested in MD paper leak

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 14: The Vigilance Organization has arrested six persons including its kingpin in the MD/MS question paper lack scam while it is hunting for more persons suspected to this racket which has large scale ramification. .............more

Advani felicitates Dev Anand

MUMBAI, Dec 14: Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani today honoured three living legends Dev Anand, Ratan Tata and N R Narayana Murthy at a function organised here by K T Shahani Memorial. ..........more

India rejects Pak objections to fencing along LoC

NEW DELHI, Dec 14: India tonight dismissed as unacceptable Pakistan’s objections to fencing along the Line of Control on the ground that it was "violative of UN resolutions. ...................more

CBI traces bank account in Jogi case.....

Narrow escape for Musharraf in blast......