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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2003
 

Finance Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig replying to debate on Specified Wakafs and Specified Wakaf Properties Bill in the Assembly on Wednesday.
Finance Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig replying to debate on Specified Wakafs and Specified Wakaf Properties Bill in the Assembly on Wednesday.

Baig blames NC leaders for gifting Auqaf land to relatives
Assembly passes Wakaf Board Bill amid
noisy scenes, walk-out
*Physical duel between MoS Power, NC MLAs averted

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 17: The Jammu and Kashmir Specified Wakafs And Wakafs Properties (Management and Regulation Bill 2003) was passed by State Assembly amidst the noisy scenes and walkout by the Opposition, NC members. The House also witnessed a virtual physical duel between the MoS Power, Javed Mustafa Mir with NC legislators Ali Mohammed Sagar, Mushtaq Bukhari, Sharif-u-Din Shariq and Moulvi Iftiqar Hussain Ansari.................more

PDD engineer arrested for harbouring fidayeen
*Pak ultras stayed for 3 days at Jan's house before attack

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Dec 17: Police have arrested an Executive Engineer of the Power Development Department (PDD), who had allegedly provided hospitality to two Pakistani fidayeen of the Lashkar-e-Toiba before they launched a suicide attack on a paramilitary formation at Indira Nagar on November 18th. With the engineer’s arrest, Police have achieved a breakthrough in the longest ever encounter that rocked this capital city a month ago....................more

Vigilance raids residences of Kawoosa,
Bali; 7 other officers

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 17: State Vigilance organisation today raided residential premises of IWDP chief Mr Kawoosa, former project chief Mr Bali and seven other officers in connection with alleged misappropriation of funds worth lakhs and possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income............more

NC walk-out as Assembly passes Transfer of Property Act
*Opposition alleges attempt to dilute state subject law

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 17: Entire National Conference today staged a walk-out in the Legislative Assembly when Speaker Tara Chand put to vote a bill to amend the Transfer of Property Act alleging that "the amendment is aimed at diluting the state subject law under a new agenda of the Mufti Government"..................more

Embezzlement in Housing Corporation
HC directs SSP Crime to register FIR

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 17: Division Bench of the State High Court, comprising Acting Chief Justice VK Jhanji and Justice Syed Bashir-ud-Din today directed SSP Crime and Railways Jammu to register an FIR on the basis of the allegation of embezzlement in the Housing Corporation, as has been leveled in the petition..............more

Govt blames PDD sufferings to Baglihar project

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 17: Treasury benches and the opposition members today had heated exchanges on the issue of alleged hike in power tariff and shortage of electricity in the Assembly as Power Minister Mohd Sharief Niaz blamed the Power Development Department’s sufferings to Baglihar and Sawlakote projects...............more

Bijbehara tense over militant’s killing

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Dec 17: Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed’s hometown of Bijbehara turned tense today when the bullet-riddled dead body of a senior Hizbul Mujahideen militant, Bombar Khan, was handed over to his family. Manzoor Ahmed Shah alias Maulvi alias Bombar Khan S/o Mohammad Ismail Shah of Bijbehara was killed by troops of Rashtriya Rifles in an early morning operation at Hutmura, near Mattan............more

'Samjhauta' to start by end of year

WAGAH (AMRITSAR), Dec 17: A day ahead of the talks between officials of India and Pakistan on resumption of Samjhauta Express between the two countries, Islamabad today said that it has received positive signals from New Delhi that the train services will start by the end of this year or at the latest by the first week of January................more

Farooq desires to visit Lahore

NEW DELHI, Dec 17: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah tonight expressed a desire to visit his anscestral home at Lahore............more

Truck bomb in Baghdad kills 10

BAGHDAD, Dec 17: A tanker truck loaded with explosives blew up today in Baghdad, killing 10 people, police said, after US troops launched a massive pre-dawn raid against suspected insurgents in the restive city of Samarra, north of the capital.....................more
Sonia intervenes in Punjab party crisis .....

Bhujbal seeks probe in Central Minister's role.....

Civilian, militant killed; 4 kidnapped......



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