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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2003
 

India to call for joint SAARC strategy against terrorism

NEW DELHI, Dec 28: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will exhort SAARC nations during their January 4-6 summit in Islamabad to take a cue from Bhutan’s recent crackdown on Indian insurgent groups and adopt a joint strategy to rid south Asia of the menace of terrorism. ...............more

Cong signal to prospective allies
Prime Ministership will be decided by people: Sonia

MUMBAI, Dec 28: In clear signals to prospective allies to fight BJP, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today said the issue of Prime Ministership will be decided by the people though she made it clear that Congress party would decide on who its leader will be. ................more

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee pays his last respects to former BJP president Kushabhau Thakre at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on Sunday.(UNI)
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee pays his last respects to former BJP president Kushabhau Thakre at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on Sunday.(UNI)

Sangh stalwart Kushabhau Thakre dead

NEW DELHI, Dec 28: Sangh Parivar stalwart and former BJP president Kushabhau Thakre, who steered the party during its initial years in power at the Centre, died here this morning following prolonged illness. .........more

Two militants killed, two held
*Two civilians injured in firing

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 28: Army today gunned down two militants at Thanna Mandi in Rajouri district and apprehended two others from Gool area in Udhampur district while two civilians including a woman were injured in the separate militancy related incidents across the region since last evening...............more

Mulayam pours water on Sonia's plan

LUCKNOW, Dec 28: Putting a spoke in Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s plans for a compact secular alliance against BJP, Samajwadi Party supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav today said he favoured only issue based support to like minded parties and a post-poll tie-up. ............more

‘Pak proxy war in last phase’

NEW DELHI, Dec 28 : Union Minister of State for Home I D Swami today said the proxy war pursued by Pakistan has reached its last phase and India would soon curb all terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country. ...........more

Kashmir, Afghan network targets Musharraf: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: A network of Kashmiri and Afghan militants was behind the latest assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani officials said today. .........more

‘CA’, 3 others held for duping people worth lakhs

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 28: A self-styled Chartered Account (CA), who had duped large number of people of their hard-earned money estimating between Rs 40 to Rs 50 lakh, has been arrested by the police..................more

7 militants trapped in Pulwama

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Dec 28: Even as militants have eliminated two persons in Kashmir valley since last evening, a group of at least seven armed militants of Hizbul Mujahideen got trapped in a military operation at Arihal village in Pulwama district this evening......more

Pro-democracy parties boycott Jamali meet

ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Pakistan’s pro-democracy parties today boycotted a special meeting held by Premier Zafarullah Khan Jamali to brief them about the issues and preparations for next week’s SAARC summit as also the controversy surrounding the alleged proliferation of nuclear technology by the country’s scientists. .....more

Centre turns down ULFA's offer......

Stamp paper accused being charge-sheeted today......

Pak Assembly endorses Musharraf presidency.....



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