BEIJING, June 22:With a message of
"peace, amity and trust", Prime Minister Atal
Behari Vajpayee arrived here this evening on a six-day
official visit which the Indian side expects to be
"extremely successful" although no breakthrough
on the vexed border dispute is anticipated. ......more
PULWAMA,
June 22:Asserting that his Government would fulfil the
mandate of peace and development, Chief Minister Mufti
Mohammad Sayeed today said that Kashmir will once again
become an abode of peace and amity................more
NEW DELHI, June 22: Perturbed at the
growing incidence of corruption in
Central services, the Central IAS
association headed by Union Home
Secretary N Gopalaswamy has decided to
make its own pro-active efforts to
cleanse the bureaucracy. .........more
SRINAGAR,
June 22: Six
militants and three
counter-insurgent sources of
security forces have died in
different militancy-related
incidents in Kashmir valley since
last evening.........more
SRINAGAR,
June 22:Indicating
large-scale bunglings and irregularities,
the Comptroller and Auditor General has
said that Jammu and Kashmir has been
deprived of central assistance of Rs
12.51 crore during 1997-2002 due to
belated submission of utilisation
certificates, underutilisation of funds
and submission of deficient and wrong
proposals in respect of Centre-sponsored
schemes. ..........more
POONCH, June 22:Another
civilian was injected poison and killed
by the militants in Surankote tehsil last
night. This was second incident during
last two days when a civilian was killed
by the ultras using this new modus
operandi..............more
JAMMU, June 22: The Border Security
Force (BSF) today eliminated two
militants of Hizbul Mujahideen outfit at
village Gambiri in Gool area under Ramban
police district. The militants were
killed at the same spot where a BSF
Assistant Commandant A K Verma was
injured in an encounter with the
militants last evening...............more
PUNE,
June 22:"The
feeling was fine, I went up to experience
the ‘G’ force, said a fit and
composed Defence Minister George
Fernandes after a 40-minute sortie in the
state-of-the-art Su-30Mki at the
Lohegaon, air base here today.
................more
NEW DELHI, June 22: Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) president M Venkaiah Naidu
today met Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
(RSS) chief K Sudarshan and apprised him
about the outcome of the ‘Chintan
Baithak’ which concluded in Mumbai
on June 20, party sources said............more
