JAMMU,
June 28:In the worst ever fidayeen attack on an army
installation, two militants struck at Dogra
Regiment’s camp in early hours of this morning at
Sunjwan along Narwal by-pass killing 12 army soldiers and
wounding seven others including a Lieutenant before being
eliminated by the troops. .......more
President
APJ Abdul Kalam being briefed by the head priest of the
Hazratbal shrine and Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
about the historical background of the shrine after the
traditional dastarbandi (Headgear) was performed on the
President.(UNI)
SRINAGAR,
June 28:President, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, has tremendous faith
in the power of prayer. Any doubts, in this regard, have,
once again, been set at rest by the President himself.
.......more
SRINAGAR,
June 28:Fire-brand
Jamaat-e-Islami leader Syed Ali Shah
Geelani today renewed his demand for
expulsion of Peoples Conference from the
Hurriyat Conference and served an
ultimatum on the separatist amalgam to do
so within a week or face the formation of
an alternative to it. . . .......more
JAMMU,
June 28: Three
militants including an
infiltrator and a civilian were
killed while five other civilians
were injured in separate
incidents across the region
overnight. .......more
NEW DELHI, June 28: A pistol
symbolising Pakistan’s defeat at the
hands of Indian forces in the 1971 war
has mysteriously gone missing from the
high-security national museum here. ....more
MUMBAI, June 28: Bollywood actress
Shilpa Shetty’s statement was today
recorded by a special team of Surat
Police in connection with alleged threats
issued by her parents to Gujarat-based
saree tycoon Pankaj Agarwal to recover
money. ..........more
SRINAGAR, June
28:It was in no way
reminiscent of the red carpet receptions
given to Jawahar Lal Nehru and Indira
Gandhi decades ago. It was no match to
this capital city’s historical
welcome to Morarji Desai, arranged by
Mirwaiz Farooq and Maulana Masoodi in
1977. It was decidedly no answer to Giani
Zail Singh’s navigation rally on the
Jhelum, organised by Sheikh Abdullah in
1980. Nevertheless, there’s no
disputing the fact that the President APJ
Abdul Kalam’s visit to Government
College for Women on Maulana Azad Road is
history in the post-militancy era in
Jammu & Kashmir...........more
JAMMU, June 28:Justifying
the demands for statehood to Jammu and
Union territory status to Ladakh regions,
the Rashtria Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS)
chief K S Sudershan today held the
successive state governments responsible
for increasing discrimination with two
regions of the State..........more
URI, June 28:Indian
Armed Forces have to play "a very
important role" in defending the
country against the "enemy",
President, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam,
emphasized, before concluding his
three-day visit to Jammu, Ladakh and
Valley on Saturday. ........more
ISLAMABAD, June 28 :
In an
apparent reaction to the recent criticism
by deposed Premier Nawaz Sharif against
President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan
Government has ordered his brother
Shahbaz Sharif’s wife and daughters
to leave the country and join the exiled
family in Jeddah.....more
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