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Sevaiyya, used extensively in sweetmeat preparations during the holy month of Ramzan, being dried at a small factory in Ahmedabad on Friday.(UNI)

‘Pak most complex challenge for US diplomacy’

WASHINGTON, Oct 31: Pakistan presents one of the most complex and difficult challenges facing US diplomacy anywhere in the world while India holds out the prospect for long-term political, economic and security ties with Washington, says an influential Task Force on India and south Asia............more

Infiltration on but violence on decline: Brig Gupta

SRINAGAR, Oct 31: There is no let up in the infiltration from across the border though militancy related violence within the Valley has decreased, a senior Army officer said........more

Pak welcomes India’s reaction to proposals

ISLAMABAD, Oct 31 : Notwithstanding India’s strong reaction to its Kashmir-centric proposals, Pakistan today promised to implement all mutually-agreed measures to improve bilateral relations............more

4 militants, civilian killed

Excelsior Special Correspondent

POONCH, Oct 31: Army and police today gunned down four militants at village Morha Bachai while the ultras kidnapped and killed a civilian in Marhot in two separate incidents in Surankote tehsil..........more

Sushma Choudhary is Advisor Planning Commission
Govt effects major Secy level changes

NEW DELHI, Oct 31: In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the Government today appointed Mr Deepak Chatterjee, Secretary in the Department of Commerce, as the first Chairman of the newly-Constituted Competition Commission of India.................more

BSF in different role

JAISALMER, Oct 31: Protecting the country’s frontiers along the Indo-Pak border is not their only task.............more

Army porter killed in shelling, 15 houses damaged

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Oct 31: An Army porter was killed in Pakistani shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Nowgam sector of Kupwara district whileas 15 houses were damaged when the enemy troops opened unprovoked shelling in Kargil sector.............more

Censors to be installed on IB

HOSHIARPUR (PUNJAB), Oct 31: Censor machines would be installed along the Indo-Pak border in Punjab to check infiltration, a top border security force official said here today..............more

Sonia flays communal forces

NEW DELHI, Oct 31: Terming secularism as an index of "religiousness and spirituality", Congress president Sonia Gandhi today said communal forces were "endangering" the unity and integrity of the country and should be tackled boldly..........more

Pandits tell US Congress their woes.....

IAF to have only best talent .....

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