SRINAGAR,
Nov 17:Having
withdrawn their support of silence to the ruling
alliance, militants have shot dead yet another
functionary of Ms Mehbooba Mufti’s Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) in her own Assembly constituency
of Pahalgam, in south Kashmir. Meanwhile, militants have
left a soldier of the paramilitary ITBP dead and three
civilians injured in a grenade attack in Anantnag while
as a village headman’s son has been killed in
another grenade blast in Ganderbal area................more
A handicapped supporter of Congress rides his rickshaw
decorated with party banners and pictures of party
leaders in New Delhi on Monday.
NEW
DELHI, Nov 17:Caught
in a political storm over video tapes purportedly showing
him receiving bribes, Union Minister of State for
Environment Dilip Singh Judeo resigned today with Prime
Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee ordering a CBI probe into
the matter..................more
ISLAMABAD, Nov 17:As police
launched a manhunt for leader of the
banned militant outfit Khudamul-e-Islam,
Maulana Masood Azhar after the Pakistani
Government banned his outfit alongwith
two others, authorities have sealed off
60 offices and seminaries of the three
groups and directed banks to seal their
accounts..............more
SRINAGAR/JAMMU,
Nov 17:The entire
Kashmir valley is under the grip
of a severe coldwave following
fresh snowfall on the upper
reaches while the plains were
lashed by rains since last
evening resulting in considerable
drop in the temperature both in
Kashmir and Jammu
divisions.............more
JAMMU, Nov 17:Police
today said they were investigating the
circumstances leading to a grenade
explosion inside the court of Additional
Sessions Judge, Kishtwar on October 22 in
view of strong documentary evidence that
all four grenades, produced in the court
as an evidence against two arrested
militants of Hizbul Mujahideen outfit,
had been defused at the time of
recoveries............more
JAMMU, Nov 17: A young girl was
brutally tortured by the militants in her
house and later killed at village
Tatagaon under the jurisdiction of Gandoh
police station in Doda district last
night. She has been identified as Akhtar
Bano, 18, daughter of Nazir Ahmed
Magrey...............more
NEW DELHI, Nov 17:In an
extraordinary step, the Election
Commissioner today sought the
intervention of Chhattisgarh Governor in
the transfer of District Collectors of
Bastar and Jashpur in order to ensure
free and fair elections in the two
districts..................more
NEW DELHI, Nov 17: The Supreme Court
today deferred till December 2 hearing on
a petition filed by Maharashtra
Government challenging a Mumbai High
Court order quashing the charge of
culpable homicide not amounting to murder
framed against actor Salman Khan for
killing one person and injuring four in a
hit-and-run drunken driving
case.................more
JERUSALEM, Nov 17:The new
thermal imaging cameras received from
Israel have proved successful in
preventing infiltration into Kashmir,
Arutz Seva reported.................more
GUWAHATI, Nov 17:The All
Assam Students Union (AASU) activists
today went on a rampage here vandalising
the Samata Party headquarters, torching
houses and damaging vehicles during their
24-hour statewide bandh to protest the
recent attack on the North East people by
the Biharis........more
