JAMMU,
Nov 22:In
a significant political statement, former Chief Minister
and National Conference leader Dr Farooq Abdullah today
said it was only a matter of time when the National
Conference will storm back to power in the State and
party president Omar Abdullah will be the new Chief
Minister................more
JAMMU,
Nov 22:A
civilian was killed and five others were injured in
stepped-up mortar shelling by Pakistan army in Poonch and
Sunderbani sectors while four Pakistan fighters
reportedly violated the Indian air space in Nowshera
sector last evening. A similar air space violation has
also been reported from Mandi sector in Poonch
today.....................more
BAQUBA, IRAQ, Nov 22:Suicide
bombers blew up cars packed with
explosives outside two police stations
north of Baghdad today, killing at least
18 people in the latest deadly strikes on
Iraq’s US-backed police
force.................more
CHANDIGARH, Nov
22:Estimating
the value of properties of former
Chief Minister Parkash Singh
Badal, his wife, son and close
friends at Rs 4,326 crore in
India and abroad, Punjab
Vigilance Bureau today filed a
chargesheet in a Ropar court
accusing them of having
"created assets" of Rs
78.39 crore during the tenure of
the SAD-BJP Government in
1997-2002.................more
INDORE, Nov 22:Deputy
Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani today
expressed concern over regionalism
raising its head again and stressed that
it was not in the interest of the
nation................more
PATHANKOTE, Nov 22: Nearly 145-km
stretch along the Line of Control has
been fenced and high tech thermal imagers
installed along the Indo-Pak border in
Jammu and Kashmir to stop infiltration,
Army Chief General N C Vij said
today...................more
NEW DELHI, Nov 22:In a bid to
unearth the full magnitude of the Rs
30,000 crore fake stamp paper scam that
has rocked several states, the Centre has
decided to hand over to Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) the investigations
despite reservations from Congress State
Governments in Karnataka and
Maharashtra.......................more
WASHINGTON, Nov 22:Highlighting
the "recent terrorist attacks"
in Saudi Arabia and Turkey, the US state
department has issued a worldwide warning
that the Al-Qaeda network may stage new
attacks, designed to be more
"devastating" than the
September 11
strikes......................more
SRINAGAR, Nov 22: Police today
registered a criminal case of attempted
murder against Army after troops of
Rashtriya Rifles 30 Bn tortured two
civilians in a roadside interrogation and
left three more wounded in unprovoked
firing at Qalamabad, in Handwara
area....................more
SRINAGAR, Nov 22: A day after the
Hurriyat faction led by Maulvi Mohammad
Abbas Ansari expressed its willingness to
hold dialogue with Delhi, the radical
militant outfit Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen
today warned that it would prevent them
from reaching any agreement with the
Centre............more
