ISLAMABAD,
Oct 2:Pakistan
troops killed at least 12 Al-Qaeda suspects and captured
10 others in a major offensive launched against the
terror network holed in a rugged tribal region bordering
Afghanistan early today.................more
Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed launching video
conferencing at Civil Secretariat, Srinagar on Thursday.
SRINAGAR,
Oct 2:Jammu
and Kashmir today became the second State after Andhra
Pradesh in the country to introduce video conferencing
facility in the working of the Government in an effort to
improve efficiency in governance................more
JAMMU, Oct 2:Tragedy
struck a picnic party of Jammu University
students at Baba Pairh Devta near Nagrota
this afternoon when a Management
Semester-I student Pankaj Mohan Bhatia
was washed away in water fall and was
drowned. His body hasn’t been
recovered till tonight when police called
off a search operation..............more
JAMMU, Oct 2:A
prestigious Rs 250 cr
Jammu-Southern By-Pass project,
for ensuring free flow of traffic
from Pathankot to Rajouri-Poonch
and also to Srinagar is being
cleared while the work on yet
another major fly-over project at
Bikram Chowk is going to be
started soon..............more
LEH, Oct 2:The Leh
Autonomous Hill Development Council
(LAHDC) said the funds being allotted for
the development of this cold desert
region were not sufficient and threatened
to launch an agitation for Union
Territory (UT) status if their demands
were not met..............more
TIRUPATI/HYDERABAD, Oct
2:Eight unexploded claymore mines,
similar to the ones that blasted Chief
Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s car
yesterday, were detected today
highlighting the security lapses into
which a rattled Andhra Pradesh Government
ordered a probe by its security advisor.
.............more
JAMMU, Oct 2: A civilian was
kidnapped and shot dead by the militants
at Gool last night while an army soldier
was killed and another injured in Pak
shelling on Line of Control (LoC)
today..........more
MUMBAI, Oct 2: Zaheed Patni, prime
suspect in the August 25 twin blasts and
one more explosion in the city, was today
arrested under POTA as police claimed he
had handpicked two other conspirators at
the instance of terrorist outfit
Lashkar-e-Toiba and Pakistan’s ISI
to trigger the blasts.................more
HARIPUR, BIHAR, Oct 2:Defence
Minister George Fernandes today said
situation on the borders was still tense
due to infiltration from Pakistan but
claimed that the new sensor devices to
detect infiltrators were yielding
positive results..............more
SRINAGAR, Oct 2: While as security
forces today claimed to have killed two
unidentified militants in an encounter at
Hakbara village in Sumbal area, militants
have reportedly shot dead a Police
official as also a shopkeeper in north
Kashmir, since last
evening................more
