SRINAGAR,
Oct 10:Visibly
disturbed over registration of a criminal case by state
Vigilance Organisation against its senior leader Ghulam
Mohi-ud-din Shah, National Conference (NC) today offered
its hand to political groups, including Peoples
Democratic Forum (PDF), to bring down the coalition
government headed by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. However, the
PDF turned down the offer, saying that it would not ally
with the leaders of the NC which, according to it, had
been rejected by the people in the last year’s
Assembly elections.............more
BANGKOK,
Oct 10:In
the midst of peace initiative, Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee tonight declared that if a war was thrust on
India by Pakistan it would take "appropriate
measures" to win it as it did in
Kargil................more
Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
reviewing progress on implementation of
PM’s packages for J&K at a
meeting in Srinagar on Friday
SRINAGAR, Oct 10:The state
government has set up a high level
monitoring group under the chairmanship
of Chief Secretary for expeditious
implementation of Prime Minister’s
packages announced for the state. In
addition, monitoring committees have also
been set up in different departments
which have got special schemes under the
packages for employment
generation.............more
OSLO
(NORWAY), Oct 10:Iranian
lawyer Shirin Ebadi, a human
rights and democracy activist,
won the 2003 nobel peace prize
today for efforts that include
promoting the rights of women and
children in Iran and worldwide.
She is the first Muslim woman to
win the award.................more
SRINAGAR, Oct 10: While as ten
militants have been killed by security
forces in five different gunbattles in
Kashmir valley since last evening,
residents of Palhalan (Pattan) staged a
demonstration against Army and blocked
Srinagar-Baramulla road for three hours
today.................more
JAMMU, Oct 10:A Hizbul
Mujahideen ‘area commander’ had
himself driven an Ambassador car,
misusing Registration Certificate (RC) of
a doctor from Anantnag to Doda, which
carried 300 kg deadly RDX and was seized
by police in Doda town in wee hours of
September 26 morning..............more
SULTAN DEKHI, Uri
Oct 10:The recent spate in
shelling on the border is due to
Pakistan’s desperate attempts to
push in more and more militants before
the harsh winters block the infiltration
routes, according to the
Army..............more
NEW DELHI, Oct 10: The crisis ridden
Hurriyat Conference appears keen to enter
into a structured dialogue with the
Kashmir committee to discuss various
aspects of the Kashmir
issue..............more
WAGAH (AMRITSAR),
Oct 10: After languishing in
Pakistani prisons for three years, a
21-year-old Indian woman, who was lured
across the border by a travel agent
promising job, today walked to freedom
and headed back home amidst fears of
social stigma and refusal by her family
to accept her...............more
NEW DELHI, Oct 10: The National Human
Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the
Jammu and Kashmir Government to report to
it within four weeks on whether it has
paid any compensation to the next of kin
of those killed in the terrorist attack
on Vaishno Devi pilgrims on July
20................more
