NEW
DELHI, Oct 22:In a major move, the Centre today announced that
Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani will hold the first-ever
dialogue with separatist Hurriyat Conference chairman
Maulana Abbas Ansari on the Kashmir issue, a decision
immediately welcomed by the amalgam chief, State’s
Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed and opposition National
Conference ...............more
External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha addresses a
press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday.(UNI)
NEW
DELHI, Oct 22: Pushing
ahead with the peace initiative with Pakistan, India
today proposed 12 Confidence Building Measures including
full resumption of cricketing and other sporting links
and launching of a bus service between Srinagar and
Muzaffarabad in PoK but made it clear that there will be
no let up in the fight against cross-border
terrorism...............more
JAMMU, Oct 22: Seven members of a
pre-marriage party including two brothers
were killed and another was injured when
a group of persons including two police
personnel and a surrendered militant
opened firing on the revellers in the
house of bride-groom at Pul Doda late
last night..........more
UDHAMPUR, Oct 22:A police
head constable was killed and eight
others including Additional Sessions
Judge Ghulam Nabi Sheikh, an Additional
Public Prosecutor and a militant were
injured when a grenade exploded inside
the Court in Kishtwar town in Doda
district this afternoon. The grenade was
part of a consignment which was being
shown to the Court as evidence against an
arrested militant................more
SRINAGAR, Oct 22:In a
pre-dawn swoop on separatists, Jammu and
Kashmir Liberation Front chairman
Mohammad Yaseen Malik and J and K
Democratic Freedom Party chief, Shabir
Ahmad Shah, were taken into preventive
custody along with twelve others while
chairman of the breakaway Hurriyat
Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani was
placed under house arrest this
morning..............more
JAMMU, Oct 22: Sixtyone members
of a marriage party were injured, two of
them seriously, when a bus carrying them
rolled down about 60 feet down at Targwal
Morh in Akhnoor late
tonight................more
JAMMU, Oct 22: In a significant
development, independent MLA from Kathua
and vice chairman of People’s
Democratic Front (PDF), Mr Babu Singh has
refused to accept the Chairmanship of
Jammu and Kashmir Minerals
Limited................more
NEW DELHI, Oct 22: Centre’s
interlocutor on Jammu and Kashmir N N
Vohra today said Deputy Prime Minister L
K Advani’s holding talks with
Hurriyat Conference was in no way going
to redefine his role on holding parleys
with groups and political parties of the
restive State................more
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 :Pakistan
and Saudi Arabia have concluded a secret
agreement on nuclear co-operation that
will provide the Saudis with nuclear
weapons technology in exchange for cheap
oil, the Washington Times reported today
quoting a "ranking Pakistani
insider..........more
