SRINAGAR,
Aug 5:Militants’
suicide strike on a CRPF camp in Raj Bagh area of
this Capital city has left as many nine
paramilitary soldiers, including an Assistant
Commandant, dead and eight more soldiers wounded.
The one-odd militant, who battled with the troops
for the whole night and killed himself in a
grenade blast this morning, has turned out to be
a Kashmiri guerrilla. Meanwhile, militants have
killed two soldiers of army and left a Major
injured in a late night ambush at Hapatnar in
Anantnag district of south
Kashmir....................more
SRINAGAR,
Aug 5:Shutting
the door on any chances of reunification in
Hurriyat Conference, firebrand separatist Syed
Ali Shah Geelani today said the proposed meeting
with leader of rival faction Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
would be limited to "exchange of
ideas."..............more
SRINAGAR, Aug 5:The crucial
executive meeting of the Hurriyat
Conference (Abbas) will be held here on
Saturday to discuss the latest situation
in the Jammu and Kashmir..........more
SRINAGAR, Aug 5:Asking
the political parties to desist
from politicising the Cabinet
downsizing issue, Minister for
Finance, Planning, Law and
Parliamentary Affairs, Muzaffar
Hussain Baig today said that
issue should not be used to score
political points for petty
political gains............more
NEW DELHI, Aug 5:Top defence
officials from India and Pakistan today
grappled over the question of
de-militarising the Siachen Glacier
picking up from the ceasefire agreed to
between the two sides on the world’s
highest battlefield last year-end as part
of the peace process..............more
SRINAGAR, Aug 5:Even as the
State Pollution Control Board (PCB) has
initiated prosecution against the famous
Hotel Grand Palace and Urban
Environmental Engineering Department
(UEED) for raising unauthorised
structures around Dal Lake, a Division
Bench of Jammu & Kashmir High Court
today expressed displeasure over the
signatures of a junior official on PCB's
affidavit.................... .more
JAMMU, Aug 5:Train
services in J&K, Himachal, Punjab and
Harayana continued to be disruputed in
view of water-logging on the rail-track
in Ambala and Rajpura area of Northern
Railways while authorities were forced to
cancel three trains up to August 13 from
Jammu station......................more
ISLAMABAD, Aug 5:Calling
religious exteremism a "danger"
for Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf
has told his countrymen that they should
expect more terror attacks in the wake of
Government’s crackdown against
Islamic militants................more
SRINAGAR, Aug 5: Welcoming the
Indo-Pak talks over allowing people from
both the countries to visit shrines in
the other countries, Peoples’
Democratic Party (PDP) president and
Member Parliament (MP) Mehbooba Mufti
today stressed New Delhi and Islamabad to
allow people from Pakistan to visit
shrines in Kashmir and also allow
Kashmiris to visit shrines in Pakistan.
She further demanded that besides Wagha
and Attari, pilgrims should also be
allowed to drive through
Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Road.........more
SRINAGAR, Aug 5: Omar Abdullah,
president of Jammu and Kashmir National
Conference has urged the Union Government
to take emergent initiatives to ensure
that the State’s violent situation
does not reach a point of no
return.................more
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