JAMMU,
Feb 19:Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today
ordered a magisterial probe into killing of five
civilians in Bandipore encounter on February
6.......................more
The
151-foot tall idol of Guru Padma Sambhava after unveiling
by Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling at Samdruptse
near Namchi in South Sikkim on Thursday. (UNI)
JAMMU,
Feb 19:War
of words and clashes between the ruling People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) and the opposition, National
Conference, intensified today in the Legislative Assembly
on second and last day of debate on the Governor’s
address. While NC leader Ali Mohd Sagar charged Chief
Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed with pursing the BJP’s
‘hidden agenda’ in Jammu and Kashmir, PDP
president Mehbooba Mufti asserted that it was NC leader
Farooq Abdullah, who had openly sabotaged the Central
proposal for talks on Kashmir.....................more
JAMMU, Feb 19:Two members
of the Congress (I) and the National
Panthers Party (NPP), both coalition
partners, today clashed in the
Legislative Assembly with both levelling
serious charged of corruption against
each other. Taking advantage of the
clash, the NC members were quick to
demand an inquiry into the corruption
charges...............more
JAMMU, Feb 20:Heated
arguments reportedly took place
among two Cabinet Ministers this
afternoon in the Civil
Secretariat over the withdrawal
of a writ petition from the apex
court challenging the State High
Court judgement granting state
subjects right to a woman married
outside the State..............more
JAMMU, Feb 19:In a major
policy decision which will benefit
hundreds of teachers, Education Minister
Harshdev Singh today announced in the
Assembly that he had conceded long
pending demands of the teachers to remove
the pay anomalies.................more
VARANASI, Feb 19 :Congress
president Sonia Gandhi today ridiculed
the "feel good" plank of the
BJP and announced to hold public meetings
along with her ‘roadshows’ in
different parts of the country to
highlight the ruling party’s
"feel bad"
factor.................more
UDHAMPUR, Feb 19:Seven
children died of an infectious
disease—measles in the two remote
villages of the Ramnagar tehsil, which
have been completely gripped by the
disease for the past 15
days..................more
JAMMU, Feb 19: Priyanka Gandhi,
her husband Robert Wadhera and Rahul
Gandhi accompanied by a guest couple
tonight paid obeisance in the holy shrine
of Mata Vaishnodevi.................more
SRINAGAR, Feb 19: Terming the
decision of Fazal Haq Qureshi to pull out
from the talks with Centre a "little
hasty", having no bearing on the
process, Hurriyat Conference, led by
Maulana Mohammad Abbas Ansari, today said
it will participate in the second round
of talks if the Government fulfills its
promise on curbing alleged human rights
violations....................more
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19:Observing
that involvement of Kashmiri
representatives in the peace process will
enable "manoeuvrability" for
India and Pakistan to take the peace
process forward, Pakistan’s Foreign
Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri today
said the two countries should stop
"playing favourites" among the
Kashmiri leaders to find a satisfactory
solution to the Kashmir issue......more
