JAMMU,
Feb 20:For the second time in a row, Finance
Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig today presented a
zero deficit budget in the Legislative Assembly.
He didn’t propose any fresh taxes in the
budget and declared that focus of the Government
in the next financial year will be on the
development.......................more
POONCH,
Feb 20:Army
and police today gunned down seven militants including a
"district commander" of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)
outfit in an encounter at Andrawali dhok under the
jurisdiction of Mandi police station.....................more
PHULPUR, ALLAHABAD,
Feb 20:Congress president
Sonia Gandhi today concluded her
Vindhayachal ‘roadshow’ by
launching a tirade against the
Vajpayee-led NDA Government at Phulpur,
the constituency once represented by
former Prime Minister Jawahar Lal
Nehru................more
SRINAGAR, Feb 20:Asserting
that the dialogue process is a
historic opportunity which does
not come again and again, Chief
Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
today asked those separatists
leaders who are shying away from
it, to join the process, adding
that the dialogue is moving
forward and gaining
momentum...............more
NEW DELHI, Feb 20:In a
pre-election bonanza, the Union Cabinet
today approved the merger of 50 per cent
of Dearness Allowance with basic pay for
Central Government employees besides a 2
per cent additional DA, decisions that
are expected to cost the exchequer over
Rs 3,200 crore annually..................more
ISLAMABAD, Feb 20:As part of
its "back channel" diplomacy,
Pakistan told militant outfit Hizbul
Mujahideen ahead of the just-concluded
Indo-Pak talks that `Jihad’ was no
longer a feasible option to press for the
resolution of the Kashmir issue and
advised it to declare a ceasefire, Hizb
sources said..................more
MUMBAI, Feb 20: Keeping BSP’s
options of a pre-poll electoral pact
open, its president Mayawati today
kickstarted the party’s Lok Sabha
election campaign in Maharashtra by
lashing out at both Congress and the
BJP...................more
JAMMU, Feb 20:Cellone,
the mobile telephone service of the
Bharatiya Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), has
virtually come to a standstill with most
of the time the mobile users finding the
network busy.................more
SRINAGAR, Feb 20: While as security
forces today claimed to have killed three
militants in a fierce gunbattle in Kulgam
area, unidentified gunmen have killed two
civilians, one each in Handwara and
Kokernag areas....................more
JAMNAGAR, Feb 20: A MiG-21 fighter
Jet crashed in a residential area killing
4 persons, including 2 children, and
injuring 14 others in Lakhabaval village
of Gujarat, about 20 Kms from here,
today.......more
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