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THURSDAY, July 8, 2004
 
 

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Eight killed and about 50 injured in Kashmir accident

BARAMULLA, : At least eight people were killed and about 50 others wounded, some of them seriously, when a bus skidded off the road and rolled down a gorge on the banks of river Jehlum in north Kashmir today. .....more

Geelani says let them join us
Ansari steps down for unity moves

From Aijaz Hussain

SRINAGAR, July 7: In a significant development, Moulana Abbas Ansari, chairman of a faction of Hurriyat Conference, today stepped down as the conglomerate head while asking founder chairman of undivided Hurriyat Mirwaiz Omar Farooq to "re-launch" unification move among the separatist camp. The separatist conglomerate announced that it would continue "talks with India and Pakistan" for the lasting solution to the Kashmir issue............more

Visiting Boy Scouts from Pakistan chatting with Kashmiri girls in Gulmarg.(UNI)
Visiting Boy Scouts from Pakistan chatting with Kashmiri girls in Gulmarg.(UNI)

Relations with Mufti cordial: Governor
*‘Forward movement in J&K situation’

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, July 7: Governor Lt Gen SK Sinha today said that there has been a definite forwardmovement in the situation in Jammu and Kashmir notwithstanding isolated incidents of violence of which there has been a spurt lately...........more

3 militants shot dead, Pak ultra captured
*Boy killed, 4 injured in two blasts

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, July 7: Three militants including two infiltrators were killed while a Pakistani militant was captured alive by the security forces in the separate encounters in Jammu region today. In two mine blasts, a teen-age boy was killed and four others were injured........more

Minister unearths timber traders-staff nexus
*Five trucks seized on highway

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, July 7: Minister for Forest and Environment, Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Sofi has unearthed the nexus between the timber traders and some forest officials during broad day light swoop on the National highway. Five trucks carrying timber to different destinations clandestinely showing different species and with difference in volume were seized...........more

What the budget holds?

NEW DELHI, July 7: Will the first budget of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Governments, to be presented by Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidamabaram in the Lok Sabha tomorrow, meet the high expectations of the market, the farm sector, the industry, the salaried class and the vast sections of the poor, all in one go?........ .more

NDA MPs join debate, to boycott tainted Ministers

NEW DELHI, July 7: Stepping up its offensive, NDA today decided to boycott all the "tainted" union ministers including Railway Minister Lalu Prasad in both Houses of Parliament even as its members participated in the discussion on the Railway Budget and other issues, ending the stalemate in the Parliament......... .more

Kidwai sworn-in as Haryana Governor

CHANDIGARH, July 7 : Noted educationist Ashfaqur Rahman Kidwai was today sworn-in as 14th Governor of Haryana...........more

Pak defends scouts’ visit to J&K

ISLAMABAD, July 7: Brushing aside criticism by local media and opposition parties over the participation of a Pakistani delegation in a regional scouts conference in Jammu and Kashmir, Islamabad has said the event was organised under the aegis of SAARC scouts movement and was not part of any bilateral exchange programme............more

Lt Col shot dead by jawan
4 civilians killed in Kashmir

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, July 7: Four civilians including a ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) activist were killed in separate militancy related incidents across the Kashmir valley since last night, a police spokesman said today. ..........more

SMGS employee’s brother arrested
Expired drugs, samples haul

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, July 7: Police today sealed a Chemist shop—Life Care Medicate at Kunjwani, which was being run by the brother of a SMGS staffer and recovered a large quantity of expired date drugs and samples of the doctors, which were being sold to the people............more

Major admits he faked killings.......

Arunachal Assembly dissolved.......



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