NEW
DELHI, Nov 3:Three days ahead of Home Minister Shivraj
Patil’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre today
reiterated the offer for unconditional dialogue with the
separatist leadership in the State and asserted that
Government’s policy "is to talk to those who
wanted to talk."..........more
NEW
DELHI, Nov 3:Pakistan has told both the warring factions of the
Hurriyat Conference in categorical terms to close ranks
immediately in the larger interest of unity and the
resolution of the Kashmir issue................more
SRINAGAR, Nov 3:In a spurt
of violence around the Union Home
Minister Shivraj Patil’s visit,
militants have killed three
persons—including a ruling PDP
activist and an Assistant Sub Inspector
of Police—even as eight militants
got killed in three different gunbattles
in Kashmir valley today.
Thirteen-hour-long standoff in a Pulwama
village ended this evening with the death
of all the five militants holed up inside
a mosque at Khilan Gund-e-Moosa..........more
JAMMU, Nov 3:Working
Committee Meeting (WCM) of the
Jammu and Kashmir National
Panthers Party (NPP) has
expressed regrets on the dismal
performance of PDP-Congress
Government in past two years and
alleged that it has buried the
Common Minimum Programme into the
graveyard........more
NEW DELHI, Nov 3 :Senior
Pakistani journalists, who recently
visited Jammu and Kashmir as members of
the SAFMA delegation, have admitted that
Kashmiris do not want to be part of
Pakistan and called upon
‘Jehadi’ organisations to stop
cross border terrorism..................more
WASHINGTON, Nov 3 :President
George W Bush won a second term from a
divided and anxious nation, his promise
of steady, strong wartime leadership
trumping John Kerry’s fresh-start
approach to Iraq and joblessness. After a
long, tense night of vote counting, the
Democrat called Bush today to concede
Ohio and the Presidency..........more
JAMMU, Nov 3:Security
forces today arrested two suspected
militants from Rajpura in Hiranagar
sector and Malpur in Akhnoor sector and
destroyed two hideouts of the militants
at Kishtwar and Banihal in Doda
district..........more
NEW DELHI, Nov 3 :A meeting
of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)
is likely to be held after three days to
remove misunderstanding among the allies
over the BJP’s inclination to return
to Hindutva..............more
JALANDHAR, Nov 3:The
Communist Party of India (CPI) will take
a decision on its future approach towards
the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)
Government at the Centre, at its three
day national Congress scheduled to be
held in Chandigarh between March 29 and
April three next year..............more
BALASORE, Nov 3: The naval version
of the Brahmos, the supersonic cruise
missile jointly developed by India and
Russia, was successfully tested on the
ship-to-ship mode from the Bay of Bengal
off the Orissa Coast today, paving the
way for its induction into the Navy,
officials said................more
