NEW
DELHI, Nov 5:Affirming
India’s commitment to make "an honest and
sincere effort" to resolve all outstanding issues
with Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today,
however, made it clear that this was conditional on
President Pervez Musharraf not allowing Pakistani
territory to be used for cross-border
terrorism...........more
NEW
DELHI, Nov 5:Former
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah today
favoured a 20-year moratorium on Kashmir issue for
normalisation of Indo-Pak ties and differed with
Pakistan’s cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan
who suggested a Switzerland-type of status for the
State..................more
New Delhi, Nov 5 : A high level
delegation of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh
Congress Committee led by the president,
Peerzada Sayeed called on Prime Minister
Dr. Manmohan Singh here last evening.
They submitted a memorandum of demands to
the Prime Minister............more
NEW DELHI, Nov 5:Just
a few hours before commencing his
three-day visit to Jammu and
Kashmir, Home Minister Shivraj
Patil today hoped that his
efforts to bring the Hurriyat to
the negoticating table would
succeed even as the amalgam
decided not to hold any dialogue
with the Centre till its leaders
were allowed to visit
Pakistan.........more
JAMMU, Nov 5:A New Delhi
based businessman and an underworld don
had pumped more than 10,000 fake
certificates of different classes in
Jammu and Kashmir during last about six
years which, in turn, were sold to
gullible youths by four racketeers of
Jammu, according to the Jammu Crime
Branch, which has taken up investigations
in the largest ever fake certificates
racket last week...................more
HARIDWAR, Nov 5:The
differences in the Sangh Parivar burst
out in the open today with the VHP top
brass boycotting the first day’s
session of the RSS national executive
here protesting the presence of BJP
president L K Advani and demanding his
party return to Hindutva ideology.
However, both RSS and Advani sought to
play down their absence, RSS leaders have
also ruled out "for the time
being" VHP’s demand for
floating a parallel political
alliance...........more
SRINAGAR, Nov 5: Seven persons,
including three Police personnel,
sustained injuries when militants lobbed
a hand grenade near Pahalgam Hotel at
Pahalgam today..........more
SRINAGAR, Nov 5: While as Army
today seized the vehicle, used by
militants in yesterday’s bank
robbery at Imam Sahib, and also
apprehended its driver, Police seized
cash worth Rs 35 lakh and returned the
same to the Jammu and Kashmir Bank
authorities...............more
NEW DELHI, Nov 5:Showing its
strong resentment to the politics over
caste reservations, the Supreme Court
today quashed as unconstitutional an
Andhra Pradesh legislation splitting the
reservation in Government jobs for
Scheduled Castes among four sub-groups of
castes within SCs....more
MUMBAI, Nov 5: In yet another
jolt to Bal Thackeray after Shiv
Sena’s defeat in the Maharashtra
Assembly elections, his estranged son
Jaidev Thackeray today announced his
plans to join Nationalist Congress Party
of his father’s arch rival Sharad
Pawar. ......more
