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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2004
 

Lt Gen J J Singh opening his appointment letter with his wife Anupama by his side at his residence in New Delhi on Saturday.(UNI)
Lt Gen J J Singh opening his appointment letter with his wife Anupama by his side at his residence in New Delhi on Saturday.(UNI)

J J Singh becomes first Sikh to be appointed Army chief

NEW DELHI, Nov 27: Lt Gen Joginder Jaswant Singh, a highly-decorated officer, was today appointed the next chief of the Army Staff, becoming the first Sikh ever to be named to the high post........................more

4 militants killed in Srinagar encounter

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Nov 27: Police today claimed to have gunned down four militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) in an exchange of fire in the outskirts of summer capital city of Srinagar. The police said that the four member militant group was on way to high security zone of Sonawar locality to carry "suicide attack".......................more

PM agrees with Musharraf on Sonia’s role vis-a-vis Pak

NEW DELHI, Nov 27: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today was in consonance with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s view that Congress president Sonia Gandhi should play a proactive role in helping India and Pakistan resolve Kashmir and other outstanding issues.................more

Pak seeks WB’s intervention on Baglihar project

ISLAMABAD, Nov 27: Pakistan today said it has sought the World Bank’s intervention to facilitate a bilateral settlement of the issue arising out of India’s construction of the Baglihar hydro-electric dam over Chenab river. .............more

Feeling of normalcy fast returning to Valley
Infiltration reduced by 70 pc: Sinha

MUMBAI, Nov 27: Thanking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the Rs 24,000 crore economic package, Jammu and Kashmir Governor Lt Gen (retd) S K Sinha said here today that the feeling of normalcy was fast returning to the Valley despite stray incidents of violence.........................more

Soren stages comeback in Cabinet

NEW DELHI, Nov 27: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren today staged a comeback into the six-month-old UPA Government, taking oath as a Cabinet Minister at a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan which was boycotted by the opposition..................more

LeT, JeM defamed ‘freedom struggle’: Amanullah
*Geelani, Bhat fighting individual battle

MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 27: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Amanullah Khan today said the induction of the Lashkar-e-Toiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammad in the militancy in Jammu and Kashmir has "defamed" the "freedom struggle"..............more

Krishna is Maharashtra Governor

NEW DELHI, Nov 27: Former Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna was today appointed Governor of Maharashtra, a Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique said................more

Border people doubt longevity of ceasefire

TANGHDHAR, Nov 27: Although the ceasefire between India and Pakistan along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir has completed one year, the residents of this border valley are apprehensive that the peace would not last long enough as Islamabad was strengthening its defences...................more

HM commander held in Doda

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 27: A Hizbul Mujahideen "area commander" was apprehended by Rashtriya Rifles and Doda police after a brief encounter at Nawapachi in Doda today while two police constables were injured in an ambush by the militants on Bharath road..............more
SHO suspended for Mendhar firing.......

Taj viewing by night resumes after 2 decades ......



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