JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2004
Chief
Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed sharing a thought with Union
Minister for Petroleum and Panchayati Raj, Mani Shanker
Aiyer during the inaugural session of Fifth Round-Table
Conference on Panchayati Raj at Srinagar on Thursday.
SRINAGAR,
Oct 28:Describing
Kashmir as the show window of Indian secularism, Chief
Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said that it was the
cherished dream of national leaders like Mahatma Gandhi
and Jawaharlal Nehru to make Kashmir as the emblem of
unity in diversity.............more
JAMMU,
Oct 28:A
Pakistani militant was gunned down by the Army and police
at village Chandyal falling between Manjakote and Gursai
in Poonch district this morning while a civilian was
seriously injured in a militant attack in Darhal last
night...............more
JAMMU, Oct 28:Continuing
her efforts to streamline health
facilities in the far-flung and neglected
areas, the Health and Medical Education
Minister, Suman Lata Bhagat has directed
her department to detach as many as 80
more ‘influential’ doctors, who
have been working in the urban areas
against the post of
peripheries...........more
NEW DELHI,
Oct 28:Angered
over the reports of the Centre
summoning Jammu and Kashmir Chief
Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
following the assassination
attempts on top National
Conference leadership, PDP chief
Mehbooba Mufti today accused the
main opposition party of
politicising the issue, saying
even her party colleagues were
being regularly targetted by
militants.........more
SRINAGAR, Oct 28: A top-wanted
Pakistani commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba, a
soldier of Rashtriya Rifles and the
driver of a tractor have got killed in
the overnight gunbattle between militants
and security forces at Namtahal village,
behind Srinagar Airport, in Budgam
district...............more
NEW DELHI, Oct 28:With more
than 8.1 million children still out of
school, Human Resource Development
Minister Arjun Singh today stressed not
letting political differences hinder
universalisation of education across
India...............more
SRINAGAR, Oct 28: In a bizarre
incident, six persons—all of them
residents of Jammu—have mass raped a
20-year-old girl at a guest house,
guarded by Central Reserve Police Force
(CRPF), in the high security zone of
Rajbagh in this Capital city last night.
Police have arrested all the six,
including two Army personnel and a
Personal Security Officer (PSO) of SSP
Vigilance, and conducted the
victim’s medical examination which
has confirmed rape............more
CHANDIGARH, Oct 28:The
Railways have decided to steeply hike the
"Tatkal charges" payable by
passengers undertaking train journey at
short notice in case of any emergency
from November 14, Railway sources said
here today.......................more
PAWAPURI (BIHAR),
Oct 28:Differences surfaced
in the NDA today over newly-elected BJP
president L K Advani’s move to
invoke Hindutva and bring back Ayodhya to
the centrestage with a prominent ally
JD-U rejecting the move and declaring
that it would review its ties with the
saffron party at its national executive
meeting in Ranchi tomorrow.............more
WASHINGTON, Oct 28:Disputing
former External Affairs Minister Jaswant
Singh’s rejection, the US today
insisted that Secretary of State Colin
Powell had set up a telephonic
conversation between the then Prime
Ministers of India and Pakistan which led
to a thaw in the Indo-Pak
ties..............more
