NEW
DELHI, Dec 17:A Parliamentary Committee
has asked Government to prepare the roadmap for
improving relations with Pakistan with the
"greatest care" and not hasten the pace
in an unrealistic manner in view of concerns of
the international community over perpetual
tension between the two nuclear powers. ............more
JAMMU, Dec 17: The State Vigilance
Organisation (SVO) has detected more assets of
two out of six officers whose premises were
raided simultaneously by its sleuths on December
7........more
NEW DELHI, Dec 17:Promotions
of senior police and forest officials
will now depend on their performance as
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked
the Ministries of Home and Forests to
initiate reforms in the Indian Police
Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service
(IFS). ........more
JAMMU, Dec 17:Despite
authorities’ claims of
providing quality education in
Government run institutions,
there are some schools in
far-flung areas of the State
which reflect casual approach of
those at the helm of affairs............more
NEW DELHI, Dec 17:India and
Pakistan today agreed to begin
construction of the over 7-billion dollar
Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline by
mid-2007 so that the first gas flows by
the end of 2010. ......more
GWALIOR, Dec 17:Sarod
maestro Amjad Ali Khan today appeared a
bit disappointed as Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh did not visit
Gwalior’s ‘Sarod Ghar’, a
heritage museum dedicated to India’s
classical music, as originally scheduled.
.....more
JAMMU, Dec 17: While the harsh
penalty and heavy compounding by the
Traffic police for not possessing
"pollution certificates"
continue to haunt vehicle/ two-wheeler
owners, merely seven pollution check
centres in Jammu are unable to bear the
excessive pressure of over three lakh
vehicles in issuing such
certificates..................more
Srinagar, Dec 17:Militants
lobbed a grenade towards a cable network
establishment in Hyderpora, Srinagar,
while as a JCO was found dead in Handwara
today. .......more
MADURAI, Dec 17:Police
today claimed to have "almost
fixed" the author of the e-mail that
threatened to blow up Parliament as they
detained 12 people, including a professor
and two students of a college and a
sympathiser of militant outfit Al-Umma,
in Tirunelveli district. .......more
NEW DELHI, Dec
17:The Lok
Sabha Inquiry Committee, probing
the ‘cash for query’
scam, today heard the version of
three MPs caught on camera while
another MP has sought more time
to appear before it and wanted
permission for a lawyer to
accompany him. .......more
JAMMU, Dec 17: Bar
Association Jammu has decided to
suspend work in the courts on
December 19 and December 20 in
protest against the failure of
the authorities in constructing
Lawyers Chambers at Janipura
Court Complex........more
JAIPUR, Dec 17: A
Pakistani national assigned by
the inter-services intelligence
to send it "vital
information" has been
arrested in Jodhpur on the charge
of spying. .......more
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