JAMMU,
Dec 18: First Assembly session of Ghulam
Nabi Azad led coalition Government, named special
session beginning December 22, will not be a
smooth sailing for the new Ministry with 26
member strong opposition, the National
Conference, planning to grill the Government on
both law and order and earthquake relief
measures, the two important issues to be debated
in week long session............more
Anxious relatives of stampede victims at
Government general hospital, in Chennai on
Sunday. (UNI)
CHENNAI, Dec 18: At least 42 people,
including 23 women, were killed and 37 injured
today in a stampede at a Corporation School in
the city where hundreds had lined up in the wee
hours to collect flood relief coupons........more
Srinagar, Dec 18: Three militants,
including a divisional commander of
Lashkar-e-Toiba militant outfit, were
killed in a fierce and prolonged
encounter at Wuyan, Pampore in south
Kashmir while as elsewhere in the Valley,
militants hurled a grenade at Public
Service Commission office near Municipal
Park today without causing any damage.........more
JAMMU, Dec
18: Seven persons
including a constable of Special
Operations Group (SOG), Rajouri
and three SPOs, have been
arrested by Rajouri police along
with explosives, ammunition and
one kg heroin worth Rs one crore............more
NEW DELHI,
Dec 18 : Union Power Minister P M
Sayeed, who has been suffering from
enlargement of lever, died of heart
attack in Seoul today, his office sources
here said.......more
JAMMU, Dec 18: The State
Vigilance Organisation (SVO) today raided
the residences of former RTO Lakhanpur,
Bhumesh Sharma’s private Manager at
Ragunathpura and the house an SRTC
official, who had been posted as
Sharma’s private attendant for last
several years, at Channi Himmat......more
DUBAI, Dec
18: Pakistan is making a
mistake by not allowing Indian films to
be screened there, said ace filmmaker
Yash Chopra. Talking to The Gulf today on
the last day of Dubai International Film
Festival (DIFF) 2005, he said that
screening of Indian films would benefit
the Pakistan Government, film
distributors as well as filmmakers from
both countries. ..................more
JAMMU, Dec 18: As the power
tariff of various Government departments
is running in several hundred crores and
recovery scenario continued to be grim,
Minister for Power Nawang Rigzin Jora has
pinned all hopes on Chief Minister Ghulam
Nabi Azad to devise a mechanism of speedy
recovery so that Power Development
Department (PDD) could be brought out of
the ‘debt-trap’........more
CHANDIGARH,
Dec 18: Intense coldwave conditions
continued in Punjab, Haryana and
Chandigarh today even as the most parts
of the region were engulfed under a
blanket of fog that reduced visibility
and affected movement of road and rail
traffic........more
NEW DELHI,
Dec 18: The Ethics
Committee of the Rajya Sabha and
the P K Bansal Committee of the
Lok Sabha today completed their
investigations into the
cash-for-questions scam involving
11 Members of Parliament by
holding the final round of
questioning of the concerned MPs
and the executives of the TV
channel which telecast the sting
operation........more
SRINAGAR, Dec 18: With an
eye on the forthcoming bypoll,
former Jammu and Kashmir Minister
and estranged Peoples Democratic
Party leader Ghulam Hassan Mir
today introduced son of
assassinated Education Minister
Ghulam Nabi Lone, Shoaib Lone to
the people of Sangrama, 50 kms
from here in Baramulla district........more
MUMBAI, Dec 18: Rebel Raj
Thackeray today walked out of the
Shiv Sena and announced his
decision to start an independent
political innings in the coming
months, delivering a crushing
blow to the party in Maharashtra,
where it was already reeling
under the revolt of Narayan Rane
and the debacle in the Malvan
by-poll last month........more
KATHUA, Dec
18: President of the
Jammu and Kashmir Democratic
Freedom Party (DFP) Shabir Ahmed
Shah today said that it was
hightime to show flexibility to
resolve vexed Kashmir problem.
He, however, said that withdrawal
of troops from both sides of
Kashmir will provide an
opportunity to further accelerate
the on-going process to solve the
problem.........more
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