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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2005

India submits list of passengers, Pak’s awaited

NEW DELHI, Mar 20: India has submitted to Pakistan a list of 40 people who had applied for travel in the first bus between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad on April seven but a similar list from the other side was awaited................more

Sonia to finalise names of Cong candidates for Council

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, Mar 20: Chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and president All India Congress Committee (AICC), Sonia Gandhi will take final decision regarding names of party candidates for forthcoming elections for the Legislative Council. Mrs Gandhi will also take decision regarding allotment of seats to coalition partner Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). Highly placed sources in the Congress party said that PDP has staked claim on one seat from Jammu, while as the Congress Party has also demanded its share from Kashmir valley. Although, sources said, no final decision regarding seat sharing has been taken so far, yet it is believed that Congress will give one seat to its coalition partner- PDP from Jammu, while the later will also leave one for former from Kashmir valley...............more

50 killed, over 100 hurt in Baluchistan suicide bombing

ISLAMABAD, Mar 20: Fifty people were killed and over 100 injured in a suicide bomb blast at a shrine of a Shiite Muslim saint in Pakistan’s southwest Baluchistan province even as the Army was deployed in the gas-rich town of Sui of the troubled region to ward off attacks from nationalist rebels........more

Musharraf’s son craves new era of Indo-Pak ties

LUCKNOW, Mar 20: Wishing for "a new era" of neighbourly relations, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s son Bilal today said movement of people between India and Pakistan should be further simplified and pre-conceived notions changed..........more

Parliamentary Committee for preservation of Dal

NEW DELHI, Mar 20: Concerned over the flow of effluents into the scenic Dal Lake in Srinagar, a Parliamentary Committee has asked the Government to initiate "immediate action" and come out with an action plan for holistic preservation of the lake............more

Lashkar’s worker gunned down

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, Mar 20: Bullet riddled body of an overground worker of Lashker-e-Toiba was recovered while as troops smashed four hideouts of the terrorists in Poonch and Rajouri district and recovered a large cache of arms and ammunition.............more

Aiyar hints at petrol price hike

KUMBAKONAM (TN), Mar 20: Maintaining that a hike in the prices of diesel and petrol was inevitable in view of rising crude prices, Union Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar today said a decision on the matter would be taken at the Cabinet meeting to be held next week..........more

Army test fires Nag

AHMEDNAGAR, MAHARASHTRA, Mar 20: The Army has successfully testfired the anti-tank guided missile "Nag" with warhead at K K range around 14 km from here yesterday............more

ISI to work with militants

NEW DELHI, Mar 20: Top military brass of Pakistan has authorised the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) to "work out a strategy with extremist groups to launch fresh attacks on a limited basis in the Indian territory".......more

59 miners killed in China

BEIJING, Mar 20: Rescue workers today recovered 59 bodies from a coal mine in North China which caved after an explosion while 10 miners were still missing, officials said.Fifty-nine bodies have been found in the coalmine in North China’s Shanxi province which was rocked by a massive explosion yesterday, they said. ......more

Pak releases 533 prisoners......