JAMMU,
Mar 22:The Legislative Assembly today unanimously
passed a resolution welcoming decision of the
Government of India to resume traffic on
Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road from April 7 with
Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed declaring that a
delegation of all recognised political parties
will also travel to Muzaffarabad in the bus. Mr
Sayeed said a solution to Kashmir is a "time
consuming process" and will be possible
through "evolutionary process." He also
reiterated his demands for holding talks with the
separatists and said the Hurriyat delegation
could board Muzaffarabad bus "as a matter of
right"................more
JAMMU,
Mar 22:Power
Minister Mohd Sharief Niaz today said the subsidy on
electricity tariffs has become a "political
compulsion" and declared that all villages in the
State would be electrified by 2007...............more
JAMMU, Mar 22:The State
Government has chalked out a
comprehensive plan to cover entire
population under safe drinking water
programme in a phased manner. This was
stated by Minister of PHE, Irrigation and
Flood Control, Qazi Mohammed Afzal while
replying to the debate on annual grants
of his Ministry in State Legislative
Assembly during its second sitting
today........more
JAMMU, Mar
22: Chief Minister
Mufti Mohammed Sayeed today
admitted that it was not possible
to provide job to each members of
family as it can not stand before
legal scrutiny...........more
JAMMU, Mar 22: "Hum Donon Ke
Saath Hain (we are with both)", NC
MLA Sharief-ud-Din Shariq remarked in the
Assembly today in response to a query by
PDP member Sartaj Madni who wanted to
know whether the NC MLAs support Dr
Farooq Abdullah or Omar Abdullah on
travel documents of Uri-Muzaffarabad
bus.............more
JAMMU, Mar 22: Army and police
today gunned down three commanders of
Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and
Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM) outfits in an
encounter at Chinar Mohalla in Sangla
area of Surankote in Poonch
district..............more
SRINAGAR, Mar 22: Police today
claimed that a top Hizbul Mujahideen (HM)
militant was killed in a gun battle with
Army troops in a south Kashmir village.
However, local residents alleged that the
militant was picked up from an old
Srinagar city and later killed in a fake
encounter..........more
NEW DELHI, Mar 22: Perhaps Indo-Pak
relations have never seen so much
bonhomie in the past as is being
witnessed today. Even as cricketers from
the two countries battle it out for
honours in the ongoing series, former
Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is
expected to arrive here on March 24 on
what is stated to be a personal
visit.............more
CHENNAI, Mar 22: Popular Tamil film
hero of yesteryear and ‘King of
Romance’, Gemini Ganesan, known for
sober essaying of roles, died here in the
small hours today after a prolonged
illness.........more
NEW DELHI, Mar 22: The crucial
Patents (Amendment) Bill was passed in
the Lok Sabha today after Commerce and
Industry Minister Kamal Nath assured the
House that adequate safeguards have been
provided in the bill to protect the
interest of Indian pharma industry and
the poor people........more
JAMMU,
Mar 22:
The Legislative Assembly today unanimously
passed a resolution welcoming decision of the
Government of India to resume traffic on
Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road from April 7 with
Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed declaring that a
delegation of all recognised political parties
will also travel to Muzaffarabad in the bus. Mr
Sayeed said a solution to Kashmir is a "time
consuming process" and will be possible
through "evolutionary process." He also
reiterated his demands for holding talks with the
separatists and said the Hurriyat delegation
could board Muzaffarabad bus "as a matter of
right"...............
