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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA Monday, November 28, 2005

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Mild tremor recorded in Srinagar, no reports of any damage

SRINAGAR, A mild tremor was recorded here today but there were no reports of any damage to life or property so far, officials said. ......more

President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam interacting with school children at Uroosa, the last Indian village at LoC on Sunday. (UNI)

President interacts with students at Uroosa
I will go back to teaching: Kalam

Excelsior Special Correspondent /Agencies

UROOSA, Line of Control, Nov 27 : "Jab Hamara Naya Ghar Ban Jayega...Kya Aap Hamare Ghar Aayenge? (Will you come to our house when we reconstruct it?)," asked 5-year-old quake survivor, Simran, to President A P J Abdul Kalam during his visit to Uri today. ...........more

Centre clears Kashmir food festival in Lahore in March

Excelsior Special Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 27: The Ministry of External Affairs has cleared Kashmir food festival in Lahore, which will be held in March this year for about 10 days........more

Raj Thackeray resigns from Sena

MUMBAI, Nov 27: Raj Thackeray today resigned as a leader of Shiv Sena, and also a member of party executive committee and president of Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena, student wing of Shiv Sena. .........more

Baglihar project delayed, to be completed by 2007 end

By Mohinder Verma

JAMMU, Nov 27: A new deadline of December 2007 has been set for the completion of ambitious 450 Megawatt Baglihar Hydel Power Project as no headway was made in getting the blocked diversion tunnels reopened for the last four months............more

Hurriyat leaders to submit forms for PoK travel today

SRINAGAR, Nov 27: A 15-member high-profile Hurriyat delegation led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq will tomorrow submit the application forms for permission to visit quake-ravaged Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) with relief material, amalgam sources said today.......more

Fresh snowfall in Kashmir

SRINAGAR, Nov 27: The upper reaches of the Kashmir valley today experienced a fresh spell of snowfall, resulting in considerable drop in temperatures......more

CBI set to chargesheet Judeo

NEW DELHI, Nov 27: After two years of probe into the cash-on-camera scam purportedly involving former Union Minister, Dilip Singh Judeo, the CBI is all set to file a chargesheet against him as well as Bhupinder Singh who allegedly was shown in video footage as handing over money to Judeo in 2003. ...............more

3 infiltrators killed near LoC in Uri

Excelsior Special Correspondent

Srinagar, Nov 27: Foiling yet another infiltration bid across the quake devastated Line of Control (LoC) in Uri sector, troopers gunned down three militants while they were attempting to cross over to this side along with arms and ammunition. Elsewhere in the Valley, security forces arrested a militant and recovered huge explosive material from him........more

When hearts meet, trade expands

NEW DELHI, Nov 27: India’s assistance for the victims of the catastrophic earthquake that caused widespread death and destruction in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) is a living testimony of the tremendous goodwill that exists among the people of the two neighbouring countries, which has set the ball rolling among businessmen for expanding bilateral economic co-operation to capture world trade in the post WTO regime. ........more

Slack Bihar officials get stick

HAJIPUR (Bihar), Nov 27 : The ‘slack’ Government officers in Bihar got the bitter taste of the new regime today with authorities stopping salaries of four doctors and ordering to lodge FIRs against them for remaining absent from duty in Vaishali district. ..........more

Militants threaten Bangladesh Judges

DHAKA, Nov 27: Militant outfit Jama’tul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has threatened to kill judges of the Bangladesh Supreme Court, accusing them of inefficiency and taking bribe.........more

Attired as Radha, Panda visits Jagannath

PURI, Nov 27: Attired in salwar kameez and sporting ornaments, controversial Uttar Pradesh Inspector General of Police D K Panda, the "Doosri Radha", arrived here today with a young woman and a child and later visited the Sri Jagannath temple and danced before the deities. ........more