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Thursday, August 3, 2006

LATEST UPDATE NEWS (20.45 IST)

Opposition get maximum security in J&K : CM

SRINAGAR: aintaining opposition leaders that in Jammu and Kashmir were getting maximum security, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said persons having threat perception will be provided security and other facilities.......more

75 cross over to PoK in Karvaan-e-Aman bus

SRINAGAR: he Karvan-e-Aman bus today left here with 75 passengers for Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK), official soruces said.......more

Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad speaking in the Legislative Council on Wednesday.Excelsior/Amin War
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad speaking in the Legislative
Council on Wednesday. Excelsior/Amin War

'We are just close to zero custodial killings, disappearances in J&K'
Azad with pride: World must learn

honouring human rights from India

From Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

SRINAGAR, Aug 2: Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today contradicted the figures projected by separatist as well as mainstream political parties regarding the strength of armed forces personnel in Jammu & Kashmir. He claimed with proud that India's human rights record was better than any country's all over the world as Police and security forces in J&K and elsewhere were strictly accountable. In a forceful contradiction to Justice Ali Mohammad Mir's allegation that Government had not implemented even a single recommendation of the State Human Rights Commission in the last three years, Azad claimed that necessary action had been taken in as many as 383 out of 440 recommendations received from the Commission.....more

Two ultras, jawan killed; one captured alive
*20 hurt in Surankote blast

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Aug 2: Army and police today gunned down two militants of Harkat-ul-Jehad Islami (HUJI) and apprehended another as troops suffered a fatal casualty in day long operation at village Kochal in Chatroo area of Doda district while 20 persons were injured, two of them seriously, in a blast at Surankote Bus Stand, minutes before the arrival of a Buddha Amarnath yatra convoy from Jammu, at 5.10 pm...........more

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Scheme to be extended to towns
Govt to increase ReT teachers salary: Baig

SRINAGAR, Aug 2: The State Government will increase the wages of Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) teachers in the State, Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig said today. ........more

Shariq suspended for rest of session
Assembly passes Office of Profit bill

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Aug 2: The State Assembly today passed the Office of Profit bill excluding some posts held by elected members of the House from disqualification and empowering the Government to notify other offices to bring under its purview. ...........more

Two militants killed while making IED, 3 injured

Excelsior Correspondent

Srinagar, Aug 2: Two militants were killed and three others injured when they were manufacturing an IED which exploded accidentally in a village in Tral. Elsewhere, two more militants were killed in separate encounters at Awantipora and Bandipore while as four civilians were injured when an IED exploded in Sumlar, Bandipore on Wednesday...........more

 
 

100 kept under ‘surveillance list’
50 cops removed from militancy hit areas

By Sanjeev Pargal

JAMMU, Aug 2: As many as 100 police constables have been kept under "surveillance list" by Jammu Police for their suspected links with different militant outfits especially Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Hizbul Mujahideen (HM). Fifty of them have been posted out of the districts where they were reported to have militant connections during past few days........more

Peace process not to be affected

DHAKA, Aug 2: Disagreeing that there was a stalemate in the peace talks with Pakistan, India today said its endeavour was to ensure that the process was not affected in any manner.......more

 

Assembly witnesses noisy scenes

SRINAGAR, Aug 2: The Legislative Assembly today witnessed noisy scenes when Speaker Tara Chand did not allow opposition National Conference to raise the issue of water shortage in the city. ....more

Mehbooba calls on PM

Excelsior Correspondent

NEW DELHI, Aug 2: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president and Member Parliament, Mehbooba Mufti today called on Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and discussed with latter the prevailing situation in Jammu and Kashmir.......more

Prithvi, Agni inducted
into forces

NEW DELHI, Aug 2: The Prithvi and Agni strategic missile systems, as well as their variants, have been inducted in the armed forces, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee told Rajya Sabha today.....more

Woman awarded life imprisonment
apprehended after 13 years

Excelsior Correspondent

RAJOURI, Aug 2: Nowshera police today arrested a woman from Jhelum Resorts in Trikuta Nagar, Jammu, who was absconding for last 13 years after confirmation of life imprisonment to her by the Supreme Court for killing her husband in 1975.......more



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