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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

LATEST UPDATE NEWS (16:15 IST)

Kashmir highway reopens

SRINAGAR, : Traffic on the 300-km Srinagar-Jammu national highway resumed again this afternoon after remaining suspended for several hours due to landslides and shooting of stones, ......more

Seven persons killed in accident on highway

JAMMU, : Seven persons were killed when the vehicle they were travelling in skidded off the road and rolled down into a gorge at Panthyal on Jammu-Srinagar national highway today.......more

RDX seized from LeT activists
Two Kashmir militants arrested in Delhi

NEW DELHI, Dec 11: Two operatives of Pakistan-based terror outfit Laskhar-e-Toiba were arrested here with 1.5 kg of RDX they had procured from Mumbai as police claimed to have thwarted an attempt to carry out strikes in the capital......more

BJP - Shiv Sena create uproar
PM remarks stall Parliament

NEW DELHI, Dec 11: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement that Minorities, particulary Muslims, would have the first claim on developmental plans rocked Parliament today with the Opposition BJP-Shiv Sena combine stalling proceedings demanding an apology from him. The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha witnessed uproar right from the word go as the determined Opposition demanded an apology from the Prime Minister..........more

 

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NC to boycott meeting
Working Group to meet today in Delhi

NEW DELHI, Dec 11: The Working Group to discuss measures for strengthening the relation between Jammu and Kashmir and the Centre would meet here tomorrow for the first time sans any representation from the State’s main opposition National Conference........more

2 Hizb militants killed in Tral

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Dec 11: Security forces and Police have killed two militants of Hizbul Mujahideen in an encounter at Sofigund in Tral area of Pulwama district today............more

Fake degrees of Magadh University detected
*Beneficiaries got jobs, promotions

By Sanjeev Pargal

JAMMU, Dec 11: Crime Branch, Jammu have detected a number of fake Post Graduation and Graduation degrees of Magadh University, Madhya Pradesh. Using these degrees, a number of youths had secured Government jobs and even promotions in different Government departments in the State........more

US diplomats meet Yasin

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Dec 11: A 4-member team of the US Embassy in New Delhi, comprising Counter-Terrorism Coordinator of the Department of State Virginia E Palmer, Minister Political Affairs Ted Osius, Deputy Minister Counselor (Political) Atul Keshap and Kailash Jha, today called on Chairman of the separatist Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Mohammad Yasin Malik, at his residence and discussed with him current political and security scenario in Jammu and Kashmir.......more

Two SEs attached, 13 X-Ens transferred

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 11: Minister for PHE, Irrigation, Flood Control, Tourism and Horticulture, Dillawar Mir (PDP) has issued orders of transfers and postings of thirteen Incharge Executive Engineers (Mech) in Public Works Department’s Hydraulic wing here today.......more

Ban on Shahtoosh not to be lifted

NEW DELHI, Dec 11: It is futile to lift the ban on Shahtoosh shawl as its trade is banned in most of the countries, Rajya Sabha was informed today..........more

NH re-opens after 7 days

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 11: After remaining closed for seven days due to landslides and shooting of stones at Panthyal, about 168 kilometres from here, the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway reopened for one way traffic this morning.........more

Another jawan ends life

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 11: At a time when suicides and fratricide cases in the Army have become a matter of concern and expose the necessitity of finding out remedial measures, another Army jawan allegedly ended his life by hanging himself with a ceiling fan hook at Kaluchak.........more



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