NEW
DELHI : Taking advantage of the situation
arising from the October earthquake and the
large-scale relief and rehabilitation efforts,
terrorists have been pushed into Jammu and
Kashmir from the Pakistan side, Army Chief Gen J
J Singh has said...........more
Prime
Minister Dr Manmohan Singh after laying
foundation stone for the CBI Headquarters in New
Delhi on Wednesday.
NEW
DELHI, Jan 18 :Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh today suggested a pro-active approach to
tackle terrorism in view of the various tactics
adopted by terrorists often with assistance of
State-sponsors, an apparent reference to
Pakistan. .........more
AMRITSAR, Jan 18:All hype
about the Amritsar-Lahore bus service
beginning January 21 from here seems to
be fading out as not a single seat was
booked till today, while one passenger
from Malerkotla has reserved his ticket
for February eleven from this side of the
border. .........more
BANGALORE, Jan 18
: The
Congress-JD(S) coalition
Government in Karnataka tonight
appeared to be on the brink of
collapse after former Prime
Minister H D Deve Gowda’s
son Kumaraswamy led a revolt
withdrawing support of 46 MLAs to
the Dharam Singh Ministry and
then staked claim to form the new
Government. ...........more
NEW DELHI, Jan
18:Taking a
tough stand on terrorism, India
today bluntly told Pakistan that
continuance of acts of terror and
violence would hit the peace
process as the two countries
agreed on a slew of measures
including opening of new bus link
and trade routes. ..........more
VARANASI, Jan 18:Giving
police the slip, a Pakistani militant
today jumped off a speeding train in the
wee hours while being taken to Jammu from
West Bengal but was recaptured at a
village here this evening.......more
Srinagar, Jan 18:A day after
Security Forces claimed to have killed
three Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM)
militants in Batgund Heepora village in
Shopian on Tuesday, locals in the area
Wednesday took to streets raising
protests and alleging that the slain
youth were civilians and students of a
local madrassa. However, defense
spokesman stands by the claim that they
were HuM militants and were involved in
snatching of weapons from police in
Shopian last week. ......more
JAMMU, Jan 18: Two top militants
of Hizbul Mujahideen including a
‘deputy tehsil commander’
surrendered before Army and police after
an encounter at Tanta under the
jurisdiction of Gandoh police station in
Doda district today..............more
NEW DELHI, Jan 18:Two
Pakistani Lashkar-e-Toiba militants and
three others were today sentenced to ten
years rigorous imprisonment by a Delhi
court in connection with a series of bomb
blasts that rocked various north Indian
cities in 1997, killing 17 persons and
injuring nearly 300
others....................more
JAMMU/SRINAGAR, Jan 18:The 300-kms
Jammu-Srinagar national highway was
thrown open for traffic this afternoon
after three days of blockade. Barring one
additional flight of Jet Airways, all
routine flights landed at Srinagar
airport today.....more
JAMMU, Jan 18: A 10 year
old boy was murdered in Sector
No. 1 at Trikuta Nagar. However,
all three accused involved in the
murder have been arrested by the
police.......more
MUMBAI, Jan 18: Less than
a week after a meeting of the
Indo-US ‘Civil Nuclear
Energy Working Group’ here,
U S Under Secretary of State for
Political Affairs R Nicholas
Burns today said implementing the
deal of nuclear cooperation
between the two countries is
"a challenging and unique
venture in international
diplomacy." ..,....more
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