LATEST UPDATE NEWS
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LeT
militant wanted in several attacks held:
DGP
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir
Police today claimed breakthrough in
investigations into several terror
strikes in the Valley, including the
series of grenade attacks on tourists,
with the arrest of one of the most wanted
Lashkar-e-Toiba militants, Muddasir Gojri. .....more
A young inmate of a
Gurukul meditating on the Ganga banks in
Varanasi on Friday. (UNI)
‘Dialogue
depends on practical action by
Islamabad’
India
asks Pak to deport Salahuddin, Dawood
NEW DELHI, July 21: Unimpressed
by President Pervez Musharraf’s
conditional offer to fight terror
jointly, India today asked Pakistan to
deport Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed
Salahuddin and international terrorist
Dawood Ibrahim saying sustenance of the
dialogue process depends on practical
action by Islamabad. .....more
LeT militants held
in Srinagar
Kashmir
Police works out Jammu grenade blasts
By Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, July 21: Kashmir Police have
worked out three simultaneous grenade
blasts at General Bus Stand, Jammu on
June 12 morning with the arrest of two
top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants from
Baramulla. Mudasir alias Raju, a LeT
hitman from Pakistan whose name had
recently surfaced in serial blasts
targetting tourists in Srinagar, has also
turned out to be the mastermind of Jammu
blasts along with Nazir Ahmed Gojri
‘Sopori’, another top LeT
militant..........more
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3 arrested for
Mumbai blasts
MUMBAI, July 21: Making a
breakthrough in the Mumbai train
blasts case, police have arrested
three persons, including two from
Bihar, for their alleged
involvement in the July 11 terror
strikes and seized 1.5 kg of gun
powder from one of them.........more
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Anti-Israel, anti-US
demonstrations
6 militants
killed in Kulgam
Excelsior Special
Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 21: With
two more militants getting killed
in yet another gunbattle in
Kulgam today, a top wanted
militant of Lashkar-e-Toiba,
Irshad Ahmed Bhat, has been found
dead among the four militants
killed in the overnight encounter
at Sursunoo, in south Kashmir............more
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Khanday to Kochak at
jail: Ask Mr Baig to
resign and fight
my case
From Ahmed Ali
Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, July 21: With the stalemate
continuing over non-availability of legal
counsels to 16 'sex scam' accused, State
Legal Services Authority (SLSA) today
offered the services of an advocate to
the senior IAS officer Iqbal Khanday. The
high-profile detainee, who has been in
judicial custody at Srinagar Central Jail
for several weeks now, dismissed the
offer as a joke and complained that the
accused were being continuously subjected
to 'public humiliation and untold
injustice'...........more
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3 SPOs rape 2
girls, one held
Excelsior
Correspondent
RAJOURI, July 21:
Three Special Police
Officers (SPOs) raped two girls
in a house on the outskirts of
the town today. While one of them
has been arrested, two others
were absconding. All three have
been dis-engaged from the
services........more
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IT Department begins
door-to-door survey
15,000
prospective tax payers on
‘hit-list’
By Mohinder Verma
JAMMU, July 21: Beware
prospective tax payers! The
count-down begins as 10 days are
left to voluntarily comply with
the legal obligation of filing
returns by declaring exact income
as Income Tax Department has
geared up to resort to
‘direct action’. This
season, there is no scope for
appeals.......more
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Pak returns two
boys, 4 ultras held
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, July 21: Four
militants including a Special
Police Officer (SPO) were
arrested by Army and police in
Doda and Poonch districts today
while Pakistan Army today
restored two youths to Indian
Army officers after a flag
meeting at Chakan-Da-Bagh in
Poonch sector, who had crossed
over to Line of Control (LoC) on
July 10.......more
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Six Pak ultras
shifted from Kot Bhalwal jail
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, July 21: Police
today shifted six top militants,
including Pakistanis belonging to
Lashkar-e-Toiba and
Jaish-e-Mohammad, from a high
security jail here to outside
Jammu and Kashmir against the
backdrop of violent clashes
between the detenues. ....more
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Narayanan alerts
State Govts
NEW DELHI, July
21: Sounding an
alert, National Security Adviser
M K Narayanan has written to
State Governments about
intelligence inputs that
Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba
cadres could have infiltrated the
armed forces and two of them
could have made their way into
the Indian Air Force. .......more
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Ansari to chair
CBM meet today
Excelsior
Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July
21: The first meeting of
the working group dealing with
Confidence Building Measures
(CBM) across segments of society
in the State, is being held here
tomorrow under the chairmanship
of Mohammad Hamid Ansari, former
Ambassador of India in United
Nations, Iran and Saudi Arabia,
Mr Ansari, who has also served as
Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim
University, is presently chairman
of National Minority Commission............more
SHOs among 9
transferred
Excelsior
Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, July 21:
SSP Udhampur Prithvi
Raj Manhas today ordered
transfers and postings of nine
police officers including SHOs
and Incharge Police Posts............more
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Two students
among 3 killed
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, July 21:
Three students of
Srinagar-based BEd College were
killed and six others received
severe injuries when a Tata Sumo,
they were travelling in, plunged
into gorge at Nachlana on
Jammu-Srinagar National Highway
this afternoon.........more
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Leopard kills
woman in Nowshera
Excelsior
Correspondent
RAJOURI, July 21:
A man-eater leopard
who has unleashed a reign of
terror in Nowshera area of
Rajouri district, killed a
middle-aged woman and escaped
after leaving behind her
semi-eaten body today........more
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