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Friday, November 10, 2006

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Five school children killed in PoK blast

Islamabad : At least five school children, including three sisters, were killed today when a toy bomb with which they were playing, exploded in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK).......more

Nine killed, top Muslim cleric
among 50 wounded in blast

SRINAGAR, : Nine people, including two teenaged girls, were killed while a top Muslim cleric was among 50 others wounded, some of them critically, in a grenade attack on a religious congregation near a mosque in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district today, police said......more

Special training for personnel
CRPF sets up its intelligence cell

KOLKATA, Nov 9: For effectively tackling internal security threats, including naxalism and insurgency, the CRPF has introduced specialised training for its personnel, besides setting up its own ‘intelligence cell’, its outgoing Director General J K Sinha said here today......more

People watch curiously as a train coach moves towards Srinagar on Thursday.(UNI)
People watch curiously as a train coach moves towards Srinagar on Thursday.(UNI)

'Independent India's first gift of integration to Valley'
Kashmir's incredulous looks on train

From Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

OMPORA (Budgam), Nov 9: When an Ashok Leyland bus had, for the first time, reached an upper Budgam village 50 years ago, quite a number of bewildered folks had come out not only with excitement but also with hospitality: They had unfolded hayricks before the engine, thinking that the 'animal' was too hungry. Even as no such myths can be attached to alien objects like the two coaches of a train---courtesy television and many people's visits to Jammu, Delhi and beyond---in Jammu.........more

 

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From telephone operator to AEE on a fake degree
*SVO recommends dismissal of officer

By Sanjeev Pargal

JAMMU, Nov 9: From a telephone operator to an Executive Engineer and that too without any engineering degree. Incredible it may sound but it is a fact that such an officer is working in Urban Local Bodies in Srinagar. After investigations, the State Vigilance Organisation (SVO) has recommended dismissal of the officer from the services........more

Civil Sectt gate closed
Late comers face embarrassment

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 9: Scores of Civil Secretariat employees including some senior officers were held up outside the Secretariat premises as the security staff closed the main gate at around 9.45 am to keep a check on the late comers today............more

 

Farooq dares Mufti to make 'out of box' solution public

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 9 : Terming the much publicized self-rule proposal of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as political stunt to hoodwink the common masses, former Chief Minister and patron of the National Conference, Dr Farooq Abdullah today dared Mufti Mohammed Sayeed to make his ‘out of box’ solution public to solve the vexed Kashmir problem........more

RTI a real step towards Swaraj: Habibullah

MUMBAI, Nov 9: The awareness of democratic rights among all sections of the society could only be brought about through Right to Information (RTI) Act 2005, as it is a giant step towards real Swaraj, Central Information Commission Chief Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah has said.......more

Srinagar sex scandal case
Bail plea hearing continues

CHANDIGARH, Nov 9: Arguments on the bail applications of some of the accused in the Srinagar sex scandal case remained inconclusive today before Justice Rajive Bhalla of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.......more

Kashmir police in Mysore

MYSORE, Nov 9: A team of Jammu and Kashmir Police arrived here today to interrogate the two Pakistan-born Al-Badr terrorists nabbed by the City police after a brief encounter here last month..........more

Cabinet clears bill to set up NJC

NEW DELHI, Nov 9: A bill to set up a National Judicial Council (NJC) that will go into complaints against Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts, was today cleared by the Union Cabinet for introduction in Parliament’s winter session.........more

Guru petitions President for mercy

NEW DELHI, Nov 9: Mohammed Afzal Guru, sentenced to death for his role in the 2001 Parliament terror attack, has petitioned President A P J Abdul Kalam for mercy. .....more

Student shot in Lolab; protest in Tral

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Nov 9: Militants have fired upon a student and two other persons in Lolab and Khrew areas in Kashmir valley even as a woman's dead body has been recovered in Qazigund......more

16 Forest officers transferred

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 9: Minister for Forests, Housing and Urban Development Qazi Mohd Afzal ordered the transfers and postings of sixteen Divisional Forest Officers and Deputy Conservators of Forests here today......more

Army jawan shot dead in Rajouri

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 9: An Army jawan was shot dead and his neighbour, who came to his rescue, was injured by the militants at Pangai, Thanna Mandi in Rajouri district last night......more

 



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