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7000 snow warriors trained every year in Siachen

Siachen Base Camp: Braving hostile weather conditions, almost 7000 soldiers are trained every year in the Siachen Training Area, near here and deployed in the world highest battlefield, the Siachen Glacier. .....more

Joint Mechanism on Terror to be given shape

New Delhi, : The proposed Joint Mechanism on Terror is likely to be given shape at the Foreign Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan to be held here tomorrow and on Wednesday.
The two-day talks, which are being held after a gap of nearly

Terrorism to top agenda
Indo-Pak Foreign Secys meet tomorrow after a year

NEW DELHI, Nov 12: Terrorism will top the agenda at the crucial round of the Foreign Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan to be held here on November 14-15. .....more

Snowfall in Kashmir's upper reaches
Temperature drops as winter sets in

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 12: Signaling onset of winter, heavy to moderate rains lashed different parts of Jammu region today. However, traffic on all major roads including Jammu-Srinagar national highway plied normally..........more

Terrorism biggest challenge for humanity: Farooq

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 12: Cautioning people against evil designs of the enemy, former Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah today said that terrorism was the biggest challenge before humanity. He said that on going terrorism in the State has brought nothing except bloodshed and destruction in this part of country........more

Manmohan, Vajpayee, Sonia's kins to get high security
*Jaish message intercepted in Valley

NEW DELHI, Nov 12: In the wake of enhanced abduction threat from Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), the Centre will provide maximum security cover for kins of VVIPs including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, his predecessor Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi............more

Hurriyat leaders rush to Delhi to
meet Pak Foreign Secretary

NEW DELHI, Nov 12: After twice refusing to participate in the round-table conference on Kashmir convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, moderate Hurriyat leaders have rushed here to meet a visiting senior Pakistani official next week........more

Jamali arrested, 4 Asstt Supdts picked-up
CID, police crackdown on jail

By Sanjeev Pargal

JAMMU, Nov 12: CID (Counter Intelligence) and Jammu Police tonight cracked down on high security Kot Bhalwal jail, which has recently shot into limelight following recovery of mobile phones from militants and clash between local and foreign ultras, and picked up four Assistant Superintendents for questioning and arrested a Pakistani militant.......more

NC returns to home after 18 years

From Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

SRINAGAR, Nov 12: Jammu and Kashmir's largest political party, National Conference, today organised its first public meeting at its historical Mujahid Manzil headquarters after the eruption of secessionist militancy in the state in 1989. Dr Farooq Abdullah's party, then a coalition partner of Congress, had held its last meeting at this interior downtown centre in 1988.......more

Double infiltration this year

NEW DELHI, Nov 12: Ahead of Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary level talks, infiltration remains a cause of worry for New Delhi as the number of infiltrators from Pakistan has been put at nearly 650 this year, more than double than last year. .........more

Hizb 'bn commdr' killed in Pahalgam

Excelsior Correspondent/Agencies

SRINAGAR, Nov 12: Police and security forces have killed a "battalion commander" of Hizbul Mujahideen in an encounter in Pahalgam area of south Kashmir today.........more