Trapped on phone by a girl, slain with 5 bullets
Bakra shot dead inside doc's house
*3 murders in Jammu on single day

By Sanjeev Pargal

JAMMU, Nov 25: Sanjay Kumar alias Bittu alias Bakra, who had surrendered before police in 2000, was gunned down by two criminals inside the house of a reputed Endocrinologist and HoD Medicines in GMC Jammu, Dr Rattan Kudiyar at Trikuta Nagar, Jammu this morning........more

Partial bandh in Valley over Geelani-Omar call against land lease
Just one trip to London made Dilawar
auction Gulmarg: Omar

From Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

SRINAGAR, Nov 25: With a partial shutdown in Kashmir valley over the coalition Government's move of auctioning land at Gulmarg to non-state subjects, National Conference today asserted that it would forcefully agitate the burning topic in the forthcoming budget session of Legislative Assembly and Council in January. It also claimed that none of the party's Governments since 1947 had ever allotted land in Jammu and Kashmir to any non-state subjects............more

Working group on CBMs completes deliberations
Recommendations to be sent to PM: Ansari

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 25: Even as the Principal opposition party -National Conference boycotted two days marathon crucial meetings, the working group on Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) today completed its deliberations and the recommendations will be convened to Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh for taking up these suggestions in the next Round Table Conference........more

1500 new assesses expected from all districts
IT teams to camp at Distt Hqrs of Kashmir for PAN, returns

By Mohinder Verma

JAMMU, Nov 25: Initiating yet another people-friendly step, Income Tax Department has decided to conduct week long camps for issuing Permanent Account Numbers (PANs) and subsequent filing of Income Tax returns by the prospective tax payers in all the districts of Kashmir region and remote ones of Jammu province from next month.......more

JKBL's loan scheme for farmers

Excelsior Correspondent

Srinagar, Nov 25: Jammu and Kashmir Bank chairman, Dr Haseeb Drabu today introduced a new loan scheme for small and marginal farmers.......more

Shahrukh's company violated TDS

MUMBAI, Nov 25: A search conducted by the Income Tax Department on actor Shahrukh Khan’s entertainment company Red Chillies Entertainment has revealed alleged violation of Tax Deducted at Source (TDS), IT sources said here today..........more

An ode to a brave soldier

TIRUCHIRAPALLI, (TN), Nov 25: "Mummy, I will get you a Vir Chakra", the last words uttered by Major M Saravanan to his mother, before leaving for Kargil war, still reverberate.........more

Tout in recruitment arrested

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 25: A middle-man, who charged money from the gullible youth for providing them question paper of written test for recruitment as Sepoy in the Army, was arrested from Akhnoor late this evening.......more

Rajnath to be re-elected BJP chief

NEW DELHI, Nov 25: The stage is set for the formal election of BJP president Rajnath Singh for a full term tomorrow with former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and senior party leader L K Advani endorsing his candidature for the top post.........more