PoK has no budget to run buses across LoC
*No bus to take passengers from Rawalakot

MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 3: Pakistan’s foreign office has asked authorities in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to resume bus services to the Line of Control (LoC) from Muzaffarabad and Rawalakot but officials here have reportedly expressed inability to follow the directive citing financial and administrative constraints. ........more

Chandigarh court fixes Oct 9 for bail order

CHANDIGARH, Oct 3: A court here today fixed October 9 for the pronouncement of order on the bail pleas of 13 accused in the Jammu and Kashmir sex racket case. ...........more

Woman tested +ve, 3 others -ve
Dengue alert sounded in Jammu

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 3: Health Department today sounded an alert for dreaded Dengue in entire Jammu region after a woman, suffering from fever, was tested positive for the disease in Surankote tehsil of Poonch district while three other suspected cases were tested negative........more

Former SHOs called to help in blind murders

By Sanjeev Pargal

JAMMU, Oct 3: In an important development, Jammu Police have requisitioned services of three former professional SHOs of Jammu district, presently posted in Intelligence agencies as DySPs and sounded all serving SHOs of Jammu district to look for clues in sensational killing of cement tycoon Rajinder Bushan Chopra alias Raju Chopra, his wife, daughter, servant and driver in his Trikuta Nagar residence more than a fortnight ago.......more

Blow to CBI in sex racket as court releases accused

SRINAGAR, Oct 3: In a major setback to the CBI, a local court today ordered the release of an accused in the much-publicised sex racket after the premier investigate agency failed to file charges or produce evidence against him. ......more

Afzal’s execution unlikely on Oct 20

NEW DELHI, Oct 3: The execution of Afzal Guru may not take place on October 20 as scheduled as his family filed a mercy petition with President A P J Abdul Kalam in the midst of the raging controversy over a reprieve for the Parliament terror attack convict. ..........more

Don't pardon Afzal: Victims of Parliament attack tell Prez

NEW DELHI, Oct 3: Families of the security personnel killed in the 2001 attack on Parliament today approached President A P J Abdul Kalam requesting him not to grant any pardon to Mohammed Afzal Guru, who has been sentenced to death by Supreme Court. ..........more

HC to hear CBI arguments today

SRINAGAR, Oct 3: Jammu and Kashmir High Court, monitoring investigations into the sex racket case here, will hear arguments of the CBI tomorrow after the agency submitted that it has completed the probe........more

Budgam Police kills 2 Hizb militants

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Oct 3: In the central Kashmir district of Budgam, Police and CRPF today claimed to have killed two top wanted militants, including a "District Commander" of Hizbul Mujahideen, who was allegedly responsible for over a dozen civilian killings. Meanwhile, suspected militants have attacked the house of a village headman in Tangmarg and damaged two of his cars........more

Court to hear Pathribal case on Nov 3

SRINAGAR, Oct 3: Expressing annoyance over CBI counsel’s absence, a Sessions Court today deferred till November 3 the hearing on a revision petition filed by five Army officials accused of killing five civilians at Pathribal in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir in 2000.......more