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Centre
mulling long-term aid package for J-K
quake victims
SRINAGAR: The Centre is
mulling a long-term package to boost the
collective efforts by the state and
Central governments and NGOs to help the
people affected by the killer earthquake
that rocked Jammu and Kashmir on October
eight last year......more
Militant
bid to target Srinagar-Jammu highway
foiled
SRINAGAR, The Jammu
and Kashmir Police today claimed to have
foiled a bid by Hizbul Mujahideen
militants to target the Srinagar-Jammu
national highway by planting deadly
explosives at various places along the
300-km road............more
Body of a militant killed in
an encounter with security personnel
lying in a
street at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on
Thursday. Excelsior/Amin War
7 cops, 2
militants, civilian killed in
27-hour-long operation
Srinagar
gunbattle ends as both fidayeen killed
From Ahmed Ali
Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Oct 5: With 10 fatal
casualties---5 J&K Police personnel,
2 CRPF soldiers, 2 militants and one
civilian---the overnight gunbattle
between militants and security forces has
ended in the business hub of Budshah
Chowk in this capital city this
afternoon. About 30 people---half of them
Police and paramilitary personnel---have
sustained injuries in the suicide attack
that returned to the Valley after a pause
of four-and-a-half months. .....more
‘Martyrs deserve
highest honour’
Azad
lambasts Pak for abetting terrorism
Excelsior
Correspondent
KATHUA, Oct 5: Reiterating his
Government’s commitment to wipe out
terrorism from the State, Chief Minister
Ghulam Nabi Azad today regretted that
despite assurances Pakistan has miserably
failed to contain activities of
terrorists from its land...........more
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