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Advani, Rajnath
to meet Kalam tomorrow over Afzal
New Delhi : Opposed to clemency
for Mohammad Afzal, facing execution in
the 2001 Parliament attack, the BJP has
sought an appointment with President A P
J Abdul Kalam for tomorrow to request
that the punishment should not be
commuted to life imprisonment.....more
Army was
'reluctant' to tell govt about Kargil:
Tipnis
New Delhi : The army was
"reluctant" to inform the
government about the presence of
Pakistan-backed intruders in Kargil in
early 1999 and did little initially to
jointly plan and carry out operations to
evict them, Air Chief Marshal (retired) A
Y Tipnis has said........more
Home Minister
to visit Kashmir on Oct 8
Centre
mulling long term aid package for quake
victims
Excelsior
Correspondent/Agencies
SRINAGAR, Oct 6 : The Centre is
mulling a long-term package to boost the
collective efforts by the State
Governments and NGOs to help the people
affected by the killer earthquake that
rocked Jammu and Kashmir on October eight
last year. "We are not claiming that
the miseries and sufferings of the people
affected by the quake have been mitigated
completely but we have given the best
possible support to the people in their
time of need," Chief Minister Ghulam
Nabi Azad said ahead of the first
anniversary of the quake......more
A school boy salutes Army chief Gen J J
Singh in Churunda, Uri on Friday.
Excelsior/Amin War
‘Infiltration
slightly more this year’
No
decline in recruitment: Army chief
CHURUNDA (URI),
Oct 6: Dismissing foreign media
reports that military recruitment has
gone down in India and increased in
Pakistan since 1971, Army chief General J
J Singh today said the armed forces are
doing whatever necessary for the security
of the nation...........more
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