LATEST
UPDATE NEWS (21:20 IST)
2.5 lakh Muslims
offer prayer at Hazratbal Mosque
SRINAGAR: A record 2.5 lakh
Muslims today offered Eid prayers - the
highest in 20 years - at the historic
Hazratbal shrine here, which houses the
holy relic of Prophet Mohammed, officials
said. Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad,
former chief ministers Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed, Farooq Abdullah and National
Conference chief Omar Abdullah were among
those who offered prayers at the shrine.
Later Azad hosted Eid Milan at the
Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention
Complex on the banks of Dal lake......more
Six killed in
Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR: Six people,
including two militants and two brothers,
were killed in Jammu and Kashmir where
security forces busted two militant
hideouts and recovered a huge cache of
explosives and ammunition since last
evening. Militants today shot at and
critically injured a former Special
Police Officer, Abid Ahmed Mir, after
dragging him out from his house at
Sherpora-Yaripora in Anantnag district, a
police spokesman said. Abid succumbed to
his injuries on way to hospital. A
self-styled divisional commander of
Hizbul Mujahideen Mushtaq Ahmed alias
Majid and another militant of the outfit
Abdul Latief were killed in an encounter
with security forces at Keen Dhar in
Gandoh area of Doda district yesterday.......more
|
 |
| |
|
President
APJ Abdul Kalam, UPA chairperson
and Congress president Sonia
Gandhi and Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh pose for a
photograph with the newly
inducted Union Ministers after
the swearing-in ceremony at
Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi
on Tuesday. (UNI)
Antony is new
Defence Minister
Pranab gets
External Affairs
NEW DELHI, Oct 24
: A K Antony was
tonight appointed the new Defence
Minister in place of Pranab
Mukherjee, who moved to the
External Affairs portfolio in a
Cabinet expansion and reshuffle
which also saw the reinduction of
a controversial RJD MP Jai
Prakash Narayan Yadav as a
Minister of State. .....more
Militancy may
assume shape of mini war: Patil
NEW DELHI, Oct
24: Warning that
militancy may assume the shape of
a "mini-war" in the
country, Union Home Minister
Shivraj Patil today asked all
para-military forces to gear up
to meet any eventuality that
could emerge out of the menace...........more
NC will withdraw
from second
roundtable committees: Omar
SRINAGAR, Oct 24:
Accusing the Centre
of failing in ensuring zero
tolerance of human rights
violations main opposition in the
State National Conference today
announced complete suspension of
its participation in any of the
committees formed after the
second roundtable conference held
here earlier this year.........more
|
KZF activists
rounded up in Chopra murder case
Legislator
quizzed; Sood, Wahi summoned to
Jammu
By Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, Oct 24: A
legislator belonging to an
Opposition party was questioned
by the police in connection with
the murder of cement tycoon
Rajinder Bushan Chopra alias Raju
Chopra and four others following
revelation during investigations
that he was instrumental in
bringing out a patch-up among
Chopra’s partners and
ex-partners a week before the
killings............more
|
|
Four PoK citizens
traced, refuse to return till Eid
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 24: Out of six
citizens of Pakistan occupied
Kashmir (PoK) reported missing
and over-staying in Poonch and
Rajouri districts after coming to
this side in Rawalakot-Poonch bus
service, four were today traced
in Mendhar tehsil of Poonch
district........more
|
 |
Two top HM
militants, porter killed in Doda
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 24: In a major
success, Doda police today gunned
down two hardcore militants of
Hizbul Mujahideen outfit
including a ‘divisional
commander’ and a porter of
the outfit in an encounter at
Keen Dhar in Gandoh area of Doda
district. A Special Police
Officer (SPO) was injured in the
gunbattle.......more
Snap diplomatic
ties with Pak: Rajnath
VARANASI, Oct 24:
Demanding that
Pakistan be declared a
"terrorist state", BJP
president Rajnath Singh today
asked the UPA Government to break
diplomatic ties with Islamabad if
it failed to end fostering
terrorism in India within a
month. ......more
|
|
Govt to soon
decide on Afzal plea
NEW DELHI, Oct 24
: Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh tonight
said Government is in the process
of deciding on the plea for
clemency for Jaish-e-Mohammed
militant Mohd Afzal sentenced to
death in Parliament attack case
and law will take its own course.
.........more
Jail mobiles
issued on jawan,
under-trial’s names
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 24: Intelligence
agencies and Kot Bhalwal jail
authorities today said the two
mobile telephones recovered from
a militant and a murder accused
under-trial had been issued on
the names of an Army jawan and a
Samba youth, also under-trial in
a murder case in a separate jail...........more
|
|
Cong worker, cop
killed
SRINAGAR, Oct 24
: A Congress worker
and a policeman were killed while
ultras shot at and wounded two
brothers and detonated a powerful
Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
in Kashmir during the past 24
hours, an official spokesman said
today......more
|
|
Shias divided
over Eid celebrations
SRINAGAR, Oct 24: For
the first time, the Shia Muslims
would be celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr
on two different days as a
section of people confirmed the
sighting of the crescent moon
even as the rest, alongwith the
Sunnis, would observe it on
Wednesday. .....more
Police firing to
disperse mob
SRINAGAR, Oct 24: Police
today opened fire to disperse a
mob protesting the killing of a
father-son duo by a police van in
Mehboob Colony here, officials
said......more
|
|
 |
|
|
|
