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LoC fence
‘powerless’ as militants sneak
across
SRINAGAR : Militants sneaking
across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu
and Kashmir are timing their infiltration
attempts to coincide with the time when
generators powering the electrified fence
are switched off .. ....more
Fissures in Delhi Cong on
CBI raids
Bid
to topple Dikshit Govt
NEW DELHI, Aug 4: Fissures in
the ruling Congress in Delhi have
resurfaced against the backdrop of the
CBI raids on canteen contractor Ashok
Malhotra as charges and counter-charges
flew in the ruling party about a plot to
topple Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. ....more
Crucial WG fails
to meet for last four months
*Members cry foul, seek early discussions
By Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, Aug 4: While reports of
four Working Groups, set up by Prime
Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Jammu and
Kashmir, have been submitted more than
three months back and the Government was
already in the process of implementing
some of their recommendations, the fifth
Working Group with crucial agenda of
Centre-State relations including two
vital subjects—autonomy and self
rule has not met for last more than four
months.......more
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Keep
vigil on development: CM
to Lambardars
Excelsior
Correspondent
SRINAGAR,
Aug 4:
Chief Minister Ghulam
Nabi Azad today asked
Lambardars and Chowkidars
(village level workers)
to maintain a constant
eye on execution of
developmental works and
create awareness against
social evils at the grass
roots level. .....more
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23 killed in
blast, militant attack in Pak
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Twenty
three people, including four
Pakistan Army soldiers, were
killed and 35 injured in separate
incidents of a bomb blast and a
militant attack in
Pakistan’s troubled tribal
areas today......more
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Army, LeT react to
Haigam incident
SPO ends life in
Handwara
Excelsior
Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 4:
While a Special Police
Officer(SPO) has committed
suicide with his service rifle in
Handwara, one civilian has been
found dead under mysterious
circumstances at his bakery in
Pulwama area today......more
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‘Implement WG
recommendations immediately’
Political
leadership must now take
charge of situation: Mufti
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 4: Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) patron
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said
that State’s political
leadership must now take full
charge of the present situation
by expanding and consolidating
the role of people’s
institutions to create a potent
coalition for peace and amicable
resolution of the problems......more
India faces new
form of terror
WASHINGTON, Aug
4: India faces
threat from new forms of
terrorism of the high-tech
variety, an area where the
country’s top intelligence
agency may not be measuring up, a
think tank has said. ...more
Two Buddhist
monks murdered
SRINAGAR, Aug 4: Two
Buddhists monks in Leh district
were found mudered this morning
with the police issuing a look
out notice for two Nepali waiters
who worked at a restaurant at the
monastery and have since gone
"missing". ...more
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BL Kak passes
away
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 4:
B L Kak, a veteran
journalist, passed away late this
evening in New Delhi after a
brief illness. He had suffered
brain haemorrhage and was since
then admitted in a New Delhi
hospital. However, his end came
this evening.....more
Vigilance
challans dead person
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 4: For the
first time in judicial history,
an investigating agency has
presented challan in the Court of
law against a dead person in
disproportionate assets case.....more
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Shahnawaz opposes
migration
Excelsior
Correspondent
 Srinagar, Aug 4: The
Bharatiya Janta Party leader and
former NDA minister, Shah Nawaz
Hussain today appealed to the
people of Kashmir to help stop
the exodus of non State labourers
who have been asked to flee the
Valley by some political and
militant groups.....more
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Sena plans rally
in Srinagar
NEW DELHI, Aug 4:
Shiv Sena activists
will launch next Sunday, a rally
from the capital to Srinagar in
Jammu and Kashmir to oppose the
demand for demilitarisation of
that State and protest the
"forced exodus" of
labourers from there. ....more
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