5 killed in train blast

GUWAHATI, Dec 13: Suspected Adivasi insurgents exploded a powerful bomb in the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express, killing five passengers and injuring nine, four of them critically, in upper Assam’s Golaghat district early today......more

Sopore killers held with weapon, 2 'OGWs' arrested

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Dec 13: While Police have reportedly achieved breakthrough in at least two recent civilian killings in Sopore with the arrest of some militants, two 'overground activists' of Lashkar-e-Toiba are claimed to have been arrested at Nopora Kalan, on Sopore-Reban Road in Rafiabad belt of Baramulla district.......more

Jain, Bhat, Jamali denied bail
Police pursues evidence against Geelani

By Sanjeev Pargal

JAMMU, Dec 13: As a court today rejected bail applications of top international hawala operators, Ravinder Jain, an import-export businessman from New Delhi, G M Bhat, a separatist leader from Kashmir and close confidant of hard-liner Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Jamali Khan, police said "circumstantial and documentary evidence" was being gathered to arrest Geelani......more

Two rates in one State for timber transportation
Azad directs rectification of variation

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 13: Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has ordered uniform structure of rates and slabs for timber transportation in Jammu and Kashmir divisions of the State removing variation of rates, which was prevailing for last over three decades......more

Baig gets Planning, Tourism

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 13: Newly appointed Deputy Chief Minister and PDP leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig will be attending his first Cabinet meeting tomorrow after a gap of more than 15 months.....more

2 NC activists killed in mishap

Excelsior Correspondent

POONCH, Dec 13: Two National Conference (NC) activists were killed while third critically injured, after a boulder hit a car on Poonch-Mandi road this evening.....more

HC orders release of 7 PSA detenues

SRINAGAR, Dec 13: The State High Court has quashed the detention orders of seven persons, including a Sub-Inspector of Police, detained under Public Safety Act (PSA). ....more

Rahul's wife files for divorce

GURGAON, Dec 13: Fifteen months after their marriage, the wife of Rahul Mahajan, son of slain BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, today filed for a divorce at the Gurgaon Sessions court.....more

3 terrorists held with explosives

PHAGWARA, Dec 13: The Punjab Police have foiled an attempt by Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorists to assassinate Sirsa-based Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh and heads of two other sects. .....more