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Modi powers BJP to record fourth term

AHEMDABAD, Dec.23: Hindutva poster-boy Narendra Modi today powered BJP to a near two-thirds majority in the Gujarat Assembly elections and for a record fourth term giving himself a third stint as Chief Minister. ...more

Misbha’s 2 PSOs, 7 comdrs lay down arms
12 top hm militants surrender before CM

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 23: Twelve top militants of Hizbul Mujahideen outfit today surrendered before Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in Ramban as Mr Azad called upon parents of the ultras and the people who matter to persuade more and more militants to lay down arms and join national mainstream.....more

2 militants killed in Bandipore gunbattle
Militants hold 5 civilians 'hostage' at Kulgam mosque

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Dec 23: Even as a fierce gunbattle has begun at Palnoo village in the south Kashmir Kulgam district, where the holed up militants are said to have held five civilians hostage inside a mosque, security forces claimed to have killed two militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba in an encounter at Papchhan village in Bandipore, in north Kashmir. .....more

3 killed in Kud accident

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 23: Three persons were killed and three others received injuries when a car, they were travelling in, met with an accident at Zelabi Morh under the jurisdiction of Kud Police Station late last evening......more

‘Coalition increased miseries of people’
Pre-poll alliance will send wrong message: Mir

By Mohinder Verma

JAMMU, Dec 23: Stoutly opposing the idea of pre-poll alliance between regional and national political parties in the State ahead of Assembly elections due next year, former Housing and Urban Development Minister and senior People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Ghulam Hassan Mir today said that such a combination will further cement the mind-set of the Kashmiri people that political system was being imposed on them at the behest of the Centre......more

Bani still tense, troops stage flag march
Bandh in Kathua, highway blocked

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 23: Bani town in Kathua district remained tense for second day today while Kathua town observed a bandh as people continued their protests in different parts of the district in protest against the sacrilegious act Dudharu Surjan in Chalog area. Jammu-Pathankot national highway was blocked by the protesters, mostly the Sangh Parivar activists, for four hours......more

Pak ultra shot dead in Gool

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Dec 23: A Pakistani militant of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit was killed in an encounter with troops of Rashtriya Rifles and police at village Harah under the jurisdiction of Gool police station in Ramban district today.....more