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Jammu : A chopper of a private airliner crashed in Trikuta hills in Reasi district today, leaving five Vaishnodevi pilgrims and the pilot injured....more

Setback to Indo-Pak business ties due to emergency

New Delhi : Imposition of emergency in Pakistan has dealt a severe blow to its economic relations with India as businessmen from the two countries have stopped booking fresh orders....more

International community mounts pressure
Musharraf urged to quit as Army chief

ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: The international community today mounted pressure on Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to quit as Army chief, restore civilian rule and pave the way for general elections in January....more

Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad talking to media persons in Jammu on Monday. Excelsior/Ashok

Emergency in Pakistan may affect peace process: Azad

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 5: Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that emergency in Pakistan will cause impact on the ongoing peace process between the two neighbouring countries and growing disturbances on that side of the border will cast some affect in Kashmir......more

Molestation of woman in Bandipore
Army court awards punishment to 2 soldiers

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Nov 5: An Army court in north Kashmir has awarded punishment to two soldiers of an intelligence unit of Rashtriya Rifles 57 Bn who had been captured by an angry mob while attempting to outrage the modesty of a young woman in Bandipore area on June 26 this year......more

Bhat says consignment was meant for Geelani
Two vital laptops seized from Delhi house

By Sanjeev Pargal

JAMMU, Nov 5: Even as police this afternoon secured transit remand of hard-liner Hurriyat Conference leader G M Bhat from a Srinagar court for shifting him to Udhampur for his involvement in hawala scam, police said Bhat during his sustained overnight questioning in Srinagar has disclosed that he had to deliver entire hawala consignment to Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani......more

Ailing woman among 139 cross LoC

Excelsior Correspondent

POONCH, Nov 5: An ailing woman among 139 persons crossed sides at the Chakkan-da-Bagh Line of Control (LoC) point in district Poonch today. Out of the total number, 76 persons came to this side while 63 crossed over to that side of the Line of Control......more

Malik to again start his march

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Nov 5: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman, Mohammad Yasin Malik today said that "safar-e-azadi" march will be started again in Jammu division to create unity and communal harmony at gross root level in the State. He also blamed the Government of India for spreading regionalism and communalism in the State......more

Pak Govt frees 25 militants

ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: The Pakistan Government has freed 25 militants, including some convicted by anti-terror courts, in exchange for 211 soldiers who were being held hostage by rebels in the restive northwestern tribal areas....more