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J&K to introduce group insurance for students,
Nehru, Azad awards

Srinagar : The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to introduce group insurance for 17 lakh school students and Jawaharlal Nehru and Maulana Azad awards in the state. ...more

434-km-long Srinagar-Leh highway to close for
6 months from tomorrow

SRINAGAR :The 434-km-long Srinagar-Leh national highway will remain closed for six winter months from tomorrow, a traffic police official said here today. ...more

Coldest night in Kashmir, dry weather continues

SRINAGAR : People in the Kashmir valley experienced the coldest night of the season so far as the minimum temperature dipped to minus 1.4 degrees celsius. ...more

National Conference Corporator shot dead

Srinagar : National Conference Corporator Ghulam Nabi Wani was shot dead by militants outside his residence in interior city this morning.. ...more

A supporter of Benazir Bhutto struggles between plainclothes policemen and
protesters while demonstrating against President Pervez Musharraf near the
site where Bhutto was being held under house arrest in Lahore on Tuesday.(UNI)

Musharraf must quit: Bhutto
Vows never to serve under dictator

LAHORE, Nov 13: In her strongest challenge yet to President Pervez Musharraf’s rule, former Premier Benazir Bhutto today asked him to quit and vowed never to serve under the "dictator" after she was placed under house arrest to foil her plans to lead an anti-emergency rally, which kicked off here without her. ...more

Fake recruitment racket busted, 5 held in Valley

SRINAGAR, Nov 13:Police today claimed to have busted a fake recruitment racket in the State by arresting five people involved in promising jobs and providing fake appointment orders to hundreds of unemployed youth. .....more

3 DDs Prosecution adjusted

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 13: The State Government today ordered adjustment of three Deputy Directors (Prosecution).An official release said Mushtaq Ahmad Zaroo has been adjusted as Deputy Director Prosecution Armed Police Headquarters (APHQ) while Onkar Singh was posted as Deputy Director Prosecution, RPHQ Jammu......more

Emergency continuation of Pak legacy: Governor

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 13: Governor Lt. General (Retd) S K Sinha today said that clamping of emergency in Pakistan is not an aberration but continuation of the legacy it has inherited from military junta ever since the creation of Pakistan......more

Left softens stand on nuke deal

NEW DELHI, Nov 13: In a softening of their hardline, the Left parties may give the nod to the Government to go to the International Atomic Energy Agency for an India-specific safeguards agreement needed to operationalise the Indo-US nuclear deal......more

LeT 'engineer-cum-bomb expert' flies to Delhi from Dubai

By Sanjeev Pargal

JAMMU, Nov 13: A top militant of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), who had undergone a three year degree course in technical engineering in Karachi and was highly trained in fabricating IEDs and bombs, has entered the country in a New Delhi bound flight from Dubai, reached J&K and was presently camping in a "protected hide-out" at Gulabgarh in upper reaches of Reasi district......more

Cabinet to meet on Nov 16

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 13: The State Cabinet is meeting here on November 16 under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad.This will be first meeting of the Cabinet here after the Darbar move....more

IAF ready for any eventuality

SHILLONG, Nov 13: Commander -in-Chief of Eastern Air Command Air Marshal P K Barbora today said the Indian Air Force was well prepared to face any hardship. ...more

NDA to raise Nandigram in Parliament

NANDIGRAM, Nov 13: Stating that the CPI-M has "nuked" farmers in Nandigram, leader of Opposition L K Advani today said that the NDA would raise the issue in Parliament, and charged the UPA Government with remaining indifferent to the violence in trouble-torn area in east Midnapore district. ....more