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Sunday, November 25, 2007

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Second green revolution could
start from J&K: Vice Prez

Srinagar : Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari today said the Centre's proposed push to agriculture through a second green revolution could start from Jammu and Kashmir on pilot basis.......more

UP blasts again put focus on IEDs,
J&K leads country in blasts

LUCKNOW, Nov Friday’s serial bomb blasts in three cities of Uttar Pradesh, which left 13 people killed and 70 injured, have once again brought the Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) in limelight which are increasingly being used by terrorist organisations to demoralise the common man......more

Suicide bombers target Pak army, 30 killed

ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: Two near-simultaneous suicide bombings killed at least 30 people, most of them military personnel, and injured many others in Pakistan’s Garrison city of Rawalpindi today, triggering tensions ahead of the return of exiled former Premier Nawaz Sharif to the country tomorrow....more

Lt General A S Sekhon receiving his successor Lt Gen Mukesh Sabharwal who took over as GOC 15 Corps in Srinagar on Saturday. (UNI)
Lt General A S Sekhon receiving his successor Lt Gen Mukesh Sabharwal who took over as GOC 15 Corps in Srinagar on Saturday. (UNI)

Sekhon moves to Army Hqrs as DGMO
Lt Gen Mukesh is new GOC of XV Corps

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Nov 24: Lieutenant General Mukesh Sabharwal today assumed the charge of the General Officer-in-Commanding (GOC) of the prestigious Srinagar-based XV Corps, also known as Chinar Corps.....more

 

PM urged to implement zero tolerance promise
Taslima should apologise: Farooq

VIJAYWADA, Nov 24: Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen should apologise for "criticising God" or else she will not have a "place to hide", National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah said here today......more

 

28 Forest officers transferred

Exelsior Correspondent

Jammu, Nov 24: Government has ordered the transfers and postings of 28 officers in the Forest Department and State Forest Corporation......more

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Power generation goes down from all projects

From Rashid Paul

Srinagar, Nov 24: Continued dry spell in the State has plummeted electricity generation from hydel power projects, the only source of energy in the State, to the lowest ever levels. Distress power cutting has been resorted to by the Power Development Department (PDD) inspite of purchasing energy at inflated prices from different power sources across the country......more

IED defused near rail track in Kathua
HUJI ultra killed in group clash

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 24: Militants’ plot to blow up railway track or trigger blast under a train near Kathua was foiled by police this afternoon which detected and defused a powerful IED near the track while a grenade was neutralised in Ghrota on old Jammu-Akhnoor road......more

CBI registers first cyber crime case in J&K
BSNL’s STD PCO bills worth lakhs tampered

By Sanjeev Pargal

JAMMU, Nov 24: In yet another example of a surge in cyber crimes in the State, the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) has unearthed a major fraud in Srinagar office of Bharatiya Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) in which the BSNL officials posted in Accounts section had tempered with computerised bills of STD PCOs and earned lakhs with the connivance of PCO owners...more

Budget session calendar issued

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Nov 24: Assembly Speaker Tara Chand today issued provisional calendar for the sittings of 14th session of 10th Legislative Assembly....more

Justice Anand gets Law Day Award

NEW DELHI, Nov 24: President Pratibha Patil today conferred the National Law Day Awards to four eminent jurists and lawyers including former Chief Justice of India A S Anand, Bar Council of India Chairman Gopakumar Nair and Corporate lawyer Diljeet Titus....more

Soldier killed in Kupwara encounter

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Nov 24: Militants have killed a soldier in an encounter in Lolab valley of Kupwara district in north Kashmir today....more

Two held with 3 leopard skins

Excelsior Correspondent

BILLAWAR, Nov 24: Police arrested two smugglers and recovered three leopard skins from their possession in tehsil Billawar of district Kathua today....more

No respite from cold wave in Valley

SRINAGAR, Nov 24: The night temperature in the summer capital of the State plummeted further to minus 4 degree celsius, recording the coldest night of this winter season so far, weather officials here said today....more

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