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UPDATE NEWS (18:45 IST)
Top LeT
commander, Jr Army officer
among 3 killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR: Two militants,
including a top Lashker-e-Toiba
commander, and an Army JCO were killed
while another militant, evading arrest
since 2004, was apprehended in the
Kashmir valley today....more
Bodies of 9 militants and
weapons recovered from
them at Tangmarg on Wednesday.
Excelsior/Amin War
9 Pakistani
militants killed in Tangmarg gunbattle
One
Maj died before seeing his bride,
another before getting first baby
From Ahmed Ali
Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Oct 3: Commander
of Aripanthan (Beerwah) based company of
Rashtriya Rifles 34 Bn, 29-year-old Maj
Dinesh Raghuraman had thought little
about life and death when he had---call
it boldly or foolishly---chased
Lashkar-e-Toiba's dreaded
"Divisional Commander" Abu
Furqan and two of his associates in open
fields and finally succeeded in felling
the trio at Narwara, near Beerwah, on
June 18th this year. Furqan and another
Pakistani militant, Amaar, had died...more
Aijaz given addl
charge of Housing & Urban Dev
*Kundal panel report by weekend
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 3: Chief Minister
Ghulam Nabi Azad has assigned the charge
of Housing and Urban Development to Aijaz
Ahmed Khan, Minister of State for
Higher/Technical Education, Forests,
Agriculture and Horticulture.......more
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Talks with
Musharraf stalled: Bhutto
LONDON, Oct 3: Pakistan’s
former Prime Minister Benazir
Bhutto said power-sharing talks
with President Pervez Musharraf
were "totally stalled"
as her party met today to
consider resigning from
Parliament. .....more
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Security forces
have done their job,
withdraw them: Mehbooba
SRINAGAR, Oct 3: Alleging
that security forces have
constructed concrete structures
at tourist sites in violation of
Supreme Court orders, People's
Democratic Party (PDP) president
Ms Mehbooba Mufti said Army had
done its job and it was time to
withdraw it. .....more
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India hopes Pak
will find ways to solve problems
WASHINGTON, Oct
3: India today said it
was confident that Pakistan would
find a way out of the current
problems, maintaining that
Islamabad’s stability was
equally important for it......more
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Deport 3 PoK
detenues: SC
Excelsior
Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Oct 3:
A division bench of
Supreme Court comprising Justice
A K Mathur and Justice Markandey
Katju today directed the Union
Government to deport three
Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK)
detenues, who have been
languishing in different jails
under the detention order of the
Jammu and Kashmir Government....more
Nexus of
transporters unearthed
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 3: Nexus of
unscrupulous transporters, goods
carriers and dealers importing
goods worth lakhs of rupees
against TIN of non-existent
dealers was unearthed at
Commercial Taxes Check Post,
Lakhanpur....more
Koul appointed
SSB member
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 3: The
Government today appointed Prof S
K Koul, Head of Department,
Radiological Physics and
Bio-Engineering, Sher-i-Kashmir
Institute of Medical Sciences
(SKIMS), Soura, Srinagar as a
member of J&K Services
Selection Board (SSB)....more
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Brown sugar
seized, 2 held
 Excelsior
Correspondent
RAJOURI, Oct 3: Police
today arrested two drug-peddlers
and recovered one kg brown sugar
worth Rs 1 crore in the
international market from their
possession. One of the two
arrested accused was absconding
for last three years after his
seven year sentence in a rape
case was upheld by the High
Court....more
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Naidu takes over
as Army vice chief
NEW DELHI, Oct 3:
Lt Gen Milan
Lalitkumar Naidu today took over
formally as the Vice Chief of the
Army. Hitherto heading the
Army’s Shimla-based Training
Command, Lt Gen Naidu succeeds
Gen Deepak Kapoor who has since
taken over as the new Army Chief....more
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