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SHRC raps police over shoddy probe into youth’s disappearance

SRINAGAR, Oct The Jammu and Kashmir Human Rights Commission rapped the state police for its shoddy probe into the disappearance of a man, who went missing five years ago, and asked the State Government to pay compensation of Rs two lakh to his four sisters.......more

Indo-Pak anti-terror mechanism meet tomorrow

NEW DELHI, Oct The Indo-Pak anti-terror mechanism (ATM) will meet here tomorrow when New Delhi is expected to seek to know the action Islamabad has taken in tracking down suspects of cross-border Samjhauta Express blasts and other attacks here.......more

Terrorism to be high on agenda in armed forces conference

NEW DELHI : Upsurge in radical islamic terrorism within the country and in the neighbourhood would be the main focus at a crucial conference of top commanders of the armed forces to be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday. ....more

Azad meets Sonia
Haj arrangements, transfer of Dul Hasti discussed

Excelsior Correspondent/Agencies

NEW DELHI, Oct 20: In the wake of threats from ally PDP to review ties with the Congress, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today met party chief Sonia Gandhi....more

Army orders court of inquiry
Soldier detained, 30 hurt in clashes

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Oct 20: Following registration of murder case against a Major and a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO), as also detention of a soldier, angry residents in Kupwara have conducted funeral rites of school teacher Abdur Rasheed Mir but not before 30 persons, including 10 Police personnel, were left wounded in 5-hour-long ding-dong clashes today. Thirty-year-old pedagogue had been allegedly killed in cold blood by soldiers of Army's 46 AD while on road opening duty in Kralpora area on Friday......more

SP's PSO, militant killed in Sopore

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Oct 20: Personal Security Officer (PSO) of SP Sopore and a Pakistani militant of Lashkar-e-Toiba today died in a face-to-face encounter in an orchard on Sopore-Bandipore Road......more

Tell us deal is off: Left to Govt

NEW DELHI, Oct 20: Mounting pressure on the Government, the Left parties today asked it to declare that the Indo-US nuclear deal is "off" when the UPA-Left committee meets Monday......more

PRCs to outsiders, wrong mutations
TS to submit report in a month

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 20: Government today appointed Secretary Transport Dalip Singh as head of a 3-member committee to examine the records relating to issuance of Permanent Resident Certificates (PRCs) allegedly to outsiders and wrong mutations about transfer of Government as well as private land in Kathua district with the directions to.....more

Pvt bank under scanner for hawala transactions

By Sanjeev Pargal

JAMMU, Oct 20: A national private bank has been put under scanner by the Central agencies on a specific input given by the State police that it was being used by the militants to transfer money to India from Gulf nations......more

Minor reprieve for Sanjay Dutt

MUMBAI, Oct 20: Actor Sanjay Dutt will enjoy a couple of days more outside jail as the TADA court today did not hand him a copy of the judgement of his conviction in the arms possession case....more

Govt directive on issuance of NDCs

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 20: Government today impressed upon all the Administrative Secretaries to issue Non-Drawal Certificates (NDCs) in the favour of retired or retiring employees within a period of one week from the date of submission of application for the same to facilitate the submission of pension papers to the Accountant General’s office well before the superannuation....more

7 killed in Pak blast

ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: At least seven people, including two women and a child, were killed and five others injured today when a bomb planted in a passenger van went off near a hotel in a town in Pakistan’s troubled Balochistan province....more

Trade goods through LoC: Mehbooba

SRINAGAR, Oct 20: Advocating free flow of goods through the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti today said India and Pakistan should allow movement of trucks on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road at the earliest....more

Geelani placed under house arrest

SRINAGAR, Oct 20: Authorities here have placed breakaway Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani under house arrest since last night, apprehending trouble in view of his scheduled visit to north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, where a teacher was shot dead by soldiers yesterday, his aide said today....more