PDP leader
Mufti Mohd Sayeed
addressing a press
conference
in Jammu on Wednesday.
Excelsior/Ashok
Dual
use of currency will be a
necessity soon: Mufti
By Sanjeev
Pargal
JAMMU,
Apr 16: Former
Chief Minister and PDP
leader Mufti Mohd Sayeed
today said he was in
favour of "dual
use" of Indian and
Pakistani currency in
both parts of the
State—Jammu and
Kashmir and Pakistan
occupied Kashmir (PoK).
He said the use of
currency of both
countries in divided
parts of the State will
become a necessity in the
coming days with peace
process moving forward.....more
Latest
survey pegs BPL
population at 22 pc
By Mohinder
Verma
JAMMU,
Apr 16: Unfolding
huge variation in the
Below Poverty Line (BPL)
population projected by
the National Sample
Survey (NSS), the latest
and detailed survey
conducted in the State
has pegged the population
at 22 per cent, much more
than the previously
projected one....more
Bus
plunges into Narmada
canal
41
students killed before
final exam
BODELI
(GUJARAT), Apr 16:
At least 44 people,
41 of them children
between the age of 13 and
14 going to school for
their final examination,
were killed today when a
bus carrying them plunged
into the Narmada canal
here. ....more
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NC's massive rally
in Budgam calls for end to
'politics of deceit'
Omar dismisses
Mufti's Pak currency as a cheap
gimmick
From Ahmed Ali
Fayyaz
BUDGAM, Apr 16: After
organising two massive rallies in
the erstwhile fortresses of
insurgency in Dangarpora (Sopore)
and Kandi (Kupwara), National
Conference (NC) president Omar
Abdullah today addressed a
mammoth public meeting in the
Valley's first militancy-free
district. Thousands of the
party's supporters yelled for an
end to the "politics of
deceit" even as their leader
dismissed Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's
suggestion of permitting the
Pakistani currency in Jammu &
Kashmir as a "cheap gimmick
aimed at hoodwinking the
Kashmiris"......more
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Srinagar-Leh NH
closed again
SRINAGAR, Apr 16:
Heavy snowfall and
threat of avalanches forced the
authorities today to close the
434-km long Srinagar-Leh National
Highway, which was declared open
by Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi
Azad yesterday.....more
PDP refuses
comment on alliance
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 16: Few days
after Congress president Sonia
Gandhi asked people of the State
to vote Congress back to power in
the Assembly elections due later
this year making no mention of
any alliance with the PDP, former
Chief Minister and PDP patron
Mufti Mohd Sayeed today refused
to comment on an alliance with
the Congress......more
Pak erects 9
mobile towers on border
NEW DELHI, Apr
16: Pakistan has
erected nine mobile towers in its
territory along the Indo-Pak
border which have
security-related implications for
India, the Government said today......more
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Narcotics
smuggling on increase
JALANDHAR, Apr
16: Admitting that there
was spurt in the narcotic
smuggling through Indo-Pak
borders in the recent years,
Inspector General (IG), Punjab
Frontier, Himmat Singh, today
said that instructions have been
issued to the BSF officials to be
vigilant to thwart any attempt of
narcotic smuggling....more
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Punjabi music can
be common
ground
for India, Pak: Afshan
PATIALA, Apr 16: Punjabi
music can be a common ground of
meeting for Indian film industry
and Pakistani artists, feels
Begum Afshan Abbas, noted
Pakistani singer, who was once
married to ghazal maestro Ghulam
Ali....more
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