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Greetings to all our readers.
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi
Azad meeting Planning Commission Deputy
Chairman Montek
Singh Ahluwalia to finalise Annual Plan
2008-09 of the State, in New Delhi on
Saturday. (UNI)
'Growth rate shows
positive trend'
J&K
gets Rs 4500 cr annual plan
NEW DELHI, Jan 12: The Planning
Commission today fixed the annual plan
for Jammu and Kashmir for 2008-09 at Rs
4,500 crore, a 12.5 per cent increase
over the current financial year plan of
Rs 4000 crore....more
No decision on Panag:
Antony
NEW DELHI, Jan 12: The Defence
Ministry is yet to take a decision on the
fate of Northern Command chief Lt Gen H S
Panag, who is being reportedly shunted
out from the crucial command......more
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NCLP
goes tough on CBI probe,
corruption
NC to
move adjournment motion
in Assembly
By Sanjeev
Pargal
JAMMU,
Jan 12:
The National
Conference Legislature
Party (NCLP) today
decided to bring an
adjournment motion in the
Assembly on Monday
seeking suspension of
entire business in the
House to discuss serious
charges levelled by
Independent MLA Shoaib
Lone on corruption in
Government and killing of
his father Dr Ghulam Nabi
Lone, a Minister in Mufti
led coalition Government,
who was assassinated in
his bed room at high
security Tulsi Bagh,
Srinagar in October 2005.....more
12
suspects held in Mahore
3 top LeT
militants gunned down in
Doda
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU,
Jan 12: Army
and police today gunned
down three militants of
Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)
outfit in two separate
encounters at Bikhrain
and Bhagwah in Doda
district and recovered a
large quantity of arms
and ammunition from them.....more
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"Courtesy
political intervention, it's a
loot-and-scoot situation"
Forest is a
totally ruined department, says
Forest Minister
From Ahmed Ali
Fayyaz
SRINAGAR,
Jan 12: Forest Minister Qazi
Mohammad Afzal, who is in the eye
of a storm in Legislative
Assembly over the Kundal
committee report, today said that
Forest was a "totally ruined
department" in which the
loot-and-scoot situation was
continuing and the politicians
and officials had built too
strong a nexus to be broken by
ordinary measures. He asserted
that he would leave no stone
unturned to expose real culprits
of the timber mafia whose
immunity was intact
notwithstanding the Kundal
report......more
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We can't lower
guard: Sinha
Excelsior
Correspondent
Srinagar Jan 12: Governor
Lt.Gen(Retd) S.K.Sinha today
sounded caution in the wake of
happenings in Pakistan saying
" we cannot lower the guard
and have to remain vigilant
against the forces inimical to
peace"......more
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Over staying PoK
visitor dies
Excelsior
Correspondent
POONCH, Jan 12: An over
staying 80-year-old visitor from
Pak occupied Kashmir (PoK), died
at the house of his nephew at a
village near Loran in Mandi block
of district Poonch last evening......more
Jawan commits
suicide in Rajouri
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 12: An Army
jawan today committed suicide,
allegedly after altercation with
his senior officer, in the border
Rajouri district......more
Norwegian skier
still missing
SRINAGAR, Jan 12:
An Israeli tourist
was injured when he slipped
during skiing while there was no
trace of Norwegian woman skier,
who went missing on January 8
afternoon in Gulmarg.....more
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Dissident BSP
leaders unite
JALANDHAR, Jan
12: Disgruntled leaders
of BSP from Punjab, Himachal
Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir
would establish a separate
political platform to fight the
cause of dalits and expose
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) headed
by UP Chief Minister Mayawati. ...more
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