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Monday, May 12, 2008

LATEST UPDATE NEWS (16:20 IST)

Militant killed in Samba encounter

JAMMU, One more militant was gunned down today by the army troops in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir as the army intensified search operation to track down some more infiltrators in the area, official sources here said......more

Azad hopeful of Pak help to curb infiltration

SRINAGAR, May As the State witnesses infiltration bids from across the border, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said he was concerned over the issue and hoped that the new Government in Pakistan would cooperate with India to resolve it. ......more

Samba encounter does not augur well for
peace in J&K: Abdullah

NEW DELHI : Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah today said incidents like Samba encounter, which left six people dead, did not augur well for establishing permanent peace in the State......more

Telecom signals roving across border may
halt expansion work

NEW DELHI : Telecom companies in Jammu and Kashmir may have to halt their expansion programmes, as the state police and other security agencies have denied them permission to install antennas near the border until equipment to block the flow of signal across the border was installed......more

 

Void in our hearts

S. D. Rohmetra

There is a void in our hearts. We in Daily Excelsior feel as if a part of our body and soul has gone. The genial figure of Ashok Sodhi will no more be walking up and down the corridors of this newspaper. No more will he enter my room to discuss daily assignments. He had followed this routine for 26 years thus growing up with us. A quarter of a century is a long enough period to closely know a person.....more

Bodies of two militants killed in day long encounter at Samba and Army jawans in action during the gun battle on Sunday.
Bodies of two militants killed in day long encounter at Samba and Army jawans in action during the gun battle on Sunday.

Two Pak militants eliminated after day long gun-battle in Samba
Ashok, Hoshiar Singh, 2 jawans among 8 killed
First casualty of fourth estate in Jammu region
Major, SP Ops, BSF SI, 2 civilians among 18 injured
Question mark on BSF’s claim of thwarting infiltration bid

By Sanjeev Pargal

JAMMU, May 11: Eight persons including Daily Excelsior chief photographer Ashok Sodhi, prominent leader from Samba Hoshiar Singh and his wife, a woman, two Army jawans and two...more

Militancy takes toll of 9 journalists

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 11: The killing of Daily Excelsior chief photographer Ashok Sodhi while covering an encounter between militants and security forces today brings to nine the number of prominent newspersons killed in the State in the last 18 years of militancy....more

Camera wielding valient soldier attains martyrdom
Sea of humanity bid adieu to Ashok Sodhi

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 11: Although he had not adorned olive uniform, however, he always remained valiant soldier of the State in ‘shooting’ the nefarious designs of the anti-national elements during the two decades long insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir besides prevalent social evils.....more

Central university, IIM for J&K

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, May 11: Jammu & Kashmir will soon have a Central university and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) even as the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has also agreed to set up a campus of the National University for Scheduled Tribes in the State......more

Call for bandh today

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 11: All political parties gave a bandh call for tomorrow in protest against the infiltration by militants into the State from Samba sector leading to killing of several innocent people and termed it a major security lapse on the part of Border Security Force (BSF) and the Government.....more

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