JAMMU
:(21: 50
IST) Jammu
and Kashmir government
today said that 1,608
cases of trespassing and
encroachment of
properties belonging to
Kashmir Pundits have been
detected in the Valley...more
NEW
DELHI : (21: 50
IST) Barely
four months after heavy
turnout during the
assembly elections in
militancy hit Jammu and
Kashmir, the state will
again go for a five-phase
polls for the Lok Sabha
starting April 16...more
JAMMU:(17: 52
IST) As
the Lok Sabha elections
are on the anvil, the
Kashmir centric leaders
and the Members of the
Legislative Assembly
today collided over the
issues of self-rule and
autonomy in the House of
the ongoing Assembly
session here....more
SRINAGAR
: (17: 40
IST) Lt
General S K Singh today
assumed the command of 14
Corps based at Leh, which
faces Pakistan and China
in the most rugged and
snow terrain. ....more
JAMMU:(15:40
IST) Dissatisfied
with a minister’s
reply to a question, the
BJP members today staged
a walkout from the Jammu
and Kashmir Assembly.
Replying to a question of
BJP MLA Master Lal Chand,
minister incharge for
social welfare Ali
Mohammad Sagar said
during zero...more
JAMMU,
Mar 1: The
NC-Congress coalition is
pretty safe on six seats
for election to Upper
House and could wrest two
more if the Opposition
remained divided in the
election for nine posts
of MLCs scheduled for
March 7. As the coalition
has fielded bigwigs on
all eight seats, it was
confident of winning all
of them. One out of nine
seats is certain to go to
PDP going by the
party’s strength in
the Assembly. PCC (I)
president and Union
Minister for Water
Resources Prof
Saif-ud-Din Soz is
arriving here tomorrow to
devise the party strategy
for JMC Mayor and Deputy
Mayor elections and Upper
House poll. He is
scheduled to have a
luncheon meeting with
Corporators and
legislators...more
NEW
DELHI, Mar 1: The
Election Commission is
all set to announce the
schedule for the Lok
Sabha elections in the
next couple of days. EC
sources said that an
early announcement was
expected as the
multi-phased elections
would require the
mandatory margin for
issue of notification and
campaign.....more
KOLKATA,
Mar 1:Keeping up the
pressure on Pakistan to
stop terrorist activities
originating from its
soil, External Affairs
Minister Pranab Mukherjee
today said Islamabad has
to cooperate fully to
bring to justice those
responsible for the 26/11
Mumbai terror attack.
"Pakistan must
dismantle the
infrastructure used by
terrorist organisations
in its territory to root
out terrorism from the
region," Mukherjee
said inaugurating an
international conference
on ‘Cooperative
development, peace and
security in south and
central Asia’ here
today......more
JAMMU,
Mar 1:
Authorities in Rural
Development Department
today ordered transfer
and postings of 32 Block
Development Officers
(BDOs).Muddasir Latif
Tasir, BDO (probationer)
has been transferred and
posted as BDO Ramban vide
Tariq Sohrawardy, who has
been posted as Incharge
BDO Dansal vice Gh Ali
Bhat, who will report to
the Directorate of Rural
Development Jammu....more
JAMMU,
Mar 1:
People's Democratic Party
(PDP) president Mehbooba
Mufti has said the
reiteration of trust by
the people of the State
in the democratic means
for the resolution of the
State’s problems has
opened a new window of
opportunity for amicable
and permanent settlement
of the Kashmir issue.
Interacting with the
visiting delegation of
the European Union
Commission led by Daniele
Smadja, here this
evening, Mehbooba said
given its strategic
location, the State has a
pivotal role in forging a
new economic alliance in
the region for which
resolution of the problem
is a fundamental
requirement. She,
however, said that to
make it sustainable, the
resolution package has
to, simultaneously,
address both the external
and internal complexities
of the issue. .....more
JAMMU,
Mar 1: A
Special Police Officer
(SPO) was shot dead by
militants at Kastigarh in
Doda district last night.
He has been identified as
Fallail Singh, a resident
of Kastigarh. Official
sources said the SPO had
been attached with 10
Rashtriya Rifles and was
on a ‘secret
mission’ to locate a
hide-out of the militants
in upper reaches of
Kastigarh when he was
kidnapped by the
militants of
Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)
outfit last evening.....more
SRINAGAR,
Mar 1:
An overground worker
(OGW) of Hizbul
Mujahideen militant
outfit was arrested from
Pulwama district in South
Kashmir while an
unidentified person was
found dead in Soura area
of the city, a police
spokesman said here
today. "Pulwama
Police has apprehended
one OGW of Hizbul
Mujahideen from Pulwama
district town, the
spokesman said adding the
arrested person has been
identified as Farooq
Ahmad Dar son of Abdul
Khaliq, resident of
Pakherpora.....more
JAMMU,
Mar 1:
One hundred and fifty
bags cement of Police
Housing Corporation (PHC)
was seized by police
tonight at Babliana under
the jurisdiction of
Satwari police station
where it was being sold
in black-market at the
rate of Rs 200 per bag. A
head constable driver of
police, who was driving
the truck, has been
arrested while a hunt was
on to nab construction
division officials
involved in
black-marketing of the
cement. The cement was
meant for construction of
district headquarters in
Samba.....more
