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Separatist leaders under house arrest

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:51:36 -0400

By Yusuf Jameel Srinagar Aug. 8: Almost all prominent Kashmiri separatist leaders were on Friday placed under house arrest or detained while attempting to relocate to the

‘Hindu groups distrupted law, order in J&K’

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:52:08 -0400

BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SRINAGAR Aug. 8: Kashmir’s chief Muslim cleric and leader of his faction of the separatist Hurriyat Conference alliance, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has alleged

Jammu, two more areas under siege

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:52:34 -0400

BY SHUCHISMITA Jammu Aug. 8: The entire Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts in Jammu region are under siege with the Army plugging entry points of almost every

Taslima back in India after Sweden exile

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:51:06 -0400

BY PARWEZ HAFEEZ and NAMRATA BIJI AHUJA KOLKATTA/NEW DELHI Aug. 8: The Marxist administration in West Bengal does not want Taslima Nasreen back in Kolkata. The West Bengal

Cong gives clean chit to Vohra

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:48:56 -0400

New Delhi: Rejecting the demand of its Jammu MLAs and the BJP to recall Jammu and Kashmir governor N.N. Vohra, the Congress on Friday gave

All-party team in Jammu today

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:49:24 -0400

By Our Correspondent New Delhi Aug. 8: An 18-member all-party delegation headed by Union home minister Shivraj Patil, including five other union ministers, will visit Jammu and

Ramadoss champions gay rights

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:49:54 -0400

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT New Delhi Aug. 8: The homosexual community has found a friend in Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss, who has expressed strong support for deletion

Student beaten up for seeking info under RTI

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:50:18 -0400

BY SONAL KELLOGG New Delhi Aug. 8: Mohsin, a Class 9 student, feared that seeking information under the RTI Act could pose a physical threat to him.

‘No force can stop me from becoming PM’

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:25:08 -0400

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT New Delhi Aug. 8: BSP supremo Mayawati has said that no force can stop her from becoming the Prime Minister if "sarv samaj (all

In death too, Surjeet got PM, Karat together

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:27:19 -0400

BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI Aug. 8: Comrade Harkishan Surjeet Singh, who is widely regarded as the architect of coalition politics, brought friends-turned-foes together again even