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| Pak again violates ceasefire, infiltration bid foiled | | | | POONCH: In the third ceasefire violation this month, Pakistani troops today opened indiscriminate firing along Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch sector in which a civilian was injured after an infiltration bid was foiled by Indian troops.
A group of four armed persons from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) were seen moving towards an Indian forward post in Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch district around 0950 hours, PRO defence, S N Acharya, said.
Alert Indian troops took position and opened fire at them, he said, adding they were pushed back towards PoK.
As the infiltration bid was foiled, Pakistani troops opened heavy firing on Indian posts in Mandi, Krishna Ghati and Chakan-Da-Bagh in Poonch sector.
In the firing a civilian was injured in the Poonch sector, Acharya said.
The injured, identified as Mohammad Shafiq, was hit by a splinter near Sher Shakti post in Mandi, reports said. He was shifted to district hospital at Poonch for treatment.
Sher Shakti, PP1 and PP2 in Mandi sector, Kripan and Kranti posts in Krishna Ghati sector and Bahadur, Rekha and Neck posts in Poonch sector also came under firing.
Small arms and 82 mm mortars were fired on Indian posts and Indian troops also retaliated, resulting in exchanges, the PRO added.
Earlier this month, a Junior Commissioned Officer was killed when Pakistan opened heavy fire with automatic weapons and rockets on Indian posts ... |  |
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| Yatra route “highly prone” to terror strikes | | CM chairs UHQ meeting; reviews security, law and order | |  Srinagar: With less than 10 days left for the start of annual Amarnath Yatra, the Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir government said there is a terror threat to the nearly two-month-long pilgrimage and that additional security forces are being deployed to provide safety.
Amid intelligence inputs of terror threat to Amarnath yatra, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today reviewed security arrangements for the annual pilgrimage in southern Himalayas.
Security arrangements for the two-month-long yatra ... |
| | Terror threat to Amarnath Yatra: Shinde | | | |  NEW DELHI: The annual Amarnath Yatra is facing a terror threat and the government is making all efforts to ensure security of the pilgrims, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said today.
"There is terror threat to Amarnath Yatra," Shinde told reporters here when asked about reports which suggested threat to the pilgrimage to the cave shrine in Jammu and Kashmir.
The nearly two-month-long annual Amarnath Yatra is scheduled to begin on June 28.
The Home Minister said the government was taking pr... |
| | Nitish wins trust vote | | | | | PATNA: After dumping ally BJP, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today comfortably won a vote of confidence in his government in the Bihar Assembly amid signals of a new political alignment as Congress backed the motion.
A total of 126 votes, including four of Congress and one of CPI, were cast in favour of the confidence motion while 24, including 22 of Lalu Prasad led RJD, voted against the motion as BJP members staged a walkout before the vote.
Those who voted in favour of the motion included ruling JD(U)'s 117 and four Independents. Besides RJD's 22 MLAs, two Independents also opposed the motion.
Significantly, the Congress support for the government comes two days after Prime Minist... |
| | India concerned over allocation of funds by Pak to JuD | | | | | BAGHDAD: India today raised its concerns over millions of rupees allocated by Pakistan's Punjab province government to Jamat-ud-Dawa-led by Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafeez Saeed, saying New Delhi would "carefully" analyse the matter before taking it up with Islamabad.
"I have seen the (Pakistan's Punjab government's) budget provision that have been made for the Markaz. It's only a budget that has been presented. We have time on our side and we will look into it carefully," External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said here today.
Khurshid, who is here on a two-day visit to Iraq, said, "As advised by the agencies concerned (after analysing it), we will then take up the matter with... |
| | 2 injured in road accident | | | | | Udhampur: Motorcycle rider and a pillon rider was injured when an motorcycle collided with Indica car at Rehamble, District Udhampur on NH1A here today police said .
As per the reports a Motorcycle bearing registration number JK14 B 3966 collided with Indica car bearing registration no JK02 AG 2399 at Rehamble, Udhampur. They were shifted to District hospital Udhampur.The injured were identified as Gagan Kumar S/o Bihari Lal R/o Bus Stand Udhampur, Rashpal S/o Prem Chand R/o Jandrah. Police have registered the case and started investigation.... |
| | Promotions in Law Deptt | | | | | SRINAGAR: Department of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs has ordered promotion of Head Assistant, Tahira Shah as Reporter besides promotion of three junior legal assistants, Jr. Assistant as legal assistants and junior legal assistants, thirteen Senior Assistants and Jr. Assistants as head assistants and officiating promotion of 11 orderlies as Junior assistants.... |
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