India, Pak vow to resolve Kashmir issue
Determined to implement Simla accord; New CBMs announced
New Delhi, June 28
India and Pakistan today held a “structured” bilateral dialogue on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir after a gap of six years and proposed to each other a range of new Confidence Building Measures (CBMs), including Kashmir-specific CBMs.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (right) welcomes Pakistani Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokar before a meeting in New Delhi, on Monday.
— AFP photo

Highlights

PM briefed on J&K situation
New Delhi, June 28
Even as India and Pakistan took a step forward in the peace talks by announcing various Confidence Building Measures here, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was for the first time briefed about the prevailing ground situation in Jammu and Kashmir here today.

New signals from Pakistan News Analysis by K. Subrahmanyam — A noted commentator on Security Affairs The joint statement issued at the end of the two days of talks by the Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan continues to mark the improvement in Indo-Pakistan relations which was evident in the earlier nuclear CBM statement a week ago.

Tarlochan, Ajay Chautala make it to Rajya Sabha
Kiran Choudhary of the Congress defeated
Chandigarh, June 28
Mr Ajay Singh Chautala of the INLD and Mr Tarlochan Singh, Chairman of the National Minorities Commission, were elected to the Rajya Sabha from Haryana here today. Mr Tarlochan Singh, who contested as an Independent candidate, was supported by the INLD, the BJP, the BSP and three Independent candidates.

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All 5 accused in post-Godhra Derol massacre arrested
Vadodara, June 28
The police today claimed to have arrested all the five accused in the post-Godhra Derol massacre in which a mob killed 10 members of a family.

Four sentenced to death
Nainital, June 28
A district court today awarded death sentence to four youths for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl. The district court Judge, Mr R.K. Sharma, describing the case as “rarest of rare” said the four deserved death penalty because the girl involved in the case was a minor.

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