 |
Friday,
October
3, 2003,
Chandigarh, India  
|
4
militants among 6 killed Jawan
killed in Pak firing Scrub
typhus alert sounded
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Video
conferencing introduced Leh
council seeks more funds
|
|
4 militants among 6 killed Srinagar, October 2 Two Lashar-e-Toiba militants were killed in an encounter with the security forces in the Sumbal area of Baramulla district today, the police here has said. A house in which the militants were hiding was also gutted in the exchange of fire. Two AK assault rifles, two
UBGLs, nine UBGL grenades, a wireless set and 200 AK assault rifle rounds were seized from the debris of the house. Two militants were killed in an exchange of fire with a joint squad of the police and security forces at Kalakote in Rajouri district yesterday. Two AK assault rifles, three magazines and a wireless set were seized from the site of the encounter. Militants shot Khazir Mohammad after intruding into his house at Waddar Bala in Kupwara district last night. A shopkeeper, Manzoor Ahmad Zargar, was shot by militants at Kreeri in Baramulla district today. The security forces busted a militant hideout at Surankote in Poonch district and seized a bomb from there. Meanwhile reports from Jammu say a Border Security Force constable was injured in a landmine explosion near the Line of Control in the Noushera Sector of Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir. The constable Mona Chand was patrolling the area near a forward defence location
(FDL) last night when the mishap took place. Chand has been hospitalised. |
|
Jawan killed
in Pak firing Jammu, October 2 Pakistani troops used about 120 mortar shells and fired indiscriminately on various forward defence locations and civilian and border fencing areas along the LoC in the
Balakote, Jangard, Kalsia, Makri, Bagyaldara, Chowki Chora, Laam and Krishnagati areas, the sources said. In the firing, on MES jawan,
N.V. Timbara, was killed and another injured in the Balakote area, the sources said. Indian troops fired in retaliation. Meanwhile, Border Security Force personnel and Pakistani Rangers exchanged small arms fire along the international border in the Jammu-Kathua sector this morning, the sources said. “No one was injured or killed in the firing,” they said.
— PTI |
|
Scrub typhus alert sounded Jammu, October 2 “Scrub typhus is a serious disease and is caused by an infected larval mite. The disease is transmitted to man through the bite of an infected mite from rats or mice,” the Deputy Medical Superintendent,
Government Medical College, Mr Yash Pal Sharma, said here. “We have sounded an alert here after confirmed cases of scrub typhus were reported from bordering Solan district in Himachal Pradesh recently,” he said. “Although no scrub typhus case has been detected here there was a possibility of the disease spreading from the neighbouring state,” Dr Sharma said. The symptoms include acute chills and fever, headache, malaise, exhaustion, enlargement of the lymph glands and rashes on the fifth day of illness.
— PTI |
|
J&K remembers
Gandhiji after 28 years Jammu, October 2 It is perhaps after 1975 that the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi has been celebrated on a high scale, particularly in the Kashmir valley. Remembering the national leaders was hardly on the agenda of the government during the regime of the National Conference. The government machinery was on its toes throughout the day as the PDP-Congress coalition government of Mufti Sayeed made it a point to organise a string of functions to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi. The Mufti inaugurated video-conferencing among Srinagar, Jammu, Leh and various other remote areas to improve the efficiency in governance. With this, J&K has become the second state after Andhra Pradesh in the country to introduce e-governance. In another function, while inaugurating the PWD fortnight, the Mufti urged the people to involve themselves in the upkeep of roads which were necessary for the development of the state. He also laid the foundation of a modern complex in Srinagar. The minister of state, Mr Raman Mattoo, announced an additional discount of 5 per cent on khadi products to mark the occasion. so far, the discount was 30 per cent during the anniversary celebrations. Since becoming Chief Minister, the Mufti has taken steps discreetly to make the people of the state remember that they were a part and parcel of India. |
|
Video conferencing introduced Srinagar, October 2 The Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, launched the facility by talking from the Secretariat here to Jammu, Leh and Nuyoma in the frontier region of Ladakh. It will be extended to all district headquarters in phases with the far-flung districts of Kupwara, Poonch and Doda getting top priority, official sources said. They said with this facility easy connectivity had been established with the district administration by cutting long travel, time and cost besides bringing about efficiency. The Chief Minister also inaugurated the smart governance facility.
— PTI |
|
Leh council seeks more funds
Leh, October 2 “We are still being treated as one of the 14 districts of the state as far as the allocation of funds is concerned,” LAHDC Chief Executive Councillor (CEC) Thupstan Tswang said. However, he lauded the coalition government in the state for restoring full powers to the council. Mr Tswang said the people of Ladakh, particularly Leh, were not satisfied with the funds being provided for development work. “Our plan allocation is less than that of Badgam district though our area is much more than the total area of all 13 districts of the state,” he lamented and added the people of Ladakh had been deprived of their rights since Independence. “It was because of this reason that the people revolted against the state and demanded UT status,” the CEC said, adding “we have not yet given up this demand despite the LAHDC being given full powers by the present government.”
— UNI |
 |
| Punjab | Haryana | Jammu & Kashmir | Himachal Pradesh | Regional Briefs | Nation | Editorial | | Business | Sport | World | Mailbag | Chandigarh Tribune | Ludhiana Tribune 50 years of Independence | Tercentenary Celebrations | | 123 Years of Trust | Calendar | Weather | Archive | Subscribe | Suggestion | E-mail | |
In video (
