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Police identifies two pits near LoC, exhumation of bodies soon Rajouri missing person’s case 3/7/2007 10:58:00 PM RAJOURI, MARCH 7 The special police team probing into missing of three persons of village Kotdhara of border district of Rajouri since October 1997 has identified two graves about 500 meters to the other side of the fence near Kancha post in Peer Badaser area after a day long exercise on Tuesday. The graves were identified and marked on the information of the relatives and some informers of security forces who were picked up by the police for interrogation. “The exhumation process will be carried with in days in presence of Magistrate and DNA experts”, Deputy Superintendent headquarters Rajouri, K S Jasrotia who heads the investigating team told News Agency of Kashmir. The investigations were taken up on the directions of Deputy Commissioner Rajouri Parvez Ahmed Malik after the Kins of missing persons of village Kotdhara in Rajouri district lodged a written complaint. The relatives of the missing persons have alleged that on 9 October 1997 the troops of 18 Dogra than stationed at Keeri sector picked up three persons from village Kotdhara who never returned back to their ...   READ MORE

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Deceptive face practices deceit on Parliament Congress MP from Tezpur comes under fire 3/7/2007 10:34:52 PM BL KAK NEW DELHI, MARCH 7 The Congress high command appears in a fix, unable to take on the main political foe, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) within and outside Parliament. A piquant problem has been created for the Congress leadership following the startling revelation about Moni Kumar Subha, Congress MP from Tezpur, being a Nepali citizen. Subha has fooled authorites in India for 16 years and managed to set up a business empire and hold public office in this country. Well-known television channel, CNN-IBN, has just claimed to be in the possession of vital documents showing that Subha is a Napalese citizen and that he has lied about his age, place of birth and education. Over...   READ MORE   First base in Tajikistan ready for operations India's power projection for a leap forward 3/7/2007 10:34:16 PM NEW DELHI, MARCH 7 An event of much significance: India's first base in Central Asia is ready to begin operations soon. The base is at Ayni in Tajikistan. Clearly, India's power projection into the region is poised for a leap forward. While refurbishment of the Ayni base is reported to have been completed, India's Chiefs of Staff Committee has given its go-ahead. At present, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is waitng for the green signal from the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) to begin operations from the Ayni base, which is about 10 km northeast of the Tajik capital Dushanbe. India has become the fourth country--after Russia, the USA and Germany--to have a base in Central Asia...   READ MORE   Congress is in a practical dilemma BJP considers major change in strategy 3/7/2007 10:32:56 PM BL KAK NEW DELHI, MARCH 7 Major political parties, national and regional, are getting ready for a big fight in Uttar Pradesh (UP). Even as the country's oldest political formation, better known as Congress party, finds itself in a practical dilemma in view of the groupism within the party, 10 Janpath, which is the abode of Sonia Gandhi, has sent out a signal informing the party cadres in and outside UP about the high command's readiness for the upcoming battle of the ballot. At the same time, visibly excited and encouraged by its success in Punjab and Uttarakhand, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is contemplating a major change in its plan for poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. Realising tha...   READ MORE

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