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Security tightened around foreign missions US Embassy could be suicide squads' target 7/15/2006 8:38:50 PM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI, JULY 15: Pressure on the police and intelligence agencies across Delhi has considerably increased, with growing fears of terrorist strikes on some vital installations, including some foreign missions. Police have tightened security around half a dozen embassies fearing suicide attacks on them. Police sources said that intelligence agencies have cautioned Delhi Police that the US Embassy is the target of some suicide squads that may currently be holed up in the capital or its neighbourhood, where several militant organisations have set up modules. Police are taking intelligence inputs seriously, especially in the wake of Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh's disclosure that his government had received warning about possible attacks in Mumbai. The July 11 serial blasts in Mumbai's suburban trains killed nearly 200 persons, as the police did not act swiftly on the tip off. Delhi Police commissioner, K.K. Paul, has issued instructions to increase security around the diplomatic missions on the terrorist radar. Chanakyapuri-based U...   READ MORE

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Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, is powerful 'Special' persons in J&K under 'technical watch' 7/15/2006 8:38:15 PM From B L KAK NEW DELHI, JULY 15: At least 500 'special' persons in Jammu and Kashmir--majority of them in the Valley--are said to have been listed for 'technical watch'. In plain language, telephones of these 'special' persons are tapped. According to reliable sources, secessionist leaders outnumber others listed for 'technical watch'. Interestingly, at least a dozen leaders of three mainstream political parties in Jammu and Kashmir also find a place in the list. Nor is it all. A few journalists in the troubled State have also been listed for 'technical watch'. Mediapersons in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere in the country are aware that telephone-tapping is part of Indian po...   READ MORE   JBA STRIKE : HIGH COURT SERVES NOTICES TO STATE GOVT ,OTHERS 7/15/2006 8:36:44 PM Jammu, July 15,: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court today issued notices to state government through chief secretary, commissioner/secretary law, bar council of jammu and kashmir, Jammu bar assocaition and union law secretary while hearing a writ petition of the President of Bar Association Jammu Province (BAJP) A K Sawhney seeking inter alia that ongoing lawyers’ strike should be declared as illegal. The notices were issued by Justice JP Singh on Saturday after hearing the writ petition filed by AK Sawhney in the High court on Friday. The petition seeks that strike of the JBA be declared as illegal and Judgment of the Supreme Court of India passed by the five Judges - Constituti...   READ MORE   BJP SUBMITS MEMORANDUM TO PRESIDENT OF INDIA 7/15/2006 8:35:59 PM Jammu,July 15 : The state unit of the BJP on Saturday submitted memorandum to the President of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam through divisional commissioner Jammu urging him not to allow the conversion of Indian state in to a soft state. Through their memorandum the BJP leaders also raised the issue of the abolition of POTA by the UPA government immediately after its installation in May 2004. The BJP leaders said that for parties like Congress the national interests are subservient to the vote politics. The memorandum was submitted by group of senior BJP leaders lead by senior Vice President and MP Rajya Sabha Bala Sahib Apte,State BJP Chief Dr Nirmal Singh,former MLA Ashok Khajuria,Shams...   READ MORE   MEMBERS OF DIVIDED FAMILIES FEAR SUSPENSION OF BUS SERVICES 7/15/2006 8:35:21 PM Jammu, July 15, : The calling-off of secretary level talks between India and Pakistan, scheduled to be held on July 21, have raised fears in the minds of the members of the divided families in Jammu and Kashmir over suspension of bus services on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad and on Poonch-Rawalakot roads. On their part the authorities may have made it clear that the peace process was not being called off neither there has been any announcement in this regard yet panic has gripped members of the divided families looking forward to meet their separated loved ones after a long time. "We want peace should prevail between both the neighbouring countries allowing members of the divided families ...   READ MORE

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