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Sonia's Kashmir visit postponed
Two arrested with heroin worth Rs.1 crore
Two men mowed by speeding truck in Noida
Bhatkal at wedding during Pune blast, family releases video
Above 90,000 under-trials released in three months
Soldiers run amok in Assam village, try to rape minors
Chidambaram acted in haste in congratulating Maha ATS?
Muslim candidates should take civil services as mission: Shah Faesal
Shopian doctors charged with fudging to defame security forces

Posted: 27 May 2010 10:49 AM PDT

By Sheikh Imran Bashir, AIP

Srinagar: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has cancelled her proposed visit to Srinagar but she will visit the winter capital Jammu.

No reasons were given for the sudden change in Gandhi's programme.

However, official sources said that Gandhi will visit Jammu May 29.

In Jammu, she is scheduled to inaugurate a tribal cultural centre of the Gujjar community and also address a rally.

She will be accompanied by Prithviraj Chavan, minister of state in the Prime Minister's office and union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad.

Two arrested with heroin worth Rs.1 crore

Posted: 27 May 2010 10:16 AM PDT

By IANS

Lucknow: Two drug peddlers have been arrested with heroin worth Rs.1 crore in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district, police said Thursday.

"Sultan Ahmad and Zakir Hussain were nabbed early Thursday in Dhampur area while they were going to hand over the consignment to their clients," police inspector Mahesh Chandra told reporters in Bijnor, some 400 km from Lucknow.

He said the two revealed that they have been dealing in drugs for over last six years and had their clients in several states including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh.

Two men mowed by speeding truck in Noida

Posted: 27 May 2010 10:15 AM PDT

By IANS

Noida: Two men were mowed down by a speeding truck here Thursday, police said.

The accident occurred in the afternoon on National Highway-24 opposite CISF compound in Indirapuram.

Siddharth, 24, and Sayyad, 25, both plumbers working with a private construction company in Sector 60, were crushed when they came under the truck, police said.

Their colleague Gulzar, 27, sustained injuries and was rushed to the Fortis Hospital where his condition was said to be critical.

Bhatkal at wedding during Pune blast, family releases video

Posted: 27 May 2010 05:46 AM PDT

By TCN News,

Mangalore: The family of Abdul Samad Bhatkal, who was arrested on May 24 in connection with the Pune German Bakery blast of February 13, 2010, has made public the video of a wedding in Mangalore wherein Bhatkal is seen serving food to guests.

Above 90,000 under-trials released in three months

Posted: 27 May 2010 04:40 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: More than 90,000 under-trials have been released from country jails. Under the Mission Mode Programme of National Mission for Delivery of Justice and Legal Reforms, these under-trials have been either discharged or granted bail from custody.

At the instance of Union Law and Justice Minister, Dr. Veerappa Moily, the National Mission for Delivery of Justice and Legal Reforms was started to reduce the number of cases of under-trials and to reduce congestion in jails.

Soldiers run amok in Assam village, try to rape minors

Posted: 27 May 2010 03:43 AM PDT

By Waliullah Ahmed Laskar for TwoCircles.net,

Chidambaram acted in haste in congratulating Maha ATS?

Posted: 27 May 2010 02:25 AM PDT

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,

Mumbai: With Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) securing remand of Abdul Samad Bhatkal in an arms case, not in the Pune blast case as the interrogators could not get much in 24 hours of questioning, it seems Home Minister P Chidambaram has acted in a haste in congratulating the ATS for arresting 'Pune prime suspect.'

Muslim candidates should take civil services as mission: Shah Faesal

Posted: 27 May 2010 12:00 AM PDT

By TCN News,

New Delhi: Muslim candidates should not opt for civil services as a job, rather a mission, said IAS topper of this year Shah Faesal addressing at the first training workshop of Zakat Foundation of India's 2011 batch of civil services aspirants. ZFI has selected 28 candidates from across the country for Prelim of 2011 civil services exam.

Faesal, the first Kashmiri youth to top India's most prestigious exam, said "Muslim youths take consider civil services as a difficult task but I think they should accept it as a challenge."

Shopian doctors charged with fudging to defame security forces

Posted: 26 May 2010 11:19 PM PDT

By IANS,

Srinagar : The Jammu and Kashmir government has charged the team of doctors who carried out autopsies on two women in south Kashmir's Shopian town last May with fudging evidence to defame the police and the security forces.

"It had been found that the accused doctors fabricated and fudged the slides with an objective of defaming the police and security forces thereby violating Rule 3 of J&K Employees Act 1971," says a state government chargesheet against the doctors.