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12 dead, 100 injured in Pulwama IED blast

     Pulwama (Jammu and Kashmir): At least 12 people were killed and about 100 injured today in an IED explosion in the south Kashmir town of Pulwama. Police sources at the scene of the incident said that a truck fitted with an IED exploded near the town's post office at around 11:30 am. According to senior police officials, the injured have been shifted to various hospitals in ambulances and cars available at the site, which is about 45 km from Srinagar. Police officials and locals also confirmed damage to property, including some temples. The truck is said to have exploded barely 50 metres from a CPRF bunker, close to a school and a post office. Further details were awaited at the time of the filing of this report.

Uphaar cinema fire eighth anniversary (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: Relatives and family members of the country's worst -ever cinema hall fire tragedy today held special prayer ceremony here to remember the victims. It was on this day in 1997, 59 people were choked to death after the Uphaar cinema caught fire leading to a stampede. The cinema hall was engulfed when a generator got overheated bursting in the basement of the building. Men, women and children all scampered to rush out of the cramped hall with only four exits for an audience of over 500. Relatives performed special fire ritual at a memorial set up near the cinema hall. Neelam Krishnamoorthy, President of Association of the victims of Uphaar tragedy, said they could not see any justice in the near future.. Uphaar was owned by Ansals, a leading construction group in the country.

Bardhan to lead CPI team to China (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: A five-member CPI team headed by the party's General Secretary, A B Bardhan, will visit China to hold talks with that country's leadership this week. CPI Secretary D Raja said that apart from meeting senior Chinese leaders, the delegation would visit several regions of China. He further said that Bardhan had been invited by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to visit that country. The visit will conclude on June 21. K Narayana, Member, National Executive and Assistant Secretary of Andhra Pradesh State Council, D Pandiyan, Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Council of the Party, Nisha Sidhu, invitee to the National Council, and leader of National Federation of Indian Women, Rajasthan unit will be the other members of the team going to China.

Police firing kills five, injures 10 (Go To Top)

     Jaipur: Five people were killed and ten were injured in a police firing on the Jaipur-Kota National Highway when some people from Sohella village, while protesting for adequate water, blocked traffic and allegedly started throwing stones at securitymen. The villagers, staging a sit-in on the Highway in Tonk district, paralysed traffic and when police tried to disperse them, they pelted stones at jawans, said Nawdeep Singh, Inspector General of Police (Law and Order). When lathi-charge proved ineffective, police resorted to firing to bring the situation under control in which five people were killed, Mr. Singh added.

Kashmir solution possible within two weeks: Musharraf (Go To Top)

     Kuala Lumpur: Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf on Monday said the solution to the decades old Kashmir issue could be possible within two weeks time, provided, there was a real political will to do it. "I think it can be resolved in two weeks actually, if there is a will and we sit down to discuss the options and reach an agreement. Well two weeks maybe, I just said that, yes, indeed I am very hopeful. The most important thing is to, for the leadership to have the will to reach a conclusion and I see that at this moment, the leadership does have, I think a desire and the will other than the people of both countries who have a desire to finally to resolve this dispute. Therefore I am optimistic that it will be resolved, in a certain time frame", General Musharraf said. The latest statement of Gen. Musharraf has added new hopes for ending the 58-year-old territorial problem, existing between the two neighbours, following peace initiatives by the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan's President. But some optimists have even expressed hope for a final solution within two years. On being asked if he shared such an optimistic viewpoint, Gen.Musharraf said: "Why two years, I think it can be resolved within two weeks if we have the will." "I am just saying two weeks (as an example.) The most important thing is for the leadership to have the will to reach a conclusion," Musharraf told journalists in Kuala Lumpur during a refueling stopover on his way to Australia. "At this moment, the leadership has the will and I am very hopeful," he added. Musharraf said Pakistan and India were negotiating to withdraw troops from the Himalayan glacier of Siachen, the world's highest battlefield, where more soldiers have died from altitude, sub- zero temperatures and accidents than enemy action.

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