Chamapknagar
(Tripura): At least five people were killed and two
others injured in a militant attack in insurgency- racked
Tripura. The injured have been admitted to a local hospital
in Agartala. The incident occurred on Saturday when some
militants started firing indiscriminately at the tribals
in the remote village of Champaknagar, seven km from Agartala.
"They killed five people in indiscriminate firing," said
Pradeep, an eyewitness. AK Shukla, Deputy Inspector-General
of Ppolice, Tripura, said it was a case of extortion. Police
suspect the involvement of the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF).
The ATTF is one of several insurgent groups fighting for
autonomy or independence in northeast since 1970. The tribal
groups accuse the federal government of plundering the region's
rich natural resources and of flooding the area with outsiders.
J-K
militant killed in eight-hour encounter (Go
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Narkara
(J-K): The Indian army on Sunday killed an Islamic militant
as it battled rebels holed up inside a house in Kashmir.
Officials stormed the house in Nakara village, 40 km from
Srinagar, late on Saturday night, killing the rebel after
a nearly eight-hour encounter. A hunt is on to find his
accomplices, who managed to escape in the nearby forests.
"Our team comprising 20 people cordoned the house where
the militants were hiding. When they tried to escape, our
men killed one of them," Major Anil Kumar, a senior army
officer, said. Nearly a dozen militant groups are fighting
New Delhi's rule in Kashmir. At least 40,000 people have
been killed in the now 15 year-old rebellion India says
is fuelled by Pakistan. Separatist violence continues in
the disputed region despite peace moves between the nuclear
rivals, which came to the brink of a third war over Kashmir
in 2002.
J-K Women's Bill: Deputy CM warns against
'hasty' move (Go
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New
Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Mangat
Ram Sharma has cautioned against any "hasty" move that could
create a communal divide and affect the state's relations
with the rest of the country. Sharma's statement assumes
even as his party Congress continues to lock horns with
alliance partner PDP over the Women's Property Bill. Remaining
firm on his party's decision to oppose the Bill that denies
rights over immovable property in the state to women marrying
non-state subjects, he, however, asserted that differences
over the issue would not have any impact on the coalition
government. Sharma said the matter did not fall under the
purview of Common Minimum Programme (CMP) guiding the ruling
coalition and every constituent had a right to hold individual
views on the Bill.
Six Afghans killed in US air strike (Go
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Kabul:
As many as six Afghan civilians were killed and seven
wounded in a US air strike in Afghanistan's central province
of Uruzgan, the News quoted officials as saying in Kandahar
on Saturday. Many of the casualties in the Friday night
raid on a village were women and children, said a provincial
government official. A local police officer said that six
people had been killed and seven wounded. A Pakistan-based
Afghan news agency said that seven people were killed, including
three women and four men. US military spokesman Lt. Col.
Bryan Hilferty said that he was unaware of any civilian
casualties. He said that US aircraft had pounded suspected
Taliban positions in the area on Friday in retaliation for
the killing of two US soldiers on Thursday. Meanwhile, US
and Afghan troops repelled a major attack on a base on the
Afghan-Pakistan frontier by al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects,
an Afghan military commander said on Saturday.
