INDIC NATIONAL PICK

A MERE SLOGAN: India never does much but talk - only talk - of old riots; for it pays politically to do that

THE FIRST STEP IS HIM:Terror infrastructure in Pak would stay till likes of Hafiz Saeed are free

Govt. & Politics

In an open letter to Indians, Gujarat CM Narendra Modi says that he was not summoned by the Special Investigation Team probing the post-Godhra riots on March 21, as reported by the media.

• Nitish Kumar to embark on Bihar Diwas celebrations
• Rajnath Singh meets Nepalese PM
• Kerala Government orders probe into bomb found inside Kingfisher flight
• Kashmir is an integral part of India: Gadkari
• Congress slams Narendra Modi on not appearing before SIT

J & K Samachar

Security forces gunned down a district commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen terror outfit in a fierce gun battle that continued for hours between the two sides in Pulwama district’s Awantipora area.

• Border Roads Organisation trying its best to open Srinagar-Leh Highway
• Self-earning schemes initiated for militancy victims in Jammu and Kashmir
• Omar Abdullah says Pakistan wants to keep the pot of militancy boiling
• Jammu and Kashmir Government launches disaster awareness drive
• Chaos inside Jammu and Kashmir Assembly

North-East Diary

Suspected Maoists shot dead a trader at Kotam village in Jharkhand’s Gumla district on Sunday.

• Maoists blow up railway tracks in West Bengal during 48-hour shutdown
• Maoists release nine hostages in Jharkhand
• Maoists kidnap five in Jharkhand
• Maoists trigger blast killing two in Chhattisgarh
• Two arrested militants brought back to Manipur

India Round Up

The Goa Civic and Consumer Action Network (GOACAN) will on Monday highlight the theme of the World Water Day ‘Importance of water quality’ eyeing upon conveying the message to consumers to get involved in protecting water quality.

• Five drug peddlers nabbed in Amritsar
• Maoists call for two-day shutdown in six states
• Environmentalists slam Hindustan Unilever for polluting forest range in Tamil Nadu
• Punjab farmers worried over absence of food grains storages
• Plantation drive to save ‘Chinar tree’ in Jammu and Kashmir