Vice President Ansari visits Kargil

September 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ahead of the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen this December, Vice President Hamid Ansari Thursday said any action on global warming must enlarge the possibilities for development of the world's poor. He stressed the importance of equity in the ongoing international debate over how to combat climate change.

July 26th, 2009 DRASS - Soldiers and family members Sunday came together in this border town of Jammu and Kashmir to pay homage to army men killed in the 1999 Kargil war with Pakistan. It was an emotive gathering as parents and siblings of soldiers visited the peaks of Drass where their loved ones perished while fighting to eject Pakistani raiders and camouflaged regular troops.

July 26th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Homage was paid to the martyrs of the 1999 Kargil conflict at the Drass war memorial in Ladakh Sunday. Officers and jawans, as well as families of many of the martyrs, laid wreaths at the war memorial in the morning.

July 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - This July 26, a central minister will take part in commemorations of India's victory in the Kargil conflict after a gap of five years. Defence Minister A.K.

July 7th, 2009 ASTANA - Kazakhstan is "very keen" on Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari visiting the Central Asian republic and is waiting for its next big international event that would give him an opportunity to do so, a top official said. Ansari, in fact, had been personally invited by Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev to attend a just-concluded global faith meet here but could not make it because of his commitments in the Indian parliament, where he is chairman of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the legislature.

July 4th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari on Saturday suggested that the issue of troop withdrawal and revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from Jammu and Kashmir should be left to the Centre. Ansari, who was the chairman of a working group on rehabilitation and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) that recommended withdrawal of security forces and revocation of the AFSPA from Jammu and Kashmir besides rehabilitation of surrendered militants.

July 4th, 2009 JAMMU - Vice President Hamid Ansari Saturday unveiled the memorial of Brigadier Usman, a battle hero of the Indian Army, at Jhangar near the Line of Control (LOC) that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Ansari unveiled the memorial in presence of senior army officials and other civil dignitaries at Jhangar in Rajouri district.

June 20th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari Saturday said here the economy of Jammu and Kashmir, devastated by two decades of militancy, needed to be reconstructed. Addressing the 17th annual convocation of the Kashmir University, Ansari said, The politics of polarization and manipulative practices have no place in our country." He focused his speech on the youth who, he said, constituted 40 percent of the state as also the country's population.

June 20th, 2009 JAMMU - Vice President Hamid Ansari will Sunday visit border posts along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Kargil sector, where Indian and Pakistani forces had engaged in a bitter conflict a decade ago. Official sources here said Ansari will be accompanied by Kashmir Governor N.N.

June 6th, 2009 SRINAGAR - A sixty-two-year old victim of the Kargil war still awaits compensation from the government. Mohammad Ali's leg got completely destroyed when a Pakistani shell hit him in August 2008.

May 15th, 2009 LAHORE - Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has denied reports that he had asked the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif to seek US help during the Kargil war in 1999. In an interview to a private television channel, Musharraf said he had never asked Sharif to talk to the then US President Bill Clinton to 'save the army' during the Kargil war.

April 15th, 2009 SHIMLA - It was a trip down memory lane for Vice President Hamid Ansari, who visited his alma mater St. Edward's School in the Himachal Pradesh capital on Wednesday.

April 13th, 2009 SHIMLA - Vice President Hamid Ansari is all set for a two-day sojourn in this Himachal Pradesh hill town beginning Wednesday. His trip will include a visit to his alma mater St Edward's School.

January 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil, Vice-President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday mourned the death of former president R. Venkataraman and said the nation has lost a true patriot.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and Indonesia Monday discussed the functioning of their parliaments when a 17-member delegation from the Southeast Asian nation called on Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Hamid Ansari.