Error: [$injector:modulerr]

I am a newbie. Just learning/trying to integrate Angular with my webapp (Java + jQuery+ requireJS). I am not using any router and below is my script. From other stackoverflow I learned that this error is due to missing inclusion of ngRoute module. Since version 1.1.6 it's a separate part. But in my below code I am not at all using any ngRouter. When I am not referencing it why am I getting this error ?

Error: [$injector:modulerr] Failed to instantiate module counter due to: [$injector:nomod] Module 'counter' is not available! You either misspelled the module name or forgot to load it. If registering a module ensure that you specify the dependencies as the second argument. http://errors.angularjs.org/1.2.11/$injector/nomod?p0=counter

Template:

<ul ng-app="counter" ng-controller="counterController">
<li>
   <span class="ui-button-text" ng-bind="critical"></span>
</li>
<li>
   <span class="ui-button-text" ng-bind="error"></span>
</li>
<li>
   <span class="ui-button-text" ng-bind="warn"></span>
</li>
<li>
   <span class="ui-button-text" ng-bind="note"></span>
</li>
</ul>

JS

requirejs.config({
  paths : {  angular: "/js/lib/angular/angular.min" },
  shim : {  "angular": {  deps: [ "jquery"],  exports: "angular" } }
});

require(["angular", "jquery"],function() {

var module = angular.module('counter', []);

module.controller('CounterController', function ($scope, $http, $timeout) {
    $scope.critical = 0;
    $scope.error = 0;
    $scope.warn = 0;
    $scope.note = 0;

    function setData(d){
        $scope.critical = d.critical;
        $scope.error = d.error;
        $scope.warn = d.warn;
        $scope.note = d.note;
    }

    var getCounters = function() {
        var config = {headers: {
                'X-MY-Request': (new Date()).getMilliseconds()
            }
        };

        $http.get('xxxxxxx', config)
                .success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
            setData(data);
            $timeout(getCounters, 60000);
        }).error(function(data, status, headers, config) {
            // Handle the error
        });

    }


    $timeout(getCounters, 500);
});