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Monday, March 8, 1999, Chandigarh, India

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Sonia rejects PM's request on Bihar
NEW DELHI, March 7 — Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today made a last-ditch attempt to persuade Congress to shed its opposition to parliamentary approval of the statutory resolution on the imposition of President’s rule in Bihar but Congress President Sonia Gandhi rejected the plea.

Bhai Ranjit's sack imminent
AMRITSAR, March 7 — Bhai Ranjit Singh, suspended Jathedar of Akal Takht, is likely to be dismissed shortly as he has categorically refused to clarify his position in response to the show cause notice served on him by executive committee members.

Badal's no to Tohra's offer
CHAKSUHALAWALA (Jalalabad), March 7 — Shiromani Akali Dal president and Parkash Singh Badal today declined the offer of SGPC President Gurcharan Singh Tohra regarding his (Mr Tohra) resignation from the presidentship of the SGPC.

Tohra calls meeting at Jind
AMRITSAR, March 7 — Mr Gurcharan Singh Tohra, SGPC president, has reportedly convened an emergency meeting of his loyalists in the SGPC executive on March 14 at Jind in Haryana to play the next course of action.

Policemen carry away bodies of Air Force personnel killed in a plane crash near the Delhi Airport on Sunday. — AFP

22 die in IAF plane crash
NEW DELHI, March 7 — On a day when the Indian Air Force was flexing its muscles at the "Vayushakti-99" display at the Pokhran deserts, 22 persons including 19 men from the force were killed when an AN-32 transport aircraft crashed near the Indira Gandhi International Airport this morning.

Pilot error likely
The lucky ones
List of the dead

March unlucky for AN-32
CHANDIGARH, March 7 — The month of March continues to be unlucky for AN-32 aircraft of Indian Air Force. Of the seven major accidents in which these transport aircraft have been involved since 1986, four took place in March and one in April .

Delhi girl is Shimla Queen
SHILON BAGH (Shimla) March 7 — Sanhati, a fashion designer from Delhi, was crowned Shimla Queen at a glittering ceremony, which resurrected the historic beauty pageant after a lapse of 15 years, at Shilon Resort here last night.

Shimla Queen Sanhati is flanked by first runners-up Sulakshna (left) and second runners-up Neha at the beauty pageant revived in Shimla after 15 years on Saturday night. — Tribune photo by Pankaj Sharma

Landslides block national highway
SRINAGAR, March 7 — The 300-Km Srinagar-Jammu national highway was closed for the traffic today following landslides triggered by heavy rainfall and snow which lashed the Kashmir valley since last evening.

Living in shadow of death
KARGIL, March 7 — The entire 75,000 Shia population of Kargil district in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir has been living in the shadow of death for the past more than two years just because they defied Pakistani machinations of supporting militancy.

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