Naidu to go ahead with meeting
NEW DELHI, Aug 20 — The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr Chandrababu Naidu, seems to have decided to take the Vajpayee government at the Centre head on over the issue of the recommendations of the Eleventh Finance Commission.

Mori arrives in Pak for talks
ISLAMABAD, Aug 20 — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori arrived in Islamabad today for a two-day visit. He is likely to focus on demands that Pakistan freeze nuclear tests as a precondition for resumption of economic aid.

132 crude bombs recovered
KANPUR, Aug 20 — The Kanpur police nabbed 29 more persons during the past 24 hours and recovered 132 crude bombs from their possession, even as the ongoing searches in different parts of the city continued for the fourth day today.

Dr Sihag in TA controversy
KURUKSHETRA, Aug 20 — The Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Kurukshetra University, Dr Hoshiar Singh Sihag, is in trouble. Allegations have been levelled that when he was the Chairman of the Department of Public Administration in 1994 he claimed excess amount as travelling allowance for attending a conference in Berlin.

Rural girls shed inhibitions
HISAR, Aug 20 — A silent revolution is sweeping the countryside in Haryana where a new generation of ruralites is betraying signs of breaking sexual taboos and even indulging licentious behaviour. Reports from rural areas indicate that though the bigger villages situated near towns are more affected the revolution has not spared remote villages either.

 

Deaths up by 500 per cent in 20 years CHANDIGARH, Aug 20 — There has been more than 500 per cent increase in road accident deaths in Punjab during the past 20 years. Against 472 deaths in 1980, nearly 2,800 persons lost their lives while travelling on roads during 1999-2000.