Tenth Plan draft paper okayed
8 pc GDP growth rate is NDC target
New Delhi, September 1
The National Development Council today approved the draft approach paper of the 10th Five Year Plan, which envisages an ambitious 8 per cent GDP growth rate and aims at doubling the per capita income by the end of the Plan period.

Confine role to macro-level management, CMs tell Centre
New Delhi, September 1
Punjab and Haryana today urged the Centre to confine its role to macro-level management of Central schemes and allow their implementation to the states as per their individual requirement.

Pak bid to capture Army post
Jammu, September 1
The Indian troops have foiled a Pakistani plan of capturing an Army post in the Pallanwalla sector touching Sunderbani by killing four militants. The Indian side lost one JCO.

Burqa deadline extended
Srinagar, September 1
As the deadline for women in Kashmir valley to wear burqa was extended by 10 days by militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jabbar, security was beefed up in and around women’s educational institutions as a precautionary measure.

Vajpayee to meet Bush on September 24
New York, September 1
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is expected to hold his first meeting with US President George W. Bush on September 24 and with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf the next day on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session.

Nathpa losses are 5 cr a day
700 staff members declared surplus
Shimla, September 1
Nathpa Jhakri Power Corporation has declared its 700 employees surplus and has asked the Himachal Pradesh Government to repatriate the officials of the HPSEB who were on deputation with it.

1,288 teachers to be shown door Chandigarh, September 1 Though the Punjab Education Department has initiated the process to remove from service 1288 teachers selected wrongly, the relevant orders in this connection will await the return tomorrow of Education Minister Tota Singh from abroad. Informed official sources told The Tribune that the case to remove 1288 teachers had been processed at the highest level in the Education Department.