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Shiv Sunder Das dives to his left to catch England's Mark Ramprakash as bowler Harbhajan Singh (back to camera), V.V.S. Laxman, at slip, and wicketkeeper Deep Dasgupta look on during the first day's play of the first Test between India and England at the PCA Stadium in SAS Nagar on Monday.  — Tribune photo Pankaj Sharma

• World page: 5 Palestinians shot; Hamas protest
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Badal raring to hit campaign trail
New Delhi, December 3
A convalescing Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal gave the thumbs-up sign here this evening to launch an all-out offensive in gearing up for the Assembly elections in the state scheduled to be held in the first quarter of next year.

• Punjab page: SAD to give priority to youth
  

Charges against cops have basis
PCI panel report on attacks on journalists
New Delhi, December 3
A fact-finding committee appointed by the Press Council of India on police attacks on journalists in Chennai from June 26 onwards has concluded that the allegations made against the police are “not without substance”.

Pvt college students in quandary Chandigarh, December 3 Uncertainty over the schedule of the half-yearly December examinations in aided and unaided private colleges of Punjab and Chandigarh, scheduled to begin tomorrow, is weighing heavy on the minds of the students with the teachers going on strike by courting arrest in Chandigarh today.