PM to attend SAARC meeting
CCS decisions today
New Delhi, December 26
With Defence Minister George Fernandes unable to reach back in time from his Christmas day stay with the troops stationed in Siachen, the strategically important meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security in which the government was expected to take some Pakistan-related decisions will now be held tomorrow.
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Govt to sell  stake in IBP, VSNL, ITDC
New Delhi, December 26
The government tonight decided to sell stake by January 2002 in IBP Company, VSNL and 11 hotels of the ITDC and Hotel Corporation of India, but deferred the privatisation of loss-making Hindustan Copper till its financial restructuring.

BBMB: Punjab may lose control
Ropar, December 26
In a move that could eliminate the quota of Punjab employees in the Bhakra Beas Management Board, the Finance Department, Punjab, in a letter today, directed all departments of the state to recall their employees who had either completed five years of service in the BBMB or had just two years left for retirement.

Fatehgarh Sahib, December 26 Today same slogans, which were raised five years, ago, echoed at the historic Jor Mela here. SAD suffers setback as AISSF (U) splits

SGPC opts for open auction
Hires top agency to audit accounts
Fatehgarh Sahib, December 26
The SGPC appears to be “infatuated” with the information technology as it has decided to go for computerisation, besides opting for one of the country’s best auditing agency in an endeavour to introduce complete transparency in its financial affairs.

Economy is Congress poll plank Fatehgarh Sahib, December 26 The PPCC chief, Capt Amarinder Singh, while addressing a gathering at Shaheedi Jor Mela here today, said the main issues in the coming Assembly poll would be corruption and the shattered economy of the state. The PPCC chief, Capt Amarinder Singh, and the CLP leader, Ch Jagjit Singh, wave to party workers during the Congress rally at Fatehgarh Sahib on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph