Monday, September 2, 2002, Chandigarh, India
 Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

APHC defers decision
People’s Conference activists raise slogans
Srinagar, September 1
The separatist amalgam Hurriyat Conference today deferred till tomorrow a decision on a possible disciplinary action against one of its constituents Peoples Conference leaders Sajaad and Bilal Lone for their party’s dummy candidates’ participation in the Assembly elections.

    George meets DFP chief Shabir Shah

Hurriyat leaders (from left to right) Mirwaiz Moulvi Umer Farooq, Prof Abdul Gani Bhat (Chairman) and Javid Ahmad Mir at the amalgam’s general council meeting to discuss the issue of dummy candidates fielded by the People’s Conference at the APHC headquarters, Rajbagh, in Srinagar on Sunday. — PTI photo

Organ sale scandal gets murkier
UK Sikh died during kidney transplant: report
London, September 1
The scandal over the sale of kidneys by Indian donors to British patients took a twist today, with a report saying that a British Sikh patient died during a kidney transplant in Jalandhar. The report in The Sunday Times also points to the prevalence of sale of kidneys in India, by poor people as a means of meeting debts.

Back in saddle, George hits out
Seeks review of govt functioning
New Delhi, September 1
Defence Minister George Fernandes, after assuming charge of the dissidence-ridden Samata Party, today sought to clarify the disinvestment controversy related to PSUs like HPCL and BPCL, hitting out at his critics, accusing them of spreading lies.
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Chautala ‘shielding’ Ravi Kant
Chandigarh, September 1
Mr Pratap Singh, a former MLA and younger brother of Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, alleged today that his brother was sheltering Mr Ravi Kant Sharma, IPS, the prime suspect in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, because he (Mr Chautala) “wants to spite the Delhi police”.

Ravi in flood, villages cut off
Pathankot, September 1
Most of the villages situated on the bank of the Ravi on the border belt have got disconnected from the rest of Gurdaspur district due to heavy rain in this subdivision. These villages fall in the Narot Jaimal Singh block.

2 children killed in indiscriminate firing House of peon in poll office attacked Srinagar, September 1 Two minor children of an employee at the Poonch district election office were killed and their third minor sibling was injured in indiscriminate firing by unidentified gunmen late last night. Elsewhere in the state, three security personnel and as many militants were among seven persons killed while security forces captured two militants during the past 24 hours.