|  | Amarinder
        rushes to DelhiAmritsar, January 27
 On receiving an SOS from the party high command, Capt Amarinder Singh,
        Chief Minister, today rushed to Delhi, cancelling all engagements at
        Jalandhar and Moga.
 Punjab
        to abolish octroi soonBathinda, January 27
 The Punjab Government will abolish
        octroi shortly, as promised by the Congress in its election manifesto.
        Stating this here today, the Chairman, High-Powered Finance Committee,
        Punjab, Mr Surinder Singla, said the Punjab Government was exploring
        other ways for municipal councils to generate income.
 BJP opposes POTA against
        MLALucknow, January 27
 The Uttar Pradesh Government’s decision to invoke POTA against jailed Independent legislator Raghuraj Pratap Singh, alias Raja Bhaiyya and his father Udai Pratap Singh has turned into a major political controversy with the BJP, major ally of the BSP in the state government, demanding immediate withdrawal of this Act.
 
  In video (28k,
        56k) 
 
 
      
        | Gurdwara
        panel holds 22 SGPC appointments voidAmritsar, January 27
 The two-member Gurdwara Judicial
        Commission, comprising Mr Kashmir Singh Patti (president) and Mr Raghbir
        Singh (member) today declared 22 posts of the Shiromani Gurdwara
        Parbandhak Committee as ‘null and void’. These posts were filled by
        giving “undue promotions” in violation of bylaws of the Sikh
        Gurdwara Act 1925.
 |  | 
  
 
          
            |  | Fresh threat to
    Bathinda refinery January 26, 2003
 |  
            |  | India, France sign extradition treaty January 25, 2003
 |  
            |  | Pak
    expels four Indian staffers January 24, 2003
 |  
            |  | Four
    Pak Mission staffers expelled January 23, 2003
 |  
            |  | Nod to
    jail term for insulting Tricolour January 22, 2003
 |  
            |  | Pak cops harass
    diplomat again January 21, 2003
 |  
            |  | Indian diplomat harassed in Pak January 20, 2003
 |  
            |  | LeT turning global January 19, 2003
 |  
            |  | Cabinet reshuffle in 2 phases likely January 18, 2003
 |  
            |  | Shinde
    to replace Deshmukh January 17, 2003
 |  |