Wednesday, June 4, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Heat wave kills 49, toll 1,094 New Delhi, June 3 Heat wave intensified in several parts of the country today claiming 49 lives, mostly in the worst-hit Andhra Pradesh, to take the toll so far to 1,094. In video (28k, 56k)

BREAKING NEWS Pilot dies in MiG-21 crash New Delhi, June 4 An Indian Air Force MiG-21 fighter aircraft crashed shortly after taking off this morning killing the pilot, sources here said.

Monsoon likely by June 10 Punjab page: Heat wave claims two lives NCR Tribune: Delhi continues to sizzle

With most of the water sources having dried up because of the heatwave, men fill buckets with water from a 150-year-old well in Bhopal on Tuesday. — AFP photo

Riot widows ‘detained’ near Nawanshahr
Beerowal (Nawanshahr), June 3
About 500 members of the Danga Pirat Welfare Society, who were accompanying the “shaheedi jatha” comprising five widows selected for self-immolation in front of the Punjab Chief Minister’s residence at Chandigarh this afternoon, were virtually put under “house arrest” at a gurdwara here for more than three hours by the district administration with the help of the police this morning.

Female members of the “Sikh Danga Pirat Welfare Society” on the Beerowal Gurdwara premises where they were “detained” by the Nawanshahr police on Tuesday. — Photo S.S. Chopra

Editorial: Shame of ’84