Monday, June 9, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Cops descend on Talhan
Tension mounts after fresh violence
 Jalandhar, June 8
While life in most parts of this violence-torn city is limping back to normalcy, the situation in the Dalit-dominated Talhan village, 12 km from here, continues to be tense after a fresh incidence of caste violence there this morning.

Cong’s ‘healing touch’ to woo Dalits
 Rinwa wants Central team to visit Jalandhar
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Heavy police deployment outside Baba Nihal Singh Gurdwara during curfew at Talhan village in Jalandhar on Sunday. Heavy police deployment outside Baba Nihal Singh Gurdwara during curfew at Talhan village in Jalandhar on Sunday.
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Panel yet to begin probe
Jalandhar, June 8
Even 72 hours after its constitution by Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, the five-member high-powered fact-finding committee has virtually failed to begin its probe.

Advani: US visit not Pak-centric
Talks with top officials today
New York, June 8
The Deputy Prime Minister, Mr L.K. Advani, arrived here today on the first-leg of his two-nation visit. India’s Ambassador to the USA, Mr Lalit Mansingh, Ambassador-at-Large Bhishma Agnihotri, Consul-General of India Pramathesh Rath and other officials, received him at the Newark International Airport.

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Up to 70 pc polling in Himachal tribal areas
Shimla, June 8
Moderate to heavy turnout was reported from the three tribal Assembly segments, which went to the polls today.

No role for politicians in Ayodhya: seer
New Delhi, June 8
Discounting any role for political parties in the Ayodhya issue, Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam Jayendra Saraswathi today said a joint appeal on behalf of Hindus and Muslims to politicians to keep out of the Ayodhya tangle for an amicable solution of the vexed problem is being prepared.

Advani must quit, feels Opposition;
BJP says no
New Delhi, June 8
Even as the Opposition parties, including the Congress, have demanded the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani, Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi and others who have been chargesheeted by the CBI in the Ayodhya case, the BJP today ruled out their resignation.

Monsoon hits southern coast
A boatman rows his boat in the backwaters of Kerala as monsoon rains hit southern coast on Sunday New Delhi, June 8
The monsoon hit the southern coasts of the country today bringing rains to Kerala and Tamilnadu and raising hopes of an immediate respite from the heatwave that has claimed as many as 1,400 lives, most of them in Andhra Pradesh, in the past three weeks.

A boatman rows his boat in the backwaters of Kerala as monsoon rains hit southern coast on Sunday bringing respite from the three-week long heatwave in the region.
— Reuters photo

Cool breeze eases temperatures

Vohra in Jammu, meets Panthers
Jammu, June 8
The Panthers Party today demanded the reorganisation of the three divisions of Jammu and Kashmir and ending the “discrimination” against the Jammu and the Ladakh regions as Mr N.N. Vohra, Centre’s interlocutor for hammering out a solution to the J&K imbroglio, reached here this afternoon.

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Captain Dhanraj Pillay celebrates during the International Men's Hockey Challenge final against Australia.
Captain Dhanraj Pillay celebrates during the International Men's Hockey Challenge final against Australia. — Reuters photo