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
More clash stories on Punjab page

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
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