Sunday, June 29, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

BREAKING NEWS
One killed in poll violence
Batala, June 29
A supporter of an independent legislator was stabbed to death by unidentified persons in Batala district while campaigning for today's panchayat elections, the police said today.

12 soldiers killed in suicide attack
Jammu, June 28
Twelve soldiers were killed and seven wounded in a suicide Fidayeen attack by two terrorists on the military station at Sunjawan, near here, early this morning. Both terrorists were shot dead in a nearly four-hour-long encounter. Both are believed to be members of either the Lashkar-e-Toiba or the Jaish-e-Mohammad.


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 Army personnel patrol the Army camp at Sanjawan near Jammu on Saturday after a suicide attack by militants killed 12 jawans. — PTI photo
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USA rejects Pak offer on Kashmir
 New Delhi, June 28
The USA today rejected Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s call to the USA to mediate on the Kashmir issue as part of his roadmap for the normalisation of Indo-Pak ties, asserting there will be no third party at the negotiating table. 

Fresh tariff concessions to Beijing
New Delhi, June 28
As a follow-up to the recent China visit of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to step up economic cooperation, the government today decided to offer fresh tariff concessions to Beijing.

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Vigilance men return empty-handed
Raid on Badal’s house at Chandigarh
Chandigarh, June 28
Armed with court orders and escorted by a strong posse of Chandigarh police, the search operation launched by the Vigilance Bureau at the private house of the former Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, ended as no “incriminating” documents were found during the seven-hour search.
Mr B.K. Uppal, DIG, Vigilance Bureau, who led the search operation at the former Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal’s residence in Sector 9, Chandigarh Mr B.K. Uppal, DIG, Vigilance Bureau, who led the search operation at the former Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal’s residence in Sector 9, Chandigarh, comes out of the house on Saturday.
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Wimpy alleges abduction of employees
 Chandigarh, June 28
Wimpy International has sought registration of cases of kidnapping and abduction against Punjab Vigilance Bureau officials maintaining that the bureau had exceeded its jurisdiction in taking five of its employees in custody from their Delhi homes.

Borrower India now creditor  to IMF
Mumbai, June 28
Once a chronic borrower, now a creditor that is the journey India has made in the last one decade to become an international lender for financially crisis-ridden underdeveloped nations.

Test case on Gujarat riots fails
New Delhi, June 28
The ‘Moditva politics’ in Gujarat has completed its full circle. It began after the Godhra carnage and the acquittal of all 21 accused in the Best Bakery case shattered the hopes that justice would be done. Reacting to the court verdict, political parties and human rights organisations blamed the state government and the prosecuting agency for the ‘shoddy’ investigations.





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