Tuesday, August 15, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

LTTE bid to kill Pak envoy
* Indian cricketers safe in Colombo
* Seven killed, eight wounded

Colombo, August 14 Pakistan’s top diplomat here today escaped unhurt in a powerful explosion triggered by the LTTE, believed to be angry over Islamabad’s arms support to Sri Lanka, killing seven persons and wounding eight others.

Sri Lankan police officers examine the three-wheeler taxi which was hit by a powerful claymore mine rigged on to it in Colombo on Monday. — AFP photo In video (56k) Security of team top priority: MEA Sports page: Tri-series in jeopardy 43 orphans killed in Lankan aerial strike Colombo, August 14 At least 43 schoolgirls were killed in Sri Lanka’s rebel-held Mullaitivu district today and dozens more hurt when air force jets bombed an orphanage.

India: The Tasks Ahead
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS,
INAUGURAL SESSION

Fortress Delhi New Delhi, August 14 Delhi was today brought under a thick blanket of security with sharpshooters deployed around key installations in the run-up to the Independence Day. In video (56k)
A commando keeps a vigil on the eve of Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort in New Delhi on Monday. Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

Multi-crore ration scam rocks Doda
Jammu, August 14
While Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has prematurely retired 10 government officials against whom there were allegations of corruption, a food scam worth over Rs.3.50 crore has rocked his home district of Doda.


Militant’s link with Pak army revealed
New Delhi, August 14
An arrested Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant, Anas, alias Rizwan, has admitted that he had been in constant touch with officials of the ISI and the Pakistan Army.

Info about Pak-backed ultras’ involvement in Mumbai blasts: Pranab

Indian links to terror plot
London, August 14
Kashmir appeared to be foremost in the minds of the alleged plotters of the unsuccessful bid to blow up the US-bound flights in Britain with liquid explosives, media reports said.

World page
UK terror threat level lowered to ‘severe’
Terrorists eyeing liquid weapons
New US air travel rules imposed