Tuesday, July 3, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Pak Crisis Takes New Turn
Debug all judges, court: Bench
Islamabad, July 2
In a dramatic twist to the ongoing judicial crisis, judges of the full court bench of the Supreme Court on Monday interrupted proceedings in the constitution petition of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry while angrily reacting to a document submitted by the government whose contents betrayed information that all of them are being spied on.

MLA Dhanda loves the forest
Hell-bent on ‘saving’ govt money, he ‘summons’ officials for disallowing stay in lodge
Chandigarh, July 2
Punjab’s chief parliamentary secretary and MLA from Ludhiana Harish Dhanda, in an unprecedented request, has asked the chief secretary to allow him to “live” in the forest rest house at Pallanpur near Chandigarh, as he had not been allotted an official residence.

Bapu’s letter not to be auctioned
London, July 2
The priceless manuscript of an article written by Mahatma Gandhi written just a fortnight before his assassination will not not be auctioned here tomorrow so that the Indian government can acquire it.

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Panels to review cases against SAD men
Chandigarh, July 2
Even as the Punjab Congress is crying hoarse that its supporters and leaders are facing police cases due to political vendetta of the ruling SAD-BJP combine, the Punjab government has gone ahead and formed special committees to review those cases that were registered against SAD workers to settle political scores during the previous Congress regime led by Amarinder Singh.

Politics of Vendetta
Punjab Cong seeks NHRC intervention
New Delhi, July 2
Alleging politics of vendetta by the Parkash Singh Badal government, Punjab Congress today sought intervention of the National Human Rights Commission to prevent "excesses" against its workers in the state.

Suicide by Army Captain
Jammu, July 2
Army Capt Megha Razdan was found hanging in her room in the Kunjwani camp on the outskirts of Jammu city last evening. She belonged to Pathankot in Punjab where her parents reside at Ambedkar Nagar. She married just four months ago and her husband, Captain Chaitanya, a Maharashtrian, was also posted in the 113 Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Regiment (EME).

Punjab page: Suicide by lady officer: Parents shattered

Still no connect
Chandigarh, July 2
Efforts to revive telecom services continued for the third day today as BSNL tasked more than 300 employees to restore connections that went out of order after a fire at its exchange in Sector 17 here on Saturday. While mobile phone services were restored to some extent, officials said it would take a few days before they could establish broadband connectivity.

Nimitz anchors in Chennai
	The USS Nimitz docked at Chennai at about 6 am on Monday. It was joined by the USS Pickney later. The Nimitz, powered by two nuclear plants, has over 65 fighter jets on board. — AFP

Breakthrough for infertile women
Freeze, thaw and fertilise babies
Lyon (France), July 2
The first baby to be created from an egg that matured in a laboratory, frozen, thawed and then fertilised, has been born in Canada, researchers told a medical conference here today.