Saturday, August 10, 2002, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

President to visit Gujarat on Aug 12
A P J Abdul Kalam Move unnerves Centre
New Delhi, August 9
In a precedent setting move having far reaching implications, President A P J Abdul Kalam is suo motu undertaking a day’s visit to Gujarat on August 12 and will begin his programme there by visiting Mahatma Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad.

Modi told officials ‘not to act’
Rehabilitation not early poll, riot-hit tell Lyngdoh
In video (28k, 56k)
Godhra massacre: 71 acquitted
Editorial: Gujarat poll portents

CAST YOUR VOTE

Do you agree with Mamata Banerjee's stand on the bifurcation of the Eastern Railways?

WEEKLY SPECIALS

AGRICULTURE

EDUCATION

HEALTH

SCIENCE

CAREER GUIDE

SPORTS

HER WORLD

TRIBUNE CLASSIFIEDS

CLASSIFIED ADVTS

BRIDES WANTED

GROOMS WANTED

OTHERS

HOW TO PLACE ADVTS

TRIBUNE SPECIALS

50 years of Independence

Tercentenary celebrations

Tehelka expose

Maharaja Ranjit Singh: special features & photos

Villagers look out of a window to watch an election rally in Malangam in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday. Elections in the state will be held in four phases from September 16.
— Reuters

Power, water share of Punjab, Haryana slashed
Chandigarh, August 9
It is like scratching the bottom of the barrel for more. No water in the Pong and Ranjit Sagar dams means life between January and June next year will be tough and punishing. With a gloomy picture ahead and the Bhakra being the only remaining source of assured supply, the share of water and power for the entire region has been slashed.

Editorial: Lessons from drought

PETROL SCAM
BJP names more Cong men
New Delhi, August 9
The BJP today released the lists of petrol stations and gas agencies allotted to Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh Congress leaders and their relatives and demanded legislation to cancel these.

5 killed in hate attack
Islamabad, August 9
Five persons, including a suicide attacker, were killed and 23 injured when suspected Islamic militants carried out a grenade attack at a Christian missionary hospital in Taxila near here today.

Ex-minister held for graft
Jalandhar, August 9
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau today arrested former Punjab Minister Mr Ajit Singh Kohar from the District Administrative Complex here where he had come to participate in a dharna organised by the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) against the “repression” let loose by the Captain Amarinder Singh government against Akali Dal workers.

OTHER PAGES

	PUNJAB: Badal predicts mid-term poll
	HARYANA: CM opens substation
	J&K: ID cards: coercion at work?
	HIMACHAL: Defer power bills of drought-hit: BJP
	NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION: Livid cop drags CM’s father to thana
	CHANDIGARH: Teaching work remains paralysed on PU campus
	LUDHIANA: City gets first traffic police station in region
	EDIT: Lessons from drought
	BUSINESS: Tax collection up 20 pc
	NATION: Kushabhau dropped from BJP Parliamentary Board
	WORLD: CRE’s Wales head quits
	SPORTS: Ganguly shines on rain-hit day

In Sports Tribune today

Gold glut at Manchester

In Windows today

To hell and back...
and back to hell?
by Amar Chandel

Gangu Daku’s unusual transformation
A.N. Aggarwal

THIS ABOVE ALL
Importance of being important
by Khushwant Singh

THE TRIBUNE MAGAZINES

On alternate Mondays

On Sundays

On Saturdays

Shivani murder case
Volte-face by Madhu Sharma
Denies hinting at Advani, Swami
Panchkula, August 9
In a volte-face, Ms Madhu Sharma, wife of Haryana Inspector-General of Police (Prisons) Ravi Kant Sharma, today categorically denied that she had hinted at either Mr L.K. Advani or Mr I.D. Swami being behind the “hideous political power game in the Home Ministry” to implicate Mr Ravi Kant Sharma in the Shivani murder case.

THE TRIBUNE LAST WEEK

IN PASSING

Let’s stop digging our political graves!

by Sandeep Joshi

Adulterated diesel supply up due to drought
New Delhi, August 9
With several states reeling under drought and farmers resorting to increased use of diesel for irrigation purposes, there is a spurt in adulteration of the popular fuel.

Multi-crore scam in SBI
Chandigarh, August 9
As part of a countrywide crackdown in a multi-crore scam involving misappropriation of funds by certain officials of the State Bank of India, the CBI today conducted raids at residences of two senior officials posted at the Sector 17 branch of the bank. Raids were being conducted at Chandigarh, Ambala and other cities in the country, sources in the CBI said.

SAD dharnas against excesses, anti-people policies
Chandigarh, August 9
The SAD has finally entered the agitational mode. On the programme given by SAD chief Parkash Singh Badal, party workers held dharnas at various district headquarters today in protest against the alleged excesses on Akali workers and leaders and “anti-people, anti-employee, anti-Dalit policies” of the Amarinder Singh Government.
SAD workers exchange blows
Punjab page: Badal predicts mid-term poll

EARLIER TOP STORIES

	Poll not yet: EC report August 9, 2002
	BJP takes wind out of Cong attack August 8, 2002
	Ultra massacres 9 yatris August 7, 2002
	PM cancels petrol station allotments August 6, 2002
	Rs 714.20-cr drought relief announced August 5, 2002
	BJP projects Advani as next PM August 4, 2002
	J&K poll in Sept, Oct August 3, 2002
	Advani says J&K internal matter August 2, 2002
	Mamata gives NDA 12 days August 1, 2002
	4-phase poll likely in J&K July 31, 2002
	Pak pumping in terror July 30, 2002

Editor, Printer and Publisher: Hari Jaisingh
Published from The Tribune House, Sector 29-C, Chandigarh, India, 160020
for The Tribune Trust. Phone: (91-172) 655066. Fax: (91-172) 651291
Copyright : The Tribune Trust, 2002.