Sunday, November 17, 2002, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Togadia’s entry banned
Cracks in VHP as sants not confided

Godhra, November 16 The authorities today banned the entry of VHP leaders Praveen Togadia and Acharya Dharmendra Maharaj here and  set up a three-tier security ring to prevent their supporters from reaching the venue of tomorrow’s yatra. In video (28k, 56k)

Para-military troopers of the Rapid Action Force guard a street in Godhra (Gujarat) on Saturday. — Reuters photo

PM for restraint in Gujarat
May not visit Pak for SAARC
New Delhi, November 16
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has reservations about attending the SAARC summit in Pakistan in January next year due to Islamabad’s persistent machinations to raise bilateral issues against the charter of the South Asian grouping.

   Edit page: PM unhappy with VHP’s plan

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EC’s order correct: experts
New Delhi, November 16
Even as the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Bharatiya Janata Party have been questioning the jurisdiction of the Election Commission to ban the proposed “religious” yatra of the VHP from Godhra scheduled to begin tomorrow, a majority of experts termed the EC decision as “constitutional.”

Token Sikh jatha reaches Pakistan
Lahore, November 16
After the ouster of the Taliban who had imposed restrictions on minorities, a large number of Afghan Sikhs today visited Sikh shrines of Pakistan to celebrate the 533rd birth anniversary of Guru Nanak here. They are a star attraction for Sikh pilgrims.

    Nation page: Jatha sans Sikh sangat: Sarna

Mr Sham Singh, Co-Chairman of the PSGPC (third from left) along with Sikh pilgrims from India, raise religious slogans at the Wagah joint checkpost on Saturday. The 50-member jatha is going to pay obeisance at Nankana Sahib on the eve of the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev. — Photo Rajiv Sharma

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US N-panel chief to visit India
New Delhi, November 16
Dr Richard A. Meserve, Chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is coming here soon in a path-breaking visit which will take strategic ties between New Delhi and Washington from strength to strength.

    Blackwill to visit J&K today

Dalits attacked in Panipat village
Panipat, November 16
Close on the heels of the lynching of five Dalits in Dulina of Jhajjar district, houses of about 25 Dalits and members of a minority community were vandalised and several women assaulted and injured at Nawada Aar village, 22 km from here on the UP-Haryana border, allegedly by hooligans of upper castes in the wee hours of yesterday.

    Haryana page: Jhajjar blockade continues

11 pilgrims die in road mishap
Paonta Sahib, November 16
Eleven pilgrims were killed and 32 injured when the truck (RJ 13 G-2001) they were travelling in, which was bound for Lahra Dhurkot in Bathinda district from here, met with an accident reportedly due to the failure of brakes near Lal Dhang on the Himachal-Haryana border today.

Mufti’s image worries pro-Pak forces Jammu, November 16 When a police officer, in civil dress, visited a shopping complex in Srinagar recently for purchasing items for domestic use, he was accompanied by his gunmen in a police vehicle. As he came out of a shop a couple of businessmen shouted at him “Khoja (Khwaja Sahib) keep the National Conference vehicle somewhere else.”