Thursday, November 21, 2002, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

A go-by to House decorum
Speaker raps SP leader
New Delhi, November 20
Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi today came down heavily against Samajwadi Party member Devendra Singh Yadav for misbehaving and said his attempt to assault a member lowered the dignity of the House.

Declining standards of parliamentary debate
Nation page: Centre not politicising drought relief: PM
Pak can’t locate Bhagat Singh’s belongings

Parliament security tightened
New Delhi, November 20
A tight security ring was thrown around Parliament House here this morning following a tip-off that four persons were seen moving in suspicious manner, some distance away from the complex and were likely to target it.

In video (28k, 56k) A security personnel takes up position outside Parliament House after a false alert was sounded on Wednesday.  — Tribune photo Mukesh Aggarwal

ASI, MLA’s brother among 7 killed
Srinagar, November 20
Five infiltrators were killed by Army personnel near the LoC in Machil sector of Kupwara district while unidentified militants shot dead two persons, including a brother of the Bandipore MLA at Baramula district in north Kashmir today.

CM explains handling of SGPC polls
To submit report on disinvestment of PSUs to Sonia
New Delhi, November 20
In a bid to put at rest the controversy over disinvestment of “profit-making” Public Sector Undertakings by the Punjab Government, state Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, will submit a note to Congress President Sonia Gandhi explaining that his government’s decisions were not against the Congress policies on the issue.

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7 CRPF jawans, ultra killed
Imphal, November 20
Seven CRPF jawans on patrol duty at Loktak hydel project and a self-styled lieutenant of the banned People’s Liberation Army were killed in separate encounters between security forces and the ultras in Manipur today.

Cops attempt rape, land in jail
Jalandhar, November 20
Even as the alleged broad daylight bid by two gunmen of a judicial officer to rape two young sisters has created a fear psychosis among city residents, particularly working couples, the bravery with which the sisters retaliated the attack to outrage their modesty at their Aman Nagar house and saved themselves from the clutches of the drunken cops has become the talk of the town.

	Picture shows the Bahamian-flagged Prestige oil tanker sinking off the northwest Spanish coast on Tuesday. The tanker laden with 70,000 tonnes of fuel oil split in two and its stern section sank, triggering what ecologists said could become one of the world’s worst oil spills.  — Reuters

Villagers refuse to surrender
Dulina samiti-admn pact fizzles out
Jhajjar, November 20
Even before the ink on the agreement between the district administration and the Dulina Goraksha Sangharsh Samiti could dry, the agreement seems to be fizzling out.

Haryana page: Attack on Dalits: case takes new turn

WITH THE JATHA IN PAK Whereabouts of top Sikh ultras unknown Dera Sahib (Lahore), November 20 The whereabouts of India’s five “most wanted” Sikh militants are still shrouded in mystery, even as leaders of radical outfits, who thronged the gurdwaras in Pakistan from foreign countries claimed that they (the most wanted) are “in high spirits” wherever they are these days. However, they are tight-lipped about the destination of the “most wanted” persons.