Sunday, November 24, 2002, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

12 die as militants blow up bus
Major among six Army men killed
Srinagar, November 23
At least 12 persons — six Army men, a bus driver, three women and two children — were killed and 36 injured when militants blow up the bus in which they were travelling by triggering a landmine explosion at Lower Munda, 80 km south of here, on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway this morning.

Edit page: Fidayeen put forces on alert Army jawans inspect the wreckage of a bus after a landmine explosion at Lower Munda, 90 km south of Srinagar, on Saturday.  — Reuters photo

Vote out communalism, says Sonia Gandhi
Cong govts told to take care of ex-servicemen
Chandigarh, November 23
The AICC President, Ms Sonia Gandhi, today warned the nation against nefarious designs of fundamental and communal forces out to disintegrate India’s social fabric and called upon all secular and patriotic forces to thwart such attempts.

Ms Sonia Gandhi honours Ms Gurdial Kaur, wife of Subedar (Honorary Captain) Joginder Singh, at an ex-servicemen’s rally in Chandigarh on Saturday. Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, Capt Zorawar Singh and Rana Gurmit Sodhi look on. — Tribune photo Manoj Mahajan

    Punjab page: No praise for CM in Sonia speech
    Snubbing Sonia style

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Tehelka panel chief Venkataswami quits
New Delhi, November 23
Justice K. Venkataswami today resigned as head of the Tehelka inquiry commission and Chairman of the Authority on Advance Ruling on Customs and Excise. The sources said Justice Venkataswami, a retired Supreme Court Judge, sent his resignation from both posts to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.

Pandya refuses RS seat
New Delhi, November 23
Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party today released its fourth list, taking the number of party candidates for the next month’s Gujarat Assembly elections to 178, suspense continued over the candidature of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s detractor Haren Pandya.

Dulina case: 7 accused surrender
Jhajjar, November 23
Seven persons of Suhra village surrendered to the police, in a case of lynching of five Dalits at Dulina on October 15, here today in at the local rest house here in the presence of Mr Nafe Singh Rathee, Bahadurgarh MLA.

WITH THE JATHA IN PAKISTAN
Reshuffle in PSGPC likely
Nankana Sahib, November 23
Reshuffle in Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (PSGPC) is in the offing as a USA-based radical Sikh leader, Dr Ganga Singh Dhillon, president of the Nankana Sahib Foundation (NSF), is reportedly pressing hard to bring new office-bearers of the committee by using his political clout in Pakistan.

    Punjab page: Jatha returns, reports theft cases

SUNDAY ANCHOR MCI says no to Punia’s PG degree Rohtak, November 23 The postgraduate degree of Major-General (retd) Virender Singh Punia, Director, Pt B.D. Sharma Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) has not been recognised by the Medical Council of India (MCI).