Thursday, December 5, 2002, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Dismantle terrorist units,
Putin asks Pak
India, Russia sign 8 agreements
New Delhi, December 4
The top Indian leadership’s talks with the visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin resulted in a significant progress on wide-ranging issues, including two of immense strategic importance: the India-Russia-China axis and the two countries’ political will to close ranks in fighting the scourge of terrorism.

Fact file
Kalam hosts banquet for Putin  
SIDELIGHTS: Bridging the business divide

	In video (28k, 56k) Russian President Vladimir Putin is welcomed by President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee at Rashtrapati Bhavan during the ceremonial reception in his honour in the Capital on Wednesday.  — Tribune photo Mukesh Aggarwal

Jawan, ultra killed in suicide attack
Plan to trigger serial blasts on Id foiled
Srinagar, December 4
A suicide squad of suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba militants occupying a vacant post attacked a CRPF party in Kupwara district of north Kashmir today, leaving a jawan and a militant dead and a civilian seriously injured, official sources said.
Security personnel recover a huge cache of arms and ammunition from Batmaloo and Bandipura in Jammu and Kashmir. (28k, 56k)

LeT declares 4-day ceasefire

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US Ambassador Robert Blackwill meets with Lt-Gen T.P.S. Brar, GOC, 16 Corps, at Jammu on Wednesday.

Bhattal case: CM meets Mohsina
New Delhi, December 4
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has told the Congress high command that the filing of the challan in the case against Punjab Agriculture Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal was inevitable and the state government could not have acted in any other manner.

Punjab page: Bhattal case: Judge gave no direction

Malaysian HC defers hearing in Bofors case
New Delhi, December 4
The Malaysian High Court today deferred till tomorrow the hearing on India’s appeal against the order of the Sessions Court dismissing the extradition proceedings against controversial Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, wanted by the CBI in the Bofors gun deal scam.

Indian lawyers disallowed

Breakthrough in Lankan peace talks
Oslo, December 4
Sri Lankan peace talks have achieved a breakthrough with Colombo and the Tamil rebels taking up core political issues for the first time after agreeing on clearance of landmines and strengthening of truce, a negotiator said.
Sri Lankan delegation seeks India's intervention in the island peace talks. (28k, 56k)

Gallows for husband, friend 3 kids brutally murdered, wife raped Patiala, December 4 A woman whose three children were murdered by her husband and his three friends got justice when a local fast-track court today awarded death sentence to her husband and one of his friends and life imprisonment to another.