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Saturday,
April 2,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
SPORTS
UPDATE
 India crush Pakistan in first
one-dayer (update: 9 pm)
PM
open to talks with Musharraf
Port Louis (Mauritius), April
1
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, said here today that it was the
solemn obligation of India and Pakistan to ensure the safety and security
of the passengers travelling on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus.
Pak
says no to J&K politicians on Muzaffarabad bus
Nation:
Tighten
security for Muzaffarabad bus: Patil
J&K
page: Will
bus service impact Kashmir issue?
Muzaffarabad-bound
couple get death threat
 Mauritius and India move
towards free trade pact. (28k,
56k)
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“I bow my head in homage to those who climbed these steps in the centuries gone by, and through their toil created a jewel in the ocean — Mauritius, that shines brighter today and will shine even brighter in the years to come”, wrote Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the visitor’s book at the Aapravasi Ghat, where 4 lakh indentured labourers, mostly from India, first landed on Mauritian shores between 1849 and 1910.
— Tribune photo
by A.J. Philip
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| CAST
YOUR VOTE |
Do you feel that many ministers go on purposeless junkets abroad?
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19
devotees die in Beas accident
Beas, April 1
At least 19 devotees who were on way
to Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, Beas, were killed and 41 others were injured in
a head-on-collision between a Swaraj Mazda and a truck near Dera Beas on
the Amritsar-Jalandhar GT Road this morning.
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Pope appears close to
death
Vatican City, April 1
Pope John Paul appeared close to death on Friday after heart failure and breathing problems, but was still conscious and in a stable but serious condition at midday, the Vatican said.
Mother Teresa's missionaries
pray for severely ill Pope.
(28k,
56k)
Catholics
hold special prayers for Pope’s recovery
World
page: Cardinals run the Vatican
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Full
coverage: India
vs Pak
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2005
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QUOTE OF THE
DAY
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I am once again renewing my call to JD(U) to sever its ties with the BJP for formation of a government in Bihar. LJP will support it.
— Ram Vilas Paswan
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Tearful
adieu to O.P. Jindal
Hisar, April 1
 Tens of thousands of people bade a
tearful adieu to the noted industrialist and Haryana Power Minister Om
Prakash Jindal who was killed in a helicopter crash near Saharanpur
yesterday.
Haryana Power Minister and steel baron O.P. Jindal’s eldest son Prithvi Raj lights his father’s pyre in Hisar on Friday.
— Photo by Mehta
Surender’s
body consigned to flames
Bhiwani, April 1
The mortal remains of Agriculture
Minister Surender Singh were consigned to the flames at his ancestral
village Golagarh, near here, today with full state honours.
Haryana
page: Who
will carry forward Bansi Lal’s legacy?
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People throng the cremation ground at Golagarh village during the cremation of Surender Singh, Agriculture Minister of Haryana, on Friday.
— Tribune photo by Pradeep Tewari
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20
states switch over to VAT
New Delhi,
April 1
As many as 20 states today switched over to the Value Added Tax system,
setting in motion a major tax reforms initiative that would
significantly change the taxation structure in the country.
(Details on Nation
page)
India launches VAT despite noisy
protests. (28k,
56k)
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Jindal, Surender Singh die in copter crash
April 1, 2005
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Traders’ strike almost total
March 31, 2005
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2,000 feared dead in quake
March 30, 2005
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Pak
to buy 70 F-16s
March 29, 2005
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20
battalions to curb influx of Maoists
March 28, 2005
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Pak to get
F16s, Bush tells PM
March 26, 2005
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21 states agree to
implement Vat
March 25, 2005
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Kashmir
issue can stall peace
process: Pervez
March 24, 2005
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Punjab proposes cess on diesel, petrol
March 23, 2005
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Kalam
calls for politics of development
March 22, 2005
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