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August 31
TOP REPORTS
Cabinet reshuffle likely on Saturday
Although Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha is not being dropped, the axe could swing towards the Labour Minister Satyanarayan Jatiya.
UP panel's proposals may stir hornet's nest
The Social Justice Committee constituted by the UP government seeks to limit the benefits cornered by Yadavs in the reservations earmarked for OBCs and proposes reservation for upper caste poor.
Gujarat scraps pension for former MLAs
The state government was pushed into repealing the MLAs Pension Act after a former legislator and freedom fighter Mahendra Desai and some others went on an indefinite hunger to press the issue.
HC indefinitely adjourns Jaya's appeals
This followed Jayalalithaa's petition to the SC seeking transfer of the appeals to any other high court on the ground that the manner in which the hearings were conducted, it was `impossible' to maintain fairness, being adjourned.
PARLIAMENT NEWS
Spats in Parliament must be limited: PM
Vajpayee told the House on the last day of the monsoon session that a decrease in bitterness between the government and the opposition would create a conducive atmosphere.
Babri issue: Ruckus in RS over PM's 'role'
Acrimonious exchanges erupted between the treasure and opposition benches in the Rajya Sabha when Congress leader Arjun Singh wanted Vajpayee to clarify the allegations of his involvement in the Babri masjid demolition.
Monsoon session ends on reconciliatory note
Both the ruling coalition and the opposition acknowledged that mutual restraint by both sides would help them focus on various issues, without needless wrath and rancour.
COLUMN
The Naga solution
'The Government of India has put itself and the NSCN on an equal footing.' Kuldip Nayar 'scoops' the Naga accord.
INTERVIEW
'The CBI is not a firing squad'
'If you think the CBI alone can root out corruption, you are very
wrong. We should have a multi-pronged approach.' Prem Chand Sharma, director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, speaks to Sheela Bhatt.
J&K REPORTS
4 villagers, 5 militants killed in Jammu
Militants had abducted six Hindu villagers from near Kinara village on Thursday.
12 militants among 18 killed
A group of militants, which was trying to enter into the Indian side of the LoC in Makarwali Galli, was intercepted by the security forces and 12 militants were killed in the gun battle that ensued.
No danger to any community: Abdullah
India is the biggest secular democracy in the world and people from all religions are living together from time immemorial, the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said.
RAM TEMPLE ISSUE
Babri demolition couldn't be stopped: Dalmia
V H Dalmia told the Liberhan Commission that the police could have controlled the situation only by opening fire, but were helpless as the UP chief minister had assured the SC that short of firing he would do everything.
'We're not involved in Ayodhya talks'
VHP leader Acharya Giriraj Kishore said he had no idea who Prime Minister Vajpayee was referring to when he made an announcement on August 26 that the government was engaged in a dialogue to resolve the Ayodhya dispute.
OTHER REPORTS
India begins limited production of Lakshya
The Lakshya pilotless aircraft was developed over a period of 14 years.
10 blast accused to contest BMC elections
Bombay Muslim League president Mohammad Farooq Azam said they are being given tickets because they know the working of the civic body and are yet to be proven guilty in court.
Calcutta blast accused given life term
A special court on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment Mohammad Rashid Khan and five of his associates in connection with the Bowbazar blast case in Calcutta.
HAL test flies upgraded MiG 21 successfully
HAL would be upgrading all the 123 MiG-21 strike aircraft of the IAF during the next 4-5 years.
India begins streamlining arms procurements
As part of the efforts to streamline arms deals, the government has sought the help of the Berlin-based NGO, Transparency International.
Smugglers take security agencies for a ride
Drug czars are getting more and more innovative these days, as two recent cases suggest. The police say they are using vehicles of security agencies to smuggle narcotics.
Indians suffer more heart attacks
Thanks to bad dietary habits, Indians start getting heart diseases 10 years before Americans, although the latter are known to take more junk food.
PTI REPORTS
Doctors treating HIV patients test negative
It was reported on Wednesday that three resident doctors from G S V Medical College, Kanpur, were infected while treating HIV patients.
Ronen Sen will be new envoy to Pakistan
The appointment of Sen, who will succeed Vijay Nambiar, has received clearance from the prime minister, sources said.
Sunderlal Patwa quits Union Cabinet
Patwa, who had not been keeping well for about a year now, sent in his resignation to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee hours after a meeting with him during which he had offered to quit on health grounds.
Punjab Congress chief wants amnesty for cops
He feared that otherwise if the situation that prevailed during the days of the militancy arose again, no police official would take the initiative to face it.
CBI accuses Laloo's counsel of intimidation
CBI inspector R K Sinha investigating the disproportionate income case against Laloo Prasad Yadav said his wife received a threatening phone call from Laloo's counsel.
Doc asked to 'explain' Shah's birthday bash
The doctor will have to explain how film financier Bharat Shah, in judicial custody for using slush funds to finance films, was allowed to celebrate his birthday in hospital canteen.
NEIGHBOURHOOD
Lanka honours Indian Tamil leader
Saumyamoorthy Thondaman gave leadership to thousands of Tamils in Sri Lanka for over half a century.
'Chinese rail project a threat to India'
'The project will escalate the military build-up on the Tibetan plateau, which will invite an arms race and the stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction in South Asia,' a senior official of the Tibetan government-in-exile said.
August 30
TOP REPORTS
PM's Babri demolition 'role' under scrutiny
The Congress said it would raise the issue of Vajpayee being allegedly present in a meeting held in the house of the erstwhile Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh's residence, just before the masjid in Ayodhya was demolished.
Tansi: SC stays hearing of Jaya's appeals
It is due to start hearing next week the petitions challenging Jayalalithaa's assumption of office as chief minister.
Rift in Samata, George offers to quit
A group of MPs aligned to Samata leader and Union minister Nitish Kumar are unhappy at the 'style of functioning' of former party chief Jaya Jaitley.
No ordinance to overrule SC on CNG
A cabinet meeting headed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee also decided to request the Supreme Court to allow the use of 0.05% Low Sulphur Diesel.
Hawks scuttled Agra declaration: Musharraf
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf also said Pakistan would continue its moral, diplomatic and political support to Kashmiris.
J&K RELATED REPORTS
Hurriyat divided over participation in polls
The general council of the Hurriyat Conference saw heated arguments between moderates and pro-Pakistan parties over participation in elections.
Abdullah doesn't meet NDA leaders
National Conference sources said Abdullah would like to await the alliance's proposed 'code of conduct' for allies before deciding his next move.
RAM TEMPLE ISSUE
'PM's Ayodhya efforts will yield results'
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Rajnath Singh said efforts were afoot to resolve the issue, notwithstanding doubts expressed in certain quarters.
Liberhan seeks VHP's records
The commission made this demand after VHP president V H Dalmia claimed to be unable to recollect certain events relating to the Babri Masjid demolition.
DEATH OF A LEADER
Moopanar's followers stranded, divided
The cadres are now more inclined towards merging with the Congress, though opinion may be divided in the legislature party.
TMC president G K Moopanar dead
After a bout of pneumonia, he suffered 'pulmonary oedema', which doctors said proved to be fatal.
A Nehru family loyalist is no more
Affectionately called G K M by all, Moopanar, coming from an affluent family, became a trouble-shooter for two former prime ministers, Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi.
RS adjourns as mark of respect to Moopanar
As soon as the House met, Chairman Krishan Kant announced the news of Moopanar's death and paid rich tributes to the departed leader before adjourning the House.
Jaya, Karunanidhi condole Moopanar's death
Expressing grief, Chief Minister and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief J Jayalalithaa described Moopanar as a gentleman and said his death was an irreparable loss.
Moopanar's son to be elected TMC president
Senior party leaders had taken this decision at an informal meeting in the second week of August hoping to ease the burden on Moopanar in view of his failing health.
OTHER REPORTS
Opposition stages walkout in LS
They walked out after Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pramod Mahajan defended the appointment of NRI Bhishma Kumar Agnihotri as 'ambassador-at-large'.
Deaths not caused by starvation: Orissa
The Orissa district administration maintains that the deaths had occurred due to food poisoning.
Child adoption racket accused released on bail
The Andhra Pradesh CID did not seek Roda Mistry's custody as it had completed the investigation into her role in the racket.
I-T raids Vandana Luthra slimming clinics
Her husband Deepak Luthra's business premise in Gurgaon was also raided.
Bofors trial will take three years: Judge
'If I am required to conduct the trial of the Bofors case alone, it is likely to take at least a year, considering the voluminous documents of the case,' trial court judge S L Khanna said.
PTI REPORTS
21 killed, 25 hurt in bus mishap in Gujarat
The bus, carrying 46 passengers, was proceeding to Dahod from Viramgam in Ahmedabad rural district, when it fell into the Godakhar river near Dahod.
Bhagat incited mob to kill Sikhs: Eyewitness
Taxi driver Gurmeet Singh told the Nanavati Commission that the former Union minister and Congress leader was accompanied by 150-200 persons carrying lathis, and raising anti-Sikh slogans.
HC restrains STF from shifting Tyagi to jail
A lower court had earlier ruled that Tyagi be shifted to a central prison on August 31.
Parliament approves Divorce (amendment) bill
It gives Christian women the right to seek annulment of marriage and also leaves it to the discretion of the district court to fix the quantum of maintenance.
India denies Jaswant's visit to Pak
Both Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and External Affair Minister Jaswant Singh have accepted invitations to visit Pakistan, but there has been no official word on when they proposed to undertake it.
70 suffer food poisoning in Orissa
A bag filled with chemicals was mistaken for salt and used in the food served at a temple in Kendrapara.
India wants UN embargo on Iraq lifted
This assurance was given by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee when a delegation of Friendship Peace Organisation, which is visiting Iraq, called on him in Delhi.
NEIGHBOURHOOD
Nepal, Maoists talks end on positive note
The six-year-old Maoist insurgency has claimed nearly 2,000 lives.
LTTE rejects truce offer
Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar had on Wednesday raised hopes of a revival of the peace initiative when he said the government was considering extending an invitation to the LTTE for talks.
COLUMNS
The CDS controversy deepens
'Having bombed the proposed appointment of the CDS, no one is surprised at the last-ditch stand by the IAF to stall, if not stop, the execution of the defence restructuring agenda,' says Major General (retd) Ashok K Mehta.
Doing the atrophy
'I cannot imagine a more fitting example of a threat to national security than men who destroy hospitals -- not even enemies do that during wars,' says Dilip D'Souza.
August 29
J&K REPORTS
8 killed as landmine blows up bus
The bus, which was also carrying soldiers, hit the landmine near Hangalpala in Anantnag district.
Pak fortifying bunkers across Jammu border
Minister of State for Home Vidyasagar Rao informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that Pak forces had recently carried out a summer exercise in the area.
India again rejects J&K as 'core' issue
'Relationships can't be based on one single issue,' external affairs ministry spokeswoman Nirupama Rao said.
Geelani under house arrest before Hurriyat meeting
A posse of policemen and paramilitary jawans descended on Geelani's Hyderpora residence around 0900 hours and ordered him not to leave the house, eyewitnesses said.
We are not averse to elections: Hurriyat
'We believe in the electoral process, as it will enable the people to elect their representatives. But the basic dispute pertaining to accession must be resolved first,' APHC leader Abdul Ghani Lone said.
Kashmir varsity teachers advised not to organise picnics
Kashmir University's Vice Chancellor Jalees Ahmad advised teachers not to organise picnics for students in view of increase in militant violence.
OTHER REPORTS
Netaji's school languishes due to neglect
Established in 1822, the Ravenshaw Collegiate School was one of the premier schools in Orissa.
Opposition blasts govt for starvation deaths
Leader of the Opposition Sonia Gandhi brought up the issue during zero hour in Lok Sabha with a small, prepared speech criticising the government for remaining a 'mute spectator when our countrymen are dying of hunger'.
Pak should ask Taliban to become tolerant: Inderfurth
Former assistant secretary of state Inderfurth said that given the Taliban's suspicion of the West, the more logical persuaders might be fellow Muslims and Islamic governments.
Doctors treating AIDS patients infected: PTI
Project Director of the Uttar Pradesh AIDS Control Society, Bachittar Singh said the doctors were immediately administered post-exposure profilaxis and were now out of danger.
NCERT initiatives aimed at quality upgradation: Govt/PTI
Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi said the actions taken by NCERT and UGC have been within the framework of the National Policy on Education.
Thackeray has some explaining to do: Vijaypat Singhania
Shiv Sena activists, who went on a rampage following Thane district unit chief Anand Dighe's death of a heart attack, took out their anger on the Smt Sunitadevi Singhania hospital destroying equipment, furniture, attacking the staff and even patients.
India-Australia strategic dialogue begins Thursday
The two sides will exchange views on contributing towards maintaining regional and strategic stability, identify areas of mutual cooperation in related issues and discuss ways to build mutual trust and confidence.
Poachers not behind killing of forest guard: Police
The Uttaranchal Director General of Police AK Saran said investigations so far have ruled out the possibility of the Jim Corbett National forest guard being killed by poachers.
Christians allege another assault in Gujarat
The All-India Christian Council alleged that 30 to 40 members of the right-wing Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal and some policemen beat up children and officials of a Madhya Pradesh orphanage out on a picnic to Dahod in Gujarat.
Judicial custody for Tyagi till Sept 12
The magistrate also directed the police to shift Tyagi to the Arthur Road Jail by 1700 IST on August 31.
Two top Naxalites surrender in AP
So far this year, 432 Naxalites have surrendered to the police.
AP child adoption racket: Roda Mistry surrenders
Mistry, a former minister and president of the Indian Council of Social Welfare, is one among eight persons accused of using illegal means while offering children for adoption for monetary considerations.
ISI agent nabbed in Hyderabad
Ashrafi had planned to set off an explosion at a place of worship in Ayodhya. He was also planning to create disturbances in Hyderabad.
Amnesty's day for 'disappeared' has message for India
Amnesty International observed the Day of the Disappeared on Wednesday with a demand to prosecute all those who have made people disappear in India.
M F Husain hospitalised in Madras
Husain was in Madras to collaborate with A R Rahman for the music of his new film Do Kadam Aur Sahi when he complained of stomach ache.
Delhi youth on 'cloud nine'...thanks to drugs
A combination of fast life, easy availability, and police apathy is the reason why the youth of Delhi is getting addicted to drugs.
PTI REPORTS
NHRC notice to Orissa over starvation deaths
The commission, which took cognisance of a series of reports in newspapers and electronic media, issued a notice to the state chief secretary seeking a prompt reply.
Bhagalpur riots: 21 get life imprisonment
They were part of a mob that raided Chara Bargaon village and engaged in large-scale violence and arson in which several houses belonging to a particular community and a place of worship were set ablaze.
People can now inspect files in UP
A member of a public or business organisation with an Indian equity of at least 51 per cent, societies, trusts, institutions, NGOs and associations can inspect the files concerning them in the secretariat and in the directorates.
One killed in police firing in Ahmedabad
Police burst several teargas shells to control the groups, which resorted to heavy stone pelting, in Shahpur locality. They opened fire when teargas failed to bring the situation under control.
NBA, SSP oustees on dharna in Bhopal
They were seeking answers from Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh on the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam and on rehabilitation and resettlement of the oustees.
Miscreants damage Christian tombs in AP
Following a land dispute, members of the Hindu Smashana Vatika Samrakshana Samithi allegedly attacked the tombs saying they had come up inside the premises of a Hindu cremation ground.
Maharashtra civic chiefs to be elected through direct voting
The tenure would be five years and a no-confidence motion cannot be pressed against the elected chairperson during the initial two years.
No 'real act' involved in sex angle: Tejpal
The editor-in-chief of tehelka.com said though the news portal had used sex workers in its sting operations, it did not involve any 'real act in the Clintonian sense'.
Graft bureau freezes Bharali's accounts
The bureau froze four accounts belonging to Bharali, who had claimed that she had secretly married former Assam chief
minister P K Mahanta.
VHP to 'restore' 30,000 temples
The government has termed many of the temples that the VHP intends to 'restore' as disputed structures.
NEIGHBOURHOOD
US congressional delegation meets Musharraf
Senator Bob Graham, Democratic chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, headed the delegation. The meeting took place on Tuesday.
COLUMN
Musharraf's Pakistan
'If killings like those being undertaken by the Lashkar-e-Tayiba across India continue, it may be necessary to consider striking across the LoC and even the international border,' says G Parthasarathy.
August 28
J&K REPORTS
Militants behead two priests in Jammu
Indefinite curfew was imposed and security forces were deployed in Poonch and Furankot town of Jammu region following the killings.
Five of a family gunned down in Poonch
Police said the gunmen forced their entry into Ghulam Shah's house and opened indiscriminate fire, killing Shah and four other members of the family.
Top militant gunned down: PTI
Abu Usman, a self-styled combined chief of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, Jaish-e-Muhammad, Al-Badr and Hizbul Mujahideen, was the brain behind the attack on the chopper carrying Omar Abdullah at Lolab on June 23 this year.
J&K women's separatist group backs dress code: PTI
Dukhteran-e-Milat chief Asiya Indrabi expressed gratitude to those who started the campaign for the veil in Kashmir and `made us realise that we are Muslims'.
NC's support to NDA to continue: Abdullah/PTI
He, however, said the proposed code of conduct for NDA partners should bar them from attacking each other.
Hurriyat not to contest polls: Bhat
Hurriyat chairman Abdul Gani Bhat said the solution to the Kashmir issue lies in admitting ground realities and acceptance of people's will, wishes and aspirations.
INTERVIEW
'If Musharrafsaheb says stop the activities, we will not agree'
'Indian forces are not in a position to stop us at all times. It is impossible to seal the border,' says Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin in the second and concluding part of his interview.
UP POLLS
'Poll outcome will have fallout at Centre': PTI
The prime minister's remarks indicate the significance attached by the BJP leadership to the UP assembly elections.
'Ram temple will be constructed'
BJP leader Kalraj Mishra, jubilant over the prime minister's statement that the Ayodhya issue will be resolved by March next year, says nothing can stop construction of the temple.
NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL
Delhi suffers as transporters strike work
'I will initiate action against the transport operators who defy the government. Permits of the commercial vehicles that stay off the roads will be terminated,' state Transport Minister Pervez Hashmi warned.
Drugs case: Wadhera in judicial custody
Leading hotelier Neeraj Wadhera was arrested on Friday last, while he was soliciting with alleged drug peddler Najibullah alias Ali, an Afghan national, outside a hotel in Khan Market.
SC issues show cause notice to Arundhati Roy
The apex court took strong exception to the way Roy attributed motives to the judiciary and later took a defiant stand on the Narmada dam issue.
OTHER REPORTS
Defence ministry is temporary charge: Jaswant/PTI
However, he denied the Opposition's charge that not much attention was being paid to the ministry because of his dual charge.
CBI fails to unmask LTTE financier
Joint Director R N Kaul has gone to Canada and Sweden to check on the status of the letters rogatory sent to them to investigate 'KP'.
Militants' dress code outrages Manipur's women
A banned extremist outfit fighting for an independent homeland for the predominantly Hindu Meiteis has asked women to wear only the traditional sarong.
BJP wary of Mamata-Samata entente
Banerjee has no business pushing Fernandes's case for a berth in the Union Cabinet, said Sahib Singh Verma, MP.
'Madrasas are not terrorist hubs'
Head of the Islamic Council of India Mohammed M Mazhari refused to believe that scores of 'madarasas' in areas bordering Pakistan and Nepal were promoting fundamentalism.
150 Shiv Sena cadres held for Thane violence
Dighe, a local Shiv Sena chieftain, died in the Singhania Hospital after suffering two heart attacks, while he was being treated for injuries sustained in a road accident on Saturday.
TN govt criticises Centre on judge's transfer
The Madras High Court dismissed two petitions, seeking to restrain transferred Chief Justice N K Jain from discharging his functions in the court.
Rajasthan: 2 arrested for mosque demolition
The accused, who belonged to the Gurjar community, were arrested under Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code, for causing damage to religious places.
Bangaru Laxman heads mission to Durban
The disgraced BJP leader has resurfaced as the head of the official Indian delegation to the eight-day World Conference on Racism that begins Friday.
PHOOLAN MURDER CASE
Police file case against Phoolan's kin: PTI
Concerned over acrimony between Umed Singh and relatives of the slain Samajwadi Party MP over her property, the cops sought an undertaking from the warring parties to maintain peace.
Demand for CBI probe rejected
Uttaranchal police chief A K Saran had demanded that the investigation be handed over to the CBI.
PTI REPORTS
Student's rape sparks communal tension in UP town
Students in Mahmudabad (Sitapur district) went on the rampage setting on fire several shops protesting the rape of a student allegedly by some members of a particular community on Monday evening.
Chinese arms supply to Pak matter of concern: Jaswant
'China has repeatedly been saying that whatever arms supplies it was making to Pakistan were in accordance with international law, but I am not satisfied,' External Affairs and Defence Minister Jaswant Singh said.
CBI receives translated Bofors documents
CBI sources said the documents, which had been sent back to Sweden as they were in the Swedish language, were received on Monday night from Sweden.
Myanmarese outfit's camp in Mizoram raided
The Chin National Army, armed wing of Myanmar's Chin National Front (CNF), has launched an armed struggle against the Myanmarese military rulers.
Some change in bureaucratic mindset visible: Buddhadev
The West Bengal chief minister said that there had been some change as far as discipline and bringing about speed in administrative work was concerned.
MiG-21 crashes in Assam, pilot bails out
The IAF aircraft was on a routine flight when it crashed near the Dipota grid sub-station at Kandurabari near Tezpur in Assam's Sonitpur district.
AIIMS doctors withdraw strike
'We have called off the strike and all of us would join work by Tuesday afternoon,' Dr Prem Kumar, president, Resident Doctors' Association said.
Calcutta may have road named after Mother
State Minister for Cooperative Development and Consumer Affairs Naren De said: 'We will make arrangements so that Mother Teresa's next birthday is celebrated in front of her statue'
'Vajpayee's Russia visit will be a milestone'
'We are due not only to check the course of executing the agreements achieved in October 2000, but also concentrate on looking for new long-term fields of cooperation," Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
NEIGHBOURHOOD
Lanka govt, opposition talks fail
Three days of hectic deliberations aimed at a power-sharing arrangement between the ruling alliance and Opposition parties collapsed over irreconcilable differences between the two main parties.
Ahmediya shrine razed, 28 arrested, in Pak
The Ahmediyas were arrested after Muslim protestors bulldozed their place of worship in the Punjab province.
COLUMN
Vigil needed with searchlights, not candles
'The realist millions of this nation know very well the outcome of the candlelight vigil ceremony at the Wagah border. Pakistan just refuses to stop its jihadi killings in J&K,' says Arvind Lavakare.
August 27
INTERVIEW
'Advani, Joshi are creating a hurdle in Vajpayee's way'
Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin tells Chindu Sreedharan that the coming months will see more bloodshed in Kashmir.
TOP REPORTS
Muslim leaders deny talks on Babri issue
Prime Minster A B Vajpayee had said in Lucknow on Sunday that talks were being held at various levels and a solution to the Babri mosque-Ram temple dispute would be found by March 2002.
Kashmir focus of NY meeting: Musharraf
'I give this guarantee whether talks take place in Agra, New York or Islamabad one thing is clear that without solution of Kashmir issue, progress in the relations between Pakistan and India is not possible', Musharraf said.
PM agrees to meet Musharraf in New York
The meeting would provide an opportunity to the two leaders to pick up the threads from the discussions at Agra and lay down a framework for further interaction.
Dalit woman paraded naked in Karnataka
The victim was blamed for encouraging a girl of the Valmiki community to elope with a Dalit boy.
JAMMU AND KASHMIR
Centre, J&K to talk on special powers
Home Minister L K Advani said the Centre has asked the J&K chief minister to discuss the kind of special powers that the state needs with its emissary K C Pant.
Terrorist group vows to attack Indian N-sites
Sheikh Jamilur Rehman of the Tehrikul Mujahideen group, who is also secretary general of the United Jihad Council, has also called on Pakistan to launch a military intrusion into Jammu and Kashmir.
Impose central rule in J&K: VHP
VHP leader Acharya Giriraj Kishore said that the police was hand in glove with the militants because of the state government's laxity and inefficiency.
I am ready to be president: Farooq
He was responding to a senior Sikh Gurudwara Prabandhak Board member's desire to make him the president of the nation.
'Stressed' CRPF jawan kills two colleagues
The dead have been identified as head constable Darinder Singh and constable Sudh Nath Singh.
DRUG ABUSE
Delhi police close in on the rich and famous
The cops are convinced that a host of the city's glitterati is into cocaine, but are collecting evidence to ensure that the case against them would stand up in a court of law.
OTHER REPORTS
CBI refutes Gill's allegation of persecution
The former Punjab director general of police KPS Gill in an interview to a private television network had alleged that all the cases filed against the Punjab police officers either by the CBI or by the relatives of the victims were false.
NDA readmits Trinamul, PMK
The decision was taken in order to strengthen the hands of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, NDA convener George Fernandes said.
Mamata wants George back in Cabinet
In a letter, Mamata Banerjee's close aide has requested Vajpayee to re-induct the former defense minister into the Cabinet in the wake of new revelations regarding the tehelka.com tapes.
Contaminated water kills seven in Orissa
The contamination came to light on August 16 when two women and a man were admitted to a government hospital at Sohela. All three came with complaints of intestinal disorder and died in quick succession.
Now, non-Hindus too can have darshan of Puri deity
The Orissa govt plans to build a platform on the northern side of the world famous Lord Jagannath temple for them to have a glimpse of the deity.
Slain MLA's daughter held for family's murder
Sonia told a magistrate that she had killed her father Relu Ram Punia and six others because she felt he did not love her.
TRS founder Chandrasekhar Rao to seek re-election from Siddipet
The seat had fallen vacant when Chandrasekhar Rao quit the ruling Telugu Desam Party on April 27 this year to form the Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
Sena activists go berserk in Thane following Dighe's death
His supporters brought Thane to a standstill by warning people to stay indoors, destroying public and private property and looting shops.
Bombay riots accused Tyagi charge-sheeted
Assistant Commissioner of Police P N Sonawane filed the chargesheet before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate A A Kidwai of the Mazgaon Metropolitan Court.
Maran, Baalu seek time for counter in IPS transfer case
The CAT Bench has posted the case for September 17, after Maran and Baalu, who have also been named respondents in the case, sought time for filing their counters.
Rape, murder, burglary - he's seen it all
Jaswant Singh Mauji, a resident of Amritsar in Punjab, has been named as a key witness in several criminal cases, including six murders, a rape and four thefts.
NEIGHBOURHOOD
Lanka rejects US offer to mediate
Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar said the ruling People's Alliance coalition was already in contact with the main opposition United National Party to resolve the crisis.
PTI REPORTS
Sanghamitra's flats searched by sleuths
Bharali's flats in Bombay and Guwahati were searched and the ownership papers of her Rs five million flat at Andheri (west) in Bombay were seized.
Cabinet approves IIT status to Roorkee University
The provisions of the Indian Institute of Technology Act would have to be amended for the purpose.
Senior J&K minister dies
Bashir Ahmed Kitchloo, who was looking after social welfare in the Farooq Abdullah ministry, is survived by wife, four sons and two daughters.
SLIDE SHOW
The Sena loses a strongman
Images from Thane after the death of senior Shiv Sena leader Anand Dighe.
COLUMN
The Tehelka tragedy
'If Tehelka uses methods as sleazy as those popularly associated with politicians, it cannot complain about coming under the spotlight. It must now prepare for some searching questions,' says T V R Shenoy.
August 25
Ayodhya solution latest by March: PM
Vajpayee told reporters in Lucknow that negotiations were on at various levels and in various forms to resolve the issue.
Abdullah threatens to walk out of NDA: PTI
He was upset with recent statements by some NDA leaders, which cast doubts on the fairness of past elections held in J&K.
President ill, advised three-weeks rest
Narayanan had been admitted to the Army Research and Referral Hospital in Delhi in the third week of July due to viral infection `and had developed post-viral asthenia (generalized muscular weakness)'.
CBI quizzes Tehelka reporter, suspended MHA official
Tehelka journalist Anirudh Bahal and suspended director in the home ministry Thomas Mathew were questioned about the alleged leaking of documents from the ministry.
Sonia confesses to killing father, 7 family members: PTI
Sonia said that she 'killed her father and others, one by one with the help of an iron rod, in a fit of anger as the head of the family did not love her'.
AIIMS stalemate continues, employees threaten strike
The resident doctors had began an indefinite strike from August 22 after two junior doctors were allegedly beaten up by some hospital employees. A doctor's arm was fractured in the incident.
Thane tense following death of Sena leader
Dighe was admitted to the Singhania Hospital after he met with an accident on Saturday. Doctors at the hospital said he died of a heart attack.
August 25
INTERVIEW
'I am uncomfortable with what happened'
'These kinds of allegations serve the purpose of those who want to divert attention from the main story,' argues tehelka.com Editor-in-Chief Tarun Tejpal.
TEHELKA SCANDAL
'Assam story was an editorial mishap'
Tehelka.com apologised for a story alleging that an Assam minister had paid Rs 1.5 million to Sanghamitra Bharali to claim that former Assam chief minister P K Mahanta had married her.
Samata may file case against Tehelka
Senior party leader and former defence minister George Fernandes was on Friday night closeted with lawyers examining various legal aspects of the issue.
Tehelka: So, what has changed now?
There have been no protests and there are no animated discussions in buses and trains - possibly because the subject involved is sex.
Sacked Samata treasurer hits back at Tehelka
R K Jain on Saturday hit back at tehelka.com alleging that it was the news portal's reporters who were hankering for sex.
JAMMU AND KASHMIR
Safeguard human rights, Abdullah tells police
'Our fight is against militants. Innocents should not get punished,' the chief minister said.
Two militants involved in Poonch attack killed
Seven policemen were killed in an attack on Poonch police station on Thursday night by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba group.
OTHER REPORTS
Khalistan militant sentenced to death
Pronouncing capital punishment to Khalistan Liberation Force militant Devender Pal Singh, Additional Sessions Judge V K Jain ordered that he 'be hanged by the neck till he is dead'.
Ex-MLA's daughter prime suspect in multiple murder
Former Haryana state legislative assembly member Reluram Punia, his wife, son, one daughter, daughter-in-law and three grandchildren were found bludgeoned to death on Friday morning.
Secular credentials under threat: Church leaders
Vajpayee last week reportedly said some Christian missionaries were abusing their position to attempt religious conversions.
Pakistan chickens out of crackdown on jihadis
The corps commander of Sindh, Lt Gen Tariq Wasim Ghazi, said no official campaign was going on against 'jihadi' outfits and that all the 200 arrested members of various groups had been released.
SC makes AIIMS an all-India institution
Quashing reservation in post-graduate courses for the institution's own graduates, the court asked it to adopt 50 per cent marks in the entrance test as the sole criterion for admission.
Samajwadi Party eyes Congress for UP polls
The Samajwadi Party has said that it may team up with the Congress in a bid to rout the Bharatiya Janata Party in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
One killed in police firing in Ahmedabad
Violence erupted on Friday during a shutdown called by the Muslim Youth Association to protest an attack on hawkers in the Vatva industrial neighbourhood.
Crude bomb blast in train, 11 injured
The bomb exploded in a Howrah-bound passenger train, as it pulled into Kharagpur railway station early on Saturday morning.
New envoy takes charge in Moscow
Krishnan Raghunath, a former foreign secretary, is considered an old Russia hand, having served as political counsellor there in the late 1970s.
Delhi cops arrest two drug dealers
The Delhi police said on Saturday that they had arrested a Nigerian and a Malawi national on charges of supplying cocaine to the rich and famous in the Indian capital.
Paedophile escapes from police custody
Railway police and the district police in Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam have been put on alert and road-blocks have been put up around Vizianagaram to trace the fugitive, P Parvi Raj.
Govt denies visas to foreign supporters of Narmada movement
On July 12, 2001, Canadian citizen Ali Sauer was deported on her arrival at Delhi airport. She had been to the Narmada valley last year.
Puja organisers move court against Bombay police
Organisers of a Ganesh marquee in Bombay, allegedly sponsored by a mobster, have taken the city police to court, accusing it of imposing unreasonable curbs on its operations.
GUEST COLUMN
The sadism behind horse racing
'Why does a jockey whip a horse? It is because the fine for over-whipping is much less than that for under-whipping!' says Maneka Gandhi.
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