Tight security for today’s poll
Shoot orders issued in Bihar
NEW DELHI, Feb 21 — As many as 108 assembly seats in violence-prone Bihar, 90 in defection-plagued Haryana, 77 in cyclone-ripped Orissa and 32 in insurgency-affected Manipur will go to the polls tomorrow with an electorate of more than 40 million exercising its franchise.

Haryana seals borders
CHANDIGARH, Feb 21 — Over 11 million voters will decide the political fate of 965 candidates tomorrow in one of the keenly contested Assembly elections in the state.

• BJP activist hurt in clash with Congress workers (Haryana page)

Carrying electoral material officials assemble for poll duty at Panchkula in Haryana on Tuesday. — Tribune photo by Karam Singh

Dosanjh is BC Premier VANCOUVER, Feb 21 — It was a big day for Punjabis. One of them, Mr Ujjal Dosanjh, today became the Premier of British Columbia, a prosperous and important state of Canada.

DSP facing rape charge suspended
LUDHIANA, Feb 21 — DSP Ashok Puri, who had been accused of physical assault and rape by a minor was suspended today. He has, however, applied for bail in the Ludhiana Sessions Court today and his bail application is likely to come up for hearing tomorrow.


Inedible wheat auctioned
ABOHAR: The Punjab State Civil Supplies Corporation (Punsup) had recently auctioned 25 lakh bags of non-commercial wheat which totally unfit for human consumption. This was alleged in a memorandum submitted by a voluntary organisation to the Prime Minister and other senior functionaries of the central and state governments.

Damaged wheat kept in the open outside a Punsup godown