Monday, December 4, 2000, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3 am (IST)

4 more bodies extricated
Death toll rises to 43
JEEWANPURA (Fatehgarh Sahib), Dec 3 — The rescue operation from the mangled bogey of the Howrah Express which collided with a goods train here yesterday ended this morning, with four more bodies being extricated following extensive gas cutting work taking the death toll in the mishap to 43.

Edit: Death at 70 kmph

Probe by SC judge ordered
Mamata pulls up DRM
JEEWANPURA (Fatehgarh Sahib) Dec 3 — Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee gave a dressing down to Railway officials while on a hurricane visit to the site of yesterday’s train accident here today and ordered a probe by a sitting Supreme Court judge into the accident.

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Railway and rescue workers use cranes to remove wrecked carriages of the Howrah-Amritsar Express PM expresses grief over train mishap



Railway and rescue workers use cranes to remove wrecked carriages of the Howrah-Amritsar Express at Sarai Banjara on Sunday. 
— AFP photo

8 coaches of Jhelum Express derailed
INDORE, Dec 3 — Eight coaches of Pune-Jammu Tawi Jhelum Express derailed between Talvadya and Khaigaon stations on the Khandwa-Itarsi section of Central Railway today, disrupting rail traffic, official sources said here.

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SRINAGAR, Dec 3 — A ruling National Conference leader has escaped a bid on his life by militants in Udhampur district.

Zahoor Ahmad looks at his injured sister Sameena Bano in a hospital in Srinagar on Sunday. The police said the two were wounded when militants fired on a vehicle at Qazigund, south of Srinagar. 
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George’s terms for talks
BANGALORE, Dec 3 — The Defence Minister, Mr George Fernandes, today indicated that India would resume dialogue with Pakistan only if it stopped sending terrorists to the country and “genuinely” ended firing from across the border.

Tillers threaten to take to streets
FEROZEPORE, Dec 3 — Accusing the police of helping influential persons in taking possession of land near the Indo-Pakistan border, tillers and Congress workers have threatened to take to the streets.


Fooling cops with duplicate licences
 CHANDIGARH, Dec 3 — When Mr A (not his real name), plying his private car as a tourist vehicle, was challaned for overspeeding, the driving licence he surrendered to the police was a “duplicate” one. The challaning police officer perhaps could not see through the game of Mr A.

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