Train mishap toll 60
Kozhikode, June 23
The death toll in yesterday’s train accident involving the Mangalore-Chennai Mail rose to 60 with five more bodies fished out of the coaches submerged in the Kadalundi river today, even as rescue and relief operations were intensified. Of them, 46 victims have so far been identified.

50 feared drowned as boat capsizes
Malda (West Bengal), June 23
More than 50 persons were feared drowned when a large motorised country boat overturned midstream in the swollen Ganges near Eksatichar in West Bengal’s Malda district this morning.

PPCC office-bearers announced
New Delhi, June 23
The Congress high command formally announced the office bearers of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee  here today after reconciling the views of all sections.

• Chandigarh Cong office-bearers

• Amarinder happy with appointments

Electrifying Lashkara awards
New Delhi, June 23
The sun set rather early on Friday in the National Capital but the impending dawn of a new era in Punjabi music and culture brought about a unique confluence at the Siri Fort Auditorium here, the venue for the first Lashkara Music Awards last night.

APHC meeting with Musharraf, PM unlikely
New Delhi, June 23
The government’s interlocutor on Kashmir, Mr K. C. Pant tonight gave ample indication that the request of the Hurriyat leaders to meet Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on the Kashmir issue would not materialise.

Another attempt on Omar’s life Grenades, rockets fired on chopper Srinagar, June 23 Militants made a second abortive attempt on the life of Union Minister Omar Abdullah in less than a month when they fired a barrage of rockets and grenades on his helicopter just before it was about to land this afternoon at Sogam in north Kashmir this afternoon, the police said.