Thursday, May 23, 2002, Chandigarh, India
 Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

PPSC scam probe: glaring gaps, 31 ‘missing’ names Hari Jaisingh Where is the investigation in the Ravi Sidhu case heading towards? Is it on the right track? Or is it getting lopsided and diluted, even derailed? Is a cover-up exercise under way—the fear of which has been in the air for quite some time? These questions are crucial at this stage of the investigation of the PPSC mega-scam.         Punjab page: Ex-PPSC chief Bhupinder Sidhu also faces probe

In video (28k, 56k) Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee meets soldiers in Kupwara, northern Kashmir, on Wednesday.  — Reuters photo

Indus Water Treaty may go: PM
Jammu, May 22
The government is seriously examining the issue of scrapping of the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan as part of the diplomatic and economic offensive Delhi has initiated to force Islamabad to stop aiding and encouraging cross-border terrorism.

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• Patience has ended: India

• Pak offers talks yet again

• Pak must stop terror: Russia

• World page: Avoid war, says USA

• UK fears Pakistan will press the nuclear button

• Edit page: A peep into General Musharraf’s mind

11 Pak troops shot along LoC
14 bunkers, 1 post, 2 watch towers smashed
Jammu, May 22
Eleven Pakistani soldiers were killed and two of their watch towers and 14 bunkers destroyed in the exchange of artillery fire between India and Pakistan along the Line of Control in Rajouri and Poonch districts since late last night.

India gets Navy ready
New Delhi, May 22
Giving further indication of waging an all-out war against cross-border terrorism, the government has given orders for five of the frontline warships forming part of the Eastern Naval Command to conjoin with the Western Naval Command fleet based in the Arabian Sea. 

Nepal’s parliament dissolved
Kathmandu, May 22
Nepal’s King Gyanendra today dissolved parliament and called new elections for November as the House seemed set to defeat an extension of the emergency rule in the country.

Lone laid  to rest
Srinagar, May 22
Thousands of mourners here today attended the funeral procession of senior APHC leader, Abdul Ghani Lone, who was laid to rest at the Idgah graveyard here this afternoon.

Video (28k, 56k)

• Nation page: Lone’s killing a setback: Sonia

• Editorial: Moderate voice gagged