Thursday, September 12, 2002, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Homage at Ground Zero
Bush in dilemma over launching attack on Iraq
Hari Jaisingh
New York, September 11
Notwithstanding the solemnity of the ceremony at “Ground Zero” here today marking the first anniversary of the horrendous airborne terrorist strikes, the George Bush administration is in a dilemma on carrying out unilateral attacks against Iraq.

  US bases attacked in Afghanistan
  White powder fear

Editorial: Sept 11: the economic fallout   World page: South Asians meet to combat 9/11 backlash A boy holds a flower as he rides on a man’s shoulders during a memorial service at Ground Zero in New York on Wednesday. — Reuters photo

NEW YORK DIARY
PM looks for common points
Relaxed Vajpayee chats with media
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee looked relaxed and composed as he came out of his cabin to greet the media persons accompanying him in Air-India's special flight to New York for the 57th UN General Assembly meeting. 

Burqa-clad boy kills minister
12 gunned down at rally in Poonch
Srinagar, September 11
In the first major wave of attacks on the electoral process in the state, militants shot dead Law Minister Mushtaq Ahmad Lone (44), along with six others at an election rally in Lolab constituency of Kupwara district this afternoon. Militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba has claimed responsibility for the attack.

In video (28k, 56k)

  112 bodies extricated
  Another Rajdhani mishap

  Nation page: Train mishap: rescue work ‘slow’

	Rescue operations are on and medical aid is being provided to those injured in the derailment of the Rajdhani Express.  In Video: (28k, 56k) Emotional re-union: A relative hugs a survivor of the Rajdhani Express mishap, at the New Delhi railway station early on Wednesday morning. — PTI photo

SAD dharnas, memos
Muktsar, September 11
Former Chief Minister and President of the Shiromani Akali Dal, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, today urged all political parties to come on common platform to defend the state’s interest.

  Ludhiana page: Police gives in to violent protesters

Bitumen scam drains HP Shimla, September 11 Transporters allegedly in connivance with officials have been depriving the Himachal Government of crores of rupees by large-scale alleged malpractices in the supply of bitumen. The modus operandi is simple — quote unreasonably low rates to secure contract for the transportation of bitumen from the two oil refineries at Mathura and Panipat and then make good the loss by selling a good part of the supply on the black market during transit.