Friday, September 13, 2002, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Firing at Lone’s funeral
Sogam (Kupwara), September 12
Three Army jawans were injured when militants launched a daring daylight attack on Sogam village falling in the Lolab Assembly constituency when the funeral oration (namaz-e-janaza) for the slain Law Minister Mushtaq Ahmed Lone was about to begin this afternoon.

Lolab to go to poll on October 8 A securityman stands guard near a group of Kashmiri villagers during the funeral of Mushtaq Ahmed Lone, slain Kashmir Law Minister, in Sogam, 110 km north of Srinagar, on Thursday. — Reuters photo

Rein in Pak
Time for PM to tell Bush
Hari Jaisingh
New York, September 12
Will Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee be able to extract a credible American response to India’s on-going problems with Pakistan, especially with regard to its sponsorship of terrorist activities in Kashmir even during the forthcoming critical weeks of elections there?
 
  PM meets kin of Indian 9/11 victims  (28k, 56k)
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  Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, who is on a week-long visit to the USA, met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Danish Prime Minister Andersen Von Fasmussen on Wednesday. (28k, 56k)

	PM meets Bush US President George W. Bush meets with Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee at the US Mission to the United Nations in New York on Thursday.  — Reuters photo

Pervez does India bashing
United Nations, September 12
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in a frontal attack against India in yet another attempt to internationalise the Kashmir issue maintained that sustainable peace in South Asia can only be achieved with the resolution of the Kashmir problem requiring nuclear restraint and ensuring conventional arms balance between the two neighbours.

Curriculum not saffron: SC
New Delhi, September 12
The Supreme Court today categorically held that there was no attempt to saffronise the school syllabus in the new National Curriculum Framework for Secondary Education - 2002 and directed its immediate implementation.

  NCR page: SC gives a green light to NCERT

Metsat in orbit
Sriharikota, September 12
Metsat, India’s first exclusive meteorological satellite, was successfully injected into a geosynchronous transfer orbit by PSLV-C4, 21 minutes after the launch vehicle soared majestically into the sky from Satish Dhawan Space Centre here this evening. In video (28k, 56k)

Sangra sworn in as PPSC chief
Chandigarh, September 12
Lt-Gen Surjit Singh Sangra (Retd) was sworn in as Chairman of the Punjab Public Service Commission at a simple ceremony at Raj Bhavan today. The oath of office and was administered by the Governor, Lt-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd).

It poured all day Snow in upper reaches of HP, J&K Chandigarh, September 12 Heavy rain lashed several places in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh today, plummeting temperatures by several degrees. The city recorded over 30 mm of rainfall following incessant rain throughout the day. The maximum dipped by 10 degrees and came down to 23°C, according to the Meteorological Department here.