Monday, October 7, 2002, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Bid on candidate’s life
3 ultras, 2 Armymen, nambardar killed
Srinagar, October 6
Barely hours before the elections in six constituencies of Doda district, an Independent candidate from the Bhaderwah segment escaped a bid on his life when militants attacked his motorcade with automatic weapons this afternoon. In video (28k, 56k)

 
Pak shells Dras, houses damaged
 
Israeli radars coming

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Workers rest in front of an election poster J&K page: Campaigning ends for final phase

Workers rest in front of an election poster in Doda district on Sunday. The final round of voting in Jammu and Kashmir is scheduled to take place on Tuesday. 
— Reuters photo

Police firing in Vadodara
Ahmedabad, October 6

In fresh eruption of communal violence, two groups clashed and indulged in arson today prompting the police to open fire which left two persons injured in Dabhoi town in Gujarat’s Vadodara district, a senior police official said.

Communal crater in Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad, October 6
Communal carnage victims in the Dariyakhan Rahat camp in Quresh Jamaat Hall in Mirzapur (one of the two camps left in Ahmedabad now) told TNS that they were looked upon with suspicion.

6 Shiv Sainiks acquitted in ’93 riot case
Mumbai, October 6

A local court has acquitted six Shiv Sainiks facing the charge of stabbing to death a member of a minority community during communal riots in 1993 here.

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Peace laden with risk
A year after the Taliban
Kabul, October 6
The cinema near the dried up Kabul river that now houses a makeshift bazaar is showing ‘Hindustan Ki Kasam.’ A couple of kilometres away, another theatre loudly proclaims ‘Aflatoon’ along with a large picture of Bollywood hero Akshay Kumar in a tense moment from the film.
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French tanker attacked
The devastation of past and street business in Kabul.
— photos Ashwini Bhatnagar

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4 die in custody every day: NHRC
New Delhi, October 6

Despite various sensitisation programmes for police and judiciary personnel, as many as 666 cases of custodial deaths have been received by the National Human Rights Commission in the past six months with UP topping the list.

 
Indian, Pakistani get human rights award

PM leaves for Europe today
Atal Behari VajpayeeNew Delhi, October 6
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee leaves for a week-long tour to Europe tomorrow and will intensify India’s efforts to seek an early deportation of underworld kingpin Abu Salem. Mr Vajpayee will argue for the case of deporting Abu Salem during the India-EU summit to be held in Copenhagen on October 10.

Temple used as storeroom
A view of the majestic building of the ancient Hanuman TempleSri Hargobindpur, October 6
Unmindful of the legendary significance of the ancient Hanuman Temple here encroachers have converted its magnificent building into a storeroom while its periphery is being used for dwelling. 

A view of the majestic building of the ancient Hanuman Temple at Sri Hargobindpur (Gurdaspur) which has been encroached upon by a villager. 
— photo Rajiv Sharma

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