Tuesday, October 8, 2002, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

15 Independents float party
Srinagar, October 7
A group of 15 Independent candidates contesting the  ongoing Assembly elections, on the eve of the fourth and final phase of polling here today floated a new party, the J&K Democratic Peoples Forum, to “fight horse-trading” and work for the restoration of peace and stability.

    Cop killed in Doda blasts
    J&K page: NC snaps contacts with Kashmir panel

Election officials use a horse to transport electronic voting machines to remote localities in Seri Bhadarwah village, 200 km north-east of Jammu, on Monday. The fourth and last phase of the Jammu and Kashmir elections will be held today. — Reuters In video (28k, 56k)

India thrash Pak for gold
Busan, October 7
India maintained their stranglehold on kabaddi and won their fourth successive Asian Games gold medal in the event with a 37-7 drubbing of Pakistan here today in the last league match which was marred by a minor exchange of words between the two arch-rivals.

    Sports page: Anju, kabaddi team bring cheers
    Wrestler Cheema wins bronze

Police remand for Salman
Mumbai, October 7
The police today arrested film actor Salman Khan after he surrendered in a hit-and-run case after the prosecution decided to book him for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, a non-bailable offence.

ANALYSIS
Volte-face on PSU sell-off
New Delhi, October 7
The logjam over the disinvestment of public sector undertakings has transcended beyond economic attributes of a structured privatisation process and has only helped in engineering a vertical split in the country’s political establishment.

Medicine Nobel for 2 Britons, American
Stockholm, October 7
Sydney Brenner and Sir John Sulston of the UK and Robert Horvitz of the USA won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine today for work on how genes regulate organ development and cell death.

Vajpayee in Cyprus
Nicosia, October 7
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee arrived here today on a three-day visit to Cyprus.
In video (28k, 56k)

Restoring Takht glory  Amritsar, October 7 The ongoing kar seva is unlikely to restore the two-and-a-half-century old ivory mosaic work, ‘gach’, a sort of stone or gypsum priceless murals, naqqashi and paintings, depicting mythological scenes which was destroyed in January 1986 when radical Sikhs pulled down the magnificent structure of  A picture of bright and synthetic colours used for painting the ceiling of Akal Takht. — Photo Rajiv Sharma Akal Takht following the ‘sarbat khalsa’.