Thursday, October 10, 2002, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 4:00 pm (IST)

NC likely to sit on Opposition benches
Srinagar, October 10
Ruling National Conference today appeared heading for a defeat in the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, which are likely to throw a hung verdict with the possibility of the Congress and the People's Democratic Party coming together for forming a coalition government. 

    Omar concedes defeat

Copters, jawans tighten cordon
J&K election results today
Srinagar, October 9
Apprehending suicide attacks by militants who killed hundreds of people in poll-related violence in Jammu and Kashmir, a massive security dragnet has been thrown over all centres where votes will be counted tomorrow.
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    Poll vehicle attacked, two killed
    Editorial: Ballot defeats bullet

J&K page: Turnout high despite poll violence 800 killed during poll Paramilitary forces patrol near a counting centre on the banks of the Dal Lake in Srinagar on Wednesday. — Reuters photo

J&K poll win for India: Advani
Opens Solan IT varsity
Vaknaghat (Solan), October 9
Mr L.K.Advani, the Deputy Prime Minister, today said the process for the restoration of peace in Jammu and Kashmir would resume after the formation of the new government in the state.
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    EU astonished at successful J&K poll

PAKISTAN
10 lakh may not cast votes
Islamabad, October 9
As many as 10 lakh voters between 18 and 21 years may not be able to cast votes in tomorrow’s general election in Pakistan as they have not been issued the National Identity Cards. A report in The Nation said quoting sources at the National Database Registration Authority.

BJP for early poll in Gujarat
New Delhi, October 9
Bharatiya Janata Party President M Venkaiah Naidu today urged the Election Commission to announce dates for the Gujarat Assembly elections at the earliest.

Farmers, arhtiyas suffer as confusion prevails
Khanna, October 9
While there is confusion among farmers, commission agents and government procurement agencies regarding the mode of payment of Rs 20 per quintal as drought relief and Rs 10 per quintal as bonus on previous year’s paddy as announced by the Central and state governments recently, the problem of “black paddy” has resurfaced.

It is paddy, paddy and paddy everywhere at Asia’s biggest grain market in Khanna. This picture was taken by Manoj Mahajan on Wednesday.

Hopes and frustrations in the North-East Hari Jaisingh GUWAHATI: A whistle-stop visit to India’s gateway to the North-East for a meeting of the Press Council of India, a statutory watchdog of matters related to newspapers, leaves one with intense mixed feelings of hope and frustration, of democratic vibrancy and insurgency menace, of poverty-stricken people and the unemployed youth, of rising expectations and slow-paced development.