Tuesday, October 15, 2002, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Cong, PDP adamant
Azad is LCP chief, gets support of 8 Ind, Panthers
Srinagar/Jammu, October 14
The PCC chief, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, was unanimously elected leader of the Legislature Congress Party in Srinagar today even as both the Congress and the People’s Democratic Party stuck to their guns on the issue of chief ministership of the coalition government.

Ghulam Nabi Azad is greeted by partymen after being elected leader of the Legislature Congress Party in Srinagar Panthers extend support to Cong


Ghulam Nabi Azad is greeted by partymen after being elected leader of the Legislature Congress Party in Srinagar on Monday.
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PDP may sit in Opposition
Srinagar, October 14
In a surprise development, the People’s Democratic Party here today stiffened its stand on a coalition with the Congress Party, and decided instead to sit in the Opposition in case no agreement is reached with that party on a common minimum programme, prior to the formation of a new government in Jammu and Kashmir.
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Fireworks explode over Asian athletes and South Korean performers at Busan’s main stadium during the closing ceremony of the 14th Asian Games on Monday.
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Salman denied bail, moves higher court
Salman KhanMumbai, October 14
Film actor Salman Khan today moved a Sessions Court for bail after a Magistrate rejected his bail plea and remanded him in judicial custody till October 21 in a hit-and-run case.
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New Delhi, October 14
Parkash Singh Badal Apprehending his arrest any moment by the Capt Amarinder Singh government in Punjab, SAD chief and former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal called on Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani and apprised him of the political situation going out of hand in the sensitive border state.

 
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SGPC members kept at Balasar: Tohra
Chandigarh, October 14
Former SGPC chief G.S. Tohra said today former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had kept most of the SGPC members at Balasar village in Haryana under the protection of the Haryana police.

Farmers block traffic, hold dharnas
Statewide protests over MSP, bonus issues
Patiala, October 14
Members of seven farmers’ organisations led by the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta) blocked traffic on the Mall road here when a strong police force prevented them from entering the office compound of the Deputy Commissioner.

Darkness at noon due to paddy stubble burning?
Samrala, October 14
Why did vast areas in Punjab and Haryana plunge into darkness at noon for a while on October 12, forcing people to switch on their lights. Why did strange phenomenon occur shortly before the heavy downpour?
A thick smoke cloud soars up from a harvested paddy field put on fire by a farmer near Samrala
A thick smoke cloud soars up from a harvested paddy field put on fire by a farmer near Samrala on Monday.
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