Sunday, December 29, 2002, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Taliban shift bases to Pak: Advani
Opposes general release of J&K detainees
New Delhi, December 28
Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani today said that Taliban cadres had shifted base from Afghanistan to Pakistan and warned the international community to take note of the development before it cost “dearly to the world”.

DMK, NDA ‘set’ to part ways
New Delhi, December 28
With Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalitha cosying up to the BJP, her rival M. Karunanidhi and DMK’s parting of ways with the National Democratic Alliance at the Centre appears imminent.

10 killed, 17 injured in bus-truck collision

Malout, December 28 Ten persons, including two women, were killed and 17 others injured when a Rajasthan Roadways bus collided with a canter near Kabarwala village, 9 km from here, on the Malout-Sriganganagar highway this morning.

Wailing relatives of Karamjit Kaur and Lajwanti, who died in a road accident which claimed 10 lives, outside the Malout Civil Hospital on Saturday. — Photo Kulbir Beera

Kelkar report not final word: BJP
New Delhi, December 28
The BJP said today that it was “seriously examining” the final report of the Kelkar task force on tax reforms and would submit its suggestions on the same to the Finance Minister soon.

Rich must pay more for education: PM
New Delhi, December 28
The Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, today laid out the road map for reforms in the educational sector, by emphasising the need for strengthening public-private sector cooperation, innovative financing model and restructuring of the state funding in higher education.

Azad to head J&K coordination committee
New Delhi, December 28
The Congress President today constituted a nine-member coordination committee to monitor the functioning of the PDP-Congress coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir with Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad as its chairman.

Indian History Congress session opens
Amritsar, December 28
The historians of a society have a very special role to play in the creation of a new consciousness, especially in a fast-changing world, where living patterns, political ideologies and social values are getting transformed right before our eyes.

Anandpur Sahib hydel project stuck Machinery worth crores lying idle Anandpur Sahib, December 28 The multi-crore power project stage-I (Anandpur Sahib hydel project, stage II) has been hanging fire since its inception in 1984. Machinery worth crores has been lying idle in Malakpur a sleepy town 30 km from here. Hydel power project site has become a dense jungle which earlier was cleared at huge cost. Machinery and equipment worth crores of rupees of the Anandpur Sahib hydel project lie in the open at Malakpur, 30 km from Anandpur Sahib, on Saturday. — Tribune photo Manoj Mahajan