Saturday, January 4, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Bihar in flames
Bus carrying BJP leaders set afire; trains cancelled
Patna, January 3
More than 100 persons, including the former Union Health Minister, Mr C.P. Thakur, the Leader of Opposition, Mr Shushil Modi, and two NDA legislators were injured and over 1,000 persons arrested during the Bihar bandh called by the NDA and other parties against the killing of three youths in a “fake encounter”.

Rioters set a bus on fire during a general strike in Patna on Friday. — AFP photo

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18 killed, 41 hurt as trains collide
Hyderabad, January 3
Eighteen passengers were killed and 41 injured today when a Manmad-bound express train rammed into the rear of a stationary goods train in Maharashtra in the second rail accident in the region in a fortnight and the Railways blamed it on “human failure”.

Rescue operations in progress at the site of the mishap involving Manmad-Bound express train which collided with a goods train near Ghatnadur station in Maharashtra on Friday morning killing 12 passengers.
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Nandgarh is Takht Damdama Sahib JathedarBalwant Singh Nandgarh
Talwandi Sabo, January 3
A confidant of Mr Parkash Singh Badal, former Chief Minister, Mr Balwant Singh Nandgarh, who is a member of the SGPC and resident of Nandgarh village in Bathinda district, was today made Jathedar of Takht Damdama Sahib, the fifth Takht of Sikhs. His installation ceremony will be held on January 6.

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Dual citizenship for NRIs, PIOs on cards
New Delhi, January 3
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is expected to make an announcement regarding dual citizenship for non-resident Indians (NRIs) and persons of Indian origin (PIOs) when the “Pravasi Bhartiya Divas” celebrations begin here from January 9.

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US troops ‘may enter Pak’
New Delhi, January 3
The Washington-Islamabad relations have taken yet another downturn with the US military’s yesterday’s decision that its troops may pursue attackers into war-on-terror ally Pakistan from within Afghanistan if they come under fire from “hostile forces” along the border.

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CM convenes all-party meeting
Chandigarh, January 3
The Punjab Chief Minister, Capt. Amarinder Singh, today convened an all-party meeting here for January 8 to discuss the SYL canal issue . Confirming this the Chief Secretary, Mr Y.S. Ratra, said the state was already in the process of filing curative and civil writs as replies, in the Supreme Court for which the Chief Minister has had discussions with leading lawyers.

Towards safe rail journey
Jalandhar, January 3
Accidents and collision between trains would soon be a thing of past thanks to the world’s first microprocessor based anti collision device (ACD), developed by the Konkan Railways Corporation, which has almost completed its exhaustive trials on the Jalandhar-Amritsar section.

Two LeT ultras held in Batala
Snow in J&K forces militants to Punjab plains
Batala, January 3
Snowfall in the higher reaches of the troubled Jammu and Kashmir has forced ISI-sponsored terrorists to shift their hideouts to the plains of Punjab, especially in the border district of Gurdaspur. This was revealed during an interrogation of two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants arrested by the Batala police.

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