TRIBUNE EXCLUSIVE
LeT camps in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait
New Delhi, January 11
Explosive information has come to light for the first time that militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba is running camps in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait for spotting, recruiting and training terrorists with covert support from Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence.

TRIBUNE IMPACT
Kidney racket: 2 doctors arrested
Amritsar, January 11
The Special Investigating Team, headed by Mr A.A. Saddique, ADGP-cum-OSD (Law and Order) today arrested Dr O.P. Mahajan, Principal, Government Medical College, Amritsar, and Chairman of the Authorisation Committee that cleared the kidney transplant cases, and Dr P.K. Sarin, transplant surgeon of Kakkar Hospital, the only centre in the city authorised to conduct kidney transplant operations.

Chandigarh coldest as region shivers
Chandigarh, January 11
Chandigarh today recorded its coldest day ever at 8.0°C, 12°C below normal, making people reel as icy cold winds swept the city. “This is the lowest maximum recorded ever since the Meteorological Office here was set up in 1982.

Chandigarh page: City schools closed till Jan 15 Soldiers posted on the border with Pakistan warm themselves in front of a fire near Amritsar on Saturday. — Reuters photo

TRIBUNE INVESTIGATION
Move to resume Cantt bungalows
George promises to look into matter
Ferozepore, January 11
Every time the situation becomes volatile along the border or the relations between the two hostile nations reach a flashpoint leaders across both sides of the fence engage in blistering rhetoric, the worst sufferers are residents of the border towns who due to fear of war hanging above their heads get dislodged from their homes.

NCM pleas go unheard
New Delhi, January 11
The entreaties of the National Commission for Minorities to put matters in perspective before the NRIs and PIOs about safeguarding the interests of minorities failed to evoke a positive response from the organisers of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas.

Fatima disagrees with Naipaul
New Delhi, January 11
Refuting the views of Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul on Mahatma Gandhi, African National Congress leader Fatima Meer today said the Father of the Nation was a “phenomenal success” in South Africa where he laid the basis of his political struggle against colonial governments.

SUNDAY ANCHOR Long queues for ‘magic cure’ Philai (Kapurthala), January 11 Virtually defying prevalent medical perceptions and throwing these to the winds, hundreds of people rush to this otherwise sleepy village on Sundays to get rid of their varied tooth ailments "for ever" with the help of a "holy treatment" offered by a large number of "blessed" residents for over 100 years.