Tuesday, January 14, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Punjab moves SC on SYL
Chandigarh, January 13
The Punjab Government announced today that it had filed a suit in the Supreme Court to seek “justice on river waters distribution” under Article 131 by discharging it from the obligation to construct the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal.

  Punjab page: SYL: BJP’s offer to govt
 
Haryana page: Centre may be urged to step in
 
Judicial intervention is the key
 
Cong hits back at CM on SYL
 
NCR page: Farmers suffer as SYL becomes a political football
 
BJP unit to file contempt petition on SYL
 
HPCC also firms up strategy on canal

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Security, development BJP poll plank
New Delhi, January 13
Issues of security and development would be in the main focus of the BJP’s election campaign during the Assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh, Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya, party President M. Venkaiah Naidu announced here today.

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SIT hunts for Dr Sareen’s aides
Amritsar, January 13
Officials of the Special Investigation Team are silent on the identity of the MLA and other senior politicians, extending patronage to the prime accused in the kidney sale scam. The ruling party MLAs of Amritsar sought the intervention of the Chief Minister for revealing their names.

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Farmers lift road blockade
Part payment of cane dues cleared; coop loan recovery deferred
Kharar, January 13
On the auspicious day of Lohri, there was a happy end to the five-day-old road blockade by farmers of the Chandigarh-Ludhiana-Jalandhar national highway here today.

Iftikar Gilani freed
New Delhi, January 13
A Delhi court today set free journalist Iftikar Gilani after the government decided to withdraw the case against him under the Officials Secrets Act, seven months after he was imprisoned at the Tihar Jail here.
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Arrest of Dawood’s CEO biggest catch
New Delhi, January 13
Indian security agencies have scored tactical victories with the arrests of an LeT terrorist Imran Hussain Khan and notorious criminal Shakeel Lamboo, CEO of Dawood Ibrahim in India.

Sidhu case: SC returns reference
New Delhi, January 13
A presidential reference on the removal of former Chairman of the Punjab Public Service Commission Ravinder Pal Singh Sidhu was today returned unanswered by the Supreme Court.

Obscenity at Maghi Mela
Muktsar, January 13
Unmindful of the religious sanctity attached with the Maghi Mela the district administration has allowed a number of show organisers to run dance shows depicting obscenity from the temporary structures and mint money from those who come here to pay their obeisance at the gurdwara.

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