Tuesday, January 21, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Pak cops harass diplomat again
Delhi lodges protest with Islamabad
Islamabad, January 20
In a fresh incident of harassment, vehicles of Pakistani police officials came “dangerously” close to the car of India’s Charge d’Affaires Sudhir Vyas this morning while he was on his way to office here even as New Delhi lodged a strong protest with Islamabad over Saturday’s incident when his car was blocked several times.


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Despite poor visibility because of fog, Army personnel continue to give final touches to the enclosures being constructed for the Republic Day parade at Rajpath on Monday morning Despite poor visibility because of fog, Army personnel continue to give final touches to the enclosures being constructed for the Republic Day parade at Rajpath on Monday morning. —  Tribune photo Mukesh Aggarwal

2 HP ministers quit BJP
Shimla, January 20
Mr Mansa Ram and Mr Prakash Chaudhary, — two ministers in the Dhumal government, today resigned from the Himachal cabinet and joined the Himachal Vikas Congress, the party they had left to join the BJP.

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Cell operators to interconnect
New Delhi, January 20
The bitter mud-slinging between cellular operators and telecom sector watchdog Telecom Regulatory Authority of India ended today with the former agreeing to allow with immediate effect the termination of calls of basic operators, including those originating from limited mobility phones functioning on the Wireless in Local Loop platform.

AG nod to oil PSUs’ disinvestment
New Delhi, January 20
Attorney-General Soli Sorabjee is understood to have given a favourable opinion on disinvestment of oil PSUs, thus paving the way for privatisation of the HPCL and the BPCL, which were acquired and nationalised in the 1970s through Acts of Parliament.

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BJP panel submits report
Kelkar proposals
New Delhi, January 20
The Rajnath Singh Committee on Kelkar recommendations on direct and indirect taxes has favoured raising the personal income tax exemption limit without removing the standard deduction for salaried class.

Contracts issue: HC order on January 22
New Delhi, January 20
The Delhi High Court will pronounce its judgement on a petition challenging the controversial ICC players’ contract on January 22. A Bench comprising acting Chief Justice Devinder Gupta and Mr Justice B.D. Ahmed reserved the order for January 22 after a nearly three-hour hearing today.

Ex-Akali Minister Ajnala booked
Vigilance Bureau raids house
Amritsar, January 20
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau booked another former Akali Minister, Dr Rattan Singh Ajnala for having assets, disproportionate to his known source of income.

IAS officer, colleague’s wife in police net?
Panchkula, January 20
A senior Punjab IAS officer and the wife of another very senior Punjab IAS officer had to spend about three hours in the Sector 5 police station here tonight. They were brought to the police station by certain Haryana police officials posted here.

KIDNEY RACKET
Addresses in 34 cases ‘fake’
Jalandhar, January 20
Tightening its noose around doctors and middlemen involved in the Rs 100 crore kidney racket, the Special Investigation Team has identified 34 cases of kidney transplant in the records of Kakkar Hospital, Amritsar, wherein the addresses of recipients and donors were found to be fake, thus, virtually establishing the involvement of members of the Authorisation Committee in the racket.

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