Friday, February 14, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

BJP, RSS join hands
Sangh Parivar to rein in VHP
New Delhi, February 13
Amidst growing stridency in the views of the VHP, a meeting of the top leaders of the RSS and the BJP today decided not to publicly express divergent views on crucial issues like Ayodhya with the Sangh Parivar fountainhead taking on the responsibility of advising the VHP to exercise restraint.
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SC rejects Centre’s plea on Ayodhya
New Delhi, February 13
The Supreme Court today rejected the Centre’s plea to hear the Ayodhya case before February 21 even as it admitted the petition of Mohammad Aslam Bhure, on whose pleadings the apex court had stayed any religious activity on both disputed and undisputed land.

TRIBUNE SPECIAL
99 ultra camps in B’desh: India
New Delhi, February 13
The Vajpayee government has handed over to Bangladesh “evidence” of 99 terrorist training camps being run in that country with the help of Pakistan’s ISI.

Osama talks about his death in new tape
London, February 13
A new recorded message from Osama bin Laden, which is expected to be broadcast in the next few days, has him talking about the kind of death he wants. Obtained by The Daily Telegraph, the 53-minute recording is in possession of Al-Ansaar, a small news agency and bookshop in Birmingham.

Drought relief for rabi crops
Higher prices to increase production
New Delhi, February 13
Farmers of the country today got some relief from the government with the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs deciding to make a provision of Rs 10 per quintal on the minimum support price for wheat as drought relief.

Dalmiya’s charge against ICC
Kolkata, February 13
The Board of Control for Cricket in India today accused ICC of bending backwards to protect the interests of England and Wales Cricket Board at the cost of other competitors in the ongoing cricket World Cup.

‘Missing’ link in benami land deal Ropar, February 13 After preliminary investigations in the controversial benami land deal case in Naglian and Khairpur villages in Ropar, the police has identified Kulbir Singh, a close friend of Mr Abhay Chautala, as the “main missing link.”