Sunday, March 30, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Suicide bomber kills 5 US troops
Kuwait City, March 29
The US-led coalition forces received a severe setback on the 10th day of the war today when five US soldiers were killed in a car bomb attack in southern Iraq while in another development the allies paused their ground troops’ movement for four to six days because of a host of factors.

  Iraqi missile hits Kuwaiti building, 2 injured
  Graphic: Day 10 of war

World page: ‘Shock and awe’ in store for USA   Pentagon was warned of paramilitary forces Edit page: Iraq: why American action can’t be endorsed British Royal Marines from 40 Commando man a Milan anti-tank weapon system while a Chinook helicopter transports a vehicle overhead, on the Al Faw peninsula, southern Iraq, in this photo made available on Saturday. — AP/PTI photo

3 LeT ultras shot in Mumbai
Mumbai, March 29
Three Lashker-e-Toiba terrorists, suspected to be involved in the March 13 bomb blast in a train at Mulund here, were today killed in an encounter with the police on the Western Express Highway in suburban Goregaon.

Vajpayee dares Sonia
Clarify stand on coalition politics
New Delhi, March 29
Lashing out at the Congress for not disclosing its stand on coalition politics, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today dared the main opposition party to have an alliance in Uttar Pradesh like it has in Maharashtra.
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Left to right: M. Venkaiah Naidu, L.K. Advani, Atal Behari Vajpayee, George Fernandes, Om Prakash Chautala, Parkash Singh Badal and Sharad Yadav acknowledge the greetings at a rally marking the completion of five years of the NDA government in the Capital on Saturday. — Tribune photo Mukesh Aggarwal

Oppn walkout on civic poll motion
Chandigarh, March 29
Having first virtually extracted time for discussion on ''excesses'' during the municipal elections, resulting in ''thrashing and injuries'' to Akali-BJP councillors, the Opposition today failed to pin down the treasury benches which frustrated their attempts to cash in on the issue and literally forced them to walk out in protest from the Vidhan Sabha.

Mechanism to address Pandits’ problems soon
New Delhi, March 29
The Centre today decided to establish a mechanism to address problems of Kashmiri Pandits hit by militancy even as the community rejected a proposal to resettle them in two designated places in the valley.
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Rs 206 cr SGPC budget passed
Amritsar, March 29
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee today passed its Rs 206 crore budget at Teja Singh Samundari Hall with voice vote, here. The amount of Budget was Rs 190 crore last year. The SGPC also passed a resolution seeking permission to carry ‘kirpan’ inside the Parliament House. This resolution was passed on the demand of Mr Simranjit Singh Mann.

Tara Singh’s portrait for House New Delhi, March 29 For the first time Parliament House will have the life size portraits of Baba Kharak Singh and Master Tara Singh. Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi in a letter to National Commission for Minorities Chairman Tarlochan Singh stated that the long-pending demand of having Sikh freedom fighters and stalwarts adorn Parliament’s hall of fame had been acceded to.