Saturday, May 17, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Change views on terror, Advani
asks Pak
On Board Special Aircraft, May 16
Expressing the hope that the third peace initiative of India has a “scope” in the present international climate, Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani today said India was not asking Pakistan to change its views on Kashmir but on terrorism.

  Worldwide terror alert

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A veiled Kashmiri girl holds a placard during a “Save Dal” protest on the banks of the Dal Lake in Srinagar on Friday. A rally was organised by a Kashmiri non-government organisation to create awareness regarding lack of maintenance of the lake. — Reuters photo

Pak for third-party mediation on Kashmir
Washington, May 16
Sticking to its stand on Kashmir, Pakistan has said Islamic fundamentalism will end only when issues like Kashmir and Palestine are settled. It also said the US and international community have a role to play on Kashmir, under whatever name it is called — mediation, pressure, facilitation, encouragement — and they are doing it.

  India says no

Mishra briefs Vajpayee on talks with Bush
Manali (HP), May 16
National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra today briefed Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on the talks he had with US President George W. Bush and other US leaders during his recent visit to Washington in the backdrop of Indo-Pak peace overtures.

Railways begins hunt for clues
Ludhiana, May 16
Clueless about the cause of the fire that killed 38 persons aboard the Golden Temple Mail on yesterday, the Indian Railways has started an inquiry to ascertain the cause that set fire to three bogies of the train.

In video (28k, 56k) Railway Safety Commissioner Bhupinder Singh inspects the burnt coaches of the Amritsar-bound Golden Temple Express in Ludhiana on Friday. — Tribune photo Pradeep Tewari

  Did a bag cause the fire?
  Mass cremation today
  ‘Teeth helped’ in identifying body
  Meeting on rail mishap
  SGPC gesture to train victims
  Editorial: Chalta hai attitude
  Nation Page: Nitish for closing 57 unviable lines

Supreme Court seeks reply on Panipat-Jalandhar road tax
New Delhi, May 16
The Supreme Court has sought a reply from the Centre and the National Highway Authority of India on a petition seeking a stay on the tender process for collecting toll tax on the national highway between Panipat and Jalandhar.

Rs 1.10 lakh looted from SBI branch
Jalandhar, May 16
In a broad daylight robbery, 11 masked robbers looted over Rs 1.10 lakh at gunpoint from a branch of the State Bank of India in Chitti village, near here, today.

Panchayats loot crores from sangat darshan Amritsar, May 16 Preliminary inspection of government funds distributed by the SAD-BJP government before the Assembly elections has revealed that crores of rupees have been embezzled by many panchayats in connivance with officials of the Rural Development Department. The survey of four out of 16 blocks of this border district, conducted by Additional Deputy Commissioner Harbhupinder Singh Nanda, detected embezzlement of about Rs 1 crore.