Saturday, June 7, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Talhan, Jalandhar remain tense
More incidents of violence, arson; probe ordered
Talhan (Jalandhar), June 6
Curfew continued in Talhan village, the scene of caste clash between Dalits and Jats yesterday, while the CRPF was deployed in the tense Buta Mandi area of Jalandhar city today after a series of violent incidents.

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Dalit youths throw stones in the Buta Mandi area of Jalandhar on Friday. 
— photo S.S. Chopra

32 kids die of bronchopneumonia
 Women and their children queue up for medical check up Kolkata, June 6
The mystery fever which has claimed 32 children’s lives in Murshidabad district of West Bengal in the past one week, was today diagnosed by a team of medical experts as bronchopneumonia.
Women and their children queue up for medical check-up at Nasipur village, 300 km north of Kolkata, on Friday. — AFP photo

Takht accepts Bhindranwale’s death
Amritsar, June 6
After initial hesitations, the family members of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and a section of the Damdami Taksal today admitted that he (Bhindranwale) was killed in Operation Bluestar, 19 years ago.

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(L to R) Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti, Jathedar, Akal Takht, Bhai Manjit Singh, senior Akali leader, Mr Karnal Singh Pir Mohammed, president, AISSF (Pir Mohammed), and (extreme right) Dr Jagjit Singh Chohan, “Khalistan” ideologue at a function in memory of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale at Amritsar on Friday. 
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Dalit women say no to bonded labour
Mansa, June 6
 “The Dalits are being sold by the upper class in Dalel Singh Wala village in the district,” said Mr Jai Singh, national president of the Dalit Dasta Virodhi Andolan.

Heatwave kills one more in Haryana
Chandigarh, June 6
Sizzling heatwave conditions were revived again today in the entire north-west region after a day’s respite, which claimed the life of a 40-year-old woman in Mandi Adampur of Hisar district, taking the toll to four each in Haryana and Punjab since last Monday.
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Police opens fire to quell unruly mobs
Hyderabad, June 6
The police opened fire at some places in the Old City of Hyderabad today to disperse unruly mobs indulging in stone-throwing and damaging public and private properties, injuring several people, including two policemen.
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‘Unfit’ water being supplied
Hamirpur, June 6
Residents of Hamirpur town have been getting unfiltered and yellow drinking water these days, considered unfit for human consumption. The water is being lifted from the Beas and filtered temporarily in the filter beds of the old water supply scheme for the National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, as the filter tank for the town’s scheme is under construction.
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An under-construction filter tank at Longni Mathan, near Sujanpurtira.
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