Thursday, June 12, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)


Flames engulf Ranbaxy plant after blasts
30 injured; Air Force monitoring smoke clouds
for toxicity

SAS Nagar, June 11
At least 30 persons were injured, 14 of them seriously, in a series of three blasts resulting in a major fire in the pharamceutical giant Ranbaxy’s plant in Industrial Area Phase I here tonight.

Airmen douse flames with special foam
UPDATE (3:30 pm)
2 'skeletons' found, team begins probe
Mohali, June 12
Two persons were charred to death and 25 others injured, three of them seriously, in a major fire in the pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy's plant here last night. Rescue teams recovered two "skeletons" from the spot this morning, police said today. Doctors said three of the injured were in critical condition.

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Flames engulf Ranbaxy's pharmaceutical plant at SAS Nagar on Wednesday night. 
— Tribune photo Parvesh Chauhan

Residents flee Mohali
SAS Nagar, June 11
Panic gripped the town as the blast caused the earth under the residents' feet to shake. The injured were rushed to various private and government hospitals in Chandigarh, SAS Nagar and Kharar.

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Pak must create climate for talks
Bush lauds Vajpayee's ‘gamble for peace’
Washington, June 11
US President George Bush will impress upon Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to create a climate in which the “gamble for peace” that Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had taken would succeed. 

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US DIARY: Pak terrorism concerns NRIs
World page: UK offers to facilitate Indo-Pak talks
Editorial: Not for asking

Delhi-Lahore bus: Indo-Pak talks on June 18

Cong team faces Dalit ire
Manmohan Singh, CM shown black flags
Jalandhar, June 11
The fact-finding Congress team led by the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Dr Manmohan Singh, and accompanied by Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, had to face the ire of the Dalits during their first visit to the violence-hit Talhan village.

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Cong sweeps tribal seats
Shimla, June 11
The Congress made a clean sweep of the elections in tribal areas winning all three Assembly seats with impressive margins. 

RLD legislators move out of  rest house
Shimla, June 11
The 11 Rashtriya Lok Dal legislators who arrived here yesterday have shifted from the PWD rest house here to Hotel Gables in Mashobra about 10 km from here.

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Badal’s kin held in Shimla
Shimla, June 11
In a swift and closely guarded operation a team of the Punjab Vigilance Department arrested Mr Narottam Singh, a nephew of Mr Parkash Singh Badal, former Punjab Chief Minister, from his flat in the suburban locality of Kuftadhar in the wee hours today.

Punjab cops zero in on Badals
Chandigarh/SAS Nagar, June 11
Zeroing in on former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and other members of his family, the Punjab VB today arrested Narottam Singh Dhillon, a cousion of Mr Sukhbir Badal, from an apartment in Shimla. 
Mr Narottam Singh Dhillon, cousin of Sukhbir Badal, at the Phase VIII police station in SAS Nagar on Wednesday. 
— Tribune photo Manoj Mahajan

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Nation page: Dhindsa apprises PM of Badal’s
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