Thursday, June 26, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Pervez to end infiltration: US official
Washington, June 25
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has assured US President George W. Bush that he will make a 100 per cent effort to end cross-border “incidents” against India. “Musharraf has committed to a 100 per cent effort at trying to end cross-border incidents”, a senior Bush administration official said, briefing reporters on the talks the two leaders held at Camp David yesterday.

Kashmir: Pervez sees more role for Bush
World page: Kargil sabotaged peace move: Sharif
Pak agrees to send troops to Iraq

News Analysis
Forging a qualitatively new relationship
Mr Vajpayee’s visit to China has, it would seem, accomplished more than was the national expectation, judging by the awkwardly titled joint declaration signed by the two Prime Ministers last Tuesday on the conclusion of the political component of the visit.

Editorial: Towards mature relations
World page: Accords win-win situation for India, China: Sinha

Meeting on N-threat to Parliament
Uranium seizure in Bangladesh
New Delhi, June 25
The recovery of raw uranium from a terrorist linked to the Al-Qaida in Bangladesh recently has pressed the panic button worldwide by raising the ultimate horror spectre: terrorists going nuclear.

2 ex-Haryana ministers held

State IAS officer picked up from Delhi Chandigarh, June 25 Within days of Mr M.S. Malik, DGP, taking over additional charge as the Director, Haryana State Vigilance Bureau (SVB), the bureau has started cracking the whip.

File photos of Rao Narbir Singh (left) and Vinod Marya

Punjabi 2nd official language in Delhi
New Delhi, June 25
The President has given his assent to The Delhi Official Languages Bill, 2000, making Urdu and Punjabi the second official languages in the Capital, it was announced today.

Vigilance Dept should be with CS Punjab IAS Officers Association shoots off letter to CM Chandigarh, June 25 A controversy has broken out in top echelons of the Punjab civil administration with regard to the administrative control of the Vigilance Department, the most powerful organisation of the state apparatus. In a strongly worded letter, the Punjab IAS Officers Association, has stated that “the need of the hour is that the Department of Vigilance should be with the Chief Secretary”.