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

18 killed as Golconda Express derails
Warangal (AP), July 2
Thirteen train passengers and five occupants of an auto-rickshaw were killed and 27 injured when the engine of the Hyderabad-bound Golconda Express fell on the road below from a bridge, derailing four bogies near the railway station here today.
A passenger trapped inside a damaged bogie of the ill-fated Hyderabad-bound Golconda Express A passenger trapped inside a damaged bogie of the ill-fated Hyderabad-bound Golconda Express, which derailed along with another bogie when the train’s engine fell from a bridge near the Warangal station in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday morning.
— PTI photo

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Badal under pressure to snap ties with NDA
New Delhi, July 2
The Shiromani Akali Dal chief and former Punjab Chief Minister Mr Parkash Singh Badal, is under intense pressure to bid adieu to the BJP-led NDA but he is unlikely to take the extreme step.

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Wimpy case: another notice to
Amarinder Singh
New Delhi, July 2
Issuing notices to Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, the state government and others for the second time on writ petitions by four employees of Wimpy, an international food chain company, the Delhi High Court today took serious view of the state Vigilance Bureau’s action of arresting five company officials here without informing the local police.

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Court raps ASI for seeking extension
Lucknow, July 2
The three-member Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court, hearing the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit, today rapped the Archaeological Survey of India for repeatedly seeking extension and reserved its order till tomorrow.

Locus standi of Kanchi seer, Muslim Law Board questioned
New Delhi, July 2
With the Muslim Personal Law Board scheduled to discuss the Kanchi Shankaracharyas’s formula for the solution of the vexed Ayodhya issue on July 6, several Muslim and Hindu leaders today questioned their locus standi and termed the initiative as a poll “gimmick”.
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Jagadguru Shankracharya Swami Shri Adhoshyanand Dev Teerathji Maharaj with Muslim priests during the second annual joint meeting of Muslim and Hindu religious leaders to discuss the Ayodhya issue in New Delhi on Wednesday. 
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Babas, NGOs to green Punjab
Chandigarh, July 2
Punjab will now utilise the services of babas (religious persons) to enhance the area under forests. The government has banned the planting of exotic trees. Only indigenous species of trees such as kikkar, sheesham, neem, ber will now be planted. 

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70 border schools given a year to improve
Amritsar, July 2
A government elementary school Following poor results, science and commerce subjects have been withdrawn from many border villages of the district and the state government has declared close to 70 schools sick. 
A government elementary school in Faizpura (Amritsar) being run in a dharamshala. — photo Rajiv Sharma

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