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USA, Canada plunge into darkness

New York, August 15 Some 13 hours after the major electricity failure in the northeastern USA, New York, and southeastern Canada, power was slowly being restored to some areas in the early hours today.   World page: Power failure brings strangers together   Diplomacy on hold  at UN Most buildings in Manhattan are veiled in darkness on Thursday night, during a major power failure in New York. — AP/PTI photo

Army alerted in Tripura
Agartala, August 15
The Army has been alerted in Tripura even as the toll in the attacks by insurgents on Independence Day eve rose to 30 with two more succumbing to their injuries. Non-tribesmen in a retaliatory action attacked a tribal group today injuring five, four of them seriously.

No compromise on merit: SC
Admission to private professional colleges
New Delhi, August 15
Emphasising on maintaining professional excellence, the Supreme Court has made it clear that merit cannot be substituted by any other consideration for admission to private medical, engineering and technical institutions whether run by minorities or non-minorities.

Opinion poll predicts 242-252 seats for NDA
New Delhi, August 15
The BJP-led NDA is on a slide, an India Today-ORG MARG opinion poll has said, predicting between 242 and 252 seats, short of a simple majority, for the ruling combine in the Lok Sabha, down from 304 in 1999.

Candlelight vigil preaches peace Wagah (Amritsar), August 15 Singing ‘Sanu nahin chahide ailan nit jang de, asi dowan passian di khair ni mangde’ (we don’t need declarations of war everyday, we pray for the well-being of both sides all the time) by folk singers, candles were lit at Hind-Pak Dosti Memorial at Wagah joint check-post on the eve of independence of India by a delegation of 12 MPs from Pakistan and India and journalists. In video (28k, 56k) Friendship function turns sour PGPC co-chairman refuses to light candles at Zero Line Bathinda, August 15 The very purpose of organising a candlelight show at the Zero Line at the Hussainiwala joint checkpost in Ferozepore district by the Indo-Pak Friendship Society this evening was defeated when Mr Sham Singh, co-chairman, Pakistan Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee refused to light the candles and instead, started using derogatory remarks against the Indian Government.