Ultras target tourists
4 dead, 19 hurt in Pahalgam hotel blast
Srinagar, June 12
Four tourists, including an eight-year-old child, were killed and 19 injured when suspected militants hurled a grenade in a hotel in the main market of the tourist spot of Pahalgam in south Kashmir this afternoon.

Muhit, a boy from Ahmedabad, is transported into a hospital in Srinagar after he was injured in a grenade blast in a Pahalgam hotel on Saturday. — AFP photo

Badal, Capt sink differences for SYL water
Chandigarh, June 12
Various political parties of Punjab here today resolved not to allow any injustice to be done with the state on the river waters and the SYL canal issue.

Punjab page: Rise above party politics to solve SYL issue: Gill

Capt Amarinder Singh and Mr Parkash Singh Badal shake hands at the all-party meeting in Chandigarh on Saturday. 
— Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

Arjun sets up saffronisation test panel
New Delhi, June 12
As a first step towards decommunalising school syllabus, the Human Resource Development  Ministry today constituted a three-member panel of eminent historians to review the history books introduced by the previous regime and suggest how the distortions in these can be removed.

Create milieu to avoid pain of riots: PM
New Delhi, June 12
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here today said that the massacre of Sikhs in 1984 and the Gujarat riots were unfortunate and that an atmosphere should be created so that such painful incidents do not take place again.
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Let no Gujarat happen again:  Vajpayee Perspective: Manmohan became PM on merit and due to compulsions: Atwal Delhi page: PM to inaugurate Sikh centre Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pays his obeisance at Gurdwara Bangla Sahib in New Delhi on Saturday. — PTI photo

14 booked  in jailbreak bid case
Amritsar, June 12
An Assistant Jail Superintendent and 13 others have been booked by the district police in connection with the alleged jailbreak bid in the high security Amritsar Central Jail here.

No troops for Iraq, says Natwar

28 Indian youths ‘go on fast’ in Pak jail Kalewal Bhagtan/Singhpur (Hoshiarpur), June 12 Twenty-eight of the 31 Indian youths from Punjab in the Kot Lakhpat jail of Pakistan have been observing fast to press the two governments to ensure their return home. Nation page: Indo-Pak talks on Baghliar project