India to join G-20 fight for farm subsidies
New Delhi, June 13
The new Indian Government will continue to play a crucial role in the G-20 group of nations, which has taken cudgels against the USA and EU in seeking an end to the trade-distorting agricultural subsidies denying the market opportunity to millions of farmers in the developing countries.

Security personnel keep vigil as tourists enjoy shikara ride in the world famous Dal Lake in Srinagar on Sunday. Security has been beefed up around all tourist places across Kashmir Valley in view of a grenade attack by militants at a hotel in Pahalgam on Saturday. — PTI photo

SYL canal: water not an issue, says SC
New Delhi, June 13
Even as the recent Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal verdict has rekindled the volatile water issue between Punjab and Haryana, the Supreme Court in its June 4 judgement has observed that the decree did not relate to the ‘’quantum of water’’ to be shared between the two states.

Haryana page: Haryana minister contests Punjab resolution on SYL canal
Punjab page: 40 villages form panel to seek SYL water

Canal must to keep Sutlej water within country, says Army
Chandigarh, June 13
Haryana’s case on the SYL canal has received support from an unexpected quarter — the Army. The Army has supported the construction of the canal so that the Sutlej water which flows across the border to Pakistan should be diverted within India.

N-secret sale suspect grilled
Mumbai, June 13
Central intelligence agencies and the Mumbai police today interrogated for over 15 hours an Indian national suspected to be involved in selling the country’s nuclear secrets to Arab countries.

Brahmos test-fired
Balasore (Orissa), June 13
Brahmos, the supersonic cruise missile which is part of an Indo-Russian joint venture, was today successfully test-fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, 15 km from here, defence sources said.

Badal re-elected SAD chief
Amritsar, June 13
After his re-election as President of the Shiromani Akali Dal by a voice vote at Teja Singh Sammunderi Hall here today, Mr Parkash Singh Badal announced that the base of the party would be widened by giving due representation to minorities, including Hindus and Muslims, apart from inducting women in the organisational set up. (Details on Punjab page)

Atal, Advani responsible for defeat, says Togadia
New Delhi, June 13
The VHP today blamed former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani for BJP’s debacle in the recent Lok Sabha polls and asked them to repent “by taking political sanyas” instead of holding Gujarat responsible.

Not removing Modi big mistake, says Vajpayee Manali, June 13 Blaming Gujarat riots for the BJP’s debacle in the Lok Sabha elections, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today said the issue of removal of Chief Minister Narender Modi was still open and would be decided at the party’s national executive meeting in Mumbai later this month.