BJP skips Hindutva, targets Sonia
Mumbai, June 23
Taking strong exception to the misinterpretation of the people’s mandate, the BJP today accused the Congress of trying to blemish the system of governance by creating two power centres, criminalising governance at the Centre and soft-pedalling on the issues of terrorism and infiltration.

Vajpayee, Advani disappoint hardliners
BJP failed to focus on its ‘parivar’: Advani
Editorial: Back to basics

Consulates in Karachi, Mumbai to be reopened Special article: Weapons of aggression Nation page: Hurriyat response on talks awaited, says Vohra Tears roll down the cheek of Yasmeena Shamas, a Kashmiri woman, as she talks to her uncle settled in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, from Srinagar on Wednesday after a gap of several decades, through the video-conferencing programme organised by BBC-Urdu Language Service. — PTI

UPA office near Sonia’s residence
New Delhi, June 23
The newly-constituted United Progressive Alliance will soon have an address. After inspection of various properties, it has finally been decided to house the UPA office at 2, Motilal Nehru Place.

PM to address nation today

19 injured in grenade blast
Srinagar, June 23
The Army has foiled an infiltration bid, killing three armed infiltrators in Kupwara district of north Kashmir. Two militants were killed in another encounter in the Lolab area of Kupwara district yesterday.

A Kashmiri woman, wounded in a grenade blast in Srinagar, is taken out from an ambulance on Wednesday. 
— Reuters photo

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Zahira Sheikh’s sister-in-law seeks maintenance
Vadodara, June 23
Yasmin Bano, sister-in-law of key witness in the Best Bakery case Zahira Sheikh, has demanded maintenance and her share in the property.

Jayalalithaa reinstates sacked employees
Chennai, June 23
The electoral rout of the ruling party in Tamil Nadu in the last general elections continued to have its reverberations as Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo, Ms J. Jayalalithaa, today reshuffled her Cabinet for the umpteenth time and in an about turn reinstated the dismissed casual state government employees.

Two more Telgi accomplices held
New Delhi, June 23
Even as the CBI arrested two more persons allegedly involved in the fake stamp paper racket in the city, a Delhi court directed the agency to take Abdul Karim Telgi, the kingpin of the racket, back to the Yerwada jail in Pune.

‘Deserter’ jawan writes from Pak jail Kot Bhai (Gidderbaha), June 23 Finally, today the family members of Lance Naik Jaksir Singh who had been declared deserter by his regiment during the Kargil War five years ago heaved a sigh of relief. The mother and son of Lance Naik Jaskir Singh with his photograph.  — A Tribune file photo