No power for industry in Haryana
Farm sector to get more
Chandigarh, July 25
All industrial units having a load of 1 MW and above in Haryana will not get any power for the next one week as the power situation in the state has gone from bad to worse. The other industrial units will also not get any power for two days in a week.

Kuwait firm assured of captives’ release
Kuwait, July 25
The Kuwaiti employers of seven foreign hostages in Iraq said today they had assurances that the captives would be freed. “Yes, there are promises and assurances (the hostages would be freed), especially after the kidnappers became certain that we have no presence in Iraq and we were just conducting transportation for the interest of some Iraqis,” the company said in a statement.

World page: 2 Pakistanis missing in Iraq

They survived bullets to tell their tale
Truckers sent to Kuwait on tourist visa
Nangal, July 25
Antaryami and Tilak Raj are not the only truck drivers from the Nangal area to have been trapped in Iraq. 

Truck drivers show fake international driving licences and documents provided to them by travel agents in Nangal. — Photo by Shubash Sharma

JMM not to join Cabinet for now, says Marandi
Ranchi, July 25
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha today said it was not joining the Union Cabinet for the time being but was solidly behind the United Progressive Alliance government.

Raghuvar Das is new BJP chief in Jharkhand




Tainted ministers: NDA leaders meet Kalam
New Delhi, July 25
Leaders and parliamentarians belonging to the NDA met the President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, this afternoon and urged him to counsel the government on the issue of continuance of tainted ministers in the Union Council of Ministers.

SPECIAL FEATURE  Fire: How safe are our schools? — A Tribune survey As many as 90 children were burnt alive when fire engulfed Lord Krishna Higher Secondary School at Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu on Saturday morning.

Investors attack Global Trust Bank branches
Mumbai, July 25
Branches of the Global Trust Bank across Mumbai were given police protection as angry customers attacked their premises today and trashed equipment after the Reserve Bank of India froze all transactions at the bank for three months.

Business page: RBI’s moratorium timely, say bankers
Chandigarh page: GTB depositors a shaken lot

CBI team to quiz Kohli
Kalimpong, July 25
A three-member CBI team and four Punjab Police officers arrived here today to quiz jailed Maninderpal Singh Kohli, the prime accused in rape and murder of 17-year-old Hannah Foster in England last year.

Work on Qinghai, Lhasa railway line under way Lhasa, July 25 The glorious isolation of Tibet is set to diminish further with the first train expected to chug its way to the top of the world in 2006. World page: Tibetan area with many firsts