4 more meet watery grave
Army airdrops food; CM orders special girdawari
Patiala, August 4
Four persons lost their lives in flash floods in this district today even as the district administration took the help of the Army authorities to airdrop supplies to around 25 villages which have been submerged.

Nation page: Rain claims 23 lives in Gujarat, 16 in Kerala
Rainfall adequate for sowing crops, says ICAR
Haryana page: Seven girls feared washed away
Punjab page: Channelise Ghaggar, say flood victims

Army personnel place sandbags at the breach of Ghaggar river bank near Devi Nagar in Ambala on Wednesday. — Tribune Photo by Neeraj Chopra

Rail link between Delhi, Chandigarh not before Sunday
Rain affects 110 trains
New Delhi, August 4
Passengers aboard trains are facing inconvenience due to “unprecedented disruption” of rail traffic caused by heavy downpour and water-logging across the country.

Haryana page:
Ambala-Chandigarh rail line closed for repairs

Tunnel cave-in toll 27
Union Minister, Tiwari visit Tehri dam 
Dehra Dun, August 4
With more bodies of workers being dug out from the T3 tunnel of the Tehri dam, the death toll in the accident reached 27 today.
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Kalam rejects Dhananjay’s mercy plea
New Delhi, August 4
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has rejected the mercy petition of Kolkata’s condemned prisoner Dhananjay Chatterjee against capital punishment for rape and murder of a schoolgirl 14 years ago.
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Nation page: Dhananjay’s family dumb-founded

Capt grounded again
Told to cancel public rally
New Delhi, August 4
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has been grounded once again. The Congress leadership has directed that he cancel the public rally which he planned to hold at Talwandi Sabo on August 7.

Maharashtra farmers get free power
Mumbai, August 4
Maharashtra has decided to provide free electricity to farmers beginning July 1, Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde announced after a Cabinet meeting today.

Militants storm CRPF camp

Iraq hostage crisis in decisive phase New Delhi, August 4 The Iraq hostage crisis has reached the most decisive and crucial stage. An unnamed non-Iraqi official of Kuwait Gulf Link Transport Company (KGL) today reached Baghdad to hold talks with the negotiator on behalf of the captors of Indian hostages even as the hostage crisis entered its third week, a key official of the Ministry of External Affairs told The Tribune.