Arunachal CM joins Cong with Cabinet
New Delhi, August 28

The Congress today got a shot in the arm on the eve of the upcoming Assembly election when the caretaker Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Gegong Apang, his cabinet colleagues and party workers crossed over from the BJP to rejoin the Congress. Arunachal Pradesh acting Chief Minister Gegong Apang at a press conference in New Delhi on Saturday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

Bodies of two Turkish hostages found in northern Iraq
Doha, August 28
The bodies of two Turkish hostages, apparently shot dead, have been found in Baiji in northern Iraq, Al-Jazeera television said. “Al-Jazeera learned from sources in the Iraqi police that the bodies of two Turkish hostages executed by gunfire were found on the main road near the Al-Sharkat area in the town of Baiji,” a key oil refinery town in the Sunni Muslim belt.

World page: 5 killed in US air strike on Fallujah

Women’s relay team finishes seventh Athens, August 28 In the absence of national one-lap record holder Manjit Kaur, India came up with a pathetic show to finish a distant seventh in the women’s 4x400m relay final at the Olympic Games here tonight. More Olympic stories on Sports page Canada’s synchronised swimmers perform their free team routine during the finals at the Athens Olympic Games on Friday. — Reuters photo

Resolution of Iraq hostage crisis in sight
New Delhi, August 28
The incarceration of seven hostages in Iraq, including three Indians, is expected to end very soon as serious hopes have been kindled of their imminent release, top sources here told The Tribune this evening.

7 get death penalty for murder of 6
Faridabad/Jalandhar, August 28
A court here today sentenced five persons, including a Sub-Inspector of Uttar Pradesh police, to death and 10 to life imprisonment in a five-year-old case of murder of four persons.

5 devotees die in Andhra stampede
Hyderabad, August 28
Tragedy struck today, the first day of the Krishna Pushkaram, the river festival celebrated once in 12 years along its course in Andhra Pradesh, when five devotees, including two women and a child, were killed in a stampede at Vijayawada, 275 km from here.
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Officer on fast, says touts at work in Haryana textbook case
New Delhi, August 28
Suspended Haryana IAS officer Sanjiv Kumar, who had accused Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala of “interfering” in the JBT teachers appointment in 2000, today alleged that CBI was not probing the case in the right earnest and claimed that an officer of the agency had demanded Rs 55 lakh from him in the text book purchase case in which he faces a probe.

Delhi to get more water Chandigarh, August 28 As the water in the Narwana branch of the Bhakra Mainline Canal will be released in the wee hours tomorrow, New Delhi which has been facing drinking water crisis, will start getting water supply from this canal on August 30.