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India, Pak should make border irrelevant: PM

Paris, September 11 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that with no question of redrawing borders, India and Pakistan should strive towards making the “border irrelevant” by giving a further impetus to people-to-people contacts and developmental efforts.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inspects the guard of honour on his arrival at Orly airport in Paris on Sunday. On his right is French Defence Minister Alliot Marie. — PTI photo

India, Pak to exchange 587 prisoners today
New Delhi, September 11
The day of waiting for scores of families on both sides of the border in India and Pakistan would be over tomorrow with 435 Indian and 152 Pakistani prisoners scheduled to be handed over to the authorities of both sides after being freed from various jails where they were lodged in both the countries.

Punjab page: Protest in Bhikhiwind
Repatriation again rekindles hopes of PoWs’ families
She died waiting for daughter separated during Partition

A TRIBUNE EXCLUSIVE
Nobody was willing to sign Khurana’s expulsion letter
New Delhi, September 11
Mr Shayam Jajoo, office secretary of the BJP, will go down in history as the last person who refused to sign the letter on Madan Lal Khurana’s expulsion, pleading with party President, Mr L.K. Advani, that he was a “mere worker”.

Khurana gets formal expulsion order
New Delhi, September 11
The stalemate on the Khurana issue in the BJP seems headed for the worst as despite former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s public criticism of the Delhi strongman’s expulsion, the party has served him a formal expulsion order, indicating a hardening of stand on party chief L.K. Advani’s part.

Terrorism can lead to another world war: Vajpayee
Lucknow, September 11
Apprehending that international terrorism had the potential to start another world war, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today said the world would have to unite in order to wipe out this problem from its roots.

Editorial: Tackling terrorists

Jawan’s body brought to Chandi Mandir

Chandigarh, September 11 The body of a jawan, who was killed in Thursday’s bridge collapse in Kinnaur was brought to the Command Hospital, Chandi Mandir, near here, today.

Two-year-old A. Sivasaran, looks towards the skies, little knowing what tragedy had struck his family. His father, havildar Ravi Selvan, was among those killed in the Kinnaur bridge-collapse on Thursday. Wreaths were laid on his body which was brought to the Command Hospital at Chandi Mandir on Sunday. — Tribune photo by Pankaj Sharma

Hooda’s copter makes emergency landing
Chandigarh, September 11
A helicopter carrying the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, and two Congress MPs from Haryana made an emergency landing in a school playground at Jind owing to bad weather today.

Feeling the heat, Nepal king cancels UNGA visit
New Delhi, September 11
Feeling the heat from domestic as well as diplomatic quarters, Nepal’s King Gyanendra has cancelled his fortnight-long visit to the United Nations General Assembly as well as a number of important cities in the US. The visit was to begin on September 14.