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UT Judge knifed to death in Patiala
Patiala, October 14
Mr Vijay Singh, Presiding Officer, Labour Court, Chandigarh, was murdered by unidentified persons in the local Polo Ground, here situated at stone’s throw from the New Moti Bagh residence of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh in the high-security area, late last night when he was taking a walk there alone.

Obituary: A man of many parts

Tribune launches Jalandhar edition
Jalandhar, October 14
“The Tribune has stood as a sentinel. It is not a mere newspaper. It has become a part of the family in the society of this region,” Justice R.S. Pathak, President of The Tribune Trust, said while launching the Jalandhar edition of the paper at a glittering ceremony here today.

Justice R.S. Pathak (standing right), President of The Tribune Trust, and Mr H.K. Dua, Editor-in-Chief, launch the Jalandhar edition of The Tribune on Friday. Also seen are Mr R.P. Bambah (left) and Justice S.S. Sodhi, Trustees of The Tribune Trust. — Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma

SC dismisses plea for stay on Bihar poll
New Delhi, October 14
The Supreme Court today rejected a petition for staying of the Bihar elections, filed by one of the petitioners on whose plea the Presidential order for dissolving the state Assembly was struck down by the court earlier by holding it as “unconstitutional”.

Nation page: Sonia to campaign in Bihar

Shatrughan says no to BJP wooing
New Delhi, October 14
Bihari babu, Shatrughan Sinha, has gone into a self-imposed vanvas as a frantic BJP is desperately persuading him to campaign in the Bihar elections. Mr Sinha has turned down beleaguered BJP President L.K. Advani for a meeting after shooting off a third letter saying he will not campaign for the BJP because it had given tickets to criminals.

Brigadier gets 2-yr RI in Tehelka case
Patiala, October 14
A General Court Martial today found Brigadier Iqbal Singh guilty of professional impropriety and personal misconduct in the Tehelka case and sentenced him to two years of rigorous imprisonment besides cashiering him from service. The sentence, announced in open court, is subject to confirmation by the Chief of the Army Staff.

Curfew in UP district; 3 dead
Lucknow, October 14
The peace of the festival season was rudely disrupted when sectarian violence broke out in Mau district leaving at least 3 dead, more than a dozen injured and 15 shops gutted. Indefinite curfew has been clamped in the town.

After the shells, they brave the quake Mahdia, Kamal Kote (Uri sector), October 14 About five kilometres after Uri town on the Srinagar-Muzzafarabad highway, the route of the now suspended ‘peace bus’, is a place called Salamabad. A couple of kilometres ahead, NH-1A is blocked, with landslide rubble and quake damages. A girl tries to feed her younger sister amidst the ruins of their house which was destroyed in the recent earthquake in Kamlkote, about 130 km north of Srinagar, on Friday. — Tribune photo by Amin War In video (28k, 56k)  More stories in Nation, World and J&K pages