Thursday, July 20, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Exodus from Lebanon begins
3 Indians wounded in air strike; 4 naval warships near Beirut
Beirut/New Delhi, July 19
Three Indian nationals were wounded in an air strike on a glass factory in the eastern Bekaa Valley in Lebanon even as the Indian Government prepared to evacuate another 1000 people from the war zone and deployed four ships to bring them back home.

Lebanese-born Swedish nationals and tourists board a ship in Beirut to be evacuated due to the Israeli military offensive on Lebanon on Wednesday. — AFP photo

Punjab panel for 60 as retirement age
Also favours bonus for employees
Chandigarh, July 19
A high- level committee set up by the Punjab Government has recommended a slew of benefits for state employees just ahead of the elections.

Bomb scare at AIIMS, 2 Maharashtra schools
New Delhi, July 19
Normal functioning of the AIIMS was affected for a couple of hours this morning after scores of security personnel, bomb disposal squads and sniffer dogs descended on the sprawling complex to carry out extensive searches after receiving a call that explosives had been planted there.

Cong, NCP wooing SIMI cadres
Aurangabad, July 19
The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party in power in Maharashtra have been actively wooing SIMI's former members with an eye on the town's 35 per cent Muslim population.

6 chargesheeted for Varanasi blasts
Lucknow, July 19
The Varanasi police has filed chargesheets against the six accused, including the mastermind Mohd Waliullah, in the Sankat Mochan temple blast case and another related case of recovery of a pressure cooker bomb from Godowlia locality on March 7.

SC no to review airport privatisation policy
New Delhi, July 19
The Supreme Court today refused to buy the argument of Anil Ambani owned Reliance Airport Developers Ltd for review of the government policy on privatisation.

India: The Tasks Ahead
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS,
INAUGURAL SESSION

	PUNJAB: Reduce trips to Delhi, listen to people, Dullo tells party men
	HARYANA: Battlelines drawn in Haryana Cong
	HIMACHAL: Cases against Khab project agitators to be withdrawn
	J&K: Pak media does India-bashing
	CHANDIGARH: Ex-soldier meets tragic end
	LUDHIANA: Free gurdwaras from Badal's control: AISAD
	DELHI: Jamia varsity closed as violence erupts
	OPINIONS: General Officer Thieving
	BUSINESS: Wipro net jumps 45 pc at Rs 620 cr
	NATION: Basmati exports: Punjab, Haryana to earn Rs 3,000 cr
	WORLD: N-deal not before summer recess, says Senate Chairman
	SPORTS: Blasts take toll on Indo-Pak sporting ties

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Militants kill two cops in J&K
Srinagar, July 19
Militants shot two police personnel and injured another in a series of targeted attacks here today.

SC anguished over MLA’s remarks against judges
New Delhi, July 19
The controversial Bangalore-Mysore express corridor project, which has snowballed into a major political issue in Karnataka today again landed in the Supreme Court with it expressing deep anguish over certain remarks against judiciary and apex court judges in particular by some MLAs.

Govt rules out hike in petrol, diesel prices
New Delhi, July 19
The government today ruled out any increase in petrol and diesel prices despite international crude oil prices touching an all-time high. “At this moment there is no question of any increase in fuel prices,” Petroleum Minister Murli Deora told reporters here. — PTI

Amitabh conferred honorary doctorate London, July 19 In yet another feather to his cap, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan was today conferred with the honorary degree of Doctorate of Arts by a British university in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the movie business in India.