Monday, July 31, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

‘Mole’ not named in letter, says PM
New Delhi, July 30
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh had not disclosed the name of the alleged “mole” in the PMO during the tenure of P.V. Narasimha Rao in his communication to him.

Opinions page: When memory is selective

16 Indians perish in Bahrain fire
Manama, July 30
At least 16 Indians, all from Tamil Nadu, died of suffocation and 11 were injured when a fire broke out in a three-storey building housing over 200 expatriates in this capital city of Bahrain early today.

Nation page: India in touch with Bahrain mission

Firemen inspect the three-storey building after extinguishing a fire that broke out at dawn in the building killing 16 Indian workers, in the Al-Qudhalbiya neighbourhood in Manama on Sunday. — AFP photo

Rain wreaks havoc in Maharashtra, Gujarat
Mumbai, July 30
Over 70,000 persons were evacuated by the Army from Sangli, Satara and Solapur districts in Western Maharashtra with the Krishna River flowing above the danger level and heavy rains lashing the region since the last few days.

In video (56k) People and vehicles move through a flooded street after a heavy rainfall in Ahmedabad on Sunday. — Reuters photo

CBI opposes defreezing of account of Chautala’s firm
New Delhi, July 30
The CBI, which is probing the disproportionate assets case against former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala and his family members in the wake of teachers appointment scam, has moved an application in a city court here pleading not to lift the freeze on the bank account of a company in which he allegedly had direct interest.

6 UP pilgrims die as bus falls into khud
Kangra, July 30
Six pilgrims of Uttar Pradesh, including two women, were killed and more than 60 injured, 10 of them seriously, when a private bus carrying them on way to Jwalamukhi rolled down into Bathu Khud near Bathu Bridge, 15 km from here, this morning, the police said here today.

Cellphone bombs — LeT’s new terror tool
Jammu, July 30
Move over pen bombs, the Pakistan backed terrorist outfit, Lashkar-e-Toiba, has now come out with bombs that would explode with the ring of a mobile phone.

ISI poses major threat in Indo-Nepal border areas
Editorial: Coping with terror In video (56k)

Indo-Pak Foreign Secys to meet today
Dhaka, July 30
India will raise the issue of continued cross-border terrorism when Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran meets his Pakistan counterpart Riyaz Mohammad Khan here tomorrow in the first high-level contact between the two countries since the Mumbai blasts.

Ludhiana page: Continue talks with Pak: Raj Babbar
Special Article: Save the dialogue

Malaysia’s most-wanted living in Chandigarh Kuala Lumpur, July 30 Former magistrate Balbir Kaur, one of Malaysia’s most sought after fugitives who had disappeared from here after being charged with corruption, has been living a life of comfort in a prime Chandigarh locality, a media report claimed today.