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

Privilege notice against Jaswant
New Delhi, August 2
Despite his party coming to his defence, Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Jaswant Singh’s book ‘A Call to Honour’ is turning out to be his Waterloo as the Left, along with the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, today moved a privilege motion against him in the Upper House for not revealing the identity of a ‘mole’ in the PMO.

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As a minister in the then government, Mr Jaswant Singh is obliged to divulge the information, which he claimed to have had, in the larger national interest.  — Sitaram Yechury

I never heard of any mole: Barnes
Harry G. Barnes Jr. served as the U.S. Ambassador to India from 1981 to 1985. A former director of the Conflict Resolution and Human Rights Programmes at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, Mr Barnes has been named in an Indian newspaper as the recipient of a letter claiming the existence of a mole in the government of P.V. Narasimha Rao.

Soft drinks still hard on health, claims CSE
Pesticide residue content 17 times higher in Punjab
New Delhi, August 2
Three years after its findings on pesticide contents in soft drinks created a furor in the country, the Centre of Science and Environment (CSE) today claimed that soft drinks were still unsafe and the public health domain in the country was still “severely compromised”.

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Farmers asked to pay for ‘not using’ canal water
Samrala, August 2
There is shock and awe among farmers of the state. Shock because of huge bills, which they have been asked to pay for using and also for not using canal water for irrigation, and awe because of the action they will have to face for defaulting on the payment. In local parlance, cancel water usage charges are called “abiana”.

Captain meets Sonia on MSP hike
New Delhi, August 2
Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today met Congress president Sonia Gandhi to apprise her of the political situation in the state in the wake of Assembly elections early next year.

Three minor girls crushed to death under train
Moga, August 2
Three minor girls were crushed to death under the Sutlej Express near Ajitwal railway station in Moga district as they had jumped from the running train in panic today morning.

SIMI under watch: Patil
New Delhi, August 2
The banned outfit, Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), is continuing its clandestine activities and its movements are under constant vigil, Home Minister Shivraj Patil told the Rajya Sabha today.

Pak boy is India’s youngest liver recipient New Delhi, August 2 A year-old Pakistani boy suffering from biliary atresia, underwent a successful liver transplant with liver donation from his maternal grandmother. Syed Sheryar has given surgeons at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital a reason to smile, as he today became India's youngest liver recipient. One-year-old Sheryar from Karachi, Pakistan, the youngest recipient of a successful liver transplant in India, plays in the arms of his parents at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi on Wednesday. — Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal