Thursday, September 21, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

3 shot, 100 hurt in Delhi
* Bandh by traders turns violent
*Metro services affected
New Delhi, September 20

Three persons, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed and 100, including security personnel, injured as the traders’ bandh against the MCD’s sealing drive turned violent in many parts of the Capital today.
The police arrests a demonstrator while trying to disperse a mob which got violent during a protest against the sealing drive launched by the Delhi civic authorities at Seelampur in East Delhi on Wednesday. — PTI photo Delhi page: Clashes, arson, traffic jams mark traders’ bandh

A Tribune Investigation —  Govt as landgrabber-II
‘Take our land, but give us a place to live’

Mohali, September 20 The biggest problem that landowners, whose land is compulsorily acquired by the government, face is resettlement and earning a livelihood.
Members of the Kissan Hit Bachao Committee sitting in dharna at Sohana in Mohali on Wednesday. — Tribune photo by Vicky Gharu

Youth hacks sister, cousin to death
Dinanagar (Gurdaspur), September 20
A 22-year-old youth, Rajesh Kumar, hacked his sister, Puja (18), and a cousin, Jyoti (17), to death after he allegedly found them in a compromising situation with a youth at their house in Bala Pindi village, about 10 km from here, last night.

CPI to snap ties with Cong in Punjab
New Delhi, September 20
The CPI will forge ties with the Lokbhalai Party of Balwant Singh Ramoowalia and other Left parties to prevent the Akali-BJP combine from coming to power by taking advantage of the total failure of the Amarinder Singh government.

CRPF recruitment drive hits qualification barrier
MHA refuses to relax norms
New Delhi, September 20
The special drive by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to recruit youths from the border areas of Jammu and Kashmir has slowed down as it is not getting candidates with requisite minimum qualifications.

Will joint mechanism test Pak’s sincerity? India hopes so
New Delhi, September 20
New Delhi believes that the joint anti-terrorism institutional mechanism is the safest, surest and speediest way to test Pakistan’s repeated written assurances on dismantling the terror infrastructure existing on its soil.

Breakthrough in Mumbai train blasts
Evidence of Pak link; Dy CM says conspiracy will be cracked soon
Mumbai, September 20
Investigators probing the July 11 serial blasts in Mumbai’s local trains claimed to have finally found evidence of Pakistan-based terror links in the operation. Two of the suspects arrested for the serial blasts have admitted to links with the terrorist groups, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R.R. Patil said here today.

SC stays warrants against former Admiral
New Delhi, September 20
The Supreme Court today stayed the arrest warrants against former Naval Chief R.H. Tahiliani, the head of the India chapter of Transparency International, and Bhaskar Rao, Director of Centre for Media Studies, issued by a magistrate in Jammu and Kashmir in a criminal defamation case taking cognizance by him suo motu.

Two white tigers die at Chhat Bir Chandigarh, September 20 Two white tigers died under mysterious circumstances today bringing an end to the white tiger population at Chhat Bir Zoo. A file photo of the two white tigers taken by Tribune cameraman Manoj Mahajan about 15 days ago at Chhat Bir Zoo.