Saturday, February 3, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Civic Polls
Sena-BJP back, jolt for Cong
Mumbai, February 2
Urban Maharashtra’s honeymoon with the Congress is clearly over with the party holding onto just a single civic body on its own. Despite being buffeted by defections of both former Chief Minister Narayan Rane and Raj Thackeray, the Shiv Sena along with its ally, the BJP, managed to bag six of the 10 civic bodies that went to the polls on Thursday.
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Editorial: Tiger’s day
Nation page: Cong can’t take on Sena-BJP sans NCP crutches

Punjab Votes ’07
4 Dimpa gunmen suspended
Beas firing: 4 others also pay for ‘negligence of duty/involvement’
Beas, February 2
On the recommendation of the Special Investigation Team (SIT), the district police chief, Majitha, Mr Lok Nath Angra, has reportedly placed eight constables, including four gunmen of Mr Jasbir Singh Dimpa, Congress MLA, under suspension for “negligence of duty or their involvement” in the recent firing incident here.

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Legends of the court

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Golden warriors by Abhijit Chatterjee THIS ABOVE ALL: Seasons & reasons to be happy or sad by Khushwant Singh

EC warns Sukhbir
New Delhi, February 2
The Election Commission has taken umbrage to the violation of the Model Code of Conduct by Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Badal and 10 others belonging to different parties.

Take me on if you can, CM to Akalis Lambi: Win or lose, there will be a Badal

Dhruv co-pilot dies in pre-aero show crash
Bangalore, February 2
The Indian Air Force’s (IAF) acrobatic team “Sarang” suffered a setback following a crash during rehearsals for the forthcoming Aero India show resulting in the death of a co-pilot of a Dhruv advanced light helicopter (ALH) today morning.

Nation page: HAL bent on Dhruv despite design flaws

A smokestack is seen at a thermal power plant in Inchon, west of Seoul. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which draws on research by 2,500 scientists from more than 130 countries, has spoken of a big rise in temperatures this century and warns of more heatwaves, floods, droughts and rising sea levels linked to greenhouse gases released mainly by the use of fossil fuels. — Reuters (Details on World page)

Chandigarh page: Tributes paid to Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia

India: The Tasks Ahead
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	PUNJAB: Take me on if you can, CM to Akalis
	HARYANA: 3 dreaded criminals arrested in S. Africa
	HIMACHAL: Funds allocated on population, area basis
	J&K:  Fake killings: Another body exhumed
	CHANDIGARH:  CM’s visit throws life out of gear
	LUDHIANA:  Family of four set ablaze in sleep
	DELHI:  SC to examine Master Plan
	OPINIONS: Cricket is for the people
	BUSINESS: GAIL, ONGC to lay gas pipeline
	NATION: Cong can’t take on Sena-BJP sans NCP crutches
	WORLD: Indian ex-UN official to be jailed
	SPORTS: Sachin, Jaffer hit tons

In Amritsar Plus today

It is Singla’s vision versus Sidhu-ism

NC to boycott meeting with Centre’s panel
Jammu, February 2
The National Conference (NC), the main Opposition party in the state, has decided to boycott the meeting of the Working Group on Kashmir (KWG) on Centre-state relations here tomorrow to register the party’s protest over the “spurt” in incidents of human rights violation in Kashmir.

Second body exhumed
Srinagar, February 2
The police today fired shots in the air and teargas shells to prevent an agitated massive crowd from entering a graveyard at Ganderbal where a special investigation team (SIT) of the Jammu and Kashmir police had gone to exhume a body of a missing person.
(Details on J&K page)