Sunday, June 24, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Enough is enough: Kalam

New Delhi, June 23 “Enough is enough,” Kalam said, explaining his decision not to run for a second term and making it clear that he did not want to “damage” the name of Rashtrapati Bhawan. Most testing moment Pratibha files papers In video (56k) Nation page Loan defraud allegations against Pratibha Patil BJP trains guns on Pratibha Patil UPA rubbishes criticism of Patil

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Sunita ‘Person of the Week’
I will not call her Miss Universe. I will call her India’s daughter.  — Deepak Pandya, Sunita’s father, soon after the touchdown of the shuttle
New York, June 23
Hours after she retu- rned to earth onboard shuttle Atlantis after a record 195-day stay in space, Indian- American astronaut Sunita Williams was chosen ‘Person of the Week’ by a leading US television network.

Vitthalbhai Patel, 79, uncle of Sunita Williams, claps as he watches, with family members, the televised landing of Atlantis at their home in Ahmedabad on Saturday. — PTI photo
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Relatives of Sunita celebrate her safe return
Sonia, Shekhawat felicitate Sunita

Police seeks govt’s nod to arrest dera head
Chandigarh, June 23
Trouble for Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has increased, with the police seeking the Punjab government’s approval to arrest him for hurting the religious sentiments of the Sikhs.

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Khalsa march to avoid Salabatpura dera
Sant Samaj, radicals reject dera chief’s apology

Rains claim 45 lives in Andhra Air, rail, road traffic, power supply hit

Hyderabad, June 23 Torrential rains lashing several parts of Andhra Pradesh for the past two days have claimed 45 lives and wreaked havoc in the coastal and Rayalseema regio- ns, inundating several areas, disrupting air, rail and road traffic and snapping communicat- ions and power supply.

A bus caught in the flash floods at Prakasham district in Andhra Pradesh on Friday. — PTI photo

11 die in Pune wall collapse

Guwahati blast kills 5
Guwahati, June 23
Five persons including an 18-month-old girl and a seven-year-old boy were killed and over 20 injured when suspected militants belonging to the proscribed United Liberation Front of Asom triggered a blast near a Mosque in the Machkhowa area at around 7:40 am on Saturday.

Guru-ta-Gaddi Diwas
Badal wants UN recognition
New Delhi, June 23
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said the day commemorating the installation of Sri Guru Granth Sahib should be observed as an event of significance on national as well as international calendar as part of the global human awareness campaign. (Details on Nation page)

2 killed as ship sinks partially
Mangalore, June 23
Two crew members were killed and 14 rescued from the cargo vessel that partially sank near Thannirbhavi coast, about 13 km away from here last night, a top police official said.