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The First Challenge Special supplement
to mark the 150th anniversary of India’s
first War of Independence.
Saturday,
June
14,
2008, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Militants
ambush GREF vehicles in J&K Lt-Col,
4 others killed Udhampur, June 13
At least five officers of
the General Reserve Engineering Force (GREF), including one
Lt-Colonel and his deputy, were killed when militants ambushed
their vehicle near Singhtantop on the Kishtwar-Anatnag road
today. Reports reaching here said the officers were on their
way to monitor work on the Kishtwar-Singhtantop road.
Monsoon
hits region New Delhi, June
13
Covering a large distance
and that too very rapidly, the monsoon today arrived in
Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir almost
10-12 days ahead of schedule.
Ominous clouds crept over Shimla on Friday. Elsewhere, in Punjab
and Haryana, it poured hard in the morning. — Tribune photo by
S. Chandan
Gorkha
morcha rejects talks offer Seeks Prime
Minister’s intervention Kolkata, June 13
The Gorkha Janmukti
Morcha (GJM), demanding a separate Gorkhaland, has sought the
Prime Minister’s intervention in “protecting the hill
people’s interests in Darjeeling against the dictatorship of
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and the CPM
onslaught”.
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Arushi Murder Dr Talwar’s
aide arrested New
Delhi, June 13
The Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) today arrested Krishna, the compounder of Dr Rajesh Talwar in the
twin murder case of Arushi and Hemraj. The arrest was made after
analysing in detail the polygraph, narco tests and psycho analysis of
Krishna which were conducted
recently. Krishna, Talwars’ compounder
Saamna
offices attacked over caricature of Rane Mumbai, June 13
The Shiv Sena, which has a history
of damaging newspaper offices and assaulting journalists, got a dose of
its own medicine when supporters of rebel-turned-Congress leader Narayan
Rane allegedly attacked the offices of its mouthpiece Saamna in many
parts of Maharashtra.
Govt’s
economic measures half-hearted: Left New Delhi, June 13
The Left parties today stepped up
their attack on the government, accusing the ruling UPA of adopting a
"slack attitude" towards containing inflation which has soared
to a seven-year high of 8.75 per cent. The parties, which provide
crucial outside support to the Congress-led dispensation, alleged that
the government has surrendered itself to market speculators.
Wife
of BJP legislator feared kidnapped Bangalore, June 13
In an unprecedented incident, the
wife of a BJP legislator is suspected to have been kidnapped in
Karnataka’s Naxal-infested Udupi district. It is learnt that
Padmapriya, wife of BJP MLA from Udupi K. Raghupati Bhat, had gone
missing on June 10. This morning, her car was found abandoned near
Kunjargiri hills, near Katapady, under the Shirva police station.
‘Save
Ganga’ finds countrywide echo Environmentalist begins
indefinite fast Dehra Dun, June 13
Dr G.D. Agarwal (76), a noted
teacher and environmentalist, on the occasion of “Ganga Dusshera”
today, started his indefinite fast at the Manikarnika Ghat on the banks
of the Bhagirathi, near Uttarkashi town, in protest against the
construction of a large number of hydro-electric projects on the Ganga
between Gangotri and Uttarkashi.
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New
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