PDP pulls out over land row
Srinagar, June 28
The Congress-led coalition government was today reduced to minority with its junior partner, People’s Democratic Party (PDP), pulling out over the issue of transfer of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board.

J&K page: Jammu, Kashmir regions poles apart
Police fires to disperse crowd
Land row takes communal colour

There was lot of trouble going on over the issue of land transfer to the shrine board. We could not wait till the June 30 deadline, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, seen above with Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Beig, told reporters.

Pak begins cleansing act in tribal areas
Pakistani security forces on Saturday launched a major operation against pro-Taliban militants in Khyber Agency tribal area along the Khyber Pass, the gateway to Afghanistan and close to provincial capital Peshawar.

Get ready for polls: Sonia
New Delhi, June 28
While external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee today declared that there was no immediate threat to the UPA government, Congress president Sonia Gandhi set the ball rolling for elections when she fixed a deadline of August-end to tone up the party organisation, chalk out poll campaigns and select candidates.

No hurry to sign N-deal, says Pranab
Amritsar, June 28
We are not in a hurry to sign the nuclear treaty with the USA and there was no threat to the UPA government as we are taking all alliance partners into confidence over the India-specific safeguards.

N-Deal
Give up obsession, Left tells PM
New Delhi, June 28
The Left leaders have started targeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh  personally for insisting on the Indo-US nuclear deal. Mohammad Salim of the CPM and Shameem Faizi of the CPI appealed to the Prime Minister on Saturday to give up his obsession on the deal and instead concentrate on containing inflation.

Traffic chaos in Shimla after landslide

Municipal workers try to remove a huge tree that fell on the national highway near Himachal Holiday Home in Shimla after a landslide on Saturday. The traffic jam (right) that followed lasted for nearly six hours. The old city continued to be choked with vehicles till reports last came in. — Tribune photos by S. Chandan (Details in Himachal page)

Arushi Murder
Durranis’ servant has confessed: CBI
New Delhi, June 28
The CBI today claimed to have cracked the Arushi-Hemraj murder mystery as Raj Kumar, the domestic help of Talwars’ friends the Durranis, has confessed to his involvement in the twin murders.

Dummies for speed demons Mumbai, June 28 The authorities in Mumbai have come up with a unique idea of installing cardboard cutouts of traffic policeman to curb speeding on the city’s roads. Since the past two days, the traffic police department has kept cardboard cutouts of a constable in uniform at strategic locations in order to deter those speeding.