No let-up in Sutlej fury
Breaches widen; 25 more Ferozepur villages  marooned
Madaarpur (Moga), August 17
The Sutlej continues to give sleepless nights to people in Moga and Ferozepur districts.

Volunteers build a wall of sand bags to divert Sutlej flow at Madaarpur village in Moga district on Sunday. — A Tribune photograph

22 trapped on Ravi ‘island’
BBMB tells Punjab to be ready
Villagers shift to rail tracks, roads

Has Mush resigned?
As the country anxiously awaited President Pervez Musharraf’s decision on his impending impeachment, the capital was today awash with reports that he has already handed over his resignation to the army along with a set of demands.

EIGHTH WONDER
Michael Phelps becomes the first athlete to win eight gold medals in a single Olympics
Beijing, August 17
Michael Phelps won an unprecedented eighth gold medal at the Beijing Games today, surging past yet another Olympic milestone as the United States won the men’s 4x100m medley relay in world record time.

US swimmer Michael Phelps poses after the men’s 4 x 100m medley relay final medal ceremony at the National Aquatics Center during the Beijing Olympic Games. He won the eighth gold medal on Sunday bettering the record of Mark Spitz, whose seven swimming golds at Munich in 1972 were the most at a single Games. — AFP photo

Vohra’s talks offer spurned by Samiti
Jammu, August 17
The Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti (AYSS), spearheading the agitation over the Amarnath land row across the Jammu region for the past over 45 days, has spurned the offer of Governor N.N. Vohra to hold talks.

JMM withdraws support to Koda
Ranchi, August 17
The JMM tonight withdrew support to the 23-month-old Madhu Koda-led coalition government in Jharkhand in an apparent bid to explore the possibility of making its supremo Shibu Soren the chief minister with the support of Independent members.

Taslima’s visa extended
New Delhi, August 17
The Union government is understood to have extended the visa of controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, who returned earlier this month after she was bundled out from West Bengal in November last year.

MCI asks Punjab to fulfil conditions or face derecognition New Delhi/Chandigarh, August 17 The Medical Council of India has asked Punjab government to comply with the requirements of the council failing which the government medical colleges would be de-recognised.