Road mishap kills Kanwaljit
Minister’s car collides with two trucks near Kharar
Kharar, March 29
Senior Akali leader and Punjab Co-operation Minister Captain Kanwaljit Singh was killed while his driver Parminder Singh and PSO Rattan Singh were injured when the car they were travelling in collided with two trucks on the Chandigarh-Ludhiana Highway, near Khanpur village in Kharar, this evening. The condition of the driver is said to be critical.

Mangled remains of Hyundai Elantra car in which Punjab Cooperation Minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh met with a fatal accident on the Chandigarh- Ludhiana road on Sunday. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

A day of coincidences
Punjab page:
A soldier and gentleman politician
CM mourns minister’s death
Akali dal will never be same again
Pall of gloom in Nabha
Chandigarh page: This battle Kanwaljit lost

BJP targets Swiss bank accounts
Chandigarh, March 29
Switzerland is known as much for its chocolate and cheese as its secret bank accounts. And the BJP president Lal Krishna Advani today set the cat among the pigeons by demanding that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raise the issue forcefully at the G-20 summit in London.

NDA will bring back illegal money stashed abroad, says Advani
New Delhi, March 29
Quick to borrow the issue of secret bank accounts abroad from the Left and JD-U who raised it first, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate LK Advani said the NDA, if voted, would take all legal and executive measures to get the illegal money back to India for investment.

BrahMos Block II version test-fired
New Delhi, March 29
For the second time in a month, the Block II version of the supersonic BrahMos cruise missile with a striking range of 290 km, successfully hit its target during a test at the Pokhran firing range today, DRDO officials said.

Now, SP to fight Cong in Maharashtra
Also in WB, if demand of lone seat not met
New Delhi, March 29
Political elbow room for the Congress shrunk further today, with the Samajwadi Party (SP) deciding to contest as many Lok Sabha seats as possible in Maharashtra, and threatening to spoil the party for the TMC-Congress alliance in West Bengal if their demand for a lone seat in the state was not met.

SGPC budget today
Premature encashment of FDs may raise eyebrows
Amritsar, March 29
The SGPC would present its annual budget of about Rs 450 crore for 2009-10 at the historic Teja Singh Samundari Hall here tomorrow. Last year, the budget was to the tune of Rs 387 crore, which was passed amid boycott by opposition members, including those from Haryana.

Punjab page: Stop presentation of SGPC budget,
Cong asks EC

NSA invoked against Varun Gandhi Lucknow, March 29 In a late night development, the state government invoked the National Security Act (NSA) against BJP Pilibhit candidate Varun Gandhi for creating public disorder, fear and terror in the area, and inciting communal passions by his inflammatory speeches.

 

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