Swine Flu
7 more students test positive
Centre’s team in Punjab; northern states on alert
Jalandhar, June 15
Seven of the nine Jalandhar school students, who returned from an educational trip to the USA and suspected to be suffering from Swine flu, today tested positive. The tests were carried out at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, New Delhi.

Nation page: Defer foreign trips: Azad
Punjab page: Punjab health dept showed laxity in responding
Editorial: Swine flu is spreading

PM to meet Zardari today
It will not merely be a hand-shake but a full-fledged meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari here on Tuesday on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit.

India ups guard on China border
Tezpur base gets Sukhois; coming next 
2 mountain divs
New Delhi/Guwahati, June 15
Ramping up capabilities along the Sino-Indian border, the Indian Air Force today placed its front line all-weather fighters, Sukhoi-30 MKI, at Tezpur in Assam which is located at a central point between Bhutan, Tibet, China, Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Boundary talks with China in Aug

YATRA BEGINS: Paramilitary personnel maintain strict vigil as the first batch of Amarnath pilgrims start their journey in Jammu on Monday. Tribune photo: Anand Sharma

Nurmahal in SAD kitty
Jalandhar, June 15
SAD’s Rajwinder Kaur Bhullar has bagged the Nurmahal Assembly seat, the results of which were declared here this afternoon. She beat her nearest rival Gurbinder Singh Atwal of the Congress by 15,053 votes in a straight contest.

Crisis in BJP spreading to state units
Party’s national executive meeting may be postponed
New Delhi, June 15
The BJP appeared in two minds here today whether to hold its national executive meeting as scheduled on June 20 and 21 or postpone it for sometime.

Yet another Indian attacked in Oz
Delhi boy 14th victim in less than a month
Melbourne, June 15
Racial attacks on Indians in Australia continued unabated with a 20-year-old Delhi youth becoming the 14th victim of a spate of assaults on the community in less than a month when he was punched and abused here, leaving him with a fractured finger and a bloody nose.

Parents want him back