Violent clash at Akal Takht, 12 hurt
SGPC task force, radical Sikh groups attack each other; 28 booked on various charges
Amritsar, June 6
Bloodshed and intense pro-Khalistan sloganeering marked the 30th anniversary of Operation Bluestar as at least 12 persons were injured in a clash.

Members of the SGPC task force and SAD (Amritsar) activists clash at Akal Takht in Amritsar on Friday. Tribune photo: Vishal Kumar

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Sukhbir meets top police officers
All over a microphone
Punjab page: SGPC blames Simranjit Mann, but Akal Takht gives him clean chit

Fake encounter
CBI court convicts 18 Uttarakhand cops
New Delhi/ Dehradun, June 6
A CBI court today convicted 18 Uttarakhand policemen for their role in the killing of an MBA student from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh in a fake encounter on July 3, 2009, when the then President Pratibha Singh Patil was visiting the state.

Ranbir Singh who was killed in a fake encounter.

Dehradun page
Ranbir’s father hopeful of retribution for guilty
RLEK alleges 108 fake encounters in state

Displaced Kashmiri Pandits -IIi
When govt help came, it was too little, too late
Jammu, June 6
It’s been almost quarter of a century now when Kashmiri Pandits were either killed by gun-wielding militants or hounded out of their homes and hearths in Valley in 1989.

A Kashmiri Pandit family in a rented accommodation in Srinagar. Tribune photo: Yawar Kabli

AAP versus AAP as Yadav, Sisodia spar
New Delhi, June 6
Rift within the Aam Aadmi Party is out in the open following the recent “damaging” communication exchanged between AAP senior leaders, Manish Sisodia and Prof Yogendra Yadav, even as the party’s top leadership today dismissed such differences, saying “problems do happen in a newly-formed party”. The communication between Sisodia and Yadav was discussed at party’s three-day national executive, which began this afternoon.

Intense heat scorches North, 3 die in Hisar Chandigarh, June 6 Intense heat wave conditions prevailed in Punjab and Haryana with mercury hovering above 44 degree Celsius across both the states. Hisar was the hottest place at 46.5 degree Celsius, up by five notches above normal, Met department said here today.