US N-secrets missing
LOS ALAMOS, June 13 — Electronically-stored classified information — believed to include U.S. and Russian nuclear secrets - disappeared from a vault at the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory last month and the FBI has launched an intense search, officials have said.

Banish fear of war: South Korea
PYONGYANG, June 13 — South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung said today he hoped his unprecedented visit to North Korea would banish the long shadow of war from the divided Korean peninsula and pave the way for eventual reunification.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-II (left) and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung shake hands at Sunan international airport in Pyongyang on Tuesday. — AP/PTI

Farmers to pay more for water
CHANDIGARH, June 13 — Farmers in Haryana will have to pay more for the canal water they use to irrigate their fields. The increase in the irrigation charges will be effective from the next crop season.

Two confess to kids’ killing
JALANDHAR, June 13 — A sordid tale of doing two school-going kids to death out of sheer jealousy and an urge to get rich quickly was unveiled by two of their neighbours, who were arrested by the police today for committing the heinous crime.

Kidnapped boy strangled
DHANDRAN (Ludhiana), June 13 — A seven-year-old boy who was kidnapped by one of the farm hands in his father’s fields was strangled because the kidnapper did not have the resources to keep the child in hiding till he got the ransom amount from the family.

A bovine scam
GURGAON, June 13 — If Bihar has earned notoriety for its fodder scam, Haryana is not far behind with a bovine scandal of its own.