Karunakaran’s resignation rejected
New Delhi, April 8
The Congress High Command has rejected the resignation of senior leader K. Karunakaran from the party’s Working Committee which had created a crisis in the party in Kerala in the wake of his unhappiness over denial of nomination to his supporters in the Assembly elections.

Harbhajan Singh, the new international cricket icon, is greeted by his mother on arrival at his residence in Jalandhar on Sunday. — Photo Sandhu

Hero’s welcome for Harbhajan Singh Jalandhar, April 8 Having won the hearts of millions of cricket lovers across the country by exhibiting his prowess in the recently concluded series against Australia, the new star on the cricket horizon, Harbhajan is back home among his people.

40 ‘mukhiya’ candidates killed
Bihar approaches UP, Bengal for weapons
Patna, April 8
The already bloodstained state of Bihar is set to create a new history of bloodbath and violence. As the first phase of Panchayat polls start on April 11, killings and gang wars have peaked forcing the top police and administrative brass to review the security aspects of the polls on Saturday.

Black flags greet Prime Minister
55 YC activists hurt in lathi charge
Mumbai, April 8
Fiftyfive Youth Congress workers were injured, five seriously, when the police lathi-charged them while they were trying to break a barricade and stage a rasta roko after Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s motorcade passed through Kherwadi here today.

EC, election observers to meet today
New Delhi, April 8
The Election Commission has convened a meeting of election observers here tomorrow to discuss measures for the smooth conduct of the assembly elections in five states on May 10.

Vincent’s wife asked to explain
Mumbai, April 8
The government has written to Ms Lily George, wife of Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s personal secretary Vincent George, to explain “the compassionate grounds” under which she applied for allotment of a petrol station.