Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee with Iranian First Vice-President Hassan Habibi at Sadabad Palace complex in Teheran on Tuesday. 
— PTI photo

Babri demolition: Advani blames Rao
Says ‘kar sevaks’ took wrong course
New Delhi, April 10
Appearing for the first time before the Liberahan Commission, the Union Home Minister, Mr Lal Krishan Advani, today blamed the then Narasimha Rao government at the Centre for the demolition of the disputed structure in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.

Union Home Minister L. K. Advani arrives at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on Tuesday to depose before the Liberahan Commission in connection with the Ayodhya issue. — PTI photo

Jatha gets shabby treatment
Nankana Sahib, April 10
A crucial meeting of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee may take place here this evening to resolve certain ticklish issues.

Function at Lahore proposed
Celebrations of Ranjit Singh’s coronation
Chandigarh, April 10
The Ministry of External Affairs is reported to have agreed in principle to approach its counterpart in Pakistan for organising a special function to commemorate the bicentenary of the coronation of Maharaja Ranjit Singh at Baradari in the historic Lahore Fort later this year.

Eight killed in bus accident
Kurukshetra, April 10
Eight persons were killed and 48 injured, nine of them seriously, in a head-on collision between a Haryana Roadways bus and a potato-loaded truck on G. T. Road, near Umri Chowk, 5 km from here, today.