S P O T L I G H T

J&K Governor meets PM
New Delhi, December 21 
Jammu and Kashmir Governor G.C. Saxena today met Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and apprised him of the situation in the state. The meeting comes a day after PDP MLA Abdul Aziz Mir was shot dead in Pulwama district. PTI 

Shoot orders
Gorakhpur, December 21
Shoot-at-sight orders have been issued in the violence-torn Pharenda town of neighbouring Maharajganj district in UP even as the curfew clamped after the killing of three persons in police firing yesterday remained in force for the second day today. The district administration issued shoot-at-sight orders in Pharenda town today following yesterday’s violence after a mob indulged in heavy brickbatting and arson during the cremation of student union leader Santosh Kumar Jaiswal. PTI 

150 detained
New Delhi, December 21
Over 150 activists of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Hindu Sena were detained today when they made an abortive attempt to perform a “yajna” in the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque situated at the base of Qutub Minar here. The police, which had barricaded the monument, prevented the activists from entering the premises to perform ‘’Devmukti yajna’’ before the Ganesha idol in the 12th century mosque which they claim was built after demolishing 27 Hindu and Jain temples. UNI