Monday, July 2, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Day II: BSNL fails to connect
Chandigarh, July 1
BSNL today put into service more than 150 officials to repair the exchange which was burnt yesterday in a major fire. While till late today around 80 per cent of mobile connections had been restored, the rest of the services like banking, internet etc were still paralysed.

Pratibha rubbishes allegations
Chennai, July 1
UPA Presidential nominee Pratibha Patil today described the allegations levelled against her as “false, malicious and baseless”. “I deny the allegations being made against me right from the day I was named as UPA’s Presidential nominee.

From Behind Bars — I
A Tribune Investigation
More women resorting to crime, jails add
to trauma
No jail in Punjab has a permanent psychiatrist on board
Chandigarh, July 1
She grew up as a timid girl, tending to routine jobs at her home. Trained to take orders, execute them well and never ask for anything in return, she reeled in neglect all her life.

India: The Tasks Ahead
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125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS,
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Roll call: Women prisoners in one of the central jails of Punjab are counted before being locked up in their cells (in the backdrop). — Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma

Samjhauta Blast
India to pay compensation on July 5
Islamabad, July 1
India will pay a compensation ranging from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 45 lakh to relatives of 27 Pakistanis, who died in the Samjhauta Express blasts on July 5. Preliminary compensation to the tune of Rs 50,000 has already been paid to the relatives of the victims, an Indian High Commission official here said.

Tempo crushes six to death at chhabeel site
Mandi Ahmedgarh, July 1
At least six persons were killed and seven others injured seriously when a tempo crushed them while they were serving sweetened water to passersby at a chhabeel organised by residents of Sayan village on the Ludhiana-Malerkotla road, near here, today.

The scene at the chhabeel site on the Malerkotla- Ludhiana road where six persons were killed.

Pak reciprocates, frees 50 fishermen
Karachi, July 1
A day after India freed 43 Pakistani prisoners, Islamabad today reciprocated by releasing 50 Indian fishermen who were detained for allegedly entering its waters in the Arabian Sea. "The prisoners will be handed over to the Indian authorities at the Wagah border tomorrow," head of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust Saram Burney told PTI.

Tharparkar’s Sikhs on electoral list in Pak
Jagjit Singh and his family are the only Sikhs in Tharparkar, the home of Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, who have registered to vote according to the newly-published updated electoral lists which have evoked countrywide criticism for dropping more than 20 million voters from the lists on which elections were held in 2002.

Pak CEC: Musharraf’s rallies improper Chief election commissioner of Pakistan Justice (retd) Qazi Farooq has said President Musharraf's addresses at public meetings are not proper. “President Musharraf addressing public meetings is not an appropriate thing. I have already stated this," he said while talking to journalists after his meeting with an MMA delegation, which called on him here yesterday. World page: BBC Radio bulletins silenced in Pak