Chandigarh Headlines

Region in grip of Khalsa fervour
The religious upsurge among the Sikhs reached its crescendo today with hundreds and thousands of people visiting the birthplace of the Khalsa to celebrate the tercentenary of the order established by Guru Gobind Singh here in the Shivalik foothills. Almost every Sikh family in the region seems to have made it a point to pay obeisance at Takht Keshgarh Sahib here which was the venue of this social transformation 300 years ago. People in strength were present to listen to leaders from the stages of Parkash Singh Badal and Gurcharan Singh Tohra camp, but many times more numbers were all over the city.

Search for BJP substitute on
Jayalalitha and the Opposition parties were locked in a war of nerves today as a decision about the shape and form of an alternative government continued to elude the anti-BJP camp. Especially with the DMK tonight announcing that it would have nothing to do with an alternative government of which Jayalalitha was a part, quot;directly or indirectly.quot; DMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi told mediapersons after the party8217;s executive committee meeting that Jayalalitha quot;posed greater danger to the nation than communalism in the present circumstancesquot;.