Chandigarh Headlines

Coalition only if must: Cong
In time-tested Congress tradition, the party today re-opened a host of issues and took crucial policy positions on others at the end of the three-day brainstorming session in Pachmarhi. The most tantalising line was on coalition politics with the Pachmarhi Declaration laying a different emphasis and Congress president Sonia Gandhi shifting it ever-so vitally in her concluding address.

14 die in Kufri bus mishap
Fourteen persons were killed and 36 injured, 10 of them seriously, when a Himachal Road Transport Corporation HRTC bus skidded off the road and rolled down a 250-feet gorge on the Shimla-Theog road near Kufri, 22 km from here, on Sunday morning. The 42-seater bus HP-10-02326 was on its way to Dhamwari in Rohru from Shimla.