Chandigarh Headlines

PM, Advani fail to soften Khurana
A last-ditch attempt by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Home Minister L.K.Advani to resolve the crisis in the Delhi BJP made little headway today with Parliamentary Affairs Minister Madan Lal Khurana refusing to call off his silent rebellion against the party high command. A special meeting convened this evening by the two leaders to bring Khurana around saw the former Delhi Chief Minister pouring out his anger and frustration at being sidelined by the party.

2 Pak soldiers killed in firing
An alert Indian Army sentry helped beat back a multi-directional Pakistani attack to capture a dominating post at 18,000 feet on the northern Siachen Glacier just after midnight today. Two Pakistani soldiers are likely to have died after Indian troops opened fired after the Pakistanis violated the Actual Ground Position Line AGPL at 1 a.m. on the worldAtilde;shy;s highest battlefield. The exchange of fire lasted 75 minutes.Ex-minister, 11 others indicted
Former Haryana Finance Minister Mange Ram Gupta, former Financial Commissioner-cum-Secretary Finance J.D. Gupta and eleven others have been severely indicted in a high-level vigilance inquiry for allegedly conniving with a private lottery firm to cause a pecuniary loss of over Rs 8 crore to the state exchequer.