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Tuesday, April 21, 1998
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Advani claims he was aware of IB report on "sensitive" Udhampur
A concerted strategy involving the Centre, Jammu and Kashmir and defence forces would have to be evolved soon to tackle the terrorist activities being abetted by Pakistan in the border state, the Union Home Minister L K Advani declared yesterday. Having returned after visiting the site of the massacre in Udhampur district, he said he was moved by the brutality of the killings.
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Strategic deterrence needed, says Army chief
A "strategic deterrence" to counter nuclear and missile challenges is the need of the hour, Army chief Gen V P Malik said on Monday. Inaugurating the biennial Army Commanders Conference in New Delhi, Gen Malik discussed the need to improve relationship with Pakistan and emphatically said "strength and vigilance alone will ensure our defence and national security."
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Telephone tapping war spills over to states
The tug-of-war between intelligence agencies and cellular operators over monitoring of phone calls has now spilled over to state circles. The intelligence agencies including the Central Bureau of Investigation, Intelligence Bureau, Research and Analysis Wing, Narcotics Control Bureau, Enforcement Directorate, Department of Revenue Intelligence and state police departments insist on being given separate access to the switches of cellular networks from where they could tap subscribers.
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Bid to finish me politically: Benazir
Former Pakistan Premier Benazir Bhutto has charged the Nawaz Sharif Government with trying to remove her from politics by framing false cases against her husband Asif Ali Zardari. "They accuse him (Zardari) for political purposes because they want to disqualify me, and they want to disqualify me so that by the next election there will be no opposition to the ruling party," said Benazir.
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Paul McCartney's wife, Linda, dead
Linda McCartney, the woman who reduced hysterical Beatles fans to tears when she married Paul McCartney has died. The other half of the most stable Beatles' marriage, Linda McCartney worked her way through a variety of careers, photographer, pop musician and vegetarian campaigner and business woman with a multi-million pound stake in a vegetarian food business.

Blair brokers peace summit for West Asia
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he is ready to travel to London within the next month for new talks on how to advance the stalled Middle East peace process. He floated the idea on Sunday at a joint news conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who called the offer to be a "serious process of negotiations" extremely important.
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Flash stir by traders irks onion farmers
Pune scribe feted
Daily Despatches
Now, a swadeshi look at AIDS, courtesy Dr Joshi
India Today disputes Press Council order
Wordy penalty for errant officials
Exhumed skeleton may be Sanjoy's
Royal snub in store for Japan emperor
Clinton's China policy worked for Wang
Why can't I win Nobel, asks Phoolan
MBMC's octroi collection plan flops
Girl held in sex scam was a "Miss Bombay"
"Learning process cannot be limited to the classroom"
Mumbai Notes
Automen postpone south Mumbai stir
Baldev, Gawli man "court" trouble
"Tandel shot at close range"
MLAs cut AIDS class, offer various excuses
Mumbai Notes
New evidence supports the murder theory
BEST union calls off 3-day dharna
Jeweller shot dead near Grant Rd
Light in the life of Patelwadi residents, finally
Marathi film producers to go on a hunger strike
Mumbai Beat
When Udhampur villagers sheltered their own death
Andhra cops go on rampage over SP's transfer
World loses a poet, India a friend, as Octavio Paz dies at 84
Quicktakes
Pune Beat
ECF petition on hilltops rejected
Chemical godown gutted
Dacoits strike yet again; 9 hurt
This "VVIP" creates ripples at Military Hospital, Kirkee
Pune Notes
A bundle of joy and "new born" parents
PCMC spurns PMC loan proposal
Man falls to death while boarding moving train
Big splash at Appu Ghar
Major fire at Philips plant
Seminar on urban infrastructure project on in Pune
Ultra-modern MH complex on anvil
Striking teachers mock UGC's no-work, no-pay threat
Police still baffled by attacks on farmhouses
ABVP knocks on High Court's doors
Firing in air leads to death of groom's friend
Vijai Kapoor sworn in as LG
SC guidelines are given the go-by
With no one to turn to, many lead lives of desperation
Delhi Crime Beat
NDMC ex-employee "swindled" Rs 1 cr
Currency, goods worth Rs 60 lakh seized at IGIA
Delhi suburbia
S-I's husband commits "suicide"
Labourer held for watchman's murder
Court wants police to take a close look at horror ads
22-year-old escapes from lock-up
HC wants IOs, counsels to improve coordination
3-yr RI for cop
HC Bar opposes Punchhi's move
New transformers to be installed in Panchkula
Ban on plying of trucks in Chandigarh
Site of Apni Mandi shifted
In absence of states' active support, NCC struggles to deliver
News in brief
Diploma in vocational agriculture at PU
Chandigarh Crime Beat
Jauhar dies at 91
Tributes paid to Suwarcha Paul
Two-day seminar on policing from May 7
Beant Singh case adjourned
Justice Anand bereaved
WWICS launches network marketing
Employees of aided schools stage dharna
Manimajra residents apprise AICC secy of their problems
Regional Beat -- Chandigarh
Sukh Ram woos pvt sector for power projects
HLD-R sets up 24-member working committee
Haryana Government appointments
Student drowns
Khalsa memorial plan yet to be finalised
Bail to SBI officer in fraud case
Greening, cleaning of McLeodganj an uphill task
HC reserves verdict on teachers' issue
Fresh bids for Kol Dam soon
Yatri Niwas at Mohali
Three members of robbers' gang held
English mandatory from Class II
Probe finds two cops guilty of harassment
Travel agent dupes youth
Jerath declared "proclaimed offender"
Konkani women meet on April 25, 26
Iskcon to offer degree course in Vedic studies
Library in honour of freedom fighter
Cryoprecipitate made available at affordable rate
Kerala to set up State Open School
Bangalore to have theme-based busts
Photographer attacked while shooting road roko
Crocodile rescued from well
More luxury services from MTC
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