Aligarh (India): Aligarh Muslim University administration has said that the new academic session is starting from August 1 and some enemies of the University and the community are trying to vitiate the peaceful and academic atmosphere of the campus for their vested interests.

Agra (India): Music therapy provides a new ray of hope for the sick and mentally unstable, say two musicians from Taj city who have just returned after attending the 13th world congress on music therapy held last week at Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul in South Korea.

To, Dinesh Trivedi Railway Minister Of India    Sir, Please accept our heartiest congratulations on assuming a very important assignment. With your experience and commitment you are sure to prove a popular and effective railway minister for the country.

Mysore (India): Even as English and modern Indian language newspapers continue to flourish in the country, Sudharma, which claims to be the only Sanskrit newspaper in the world, is struggling hard to survive as it enters its 42nd year next week.

Islamabad (Pakistan): In summer of 1996 when Imran Khan slipped into a politician's attire, he was hailed as the agent of change. A decade later when he is on the verge of adulthood in his political innings, he is revered and reviled alike for being one of few honest political animals in his battered homeland as he is ridiculed for his off-and-on tryst with night-out in some of world's glitzy hotspots.

Agra (India): A 24-year old youth detained in Mainpuri jail, assaulted and dismembered by two alleged co-prisoners, has Thursday morning been shifted to the general ward after surgery at the SN Medical College.