J&K House adjourned sine die
No voting on daughters’ Bill; NC expels Rashid Dar
Jammu, March 11
Passing of the controversial Bill seeking to deny state subject rights to women marrying outsiders got deferred in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council this evening following a nearly six and a half hours debate as the council Chairman, Mr Abdul Rashid Dar, adjourned the house sine die.

J&K page: Ansari supports, Sikhs oppose daughters’ Bill

Serial train blasts kill 190 in Spain
Madrid, March 11
Powerful explosions ripped through three busy Madrid train stations today, killing at least 186 commuters and wounding more than 600 in Spain's worst terrorist attack ever. The government blamed the armed Basque separatist group ETA for the explosions.

• Indian players safe in Madrid

Banners, billboards greet cricketers
Lahore, March 11
Cricket fever has gripped Pakistan’s cultural capital with banners and billboards greeting the Indian cricketers who will take on their arch-rivals in the first One-Day International on Saturday.

Pakistani women watch a warm-up match between India and Pakistan ‘A’ in Lahore on Thursday. India and Pakistan kicked off their cricket series, being played after a gap of 15 years, with the warm-up match in Lahore which India lost by six wickets. — Reuters

Six killed in attack on Pulwama Army centre
Srinagar, March 11
At least nine persons, including four militants and two women, were killed in separate incidents in the Kashmir valley since last night.
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The Congress today formally set the tone for the Lok Sabha elections when it opened its first line of attack against the NDA government. Senior Congress leaders Pranab Mukherjee and Sheila Dikshit release the chargesheet on failures of the NDA government at the AICC office in New Delhi on Thursday. Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

Manmohan releases ‘chargesheet’ in Mumbai

Anand Margis can’t perform ‘Tandav’ in public: SC
New Delhi, March 11
The controversial sect of Anand Marg, which has been under cloud for various reasons — be it their alleged involvement in the Purlia arms drop case or Lalit Narain Mishra murder case — today suffered a major set back as the Supreme Court ruled that its followers cannot perform ‘Tandav naritya’ with skulls and “trishuls” in public.

Teachers ‘help’ VVIP wards copy Bathinda, March 11 In a bizarre incident, a student who was taking ten plus two class final examination at the local SSD Senior Secondary School was allegedly stripped by some teachers on exam duty when he refused to facilitate copying to another student, a ward of a VVIP, from his answer-sheet on March 9.