PM ready to meet Hurriyat leaders
Chandigarh, April 13
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today described China’s support to India’s claim for permanent membership of the UN Security Council as “a step forward”. During a brief interaction with newsmen at Haryana Raj Bhawan here this evening, Dr Manmohan Singh said before Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s visit to India, it was being said from Chinese soil that India’s membership of the Security Council “is a matter of consensus”.

J&K page: Threat to passengers of second bus
APHC leaders to sort out differences soon: Bilal

Udhampur, April 13 As a Baisakhi gift for the people of Jammu and Kashmir, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, inaugurated the 55-km-long Udhampur-Jammu rail link by flagging off the Uttar Samparak Kranti Express here this morning.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presses the button to mark the flagging off the Uttar Sampark Kranti Express in Udhampur on Wednesday and (right) jawans stand guard along a bedecked train at Udhampur. — Photos by PTI and Tribune photo by Amin War In video: (28k, 56k)

Chandigarh page:
PM arrives 25 minutes before schedule
PM cautions nation about excessive privatisation
in health sector
PGI union unable to meet PM
Editorial: Udhampur and beyond
Special article: A vision for J and K

Nankana Sahib bus soon: PM
Chandigarh, April 13
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here today that there were certain hurdles in starting a regular bus service from Amritsar to Nankana Sahib in Pakistan.

Repatriation of Pak prisoners postponed

Wagah, April 13 For Mohammad Yunus, a resident of Haiwalbagh, who had strayed into the Indian side while grazing his cattle in 1997, the postponement of repatriation to his country, for the second time in three years, has come as a rude shock.

Pakistani prisoners sit in a police vehicle awaiting repatriation to Pakistan at the Wagah checkpost. —  Tribune photo by Rajiv Sharma

World page: Pak asks India to join TAP gas pipeline project

23 more Kargil cases sent to CBI for probe
New Delhi, April 13
After Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee came under attack from various UPA allies and even from within the Congress for purported exoneration of former Defence Minister George Fernandes about the purchases made during the Kargil war, the Ministry of Defence in a fresh affidavit before the Supreme Court said it has decided to refer 23 more cases out of the Comptroller and Auditor-General report for probe to the CBI, including the purchase of “coffins”.

Army Chief not to be present in Delhi for Pervez visit New Delhi, April 13 The Army chief, General J.J. Singh, will not be in the capital when Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf arrives here on a three-day visit on April 16. General Singh will be in Karnataka when General Musharraf would be watching the Indo-Pak cricket match at Ferozeshah Kotla.