21 states agree on uniform VAT rates
New Delhi, April 26
All 21 states which have migrated to Value-Added Tax today arrived at a consensus to adopt uniform rates of VAT for industrial inputs, capital goods, essential commodities and medicines.

Nation page: No VAT on CSD sales in Punjab

Laloo must go, says Vajpayee
Dismiss Modi government, insists Laloo
New Delhi, April 26
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today demanded the resignation of Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav on moral grounds for the Sabarmati Express train accident.

Faux pas by Vajpayee cools tempers in LS

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	TV images of Laloo Prasad Yadav (left) and Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Parliament in New Delhi on Tuesday. — PTI photo

SC seeks details of Laloo’s income tax cases
Feels cases were disposed of in haste
New Delhi, April 26
In a major a major setback to Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav, the Supreme Court today questioned the Union Government for not filing appeals in the high court against the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal order exonerating him in tax violation cases, decided by the Tribunal’s Special Bench at Patna last year in a “tearing hurry”.

Editorial: Cure for Laloo
Nation page: Laloo's car brought to Gandhinagar for forensic tests
Gujarat Governor calls on Patil
NDA to boycott Parliament for three days
Gujral told me to go slow on Laloo: ex-CBI chief

Amarinder wants Hanspal to continue
New Delhi, April 26
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today said he was in favour of “continuity” in the Punjab PCC as the government and the party had worked well “as a team” in the past three years.

Australia’s Dylan Longbottom surfs in Teahupoo, Tahiti, on Monday. Longbottom will participate in the Air Tahiti Nui/Von Zipper Trials which will be held till April 29. — Reuters

No U-turn on Kashmir: Pervez
Islamabad, April 26
Refuting allegations of any U- turn in Pakistan's policy towards Kashmir during his recent visit to India, President Pervez Musharraf tonight said it was a complex issue with no time frame fixed for its resolution and sought the support of all Pakistanis and Kashmiris for his initiatives to resolve it.

Man who bombed American Center convicted
Kolkata, April 26
Aftab Ansari, a Dubai-based terrorist linked with the ISI along with six other criminals arrested in connection with the attack on Kolkata's American Center on January 22, 2002, was pronounced guilty today by Justice Basudev Majumdar at the Alipore special court.

Privatisation move boosts admissions in govt schools Bathinda, April 26 The Punjab Government’s idea of privatising government schools may be restricted to papers as of now, but its positive outcome would soon be there for all to see. Fearing privatisation of government schools, the schoolteachers in Malwa have started a door-to-door campaign to increase admissions in their schools.