Phukan report rejected
New Delhi, May 13
The UPA government today displayed its determination to go after former Defence Minister George Fernandes by rejecting the findings of the Phukan Commission report which probed the Tehelka expose into fictitious defence deals.
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Justice Phukan is right: Fernandes
New Delhi, May 13
The NDA convener and former Defence Minister, Mr George Fernandes, said today that the UPA government’s accompanying note on the Phukan Commission’s report tabled in Parliament sought to assail the report without advancing any “coherent reasons.”

Probe ordered into Centaur hotels deal
New Delhi, May 13
The government today went on the offensive and announced a separate probe into the contentious disinvestment of Juhu Centaur and Airport Centaur Hotels in Mumbai by the previous NDA government.
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PM exhorts NDA to end boycott of Parliament
New Delhi, May 13
Asserting that his government was willing to discuss all issues with the Opposition “with an open mind”, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today reiterated his appeal to the National Democratic Alliance to end its boycott of Parliament and participate in the Monsoon session.

3 killed in bomb blast
Srinagar, May 13
In the second such incident in the past decade, a parcel bomb wrapped in a “box of sweets” exploded killing three members of a family in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior police official said today.

Relatives wail on the death of Mohammad Syed, his son and daughter when a parcel bomb exploded in Beijbhara on Friday.
— Tribune photo by Amin War

J&K page: Protest against grenade blast in school
 Editorial: Abominable acts

Probe Modi’s failure: Bhandari
New Delhi, May 13
Former Gujarat Governor Sunder Singh Bhandari today caused further embarrassment to the BJP and its leadership by demanding a thorough inquiry into the “failure” of the Modi government in dealing with the post-Godhra riots.

 Editorial: Modi haunts BJP

Petition on Subrata’s absence dismissed
Lucknow, May 13
A habeas corpus petition filed in the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on behalf of Mr Subrata Roy, head of Sahara India Pariwar, by a “well-wisher” was dismissed yesterday.

Protest against ‘Jo Bole So Nihal’ Jalandhar, May 13 Narinder Cinema went all khakhi today as some Sikh activists, who were protesting against screening of Hindi movie, ‘Jo Bole So Nihal’, turned unruly and started pelting stones at the cinema house and police officials deployed there as a preventive measure.  Punjab page: Vedanti’s kin under fire on film row  SGPC member for removal of Vedanti  Meeting called on ‘Jo Bole ...’ Police round up one of the activists during the protests against the screening of the film ‘Jo Bole So Nihal’ in Jalandhar on Friday. — Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma