Tuesday, February 21, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

France to help in N-energy
New facilities to be under IAEA safeguards: PM

New Delhi, February 20 India today sent an unambiguous message to the international community when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh proclaimed that all facilities procured by New Delhi in future through international cooperation on civilian nuclear energy will be subjected to IAEA safeguards. In video (28k, 56k)

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gestures as French President Jacques Chirac looks on at Hyderabad House just before a joint press conference in New Delhi on Monday.— Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal India, France ink 9 agreements New Delhi, February 20 India and France today signed nine bilateral documents in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and visiting French President Jacques Chirac.

Three babies quarantined for bird flu
Mumbai, February 20
The Maharashtra Government today quarantined three babies for suspected bird flu in Nandurbar district, health officials said here today.

Maharashtra to cull 70,000 birds
Nation page: Herbal cure for bird flu
Punjab page: Red alert issued on bird flu
World page: Neighbours ban poultry import from India
Opinions page: Bird flu: myths and realities

Hurriyat rejects PM’s offer for talks
Jammu, February 20
The bold initiative of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to invite the mainstream parties and separatists for a round table conference at Delhi on February 25 to hammer out a solution to the Kashmir imbroglio has suffered a setback with the Hurriyat Conference, considered as the voice of the separatist parties, today rejecting the invitation.

Student’s rape: Principal suspended, staff transferred

Ambala, February 20 Haryana Education Minister Phool Chand Mullana today ordered the suspension of the District Education Officer, here, Mr M.R. Sharma and he said that the entire school staff would be transferred, where a teacher had raped a Class VIII student in Chudiala village on Saturday. School teacher Rajesh and Niranjan, accused of raping a Class VIII girl in Ambala, being brought to a court. — Photo by Neeraj Chopra

India: The Tasks Ahead
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125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS,
INAUGURAL SESSION

	PUNJAB: Governor omits inter-state issues from Address
	HARYANA: Lalu promises Bhiwani-Loharu railway line
	HIMACHAL: Escape from police custody, SP orders probe
	J&K: Geelani fails to bridge gap with Pak establishment
	CHANDIGARH: Ban on poultry products from Maharashtra
	LUDHIANA: Move to hatch less eggs
	DELHI: Poultry coming into Capital to be screened
	Opinions:Teachers as vultures
	BUSINESS: A-I, Indian may merge, says Patel
	NATION: India, US working on N-site separation
	WORLD: Neighbours ban poultry import from India
	SPORTS: Pak subdue India yet again

Editorial Teachers as vultures

Mend ways, Left tells govt 
New Delhi, February 20
The Congress-led UPA government today came under twin attack in Parliament during the debate on President’s Address with the Left giving a veiled threat to the UPA government on the Iran issue and the BJP criticising ruling combine’s economic policies and targeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on the power equation within the coalition.

Nation page:
Iran issue to be taken up in Parliament on February 23

PM must quit over Bihar, says Oppn
New Delhi, February 20
The BJP-led Opposition today demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the Supreme Court’s adverse remarks against the Centre for the manner in which the Bihar Assembly was dissolved last year.

Daya Nayak surrenders
Mumbai, February 20
Mumbai police’s encounter specialist Sub-Inspector Daya Nayak today surrendered before the Sessions Court before the expiry of a 12-noon deadline ordered by the court.

Response to Muzaffarabad bus disappoints Azad Kamaan Bridge, February 20 Disappointed over “little enthusiasm” in the movement of people across the LoC by Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad here today said that trade along the route would be started within a couple of months. An Army band performs on the peace bridge after its inauguration at Kaman Post, 118 km from Srinagar, on Monday. — Tribune photo by Amin War