Friday, March 31, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Talks on “office of profit” issue from May 10
New Delhi, March 30
The government today decided to reconvene Parliament from May 10 after the Assembly elections for enacting a comprehensive law on redefining office of profit, an issue that resulted in a political storm and has threatened the survival of BJP-led government in Jharkhand.

Centre defends denial of entry to Pak acting CJ
Anger in legal circles
New Delhi/Chandigarh, March 30
The Centre today strongly defended the decision of the Immigration Authorities at the Wagah border over the denial of entry to the kin of Acting Pakistan Chief Justice Rana Bhagwandas saying "the denial was due to Justice Bhagwandas's family not having valid visa for Amritsar."

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Antulay uses pundits to expand empire
New Delhi, March 30
Mr A R Antulay, Union minister for Minority Affairs, in his latest quest for empire building has now decided to use the Kashmiri pundits. Officially describing them as a “minority in need of aid’’ he has asked the Department of Personnel to allot him funds for their succor.

J&K page: Distressed families promised help

Rawat confesses to killing Meher
Lucknow, March 30
Sunny Rawat, arrested in connection with the Meher Bhargava murder, today confessed before the media to having fired the fatal shot at her in a fit of rage.

Editorial: Killing of Meher Bhargava

Seven die as jeeps collide
Abohar, March 30
Seven residents of Lakhuwali village, located across the inter-state border, were killed in a head-on collision between two Jeeps last night. Five others received injuries, witnesses said.

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Dropouts to figure in ACRs of teachers
Chandigarh, March 30
The Punjab Government has put the onus of bringing in new students and preventing cases of dropout in government schools on teachers, principals and district education officers (DEOs).

65,000 hectares of forest land freed conditionally in Punjab
Chandigarh, March 30
In what could be a major relief to farmers and landowners of about 470 villages in Punjab, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has excluded over 65,670 hectares of cultivated and habitation land from the land covered under the Punjab Land Preservation Act (PLPA), 1900.

Punjab farmers seek job quota in industrial projects

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	PUNJAB: SGPC ex-chiefs gun for Avtar Singh
	HARYANA: Major relief for private colonisers
	HIMACHAL: Satellite townships on the anvil
	J&K: Distressed families promised help
	CHANDIGARH: Liquor shop allotments OK, rules HC
	LUDHIANA: Rs 204-cr PAU budget approved
	DELHI: MCD committee to identify roads for mixed land use
	OPINIONS: Welcome at Wagah!
	BUSINESS: Transfer of Air Sahara assets to Jet okayed
	NATION: Government to reform cooperatives
	WORLD: Indian doctor banned in Queensland
	SPORTS: India hope top order will click

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Malik admits donating money to BKI
Vancouver, March 30
Ripudman Singh Malik, a main accused in the Air India bombing case, who was acquitted after a lengthy trial, has admitted donating money to militant group Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) before the 1985 downing of the airline’s Kanishka flight that left 329 people dead.

I am fine, says Big B Mumbai, March 30 Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan today said he was ''absolutely fine'' while facing the media for the first time since he got back to work after a three-month rest following intestinal surgery. Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan reacts during an event organised by International Indian Film Academy ( IIFA) in Mumbai on Thursday. The seventh edition of the IIFA awards to celebrate the achievements of the film industry will be held at Dubai in June. — Reuters photo