Friday, April 7, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

3 ex-Navy officers held
CBI raids 17 places in war-room leak case

New Delhi, April 6 In a swift operation last night, the CBI arrested five persons, including three former Naval officers, in connection with the sensational Navy war room leak case and conducted simultaneous raids at 17 places, including on premises of Ravi Shankaran, a kin of Navy Chief Admiral Arun Prakash.

The Green Park Extension residence of Navy Captain Kulbhushan Parashar being raided by the CBI in Delhi on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

N-deal fiasco will hit ties, warns Rice
Urging members of Congress to support legislation that would enable a nuclear deal with India to reach fruition, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday warned the US-India relationship would suffer a "significant setback" if this agreement fails.

Nation page:
N-deal: Vajpayee accuses govt of being soft on USA

Samajwadi Party, TDP announce third front
New Delhi, April 6
The Samajwadi Party and the Telegu Desam announced today the formation of a third front opposed to the Congress and the BJP aimed at fresh realignment of political forces.

CAG report raps Punjab Govt for misuse of funds
New Delhi, April 6
In what could be described as blatant misuse of power, the Congress government led by Capt Amarinder Singh in Punjab has used tax payers’ money worth Rs 26.58 crore to benefit its own MP from Jalandhar Rana Gurjit Singh and politically influential Oswal Group of Ludhiana.

JNU staff, students back Medha’s cause
New Delhi, April 6
Several students and faculty members from Jawaharlal Nehru University have joined the protest by the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and expressed solidarity with Medha Patkar who is being kept in the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences after being forcibly removed from Jantar Mantar where she was on an indefinite fast.

In video: Medha Patkar arrested, taken to AIIMS.
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Sports page: Indian juggernaut rolls on Kochi, April 6 India maintained their exhilirating run of one-day conquests by taking an invincible 4-0 lead in the seven-match series against England with a comfortable four-wicket victory in the fourth game here today. India’s captain Rahul Dravid (left) celebrates with Yuvraj Singh after the dismissal of England’s captain Andrew Flintoff during their fourth one-day international cricket match in Kochi on Thursday. India won the match by four wickets to clinch the series 4-0. — Reuters

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125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS,
INAUGURAL SESSION

	PUNJAB: 47 IAS officers shifted
	HARYANA: Haryana officers on deputation with Centre
	HIMACHAL: Delimitation panel renames constituencies
	J&K: 21 health officials put under suspension
	CHANDIGARH: Mother of three strangled to death
	LUDHIANA: Drum explodes in factory; 13 hurt
	DELHI: Bill to provide relief to traders: DPCC chief
	OPINIONS: The Yatra man
	BUSINESS: Inflation below 4 pc, gloats FM
	NATION: N-deal: Vajpayee accuses govt of being soft on USA
	WORLD: 400 held as Nepal Oppn holds anti-King strike
	SPORTS: Indian juggernaut rolls on

Inflation below 4 pc, gloats FM
Bangalore, April 6 
Finance Minister P Chidambaram today announced that the rate of inflation has gone down below 4 per cent and that the UPA government was taking steps to maintain price stability to keep it at this level.
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Four killed in Aligarh clashes, curfew clamped
Aligarh, April 6 
Four persons were killed and nine injured, six of them seriously, when members of two communities indulged in firing and pelting stones, prompting the authorities to impose an indefinite curfew in three police station areas in this communally sensitive city today. State paramilitary forces along with a large number of police personnel have been deployed and patrolling intensified to maintain law and order, District Magistrate R K Singh said here. — PTI

Conversion will not help Sarabjit, says Pak Law Minister New Delhi, April 6 Sarabjit Singh's hope to escape the gallows for his alleged involvement in the serial bomb blasts in Lahore seems to be becoming grimmer. The Pakistan Law Minister today ruled out the chances of Sarabjit's mercy petition to President Pervez Musharraf succeeding in view of the country's strict laws on capital punishment.      Sarabjit Singh