Saturday, April 8, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

70 die as bus falls into Chenab
Jammu, April 7
Around 70 persons were feared dead when a bus plunged into the turbulent Chenab in the Doda district this morning. The ill-fated bus was on its way to Jammu from the
far-flung area of Paddar, adjoining the tribal district of Lahaul-Spiti in Himachal Pradesh.

6 injured in bus blast
Jammu, April 7
Six persons were injured, three of them seriously, when an IED exploded in a passenger bus that was on its way to Reasi from here this evening.

7 kids burnt alive Rohtak, April 7 Four girls and three boys, all under five years of age, were burnt alive when their hut caught fire at Bohar village on the outskirts of the town here today. All adults in the family were away to the fields harvesting wheat when the incident took place.

Nation page: Medha gets international support Social activist and noted writer Arundhati Roy participates in the Narmada Bachao movement in New Delhi on Friday. — PTI

News Analysis by K. Subrahmanyam
Rice sets the menu for a swing in N-deal support
In her testimonies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House International Relations Committee, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had taken on all the arguments of proliferation ayatollahs and replied to them effectively, point by point.

Editorial The Rice testimony

CBI grills 2 ex-Navy officers
New Delhi, April 7
The CBI today questioned two ex-Navy officers Kulbhushan Parashar and Vinod Rana in connection with the sensational Navy war-room leak case here. “The two accused were put to sustained questioning by the investigators and their questioning will continue further,” a source in the CBI said.

Nation page: BJP asks Pranab to quit on Navy leak

Solution to Siachen not intractable
New Delhi, April 7
With a clear directive from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to find an early solution to the protracted Siachen problem, the two sides have stepped up diplomatic and back channel efforts amid indications that demilitarisation of the highest and most treacherous battlefield in the world is a complex issue but not an intractable one.

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

	PUNJAB: 126 govt schools in unauthorised buildings
	HARYANA: Kalpana Chawla Planetarium caught in red tape
	HIMACHAL: CAG pulls up HP Govt
	J&K: Amarnath yatra from June 11
	CHANDIGARH: Pvt publishers make hay as NCERT fails to supply books
	LUDHIANA: Backing SBI staff, PSU banks threaten stir
	DELHI: Woman abducted from court found murdered
	OPINIONS: The Rice testimony
	BUSINESS: Nath wants gems to shine on India’s crown
	NATION: Cong, BJP see no place for third front
	WORLD: Warlike situation in Baluchistan
	SPORTS: Amritraj keeps India afloat

Aligarh ADM, SP suspended
Lucknow, April 7
The Aligarh District Magistrate, the SSP, the ADM (City) and the SP (City) were suspended following yesterday’s communal violence which left four dead in the city. A probe has been ordered.

Accused kidnap cop at gunpoint
Gurgaon, April 7
Two hardcore inter-state criminals, brought here to appear in a local court from a Ludhiana jail by three policemen of the Punjab Police, made a daring escape today after they snatched a Sten gun from a policeman and took one of them hostage.

Determined, they walk free of the drug(net) Sujjon (Nawanshahr), April 7 Their “highs” came crashing down to touch a new low only to be grounded forever. It took a traumatic fortnight to kick drugs out of their lives and, today, 43 “free” men walked out of the quagmire of drugs to a new life — that of happy families, love and dignity. Having won their fight against drugs after a fortnight-long camp, former addicts enrolled with Upkaar await their families to take them home at Sujjon village in Nawanshahr district on Friday. — Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma