Wednesday, April 12, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Meerut seethes with anger
Kin of fire victims heckle Mulayam Singh

Lucknow/Meerut, April 11 Meerut seethed with anger as crowds of people surrounded and heckled Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav today forcing him to beat a hasty retreat from the site of the consumer fair at Victoria Park where a fire disaster claimed 50 lives last evening.

In video: Sonia Gandhi meets victims of Meerut fire tragedy. (28k, 56k)

Mohd Abbas, a local Samajwadi Party leader, runs as he is chased by angry relatives of those killed in the Meerut fire tragedy on Tuesday. — PTI photo CPM for firm action in Meerut fire case Editorial: Ordeal by fire Chandigarh page: Post-Meerut fire, Governor calls for safety steps

Sonia sends two aides back to govt depts
Move temporary; field open for Vincent George
New Delhi, April 11
With less than a month to go for her Lok Sabha election, Congress President Sonia Gandhi is currently busy putting her house in order to ensure that she does not get embroiled any further in the office-of-profit controversy.

Karzai for tripolar ties with India, Pak
New Delhi, April 11
Visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai today came out in support of trilateral cooperation between Kabul, Islamabad and New Delhi for rapid economic development and quicker progress of the region.

Bansi’s house locked over family squabbles
The Delhi Police has locked the house in which the iron man of Haryana, Bansi Lal, spent his last years following a dispute among his siblings. His admirers will be distressed to know that the unfortunate incident took place a day after his "tehrvin" was held on April 9.

Farmers to boycott grain markets on
April 17, 18
Chandigarh, April 11
Various factions of the BKU have given a call to farmers to boycott grain markets on April 17 and 18 in Punjab to protest against the import of wheat and the silence of the Centre on increasing the minimum support price of wheat.

Punjab page: Electric spark destroys wheat crop

Order on taking away houses from ’84 allottees stayed
New Delhi, April 11
The Supreme Court has stayed Punjab Government order for dispossession of certain victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots from the houses allotted to them on concessional rates in Amritsar as a relief under the 1985 policy for their alleged failure to pay the “panel rate of interest” after their association moved the apex court.

Punjab page: ’84 riot victims plan dharna at PMO

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Irfan murder: police-prosecution conflict comes to fore
New Delhi, April 11
The possible reasons behind the failure of the Delhi Police to secure conviction of Outlook cartoonist Irfan Hussain’s “killers” six years ago have come to the fore in a series of correspondence between the investigation and prosecution wings on the conduct of trial and in a letter to the Principal Secretary (Home), NCT Government, by the Additional Public Prosecutor.

Industrialist, ex-minister’s son in
golf range row
Chandigarh, April 11
The Chandigarh Police has ordered an inquiry into the reported ‘act of vandalism” at the Golf Range run by the Chandigarh Golf Association on Sunday night, but preferred to remain mum about the identities of those involved in the incident. “We will not like to divulge any detail at this stage as the matter is being investigated”, Senior Superintendent of Police Gaurav Yadav said adding that the guilty would not be spared.

IAF facing pilots’ exodus, admits Air chief New Delhi, April 11 Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi today again said the government was exploring ways and means to harness the outer space which would assume importance in a futuristic scenario. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a symposium on ‘Energising Indian Aerospace Industry’ here the Air Chief said that a debate was underway in the country on the ways and means to exploit the outer space and stratosphere in future terms.