Thursday, April 13, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Iran enriches uranium
Condemnation from US, Russia, UK
Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday declared his country had succeeded in enriching uranium, a development the United States described as a step in the wrong direction. The announcement came midway through a 30-day timeframe that the United Nations Security Council gave Iran to end all work towards enrichment.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks to the people of Torbat-e-Jam, near Mashad, about 900 km east of Teheran, on Wednesday, declaring that Iran had enriched uranium.  — Reuters photo

Heads roll as fury spills on to Meerut roads
Lucknow, April 12
As the fury of Meerut people spilled on to the roads today,the state government finally woke up and removed the administrative top brass, including the DM, the SSP, the SP and the ADM (City).

Nation page: Teenager battles for life after saving 6
NHRC seeks report on Meerut fire
In video: Candle light prayer for victims of Meerut fire tragedy. (28k, 56k)

Bombay HC lifts ban on dance bars
Mumbai, April 12
In a major embarrassment to the Maharashtra Government, the Bombay High Court today overturned a decision to ban dance bars across the state.

Nation page: Victory with a twist; 90-day jail for bar body’s chief

No bonus on wheat: CM
Chandigarh, April 12
The Punjab Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, today categorically rejected the demand of Rs 50 as bonus on wheat.

Kalam assures all help to Sarabjit, claim kin
Rashtrapati Bhavan clarifies

New Delhi, April 12 Family members of Sarabjit Singh, who is on death row in Pakistan for alleged spying, today met with President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to seek his intervention to save him from execution.
Dalbir Kaur (left) and Poonam, sister and daughter, respectively, of Sarabjit Singh, who has been sentenced to death in Pakistan, at a press conference after a meeting with President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in Delhi on Wednesday. — Tribune photo by Rajeev Tyagi

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	PUNJAB: Little possibility of steep power tariff hike
	HARYANA: Haryana to recruit 11,000 teachers
	HIMACHAL: Ministers demand action against Mankotia
	J&K: Yaseen Malik calls for poll boycott
	CHANDIGARH: 40 city students make it to IIMs
	LUDHIANA: Riot victims sit on fast-unto-death
	DELHI: Centre moves SC over shop-sealing drive
	OPINIONS: Poor George!
	BUSINESS: Chevron to pick up 5 pc stake in RPL for $300 m
	NATION: SC hits at backdoor appointments
	WORLD: Nepal lifts day curfew, 30 journalists held
	SPORTS: Sizzling Strauss saves English whitewash

DGP’s son gets 7 yrs for German girl’s rape
Alwar (Rajasthan), April 12
Twenty-two days after he raped a German tourist, son of a top IPS officer was today sentenced to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment in yet another expeditious conviction in Rajasthan.

Salman bail plea hearing today
Jodhpur, April 12
Bollywood actor Salman Khan will have to spend yet another night in jail here as his plea for bail and suspension of five years imprisonment for killing an endangered animal will come up for hearing tomorrow.
In video (28k, 56k)

Actor Rajkumar dead Cremation today; emotional fans set vehicles on fire Bangalore, April 12 Kannadigas took to the streets here stoning and burning buses and cars even as the city slipped into a state of mass hysteria following the death of Kannada film industry icon Rajkumar who died of cardiac arrest at his residence in the city this afternoon. File photo of Kannada film actor Rajkumar who died in Bangalore on Wednesday. — AFP photo