Friday, April 14, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

CBI raids houses of top IAS, IFS officers
Chandigarh, April 13
The top echelon of the Central Bureau of Investigation today conducted raids at the residences of two senior Punjab cadre IAS officers, Mr S C Agarwal and Mr K B S Sidhu, and two Indian Forest Service officers, Mr Harsh Kumar and Mr Jagjit Singh Samundri as a part of investigations into the Forest Hill Golf Resort case.

CM objects to CBI raids

A scene during a CBI raid on the house of Mr K.B.S. Sidhu, an IAS officer of the Punjab cadre, at Sector 19 in Chandigarh on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

PM moots unified command to tackle Naxalism
New Delhi, April 13
Dubbing Naxalism as the “single biggest internal security challenge,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today suggested setting up of joint unified commands in areas badly hit by Left wing terrorism and dedicated ‘wings of grey hounds’ on the pattern of Andhra Pradesh to tackle the menace.
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PM ill, Cabinet meeting cancelled

Ahmadinejad defiant over Iran’s
nuclear stance
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday vowed Iran would not comply with demands from the West and the United Nations to suspend its uranium enrichment project.

Editorial: Nuclear assertion
World page: Cool down, says Annan as big five wait

Govt not to cancel PG medical exams
New Delhi, April 13
In a big relief to nearly 3,600 candidates who had qualified postgraduate (PG) medical admission test this year, the Centre today dropped its proposal to cancel the entire exam in the Supreme Court after the CBI found that the high tech cheating, due to which such a drastic step was contemplated, was mainly confined to Chennai centre.

EC has double standards on quota: CPM
New Delhi, April 13
Coming out strongly in support of the reservation for Other Backward Classes in educational institutions, the CPM, supporting outside ally of the UPA government, today accused the Election Commission of applying double standards on the reservation issue.

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	PUNJAB: Khalsa Heritage Complex opens today
	HARYANA: Bhajan’s man may join BJP
	HIMACHAL: HP, Haryana mull joint hydel projects
	J&K: Byelections a test of separatists’ popularity
	CHANDIGARH: Mohali becomes district today
	LUDHIANA: ADC denied bail in petrol station scam
	DELHI: Meerut inferno: Many people still missing
	OPINIONS: Justice in three weeks!
	BUSINESS: Maruti to buy out Suzuki stake in subsidiary
	NATION: No baby to be delivered in jail, rules SC
	WORLD: Envoy to New Zealand faces action
	SPORTS: Ponting guides Aussies home

SC admits contempt plea on SYL
New Delhi, April 13
The Supreme Court today admitted a contempt petition against the Centre and the Punjab Government for their “failure” to implement its two judgements ordering construction of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal and tagged it with the Presidential reference on the validity of an Act passed by Punjab abrogating all water accords from 1981 onwards with neighbouring states.

Salman Khan granted bail
Jodhpur, April 13
A local court today granted bail to filmstar Salman Khan in the Chinkara killing case and suspended his five-year sentence. The court also ordered Salman to deposit two bail amounts of Rs 1 lakh each and a surety of Rs 2 lakh apart from the penalty amount of Rs 25,000.
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Nepal’s king calls for poll
Kathmandu, April 13
Nepal’s King Gyanendra called for general elections in the Maoist-insurgency wracked nation in an address on the state-run media today.

World page: UN asks Nepal to stop using “excessive force”

IAF to shift station from Rajasansi Rajasansi (Amritsar), April 13 To develop Rajasansi international airport as a maintenance hub for aircraft and to meet the requirements of flight operations by 2020, the IAF has reportedly given its tacit approval to the Airport Authority of India (AAI) to shift its station from the airport complex to an appropriate site.