Friday, June 30, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Senate votes for N-ties with India
“Killer amendments” defeated in 16-2 verdict
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a Bill to amend U.S. laws and permit nuclear trade with India, which is not a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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Govt upbeat over Senate approval
BJP denounces Indo-US nuclear deal

CWC members rap govt on price rise

New Delhi, June 29 Members of the Congress Working Committee today rapped the UPA governme- nt for its failure to check the spurt in prices of esse- ntial commodities which, it they felt, had hit the party’s “aam admi” plank and undermined its image. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is received by AICC President Sonia Gandhi for the CWC meeting on price hike at 10 Janpath in New Delhi on Thursday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

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Nod to road network along China border
New Delhi, June 29
The Government of India today took a major policy decision with far-reaching strategic significance when the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) cleared the construction of a 608-km road network along the entire India-China border.
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The police carries an unconscious woman activist of the Chhatra Parishad, students wing of the Congress, during a demonstration against the increase in capitation fees and prices of essential commodities in Kolkata on Thursday. — PTI

Punjab set to hike bus fares
Chandigarh, June 29
The Punjab Government is all set to marginally hike bus fares in the state. A high-powered committee of the government today decided on a hike in bus fares, however, it will have to be formally approved by the Punjab Council of Ministers.

Probe ordered into allegations of tampering with ice lingam
Srinagar, June 29
The Jammu and Kashmir Governor, Lt-Gen S.K. Sinha (retd), has ordered a probe by a retired judge of the High Court into the allegations, inter alia, of tampering with the ice lingam of Lord Shiva in the holy cave of Amarnath.

Mob attacks doctor’s house, hospital
Death of woman due to negligence alleged
Malerkotla, June 29
Following the death of Rashda Begum wife of Mohammad Firoz a local resident, house and hospital of Dr V.P. Goyal, a former Chief Medical Officer of Civil Hospital Malerkotla, was attacked today with stones and bricks by about 500 persons smashing windowpanes and glasses of gates.

IAS officer held in J&K sex racket
Srinagar, June 29
Continuing its probe into the sex racket that has rocked Jammu and Kashmir, the CBI arrested senior IAS officer Iqbal Khandey and a hotel-owner here today for allegedly procuring girls for prostitution.

Quraishi — a man of integrity Chandigarh, June 29 Haryana IAS officers were pleasantly surprised today when the Centre announced the appointment of Dr S.Y. Quraishi as the Election Commissioner of India, particularly after two of their colleagues were literally cheated out of the post of Cabinet Secretary recently. Gopalaswami to take over as CEC today