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

Mumbai bounces back  * Commuters crowd trains * Toll touches 190 * Lashkar hand in blasts Mumbai, July 12 The day after seven serial bomb blasts on Mumbai's local trains Tuesday claimed 190 lives, the city bounced back with life returning to near normal. A train passes by a railway platform damaged in Tuesday’s bomb blast in Mumbai on Wednesday. — Reuters photo

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We will win war on terror: PM
New Delhi, July 12
Declaring that "no one can make India kneel," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured the nation that "we will win this war against terror and nothing will break our resolve."

PM in damage-control mode
New Delhi, July 12
With home minister Shivraj Patil coming in for severe criticism following yesterday’s serial blasts in Mumbai and Srinagar, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today made a belated attempt at damage control. (Details in Nation page)

Mumbai blasts derail Indo-Pak peace process
New Delhi, July 12
Yesterday’s serial blasts in Mumbai appear to have taken the most important toll — the three-year-old Indo-Pak peace process. (Details in Nation page)

Sensex zooms 316 points
Mumbai, July 12
The BSE Sensex today zoomed up by 315.74 to close at 10,930.09 on the sentiment of impressive result of IT bellwether Infosys Technologies, brokers said. They stated it was widely expected that the market would drift down to lower levels today following a series of explosions that shook Mumbai yesterday evening.

Parents of IAS officer done to death

Bhikhiwind, July 12 The septuagenarian parents of a senior IAS officer of the Maharashtra cadre, Dr Amar Singh, were brutally killed at their house, a few yards from the police station, in this border town in the wee hours here today.

Wailing relatives of IAS officer, Dr Aman Singh, whose parents were killed in a gruesome manner in Bhikhiwind town on Wednesday. — Photo by Rajiv Sharma

Cabinet panel for waiving loans of farm labour Chandigarh, July 12 After a discussion with the Chief Secretary and other senior officers concerned, the Cabinet Subcommittee headed by the Rural Development Minister, Mr Lal Singh, today made a recommendation that along with debt-ridden farmers, those who got loans from the Punjab Backward Classes Finance Corporation and the Punjab Scheduled Castes Finance Corporation should also be given relief on the pattern of farmers.