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

350 rounded up in Maharashtra

Mumbai, July 13 The anti-terrorism squad of the Maharashtra police has rounded up at least 350 persons in different parts of the state as pressure mounts on the government to show results.

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SPECIAL EDITORIAL
The peace process has ended
By H.K. Dua
Not only 190 innocent people have been killed in Tuesday’s tragedy in Mumbai, under the debris of the serial blasts lies buried the peace process that had been going on for some time to usher in a new era on the sub-continent. It will be difficult for any government in Delhi to revive it for some time.

Activists from the All-India Anti-Terrorist Front shout anti-Pakistan slogans during a demonstration against Tuesday’s Mumbai bomb blasts in New Delhi on Thursday. — Reuters

Delhi blasts’ mastermind behind Mumbai explosions
Two Pakistan nationals arrested in Nepal
Mumbai, July 13
The mastermind behind the pre-Diwali blasts in Delhi in October last, Rahil, a Lashkar-e-Toiba operative, is suspected to be the brain behind Tuesday’s serial explosions in Mumbai’s suburban trains, police sources said today.

PM briefs Kalam
New Delhi, July 13
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Mumbai tomorrow to express his solidarity with the victims of the serial blasts on Tuesday.

Five of one community massacred
Jammu, July 13
Terrorists massacred five members of one community at two places in the Jammu division today. Four persons, including two girls, were shot dead at Magnar village in Poonch.

Major offensive on against Srinagar blasts mastermind
Srinagar, July 13
The Jammu and Kashmir Police conducted night-long, valley-wide raids to nab the Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) militant Mudasir, who masterminded grenade attacks on tourists on July 11 in the summer capital, a senior police official said.

Cop’s wife shot by militants

Board grapples with poor results by govt schools Chandigarh, July 13 The Punjab School Education Department is grappling with the problem of how to deal with teaching staff of schools yielding zero or near-zero per cent result in examinations conducted by it.