Saturday, July 22, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Hand over Dawood, Salahuddin India tells Pak to take immediate action New Delhi, July 21
India today advised Pakistan to take immediate action to address the Indian concerns on terrorism and suggested a roadmap too,- arrest United Jehad Council Chairman Syed Salahuddin and “global terrorist” Dawood Ibrahim and hand them over to New Delhi.	Syed Salahuddin Dawood Ibrahim Pak rejects demand

3 arrested in Mumbai blasts case
Mumbai, July 21
In a major breakthrough 11 days after the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai’s commuter trains, the police in Mumbai and Bihar arrested three persons yesterday evening. Addressing reporters here Mr K.P. Raghuvanshi, who heads the Anti Terror Squad (ATS) of the Mumbai police, gave the names of the three persons as Khaleel Aziz Sheikh (24), Kamal Ahmed Ansari (32) and Mumtaz Ahmed Chowdhury (34).

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Alert on LeT infiltration into forces
No ultra in ranks, says IAF
New Delhi, July 21
Sounding an alert, National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan has written to the state governments about intelligence inputs that Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba cadres could have infiltrated the armed forces and two of them could have made their way into the Indian Air Force.

Verma held in Navy war room leak case
New Delhi, July 21
Delhi-based businessman Abhishek Verma was today arrested by the CBI in connection with the Navy war room leak case for his alleged involvement in the leaking of classified military information.

First Indian casualty in Lebanon
New Delhi, July 21
The ten-day-old Israel-Lebanon conflict has claimed the first Indian casualty. The Foreign Office today confirmed the death of an Indian glass factory worker in Lebanon, Devendra Kumar Swain, who was one of the three Indians injured in Israeli bombings.
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Haryana to scrap 2-child norm for panches
Chandigarh, July 21
The Haryana Government today decided to abolish the two-child norm for members of the panchayati raj institutions. The decision was taken by the state Cabinet when it met under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, here.

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Probe ordered against Karnataka CM
Bangalore, July 21
Unanimously approving the recommendation of the coordination committee of the ruling parties, JD (S) and BJP, the Karnataka Cabinet today ordered a judicial inquiry into the bribery charge against Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and illegal mining in the entire state.

Sonia unhappy over changes in RTI Act
New Delhi, July 21
Congress President Sonia Gandhi is reportedly unhappy with the Union Cabinet’s decision to amend the Right to Information Act, debarring bureaucratic notings on files from being made public.

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Truckers block traffic, lathicharged Ropar, July 21 Over 150 truck operators, women and 12 police personnel, including two senior police officials, were injured today when the Ropar and Nawanshar police jointly resorted to a lathicharge to disperse hundreds of truck operators from Punjab and their family members who had blocked traffic on the Ropar-Nawanshar border near Gurdwara Tiba Sahib. The police resorts to a lathicharge on truck operators in Ropar on Friday. — A Tribune photograph