Friday, October 20, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

SC upholds quota in promotions
Says keep creamy layer out
New Delhi, October 19
The Supreme Court today set at rest the controversy over extending reservation to SCs and STs in promotion in government jobs after they had availed it in recruitment.
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Afzal to file curative plea; hanging not today
New Delhi, October 19
The Centre is yet to receive the opinion of the Delhi Government on the clemency plea filed by the wife of Mohammad Afzal, convicted in the 2001 Parliament Attack case.

Divali bonanza for Punjab staff
Chandigarh, October 19
As a Divali gift, the Punjab Government today gave a package of Rs 755 crore to its employees.

Sports page: Pak players arrive Pakistan cricket captain Younis Khan (extreme right) and his team-mates arrive at a hotel in Chandigarh on Thursday. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

SP, DSP arrested in recruitment scam
Remanded in police custody for two days
Chandigarh, October 19
The CBI arrested SP Ravi Azad and DSP Udey Shanker here yesterday in connection with a cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy case for their role in the recruitment of 500 constables in the Government Railways Police and the Haryana Armed Police in 2003-04.

Molestation case: NHRC seeks report from Punjab DGP
New Delhi, October 19
The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Director General of Police, Punjab, to submit within two weeks a report on the alleged police brutality on unarmed students in Ludhiana last month.

Hooch claims four lives
18 struggle for life in hospital
Safidon (Jind), October 19
Four persons died while 18 others struggled for life after they reportedly consumed illicit liquor at Malar and Singhana villages near here today.

Govt for stricter land norms for SEZs
Left calls for relook at SEZ Act
New Delhi, October 19
Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath today said only waste and barren land, and if necessary single crop agricultural land, alone should be acquired for the Special Economic Zones.”

A competition-winning photograph entitled "Rockhopper rush hour" by Solvin Zanki is seen in this undated handout released by the Natural History Museum in London. The photo shows a group of rockhoppers returning from foraging at sea. The Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition is organised by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine. — Reuters

Pak army rigs poll, admits ISI ex-chief

Father-in-law gets 10-yr jail for raping Imrana Lucknow, October 20 Fifty-five-year-old Mohammad Ali of Charthawal village in Muzaffarnagar was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and fined Rs 10,000 for raping his daughter-in-law, a mother of five, in the much-talked about rape case last year.