Tuesday, March 6, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Onions, Sensex plunge
Mumbai, March 5
The onion prices fell sharply today with fresh arrivals flooding the Nashik agricultural markets, the country's biggest trading centre of the bulb. Inquiries from the Nashik markets revealed that the fields had yielded a bumper later winter crop and the prices would soon plunge to new lows.

471-point fall
Mumbai, March 5
Continued bear hammering on the back of weakness in bourses worldwide caused the BSE Sensex to plunge 471 points to close at 12,415. Sensex touched a low of 12,344 during intra-day deals before recovering marginally.
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Business page: Rupee loses  34 paise, ends at 10-week low

Badal gets going
Big units lose relief
Chandigarh, March 5
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today set the tone for things to come in the future as he made it clear that excise concessions worth Rs 230 crore given to leading industrial houses during the previous Amarinder Singh-led government, will be withdrawn.

Nation page: Wait for SC order, Soz tells Badal
Editorial: Pouring oil over water
Punjab page
Mahajan his addl principal secy
Sonia to name CLP chief

Vigilance panel may go
Chandigarh, March 5
The Punjab vigilance commission may become the first casualty of the change in government in Punjab. The SAD-BJP alliance was seriously considering to scrap the Punjab vigilance commission which was set up late last year.

A Nihang Singh throws colour on devotees during a procession at Anandpur Sahib on the concluding day of Hola Mohalla on Sunday. — Tribune photo by Pradeep Tewari

HP Budget ’07
Punjab effect: CM in sop mode
Shimla, March 5
Haunted by electoral reverses in the neighbouring state of Punjab and elsewhere, Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today came out with a scheme to provide subsidised foodgrains to all categories of consumers to mitigate the impact of inflation and announced a plethora of sops for various sections of people.

Stage set to get Q
Argentinian govt okays extradition papers, to move them to federal court
Buenos Aires, March 5
The attempts to seek extradition of Bofors accused Ottavio Quottrocchi moved a step forward on Monday when the Argentinian government cleared the papers submitted by Indian Government for proceedings before a federal court in a province.

Killing of MP
Jharkhand shuts down
Ranchi/Jamshedpur, March 5
Life in Jharkhand was paralysed today by a statewide dawn-to-dusk bandh called by all political parties to protest yesterday’s gunning down of JMM general secretary and MP Sunil Mahto by the Naxalites.
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Nation page: Bandh hits life in Jharkhand