Friday, March 16, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Chhattisgarh bloodbath
Naxals kill 55 cops
Jagdalpur, March 15
At least 55 security personnel were killed when armed Maoists stormed a police camp at Ranibodli in Dantewada district in south Bastar in the wee hours today in the fiercest attack of its kind in Chhattisgarh.
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Editorial: The enemy within

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Tribune’s HP edition launched Shimla, March 15 The Tribune launched its Himachal Pradesh edition today to help provide wider coverage to the hill state.

Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Virbhadra Singh (centre) launches The Tribune's Himachal Pradesh edition with Justice R.S. Pathak (right) and H.K.Dua, Editor-in-chief (left), at the state guest house Peterhoff in Shimla on Thursday. — Tribune photo by S. Chandan At 101, he is our Reader No. 1

Punjab House Day 1
A day of banter, language politics
Chandigarh, March 15
After a gap of five years, which saw a lot of tension and enmity between the Congress and the SAD in the Punjab Assembly, it was a different day today in the house.

HC orders CBI probe into Nandigram firing
Kolkata, March 15
The Calcutta High Court today suo motu ordered the CBI to conduct an inquiry into yesterday’s incident of police firing at Nandigram and furnish a detailed report to the court within seven days.

Pressure on Sonia to take tough stance on Nandigram
New Delhi, March 15
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is faced with a dilemma on the party’s handling of the violence at Nandigram in Left-ruled West Bengal, having come under increasing pressure from party men to take a tough position on this issue.

Rahul steps out today

India: The Tasks Ahead
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125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS,
INAUGURAL SESSION

	PUNJAB: Dilution of poll promises: Cong to take on SAD
	HARYANA: Fissures in Bhajan family
	HIMACHAL: Stick to your achievements, BJP chief to Cong
	J&K:  Time not ripe for troop pullout: PM
	CHANDIGARH:  Abandoned girlchild’s mother found
	LUDHIANA:  Rs 418.43-crore MC Budget presented
	DELHI:  ‘MCD polls a matter of life and death for BJP’
	OPINIONS: The enemy within
	BUSINESS: It’s Vodafone-Essar, finally
	NATION: Eggs hurled at CM in Assembly
	WORLD: Acting CJ takes suo motu notice
	SPORTS: Irish tie with Zim in thriller

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Power from rice straw

Additional DA for Central staff
New Delhi, March 15
The Cabinet today approved the release of an additional instalment of dearness allowance (DA) to Central government employees and dearness relief to pensioners, from January 1, 2007, in cash at the rate of 6 per cent over the existing rate of 29 pc.

Class X exam as scheduled
Chandigarh, March 15
D.R. Yadav, joint secretary, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and head, regional office, Panchkula, has stated that the class X English communication/language/literature examination will be held tomorrow as scheduled in the date sheet.

Qaida No. 3: ‘I did it’ Khalid Sheikh Mohammed says he planned 9/11, dozens of other plots Suspected Al-Qaida operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a Pakistani, has admitted masterminding the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States that killed nearly 3,000 people.