Thursday, April 12, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Virk sent back to Maharashtra Chandigarh, April 11 The union ministry of home affairs today ordered the ending of the deputation period of S.S. Virk, former DGP of Punjab, and sent him back to his parent cadre of Maharashtra with immediate effect.
A section within the government is taking the plea that the reversion of Virk should not be allowed. It remains to be seen if Badal will allow it or not.

It just got seedier in UP
BJP releases a provocative ad
Lucknow, April 11
Close on the heels of the CD released as part of its poll campaign in Uttar Pradesh that raised controversy, the BJP has published a communally sensitive advertisement in some newspapers in Uttar Pradesh.

NGO’s ‘Stop Hate’ to counter BJP CD
Nation page
CD issue: BJP questions Chawla’s presence
EC defers hearing on CD issue

Venu no more cardio head
New Delhi, April 11
Armed with the high court order of March 29, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has removed AIIMS Director P. Venugopal as head of the cardiothoracic Surgery Department, appointing Prof A. Sampat Kumar to the post.

Fresh alert over bird flu
New Delhi, April 11
Health minister Anbumani Ramadoss said today India had stepped up surveillance activities and alerted border states to take precautionary measures in view of the incidents of bird flu outbreak in Myanmar, Bangladesh and Pakistan,

Two pilots killed
Srinagar, April 11
An Indian Air Force helicopter with two pilots crashed in the central Siachen Glacier area near the Line of Actual Control early today.

Menon offers Pak dialogue on N-doctrines
New Delhi, April 11
Foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon today addressed the fundamental question of trust deficit between India and Pakistan and offered a dialogue on nuclear doctrines to Islamabad.

Army begins its first-ever GCM against woman officer
Chandigarh, April 11
The Army today began its first-ever general court martial (GCM) to try a woman officer on charges of professional impropriety.