Friday, April 27, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Ensure quota, MPs tell govt

Members question judiciary for putting reservation on hold New Delhi, April 26 Lok Sabha members across party lines today joined hands on the OBC quota issue. Despite Speaker Somnath Chatterjee’s repeated entreaties not to drag judiciary into discussions in Parliament. In video (56k) In video (56k)

Speaker cautions against judicial activism New Delhi, April 26 Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee categorically said today that the responsibility for managing public affairs should be well left to those on whom the constitution has imposed such obligation and for which in the ultimate analysis they are accountable to the people.

Speaker asks Katara not to attend session
New Delhi, April 26
Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee today asked BJP MP Babubhai Katara not to attend the sittings of the lower House till leaders of political parties decide his fate in view of his alleged involvement in ‘smuggling’ of a woman and a teenager to Canada on the passports of his wife and son on April 18.

TRS suspends No. 2 leader over trafficking scam

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

DM orders taking over of dera property in Himachal
Dharamsala, April 26
Kangra district magistrate Bharat Khera has asked the revenue department to take over the possession of 175 kanals of prime land in Chachian village of Palampur subdivision of Kangra district as the state property and ‘vest the property in the name of the state government as the owner in revenue records’.

Budget session resumes amid din, adjournments
New Delhi, April 26
Nothing seems to have changed as during the resumption of the second phase of the Budget session of Parliament the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha got adjourned amid din over OBC quota and other issues.

Business page: Indian mango heads for New York US Ambassador David C. Mulford enjoys an Indian mango in New Delhi on Thursday. President Bush’s pledge to open US market to Indian mangoes is an important step in increasing agricultural trade between the USA and India. — A Tribune photograph

Jagjit Singh denied bail
Custody for LIT officer,CE
Ludhiana, April 26
Former local bodies minister Chaudhry Jagjit Singh, facing serious allegations in the multicrore City Centre Scam, denied anticipatory bail which was dismissed by special judge Gurbir Singh today.

India not to cross ‘red lines’, says Menon
New Delhi, April 26
India is staying engaged in its own way with the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), to bring about adjustment of NSG guidelines to enable full civil nuclear cooperation and in this endeavour the United States too is contributing its bit.

Arrest warrants for Gere, Shilpa
Jaipur, April 26
A Jaipur court on Thursday issued arrest warrants against Hollywood star Richard Gere and actress Shilpa Shetty for their public kiss during an AIDS awareness programme in the capital early this month.