Tuesday, July 17, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Sirsa, July 16 At least 25 persons, including one RAF jawan, were injured, four of them seriously, in a clash between Sikhs and dera followers here today. Tempers ran high at Ghukna Wali village in Sirsa district on Monday. — A Tribune photograph

Divorce rate in spate
New Delhi, July 16
Divorce rates are increasing in India, show court figures. And this societal trend is visible not only among the rich in big cities but also among the not so affluent in small towns. New Delhi leads with the highest number of divorces in the country, with more than 8,000-9,000 cases every year, followed by Mumbai and Bangalore where the figures have doubled in the past decade.

More aware, women assert their rights

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

Sohrabuddin case: 3 IPS officers among 13 chargesheeted
Ahmedabad, July 16
Nearly two months after the Gujarat CID arrested three senior IPS officers in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, the investigating agency today filed a voluminous charge sheet against them and ten other policemen in a court here.

Editorial
Holding the Line of Peace
By H. K. Dua
In a major speech at Amritsar a little over a year ago, Dr Manmohan Singh offered to sign a “Treaty of Peace, Security and Friendship” with Pakistan so that the people in the two countries can live forever in peace.

Immigration laws invoked to detain Mohd Haneef
Melbourne, July 16
In a big setback to Mohammed Haneef, the Australian government today dramatically invoked immigration laws to detain him shortly after a court granted bail to the Indian doctor in connection with the failed UK terror plot.

Nation page: India concerned over Haneef case

Aussie govt harassing Haneef: wife

Hard disk sent to forensic lab
Bangalore, July 16 
The Bangalore police has sent the hard disk recovered from the personal computer of alleged Glasgow bomber Kafeel Ahmed to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) in Hyderabad and not to the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Thiruvananthapuram, as was being said earlier.

‘Kafeel wanted to build a housing complex’

Abducted official dies of heart attack
Guwahati, July 16 
Kailash Nath Jha, a senior official of Cement Corporation of India (CCI), who was abducted in Assam's Karbi Anglong district by a militant group close to ULFA, died of cardiac arrest. "There is no injury sign on the body...He died of heart failure," CM Tarun Gogoi told reporters here today.