Thursday, July 19, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Mumbai Blasts
Death for 3

Mumbai, July 18 The special court constituted under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act to hear the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case today awarded the death sentence to three persons who planted deadly RDX explosives at various locations across the city.

Abdul Gani Ismail Turk Mushtaq Tarani

Solitary confinement for Haneef
Melbourne July 18
Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef will be treated as a “terrorist” while detained in a Queensland jail and subject to special conditions, including solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, an official said today.

Haneef fears he is being framed
Wife’s visa cancelled
Barrister put out transcript

Give Haneef all facilities: PM
New Delhi, July 18
India today expressed at the highest level its concern on the treatment being meted out to its national Dr Mohammed Haneef in Australia as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh went on record saying that Australia should extend all facilities and rights within its laws to Haneef.

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

200 killed in Brazilian plane crash

Sao Paulo, July 18 A Brazilian passenger plane skidded off a runway in driving rain and crashed into a building bursting into flames and killing 200 people on board and on the ground, a fire service chief told local media.

A building burns after a Brazilian passenger plane crashed at Sao Paulo airport. — Reuters photo

India-US N-talks in final lap
National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan is all set to meet his American counterpart Stephen J. Hadley at the White House in an effort to reach the finish line in a deal that would allow civilian-nuclear cooperation between India and the US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said there were a couple of “tough issues” that both sides have yet to resolve. These include reprocessing rights for India.

Prez Poll
SC allows jailed MPs, MLAs to cast votes
New Delhi, July 18
The Supreme Court today allowed jailed MPs and MLAs to cast their votes in the tomorrow’s Presidential election saying the provision of Section 62(5) of the Representation of People Act (RPA) putting a bar on imprisoned persons to exercise their right to franchise would prima facie not apply to the members of the electoral college to elect the head of the state.

FIR against Modi: SC rejects plea
New Delhi, July 18
The Supreme Court today rejected a petition by theatre personality Aleque Padamsee for registering an FIR against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for allegedly making inflammatory speeches during the last Assembly election.

‘Gandhigiri’ pays off in USA
Washington, July 18
A bit of ‘Gandhigiri’ by unhappy Indian green card seekers paid off with the US immigration service reversing itself again to begin immediately accepting applications from thousands of foreign professional workers.

4 key witnesses turn hostile in Badal case Ropar, July 18 Four prime witnesses today turned hostile against Punjab Vigilance Bureau in a case filed against Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and nine others for possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.