Tuesday, August 28, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

123, from left: CPI leader D. Raja, general secretary A.B. Bardhan and Gurudas Dasgupta as they arrive for a meeting with external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi on Monday. — Tribune photo by Manas Ranjan Bhui

Finally, India gets hold of master swindler
New Delhi, August 27 Amarendra Nath Ghosh, accused of swindling several nationalised banks to the tune of Rs 27.69 crore, was brought back to India in a special plane today from Munich after Germany cleared his extradition. Amarendra Nath Ghosh He had swallowed a knife to evade extradition in 2003. It is still there.

Twin Blasts
Day 3: Hoax calls, usual blame game
Hyderabad, August 27
Two days after the twin bombings that killed 42 persons, the city was today kept on the edge with a spate of hoax bomb calls even as the investigations made no headway in identifying the perpetrators.

Women tie rakhis to jawans of 62 BSF Battalion in Bikaner on Monday. — PTI The Tribune Wishes Its Readers A Happy Raksha  Bandhan

Lashkar, Jaish behind blasts: Home secy
New Delhi, August 27
As investigation into the twin blasts in Hyderabad is on, the Centre said today that security agencies were suspecting the involvement of Pakistan-based outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba or Jaish-e-Mohammad behind the strike that killed 40 persons.
Pakistan rubbishes Reddy’s accusation
Dhaka rejects Indian claim on blast link
US praises India’s ‘great courage’ in face of terror
Blasts: BJP to move adjournment motion
They went to buy rakhis, but never returned

In video: Terrorism toll highest in India after Iraq. (56k)

In death, jawan’s wife gives life to 3
Chandigarh, August 27
In a rare case, an Army jawan has given a fresh lease of life to three critically ill persons by donating the vital organs of his terminally ill wife. A multi-organ transplant procedure was carried out by doctors at the Army Hospital (Research and Referral), New Delhi yesterday.

BJP MLAs in HP suspended
Shimla, August 27
It was curtains for the BJP group on the very first day of the monsoon session of the Vidhan Sabha today as its all members were suspended for the rest of the session.
(Details on Himachal page)

Presidential Election
Talks with Bhutto, Sharif begin
President General Pervez Musharraf's troubleshooters have gone to London with a package that envisages removing the uniform even prior to the Presidential election, The Tribune has learned on good authority.
(Details on World page)

UK seeks Punjabi investors Chandigarh, August 27 Punjabi entrepreneurs have been in great demand, both in the UK and Punjab. While leader of the opposition Rajinder Kaur Bhattal made a fervent appeal in Birmingham yesterday to UK-based Punjabi NRIs to make their motherland their destination for investments, a team of the UK Trade & Investment will be holding seminars, both in Chandigarh and Ludhiana, this week to invite entrepreneurial Punjabis to make the UK their new business destination.