Tuesday, September 18, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Poll Petitions Against Mush
Larger SC bench begins hearing
A nine-member larger bench of the Supreme Court on Monday began hearing of constitutional petitions challenging the eligibility of President General Pervez Musharraf to contest election for another term with indication from the court that the case would be decided by the end of this week.
Qazi Hussain Ahmed, chief of a coalition of hard-line Pakistani religious parties, leaves after a hearing of his petition at the Supreme Court in Islamabad on Monday. — AP/PTI

‘Poll rules changed on court orders’

Pak protests tourists’ trek to Siachen
Pakistan on Monday summoned a senior diplomat of the Indian High Commission to the foreign office and lodged a protest against Indian plans to open the disputed Siachen Glacier to tourists.

Nation page: India unhappy over Pak comments on Siachen

N-Deal
Govt responds, Left to weigh options today
New Delhi, September 17
The four Communist parties are holding a crucial meeting tomorrow to study the government’s response to their concerns on the Indo-US nuclear deal, a day ahead of the UPA-Left committee meeting to discuss the implications of the Hyde Act on Wednesday.

Murder on Campus
AMU shut indefinitely
Lucknow, September 17
Aligarh Muslim University was closed sine die after students went on a rampage attacking the vice-chancellor’s residence and setting on fire many other buildings after the killing of a physics undergraduate student on the campus late last night.

NRI medicos allowed admission this time
New Delhi, September 17
The Supreme Court today permitted admission of six NRI quota students for the postgraduate medical courses in different colleges in Punjab in spite of the state government striking down the reservation for them at the last moment this year apprehending contempt of court action by the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
(Details on Nation page)

One more lynched in Bihar
Nawada, September 17
Close on the heels of the brutal lynching of ten alleged thieves at Rajapakar in Vaishali district, one Surendra Paswan was beaten to death by local goons at Marhaina under Akbarpur police station in Nawada district early today.

Editorial: Lynching and after

Taj corridor scam: SC reserves order
New Delhi, September 17
The Supreme Court today reserved its verdict on an application challenging Uttar Pradesh Governor T.V. Rajeshwar’s order denying the CBI permission for prosecuting state Chief Minister Mayawati in the multi-crore Taj corridor scam case.

Virk’s keys, missing diaries baffle VB
Chandigarh, September 17
Was it the apprehension that DGP Sarabdeep Singh Virk would destroy diaries and other documents he had in his brief case that acted as a catalyst for his arrest? Yes, admit Vigilance Bureau officials holding that for the past some weeks, he had been carrying not only his diaries of 2000 and 2002 but also a bunch of keys, counterfoils of cheque and cash deposit receipts of his various bank accounts in his brief case, possession of which was denied to him by a Mohali court today.

Vigilance not concerned with ‘cats’