Wednesday, September 26, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Adulation awaits Dhoni’s boys Mumbai, September 25 The Indian cricket team awaits a jackpot and grand display of public adulation when they arrive in Mumbai on Wednesday morning with a World Cup cricket trophy in 24 years. Editorial: Cup of joy
	In video (56k) SAYING IT WITH SWEETS: Cricket fans celebrate Team India’s victory over Pakistan in Twenty20 with sweets in Bikaner on Tuesday. — PTI

A Sholay Re-enact Angry teachers hit the top

Kapurthala, September 25 In what could be termed as a scene from Bollywood film Sholay, as many as nine EGS (education guarantee scheme) teachers, including five women, climbed to the top of an about 400-foot high water tank and threatened to commit suicide by jumping from it if their demands were not met. EGS teachers atop a water tank, demanding the release of their colleagues, in Kapurthala on Tuesday. — A Tribune photograph

Delhi doctor ‘gangraped’ in hospital
New Delhi, September 25
A 24-year-old doctor working with the capital’s ESI hospital has been allegedly gangraped and left half dead in the same hospital, police said today. The victim’s condition, presently admitted in the private Balaji Healthcare Hospital in Paschim Vihar, was said to be serious and was declared unfit for the police statement.

Reliance Fresh outlets ransacked in Orissa
Bhubaneswar, September 25
Angry traders ransacked two Reliance Fresh outlets soon after the stores were opened here today, forcing authorities to order their closure as a precautionary measure.

Global partnership needs to deliver: President
New Delhi, September 25
Even as President Pratibha Devisingh Patil underlined the need for a bigger role for developing countries in global financial institutions to tackle intertwined issues of democracy, sustainable development, terrorism and mass poverty, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stressed that the Commonwealth is a storehouse of experience and knowledge and “We must pursue these to good use to banish mass poverty in our lifetime.”
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Jana Krishnamurthy dead
New Delhi, September 25
Jana K. Krishnamurthy, who became the first leader from the south to become the president of the BJP, died here today after a prolonged illness. Seventynine-year-old Krishnamurthy, who was law minister for some time in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, is survived by wife, two sons and three daughters.

Hip fractures can be fatal: Arthritis foundation
New Delhi, September 25
Hip fractures can be fatal, says a pilot study by the Arthritis Foundation of India Trust. A study done in Delhi in July-August on 511 osteoporosis patients above the age of 40 who had hip fractures a year ago showed that almost 10 per cent of them died within a year of this serious injury.

Case against ex-MP Vedanti
Chennai, September 25
A case has been registered against former BJP MP Ram Vilas Vedanti, who allegedly issued a ‘fatwa’ against DMK patriarch and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi. Acting on a complaint by one Dhananchezhian, a city resident, police filed the case on Monday night.