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1857 The First Challenge Special supplement to mark the 150th anniversary of India’s first War of Independence.

City Centre Scam Capt, Jagjit named in VB challan Chandigarh/Ludhiana, December 12
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau today filed a challan against 36 persons in the Ludhiana City Centre scam, including former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and former local bodies minister Jagjit Singh.	Amarinder Singh Jagjit Singh

Shooting shadow on Gurgaon
Gurgaon, December 12
The yesterday’s shooting incident at Gurgaon, in which a class VIII student shot dead his classmate, has not only shocked his parents but has also raised a big question mark for other parents who had shifted or were planning to shift to this millennium city for bright future of their kin.

Haryana page: ‘Killer’ schoolboy was remorseless
Editorial: Gun in schoolbag

The day after: The bag of one of the boys who allegedly shot dead his classmate on Tuesday lies in the classroom in Gurgaon on Wednesday. — PTI photo

Sohrab Remarks
Make your stand clear, SC to Modi
New Delhi, December 12
After a three-hour long heated arguments on the raging controversy over Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s election speech referring to the pending Sohrabuddin encounter case, the Supreme Court today issued notice to him asking him to make his stand clear.

Maoists blow up rail tracks
Patna, December 12
Even before the Nitish government could get its acts together to combat the Maoist guerrillas after their attack in Vaishali on Monday, the armed extremists went on a rampage by blowing up railway tracks at two places in Lakhisarai district to protest against death sentence awarded to five of their comrades for killing three policemen in Banka district last week.

Major cities to get missile defence shield
New Delhi, December 12
Major cities of the country, including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and other “high value targets” will get the anti-ballistic missile defence shield, once the ballistic defence system is fully operational within the next three to four years, missile and strategic system chief of the Defence Research and Development Organisation Dr V.K. Saraswat said here today.

‘Shagun’ or ‘Ashirwad’, it’s a scandal by
any name
Chandigarh, December 12
The ‘shagun’ scheme, started by the Badal government in 1997 to help the poor girls at the time of their marriage and later renamed ‘Ashirwad’ scheme by the Amarinder government in 2004, is plagued with scandals.

Cold wave claims two lives
Dharamsala, December 12
The intense cold wave conditions prevailing in the state following mild to moderate snowfall during the past two days has claimed two lives in Kullu district even as rain and snowfall continued for the third day at various places today.

J&K page: Weather continues to keep vehicular traffic off roads Wrapped fully in woollens, a couple tries to beat cold at Shimla on Wednesday. — Tribune photo by S. Chandan

India-born Pandit is Citigroup CEO Washington, December 12 India-born Vikram Pandit has been appointed chief executive officer of Citigroup, the world's largest financial services organisation, with immediate effect. The appointment of 50-year-old Pandit, who has also been made a member of the board of directors, ended a weeks-long high level search for a new person to lead the New York-based banking giant after former CEO Charles Prince stepped down on November 4 following huge investment losses for Citigroup.