LHASA PR TRIP
China keeps India out
Beijing, March 28
Apparently unhappy over New Delhi’s handling of the Tibet issue, China today chose not to invite any Indian diplomat in the tour of foreign envoys to riot-scarred Lhasa amid intensified global pressure to stop the crackdown on Tibetans and open a dialogue with the Dalai Lama.

India unhappy over China’s ‘flip-flop’
Nation page: Help dispel misunderstandings

Sehwag, the butcher!
Hits the fastest triple hundred as India hit back with vengeance
Chennai, March 28
A belligerent Virender Sehwag presided over a bowlers' bloodbath and blasted an unbeatean 309 as India responded emphatically to South Africa's massive first innings total in the first Test here today.
(Details on Sports page)

He savaged SA attack to score the fastest 300 ever — AFP photo

Policeman injured in firing near PM office
New Delhi, March 28
The high-security area near the Prime Minister’s Office here witnessed some tense moments today as a Delhi policeman was shot at and injured allegedly by a colleague. The incident took place around 11 am when head constable Sanjay Kumar received a gunshot wound in his left thigh.

In video (56k) An investigation team inspects the site outside the Prime Minister’s Office after a firing incident in New Delhi on Friday. — Tribune photo by Manas Ranjan Bhui

House rap for Chautala
Chandigarh, March 28
The Haryana assembly today censured former Chief Minister and INLD supremo Om Prakash Chautala for misleading the House on loan waiver figures. It is for the first time in living memory that the House has censured one of its members.

Inflation at 13-month high — 6.68 pc
New Delhi, March 28
During the week ended March 15, 2008, inflation touched 6.68 per cent, compared to 5.92 per cent a week ago. The rate was 6.56 per cent during the corresponding period last year.

Lalu asks Sonia to call meeting

Hemmed in, Trident CEO wants out
Chandigarh, March 28
Peeved at the way the land acquisition deal of Trident Industries in Barnala has been dealt with by the Punjab government, the chief executive officer of Trident Group is pulling out his stake from Punjab. He is now on the lookout for his successor to head the groups' operations in the state.

Kandahar Revisited By George, Advani not right, says Fernandes New Delhi, March 28 The controversy over senior BJP leader L.K. Advani’s claim that he was unaware about Jaswant Singh accompanying terrorists to Kandahar in 1999 snowballed further as his former colleague George Fernandes has asserted that this decision was not taken unilaterally but by all ministers collectively.