Tikait arrested, gets bail
Lucknow, April 2
After a three-day drama, BKU leader Mahendra Singh Tikait today reportedly surrendered before the chief judicial magistrate in Bijnore and was granted bail on a surety of Rs 20,000 by the sessions court. While Chief Minister Mayawati claimed to have arrested the BKU leader from his native village, Sisauli in Muzffarnagar district, this morning, reports suggest otherwise.      Mahendra Singh Tikait: Regrets caste slur

After Tibet, Uighurs rise up in protest against China
Beijing, April 2
China has accused Muslims in the nation's northwest of trying to start a rebellion, following what an exile group said were peaceful protests against injustices under Chinese rule.

Burney lights up Sarabjit’s village
Bhikhiwind (Tarn Taran), April 2
Ansar Burney was treated like a saviour of Indian prisoners lodged in Pakistani jails on his arrival at Sarabjit Singh’s house here today. Sarabjit is on the death row in a Pakistan jail.

Will sacrifice life to save Sarabjit: Burney

Ansar Burney, member, UN Human Rights Council advisory committee, with Sarabjit Singh’s family at Bhikhiwind. — Photo by Vishal Kumar

Capt’s murder: Husband held
Jammu, April 2
The police today claimed to have solved the suicide case of a female Army officer, Captain Megha Razdan, by arresting her husband, who too was serving as an Army officer, Captain Chaitanya Bhatwadekar, in the same unit. “We have arrested Captain Chaitanya Bhatwadekar, husband of Captain Megha Razdan under section 306 and 389 A of the Ranbir Penal Court for abetting her to commit suicide,” said Jammu SSP Parminder Singh.

3-phased Karnataka polls from May 10
State is the first to go to polls after delimitation
New Delhi, April 2
The elections to the 224-member Vidhan Sabha in Karnataka will be held in three phases in May and these will be the first elections in the country with the recently delimited constituencies. The Chief Election Commissioner, N. Gopalaswami, announced the elections here today.

I can’t work with Bhattal, Amarinder tells Sonia
Chandigarh, April 2
Congress politics in Punjab is on the boil. Former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, who has been criticising the functioning of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Rajinder Kaur Bhattal today met Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi for 40 minutes. Besides him, Congress MLA from Nabha Randeep Singh also met Sonia, it is learnt.