Akalis take rural bodies
Cong loses heavily in Malwa, Majha; BJP nowhere
Chandigarh, May 14
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today swept the elections to the Zila Parishads and Panchayat Samitis and the Congress put up a fight in the Doaba region while the BJP was virtual non-starter except in its pockets of influence.

Blood in Pink City
13 rounded up in Jaipur
Jaipur, May 14
A day after the serial blasts, an uneasy clam prevailed in the Pink City today. Hindus and Muslims living in common neighbourhoods in the walled-city cremated their dead overwhelmed by grief that the last night blasts brought.

Crucial Clues Nation page: Bid to incite communal flare-up: Left Editorial: Times of terror Police has released this sketch of a man, between 25 and 28 years, who is believed to be involved in Jaipur blasts

In video (56k) Govind mourns the death of his father Ram Prasad who was killed in the bomb blast at Chandpoll in Jaipur on Wednesday. Govind was also injured in the blast. — AFP photo

Disproportionate assets case against Badals
SC stays hearing in Mohali court
New Delhi, May 14
In a significant development, the Supreme Court today restrained the special court at Ropar, hearing the disproportionate assets case against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and others, from proceeding further with the trial.

Pak troops fire on Indian positions
Srinagar, May 14
Less than a week after cross border firing in Samba sector of Jammu region, the Pakistan army, violating the ceasefire, reportedly fired from across the LoC on Tuesday evening in Tangdhar sector of Kupwara district in north Kashmir. The incident took place at around 6 pm when the Pakistan Army opened unprovoked fire towards Papa bunker in Tangdhar area last evening, said defence PRO Lt-Col A. K. Mathur.

Slapstick
Bhajji gets off lightly with ban for 5 matches
Nanavati panel says any further instance of misconduct will invoke a life ban
Mumbai, May 14
Temperamental off-spinner Harbhajan Singh today got away with a five-match ODI ban for slapping his India teammate S Sreesanth and was warned by the cricket board of a life ban for any further misconduct on his part.
(Details on Sports page)

Dead man comes alive to save accused Chandigarh, May 14 Dead men do tell tales. Nearly three years after a Panipat resident was thrown into a canal and charges were framed against the accused, the ‘drowned man’ surfaced in a court for rescuing his ‘murderers’. But before the law could take its course, the prime accused was compelled to spend over 15 months behind bars.