Polls to hundreds of newly-carved panchayats put off in Punjab
EC sees through SAD-BJP game
Chandigarh, May 16
The state Election Commission (EC) has put off elections to hundreds of gram panchayats that were hurriedly created by the Punjab government in April this year. This was done after splitting the existing panchayats to improve the poll prospects of the SAD-BJP alliance. Once the matter came to light, Punjab Election Commissioner A.K Dubey announced the exclusion of the newly created gram panchayats from the poll process.

268 gram sabha polls rescheduled
Chandigarh, May 16
Elections to 268 gram sabhas in Punjab, carved after April 11, will now be rescheduled and the entire process will be over by June 21. Directing this, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today added the results of gram sabhas elections, scheduled to be held on May 26, shall, however, be declared in as per the notified schedule.

Visiting card links blasts case to UP
Lucknow, May 16
Even as the special team of Uttar Pradesh’s Anti Terrorist Squad on Friday returned from Jaipur after studying the serial blasts case, the recovery of a visiting card from an abandoned car near Jaipur railway station has again linked the blast to the State.

Man claims to have seen Jaipur suspect

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SC vacates stay on OBC quota
New Delhi, May 16
The UPA government’s stand on quota for OBCs in central educational institutions (CEIs) was today vindicated, with the Supreme Court vacating the May 14 order of the Calcutta High Court, which had stayed the OBC reservation in the postgraduate courses at the IIM-Calcutta.

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India offers economic help to Bhutan
Thimphu, May 16
Making his first-ever visit to Bhutan close on the heels of its transition to democracy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today offered a package of economic assistance that includes building a railway line and doubling power generation from its hydel projects.

Major relief for DGP Virk
New Delhi, May 16
In a major relief for former Punjab DGP S.S. Virk, the Supreme Court of India today upheld the validity of his repatriation to Maharashtra and said it would be open to Maharashtra to give him a posting as a director-general of police.

Adapa Karthik tops civil services exam
New Delhi, May 16
IPS probationer Adapa Karthik has topped the list of 734 candidates who have cleared the civil services examinations conducted by the UPSC in October last year. The results were declared today by the UPSC.

Hostile Witnesses: Trial court judge need not be a ‘meek spectator’, says HC Chandigarh, May 16 The Punjab and Haryana High Court has made it clear that the trial court judge need not be a “meek spectator” and watch witnesses turn hostile without initiating action. A high court Division Bench of Chief Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia also passed strictures against Ambala’s Additional Sessions Judge (ad hoc), Fast Track Court, for not “taking action under law” as witnesses backtracked in the fake currency case allegedly involving Punjab’s senior superintendent of police Gurcharan Singh Pherurai.