Gujjar protesters teargassed as agitation spreads
NSA invoked in 15 dists
Jaipur, May 27
The Rajasthan government today invoked the National Security Act in 15 districts of the state with the Gujjar community intensifying its protest across the state. With additional Army units clamping down on the epicentre of the protest at Bharatpur district, protesters at other places kept the state police busy.

PM refers Raje’s letter to law ministry
Contempt notice slapped on Bainsla
Haryana Gujjars stop milk, veg supply
NCR on alert

For companies’ sake
Income cess proposed
New Delhi, May 27
This is a case of protectionism of oil companies going too far with the oil ministry suggesting to the finance minister to cut taxes on petrol and diesel and instead levy a cess on incomes of people.

Hoarding begins

Cold comfort at Golden Temple
Amritsar, May 27
Despite world-wide criticism from Panthic circles, the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) has installed two air-conditioners (4 tonnes each), one in sanctum sanctorum and the other on the first floor of the Golden Temple.

AICC members also attack Capt
Accuse him of helping SAD win
New Delhi, May 27
Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh continues to be in the eye of the storm. A day after a few Congress legislators appealed to party president Sonia Gandhi seeking action against him, another four-page protest letter carrying the signatures of the AICC members, PPCC members and party workers was today sent to the party headquarters here.

Ex-soldiers battle for better deal

An ex-serviceman on hunger strike at India Gate lawns in New Delhi on Tuesday. Veterans of the armed forces protested nationwide to press for higher wages for defence personnel. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal (Details in Nation page)

3-day police remand for Rajesh Talwar His family seeks CBI probe Noida, May 27 A Noida court remanded dental surgeon Dr Rajesh Talwar in police custody for three days today. Renuka raps Noida police Dr Rajesh Talwar being produced in a court in Noida on Tuesday. — A Tribune photograph

PPSC Scam
HC reinstates 31 sacked judicial officers
Chandigarh, May 27
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today reversed its own committees’ recommendations and placed at least 31 PCS (Judicial) officers back in the judgment seat. Nearly six years after the “first committee” recommended the termination of officers belonging to 1998-2001 batches subsequent to the unearthing of the alleged Punjab Public Service Commission scam, a three-judge Bench of the High Court ordered the reinstatement of the petitioners before it.

4 petitioners denied relief
Chandigarh, May 27
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked the state to expedite the investigations in the first information report registered against four PCS (Judicial) candidates of the 2001 batch, while refusing to grant them immediate relief.

Nepal: Once it was a kingdom Nepal, which has been ruled by the Shah Dynasty for over 240 years, will no longer be called a ‘Kingdom’ from Wednesday once the Constituent Assembly (CA) meeting declares it a democratic republic state by biding adieu to King Gyanendra formally. World page: King gets a notice