UPA close to getting Mulayam’s support
New Delhi, July 1
Taking seriously the Left threat to withdraw support to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, if it proceeds with signing the nuclear safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the government has almost got the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Janata Dal-Secular and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) on board.

Editorial: PM bites the bullet
Nation page: Doubts loom large over N-Deal

N-deal anti-Muslim, SP opportunist: Maya
Lucknow/New Delhi, July 1
Playing the Muslim card, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today alleged that Mulayam Singh Yadav decided to support the Congress on the Indo-US nuclear deal because the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre had put on hold all the CBI inquiries against him.
(Details on Nation page)

Jammu burns, curfew in many areas
75 hurt in clashes during bandh
Jammu, July 1
As many as 75 persons were injured, three with bullet injuries, as protesters clashed with the police at several places during the Jammu bandh called by the BJP and like-minded parties. Curfew has been imposed at various places in the city.

J&K page: Vohra calls session on July 7

Protesters run towards police barricades against the revocation of order on land for Amarnath board in Jammu. — A Tribune photograph

BJP calls for strike
New Delhi, July 1
Protesting against the Jammu and Kashmir government’s decision to revoke the order to allot 40 hectares of land to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB), the BJP today called for a nationwide strike on July 3 alleging that the decision amounted to total surrender to fundamentalist and separatist forces.

A Tribune Exclusive Why Eurocopter deal was scrapped Relative of top Army officer tried to pass off civilian model as military one New Delhi, July 1 Bribery and scandal, which would have played with the lives of troops in Siachen, involving a middleman who was a relative of a serving top-level Army official and was trying to pass off a civilian helicopter as a military version, finally led to the scrapping of the $ 600 million Eurocopter deal.

Sensex falls 500 pts, slips below 13K
Mumbai, July 1
The Sensex has breached the 13,000 mark on the way down while the Nifty closed below 3,900, thereby showing signs of a further downtrend in the coming days, according to analysts. As rising oil prices provoked fears of a prolonged recession globally, the Indian markets took a beating. Reports of OPEC predicting oil at $170 per barrel wreaked havoc.

Business page: Re loses 31 paise

Renuka to parents: Don’t send kids to reality shows
Kolkata, July 1
Holding that the reality shows were violating rights of children, Union Minister for Woman and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury on Tuesday said that parents should be prevented from sending their children to such shows.
(Details on Nation page)

Is this Synedrella noxious? Dharamsala, July 1 What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. That’s what scientists at the Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (IHBT), a CSIR center at Palampur, have got down to doing — to find out if “Synedrella vialis” is indeed of good virtue or a cousin of the infamous Congress grass, the noxious weed that is suspected to have traveled to India with the wheat imported from America.