Bypass on PM today Vice-President Hamid Ansari will step in to discharge PM’s ceremonial role on R-Day New Delhi, January 23

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was today placed under the care of India's finest cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Ramakanta Panda and would undergo a coronary artery bypass graft surgery at AIIMS tomorrow.

Pranab will stand in for Manmohan
New Delhi, January 23
Hours before he left his official Race Course residence for hospital this afternoon to undergo a heart bypass surgery tomorrow, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made all the necessary arrangements needed to be put in place during his absence which included the vital decision to hand over additional charge of the Finance Ministry to External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.

US remarks welcome but we need action: Antony
New Delhi, January 23
Continuing his “verbal assault” on Pakistan, Defence Minister AK Antony today welcomed the US remarks that Pakistan was the ‘epicentre’ of terrorism and added that apart from solidarity or sympathy, India needed action and it was awaiting results.

Cash Scam
CBI submits report on Yadav, may seek to prosecute her
New Delhi, January 23
The CBI today said it had submitted its investigation report on the cash-for-judge scam involving Punjab and Haryana High Court judge Nirmal Yadav to the Supreme Court and the Centre amid speculation that the investigating agency had recommended action against her.

Lankan Issue
Karunanidhi makes ‘final plea’ to Centre
Chennai, January 23
Making a ‘final plea’ to the Centre to stop ‘the genocide of Tamils’ in Sri Lanka, DMK chief M Karunanidhi today hinted that his party would consider all options, including snapping ties with the UPA, if the Centre ignored this plea too.

Cong unruffled
Jaya too bats for Tamils’ rights

Dehradun student gang-raped

Dehradun, January 23 Barely 17 days after the gang rape of a 24-year-old MBA student outside a mall in Noida, a similar incident, this time the victim a minor, has rocked Uttarakhand’s capital Dehradun, the city so far considered safe for women.

The accused in police custody. A Tribune photograph

Govt Schools Primarily, for Dalits only Bathinda, January 23 From being for the people, the primary education in government schools of Punjab has become for the Dalits only. Reason: The private and public schools are catching fancy of the upper caste farming community which is slowly but steadily dumping the government facility while deciding the schools of their wards.