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Sunday, February 1, 2009, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

CEC wants him out, Chawla digs in
New Delhi, January 31
Battle in the Election Commission has taken a dramatic turn. While the Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami has suo moto recommended to the government that Navin Chawla, one of two election commissioners be removed for partisanship, Chawla today made it clear there was no question of resigning. He said he was looking forward to conducting the general elections.

EC Drama
Timing not right, say experts
New Delhi, January 31
Legal and constitutional experts have come out with different opinions on the powers of the chief election commissioner for recommending the removal of an election commissioner.

Navin Chawla
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N Gopalaswami
N Gopalaswami

However, all of them agree that the timing of the move, just ahead of the Lok Sabha polls and CEC’s retirement, is wrong.

Term of EC can’t be disturbed: PC
Sack him right away, demands BJP

26/11 Dossier
Forget update, not even a reply yet: Pranab

New Delhi, January 31
India today said Pakistan has given no official response to the dossier on Mumbai attacks, rejecting Islamabad's claim that an update has been provided on its probe into the carnage.

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Bag with ‘detonators’ found in Dehradun
Dehradun, January 31
Traffic on the busy Rajpur road was disrupted following the information of a bomb on Dilaram Chowk here tonight. According to police officials, the bomb disposal squad of the Uttarakhand police received the information at 8 pm that a black bag having some wires was lying abandoned near Dilaram Chowk.

Jaggan gives up, may not get his girl
Jaipur, January 31
Dreaded dacoit Jaggan Gujjar surrendered unconditionally before Sachin Pilot, MP, in Kemri village on Saturday during Bhagwan Jagdish Narayan Basant Panchmi festival, the biggest fair of Gujjars in the country. The Tribune had reported on Saturday how Jaggan wanted to give up if he was allowed to live, even if in jail, with Komesh, his lady love and gang member, who is lodged in Dholpur women jail since November last.

Clear NH-22 stretch by Feb 1: HC
Chandigarh, January 31
The Punjab and Haryana High Court wants nothing to come in way of easing traffic flow on the Zirakpur-Parwanoo stretch of National Highway-22. A Division Bench of the high court, comprising Justice Uma Nath Singh and Justice AN Jindal, has asked the authorities concerned to give the shopkeepers and other encroachers time till the midnight of February 1. In case the encroachments are not removed voluntarily, the authorities have been given the liberty to initiate action against them.

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Cut prices, RBI to realtors
Chandigarh, January 31
Bring down the cost of your projects or perish. This is the new diktat issued by the apex regulatory bank, Reserve Bank of India, to all realtors who are now seeking a bailout from their financing banks in the form of a rejig of loans. Following instructions by the RBI, all state-run banks have started pushing their real estate clients to cut the price of their projects, if they do not want to be starved of bank funding.

Five infants burnt alive in Patiala hospital
Patiala, January 31
In a tragic incident, five infants, three barely five days old and two 10 days, were devoured by raging flames, emanating from the photo-therapy unit, meant to save innocent little lives, in the Neonatalogy unit of the Rajindra Government Hospital here this morning.

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One of the infants who survived Saturday’s fire. One of the infants who survived Saturday’s fire. A Tribune photograph

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