Trouble in neighbourhood
Court bars Sharifs from polls
Nawaz held guilty of hijacking Mush plane; Punjab govt falls
In a verdict that evoked wide criticism and countrywide protests in Pakistan, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled former premier Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif ineligible to contest for any public office. Besides, the apex court annulled last year’s election of Shahbaz Sharif as the chief minister of Punjab province.                     Nawaz Sharif

Hasina bends, BDR revolt ends

A mutiny in the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) was quelled on Wednesday as Premier Sheikh Hasina granted a "general amnesty" to renegade soldiers, hours after the rebels demanding pay hike stormed their headquarters here and opened fire on senior officers, leaving 15 people dead and about as many wounded. BSF on high alert over BDR mutiny

Sheikh Hasina

Army soldiers take their positions on a street near the headquarters of the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles in Dhaka on Wednesday. — Reuters

26/11: Jumbo chargesheet filed
Mumbai, February 25
The Mumbai police today filed a jumbo chargesheet having more than 11,500 pages in the Mumbai terror attack case. The chargesheet has been filed in English, Hindi and Urdu before Metropolitan Magistrate M J Mirza.

Three-year jail for Sukh Ram
New Delhi, February 25
A CBI court today sentenced former Central minister Sukh Ram to a three-year jail term and imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh in a corruption case, filed 13 years ago, following recovery of Rs 3.61 crore in cash from his residences here and in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh.

2 Generals in ordnance scam
Chandigarh, February 25
The Army Ordnance Corps (AOC) is once again in the limelight over corrupt practices amongst senior officers, with two Major-Generals in the dock for their alleged acts of omission and commission in separate matters. This includes misappropriation in purchases for UN peacekeeping missions.

39 killed as bus falls into river
Udhampur, February 25
At least 39 passengers were killed and 13 others injured, some of them seriously, when a bus rolled down into the Neeru river, a tributary of the Chenab, on Pul-Doda-Bhaderwah, near Doda this morning. The accident on the first day of the opening of the Batote-Kishtwar National Highway, which was closed after a portion of the highway caved in near Trungal on February 6. (Details on J&K page)

Now, rural posting a must for PG docs
Centre admits to shortfall of 8 lakh doctors
New Delhi, February 25
All postgraduate medical aspirants would be required to undergo a mandatory rural posting from the next academic session. Admitting to a shortfall of eight lakh doctors in the country and a consequent adverse impact on health delivery to villagers, the government today said it had made it compulsory for all MBBS pass-outs applying for post-graduation to do a combined rural posting for four months each in primary health centres, community health centres and district hospitals under the state government.