Mayawati keeps her options open

New Delhi, March 15 Hours before dining with Third Front leaders, Bahujan Samaj Party chief and UP Chief Minister Mayawati ruled out seat adjustment with any party. After the voting, however, she declared, the Third Front would come together to keep both Congress and BJP out of power. BSP chief Mayawati with BSP general secretary Satish Chandra Mishra during a press conference in New Delhi on Sunday. A Tribune photograph

UP tops in human rights violation
New Delhi, March 15
Uttar Pradesh has topped the list of states with maximum number of complaints relating to human rights violation and New Delhi follows a close second, according to the NHRC statistics.

SC: Male officers can’t frisk women
New Delhi, March 15
Male officers cannot frisk women for the purpose of confiscating contraband materials like narcotics, as it is illegal and would render the prosecution’s case invalid, the Supreme Court has held.

Bihar-based doc held in PMET scam
Chandigarh, March 15
Ongoing investigations into the Pre-Medical Entrance Test (PMET) scam of 2008 have led to the arrest of a Bihar-based doctor who is being charged by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the scam with being responsible for arranging imposters to give the examination on behalf of undeserving students.

	PUNJAB: Baba on bail allotted kar sewa
	HARYANA: HJC writes to EC
	J&K: Govt to open graft cases: Farooq
	HIMACHAL: Judge for amendment to IPC
	CHANDIGARH: Parties play communal card
	LUDHIANA: Development issues to the fore
	DELHI: Bikers rob 2 youths of  Rs 10 lakh
	OPINIONS: Deepening crisis in Pakistan
	BUSINESS: Govt asked to set up real estate regulator
	NATION: Ambani’s skyscraper makes it to Forbes list
	WORLD: Nawaz Sharif gives ‘oust-Zardari’ call
	SPORTS: ‘Level with India going into Tests’

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G-20 upholds India’s stand on protectionism
London, March 15
Supporting India’s stand that protectionism should be avoided, the finance ministers of G-20 countries agreed to end the convention by which the heads of the IMF and World Bank are decided by Europe and the US, respectively.

Obama: No conflict among G-20 nations

Taliban chief ‘backs’ Afghan peace talks
London, March 15
Mullah Omar, the supreme leader of the Taliban, has approved the talks aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan, with a top aide of the one-eyed cleric taking part in the Saudi-sponsored peace negotiations, a news report said today.

Himalayan herb ‘can control diabetes’ London, March 15 A Belfast-based scientist has discovered that a herb found in the Himalayan region of India could be effective in controlling Type 2 diabetes. Dr Yasser Abdel-Wahab, a senior lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Ulster, and his team have discovered that the roots of a cucumber-like vegetable — a herb found in the forests of India — and extracts from the bark of a Himalayan plant, all showed positive results in test cases.