Mulayam, PC, Jaswant earn EC ire
New Delhi/Jaipur, April 5
In a flurry of orders, the Election Commission today strongly disapproved of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s remarks against a UP district magistrate and issued notices to Home Minister P Chidambaram and BJP leader Jaswant Singh for alleged violation of the model code.

Nation page: Rabri booked for remarks against Nitish

Suicide bomber kills 22 in Pak In yet another incident of suicide attack in Pakistan, at least 22 persons, including four children, were killed and 35 injured when a Shia congregation was targeted in Chakwal, about 50 km south-east from here, on Sunday. Grieving relatives of a victim at a hospital. — AFP

NWFP police chief says porous Afghan border main infiltration route
‘Qaida,Taliban present across Pak’
New Delhi, April 5
In a sensational disclosure, a top Pakistani police officer has said Al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists were present in every town and city of Pakistan and had plans to destabilise the Middle East to use the region as a "launch pad" against the US and Europe.

Kanwaljit’s bhog largely attended
Bunny firm, will be Independent
Chhat (Banur), April 5
Jasjit Singh Bunny chose to shun senior leadership of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)-Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) by reiterating his decision to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Patiala as an Independent candidate.

Punjab page: Congress hand in decision to contest: SAD Badal was warned earlier Bunny upsets political equations Badal appears pensive after the announcement of Bunny to contest as an Independent. Photo: S. Chandan

Missing woman killed for ‘honour’
Fatehabad, April 5
The police has finally come out with the revelation that the mysterious disappearance of a 19-year-old woman from her house in Chaplamouri village on the intervening night of March 17 and 18 and the subsequent recovery of her body from a canal near Pilimandori on March 25 was, in fact, a case of honour killing.

Manmohan to campaign in Assam tomorrow
Tribal militant group calls for 36-hour bandh
Guwahati, April 5
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to hit the campaign trail in Assam on April 7 by addressing a Congress election rally in Dibrugarh town under Dibrugarh Parliamentary constituency in eastern Assam.

DMK releases list
Karunanidhi’s son to contest
Chennai, April 5
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s son Azhagiri will contest from his bastion Madurai and former Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran has been fielded from the DMK’s stronghold, Central Chennai, as per the list of candidates released by the DMK today.

India tops tax misery score: Forbes New York, April 5 India has earned a dubious distinction of being the country adding maximum teeth to its tax regime since last year, says a study by Forbes. While India still maintains a relatively low rank of 23rd least friendly tax climate in this year’s Tax Misery Index, topped by France with harshest taxes across the world, it is ranked at top in terms of increase in its tax misery score, a collective measure of maximum corporate, personal, social security and sales tax rates.

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