UPA will return to power: PM
* Congress is the best option for the country
* No patriotic Indian will ask to annul N-deal
* Advani alerting people to divert black money
Jalalabad (Ferozepore), May 2
The Prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh is confident of the Congress-led UPA government returning to power at the centre after declaration of Lok Sabha results on May 16.


PM Manmohan Singh waves at an election rally at Jalalabad in Ferozepur on Saturday. — Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan

What has SAD-BJP done for Punjab, asks Manmohan
Jalalabad (Ferozepur), May 2
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here today thanked people for their warmth and requested them to ask the SAD-BJP government what it had done for the “kheti-pradhan” state which he said had got more money for its produce, fertilisers for lower price and chance of better life for its children during the UPA rule.

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Harassment of Sikhs by Taliban must stop: PM
Jalalabad, May 2
India has lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over alleged harassment of Sikhs and Hindus and forcible extortion of jazia from them by the Taliban. Houses of some of the Sikhs had been razed also.

Black Money
Details can’t be made public: Centre to SC
New Delhi, May 2
The Centre today informed the Supreme Court that it had obtained from Germany details of secret bank accounts pertaining to Indian citizens "on the condition of strict confidentiality" and as such could not be made public.

Swine Flu
Two from Punjab test negative
New Delhi, May 2
Four of the seven people monitored today at the capital’s Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital, the designated nodal health facility for swine flu, tested negative for the infection while test reports for the other three are awaited.

Chawla sends officials packing
Chandigarh, May 2
The Election Commission is learnt to have directed DIG (Vigilance) Bathinda, Jatinder Kumar Jain to proceed on leave for a week.

Milan Vohra is India’s first M&B star writer
London, May 2
Mills & Boons, the biggest, most breathless romance publisher in the world, has completed its search for fresh literary talent.