Consensus eludes CJs on All-India Judicial Service
New Delhi, August 18
The Chief Justices’ Conference 2009 has come out with a 21-point resolution, demanding the continuance of fast-track courts beyond March 2010 and setting up of the proposed 5,000 fast Gram Nyayalayas without insisting on matching grants from the states.

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Students burn train in Bihar
Patna, August 18
An irate mob comprising mainly students set afire four air-conditioned bogies of New Delhi-Rajgir Shramjeevi Express (2392down) at Bihta railway station (25km away from Patna) on Tuesday.

Flames and smoke billow out of the Delhi-Patna Shramjeevi Express at Bihata, near Patna, on Tuesday. — PTI

PM: Nation staring at impending drought
New Delhi, August 18
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said “multiple environmental crisis” confronting the country had created an alarming situation.

Testing times for NICD, suspects
Chandigarh, August 18
With the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) severely overburdened with testing H1N1 virus samples from across the country, the number of suspected patients in the region awaiting their results is now running into hundreds.

RSS chief roots for a younger BJP
New Delhi, August 18
On the eve of the crucial three-day Chintan Baithak of the BJP beginning in Shimla tomorrow, RSS chief Mohanrao Bhagwat stressed the need for generational change in BJP.

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Honour Killing
Boy lynched by kin of beloved
Amritsar, August 18
In an incident of honour killing, family members and relatives of a Chheharta-based girl kidnapped her 21-year-old lover and killed him with sharp-edged weapons after tying him to a tree at a park in broad daylight here today.

Ludhiana set to have police commissionerate
Chandigarh, August 18
Ludhiana is set to become the first Police Commissionerate in Punjab with Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal giving the go ahead to the Punjab police to make a detailed presentation in this regard.