Jaswant gets candid
It’s ‘ideological football’ in BJP
New Delhi, August 22
Jaswant Singh, who was unceremoniously ousted from BJP for “attacking” the party’s “core ideology”, had described the saffron organisation as “an open field where one gets to kick an ideological football everyday.”

Why is the BJP a party in denial?
K’taka, MP won’t ban Jaswant’s book
Naidu rubbishes Jaswant claims
Dirty linen being washed: Cong

Raje buys more time
New Delhi, August 22

The BJP apeared to have broken a major impasse with Rajasthan Legislative Assembly leader of the party and former state Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje holding an hour-long meeting with party president Rajnath Singh, first time since he announced the decision of the parliamentary board that she has to quit her post.

BJP leader and former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje arrives to meet party leader LK Advani at his residence in New Delhi on Saturday. A Tribune photograph

Private labs can screen H1N1 samples: Govt
States see danger in Centre’s decision to relax Tamiflu use
New Delhi, August 22
With the load mounting for Influenza-A H1N1 testing across India, the government today told the states that they did not require any formal permission from the Centre to allow private labs to screen samples. The government also assured adequate supplies of chemical testing reagents to all designated labs.

2003 Gangrape
Life term for Prez guards
New Delhi, August 22
A Delhi court today sentenced to life imprisonment two Presidential guards convicted for kidnapping and raping a minor girl at the Buddha Jayanti Park here on October 6, 2003.

Temple mahant murdered
Bilaspur (Yamunanagar), August 22
The mahant of the famous Hanuman temple, “Panchmukhi”, was found murdered in his room on the temple premises at Basatiynawala village in Bilaspur town, 20 km from here, today. The deceased has been identified as Bal Mukund Dass.

Tata housing project
I-T dept probe reveals huge unaccounted cash transactions
Chandigarh, August 22
The Income Tax department’s investigations into the ambitious housing project of Tata, which bought huge chunks of land belonging to two Kansal- based societies, has led to an “unaccounted” trail of a whopping Rs 101 crore cash transactions between Hash Builders --- raids on whom were conducted yesterday --- and a Mumbai-based jewellery house.

Rice export scam gets murkier
Chandigarh, August 22
The rice export scam, wherein private firms were favoured to export basmati rice to underdeveloped countries under the garb of government-to-government exports, just got murkier. Two companies in Andhra Pradesh have now been found to be exporting a superfine variety of rice under the ‘non basmati’ category, by claiming that it was being procured from elsewhere.

26-yr agonising wait for teacher-in-waiting Chandigarh, August 22 Justice delayed is justice denied for Usha Gulati whose case for the post of a nursery teacher remains undecided 26 years after she first filed it in the court. Now, at 58, to add to her disillusionment, the decision of the Punjab and Haryana High Court to transfer her case to the Central Administrative Tribunal is hardly a ray of hope for her.