Anti-Sikh Riots
CBI chargesheets Sajjan Kumar
‘Ex-Congress MP incited mob to kill Sikhs’
New Delhi, January 13
Twenty-five years after the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the national capital, the Central Bureau of Investigation today filed two separate chargesheets against former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar, blaming him for two of the “murders” during the riots.

Hockey players strike fiscal goal, to rejoin camp
Pune, January 13
The biggest crisis to hit Indian hockey was today resolved after a compromise deal was worked out between the game's administrators and the striking players who have been promised an immediate disbursement of Rs 1 crore.

MOVING PAST DEAL POST
Maya offers Rs 5 crore
Be proactive, ministry told

Rathore’s bail extended till Feb 8
Chandigarh, January 13
In a breather to former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, a local court today extended till February 8 his post-conviction bail in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case.

SMILE RETURNS: Ex-DGP Rathore outside the District Courts in Chandigarh on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Vinay Malik

Govt wakes up to rein in price rise
New Delhi, January 13
Under attack from the Opposition and also from some of its own allies on rising food prices, the Congress-led UPA government today decided to release surplus wheat and rice into the market.

BJP rejects Centre’s charge Homemakers take govt to task, move SC Pawar briefs media on PM’s directive Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar gestures during a press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday. A Tribune photograph

Quake rocks Haiti, no news of 50 consular officers
New Delhi, January 13
India is awaiting information about its 50 Consular level officers in Haiti, which suffered the strongest earthquake in more than 200 years flattening almost all buildings in its capital Port-Au-Prince.

World page: Hundreds feared dead in Haiti earthquake

Now, bid to torch Oz gurdwara
In the third major attack on Indians so far this year, some unidentified persons tried to set afire a gurdwara building under construction in the Nanaksar Taath gurdwara complex last midnight located in the southeastern suburb of Cranbourne, about an hour’s drive from Melbourne’s city centre.

Our faith shaken, says Badal

CRRID Study NREGS flop in Punjab, Haryana; hit in HP Chandigarh, January 13 An assessment of the implementation of the much-celebrated National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme of the Centre for Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh has found that the scheme has had the least impact on Punjab followed by Haryana.