Trinamool, DMK seek rollback of fuel hike
Cong allies join Oppn to oppose FM’s proposal
New Delhi, February 27
With two UPA constituents — Trinamool Congress and the DMK —joining the Opposition to demand a rollback on the price hike for fuel, the Congress core committee, headed by party president Sonia Gandhi, is slated to meet on Tuesday to take stock and devise a damage control strategy.

Nation page: Fuel price hike may trigger anti-Cong wave
After Advani, BJP has new ‘friends’

Irate BJP supporters burn an effigy of the UPA government in Kolkata on Saturday. — PTI

Indians were prime targets in Kabul attack
New Delhi, February 27
It now turns out that the killings in Kabul yesterday, where six Indians lost their lives along with 17 others, were executed by cadres of the Taliban using deadly tactics. A car bomb was used to create a sensation, later gunmen armed with automatic weapons searched rooms of Noor Guesthouse in Kabul and killed people in cold blood. And, Indians were the prime targets, sources here said.

Nation page: Prez receives victims’ bodies

Murder case against Baba Ram Rahim
Mobs torch buses, trains
Chandigarh, February 27
Protesters, said to be followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda, went on a rampage at several places in Punjab and Haryana resenting registration of a murder case by the CBI against dera head Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim.
Agitators torch a PRTC bus in Bathinda on Saturday. A Tribune photograph

No N-plant to Pak for now: US
Washington, February 27
The US has categorically told Pakistan that it would not get any atomic power plant or civilian nuclear deal on the lines of the one signed with India.

Different battle arenas for twin tanks
Arjun and Bhishma to coexist
New Delhi, February 27
Unlike the epic Mahabharata, the Indian Army’s lead tanks named after legendary warriors ‘Arjun’ and ‘Bhishma’ will coexist and will be deployed in different battle arenas in the future. At present, a “deployment” trials are being conducted in the deserts of Rajasthan, where 14 of the home-grown Arjun tanks face the Russian origin T-90 - christened Bhishma - by the Indian Army.

Shimla Scare Wild cats on the loose again Shimla, February 27 Had it not been for the risk taken by a veterinary doctor and staff of the Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre here in capturing the two leopards --- who ventured out of their cage which had strangely been left open --- lives of inmates of the adjoining orphanage and Tootokandi residents could have been in a grave danger.