BRIC wants greater role for India, Brazil in UNSC
Brasilia, April 16
Challenging the existing global power structure, the BRIC forum comprising the four top emerging economies — Brazil, Russia, India and China — called for urgent reforms of the UN and international financial institutions to accommodate aspirations of rising powers.

(From right) PM Manmohan Singh with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Brazil’s President Inacio Lula da Silva and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the BRIC Summit in Brasilia. — PTI

India: BRIC has potential to speed up global growth

IBSA Summit
PM pushes for UN reforms
Brasilia, April 16
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday made a strong pitch for urgent reform of the United Nations and pushed for an early conclusion of an international convention to combat terrorism at the IBSA summit that comprises India, Brazil and South Africa.

The ash effect: Global flight plans go awry
New Delhi, April 16
Air travel disarray across the globe deepened on Friday with high-altitude clouds of volcanic ash from Iceland spreading further across northern and central Europe and ripple effect of the natural phenomenon being felt in far-off India as well.

World page: 800 evacuated near Iceland volcano

PSEB employees call off strike
Power sector back on track in Punjab
Chandigarh, April 16
The SAD-BJP “unbundled” its fears yesterday to give a new lease of life to the erstwhile PSEB.

Punjab page: ‘Chakka jam’ protest peaceful
Editorial: More of the same

IPL Row
I-T sleuths get cracking in Mohali, Mumbai
More cities to come under scanner
Mohali/Mumbai, April 16
Widening their net beyond Mumbai, I-T officials today raided Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium in Mohali to investigate books of account of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

What controversy, asks Modi

SIT can’t summon Modi: Gujarat govt
New Delhi, April 16
The Gujarat government has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court maintaining that the apex court-appointed Special Investigation Team had no power to summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other accused in the murder of ex-Congress MP Ehasan Jafri.