IPL guilty won’t be spared: Pranab
Oppn wants blanket ban on league
New Delhi, April 19
With the Opposition projecting the IPL mess as the “mother of all evils” in Lok Sabha today, the government went all out to promise action against every wrong-doer involved in the controversy.

Tharoor likely to make statement in LS
BJP not naming other ministers

Editorial: Ignominious exit Shashi Tharoor being hounded by the media at Parliament House in New Delhi on Monday. Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal

The IPL Controversy Rages On
Groups gang up, turn heat on Modi
New Delhi, April 19
Polarisation of groups within the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is building up pressure on Indian Premier League chairman and match commissioner Lalit Kumar Modi to quit or come clean ahead of the IPL Governing Council meeting, scheduled to be held in Mumbai on April 26, after the IPL final.

Team Kochi’s future in doubt
Govt earns pittance from IPL

justice for Jessica
SC upholds life term for Manu
New Delhi, April 19
The Supreme Court today upheld the life sentence awarded to Manu Sharma, son of senior Congress leader Venod Sharma, in the 1999 Jessica Lal murder case, ruling that the “evidence, witnesses’ statements and convict’s conduct after the incident prove his guilt beyond reasonable doubt.”

Manu’s Chandigarh home wears a deserted look Nation page: After Jessica verdict, hopefloats for many others Editorial: SC seals Manu’s fate

Zardari signs bill clipping his wings
Islamabad, April 19
“It is my hope that the doors of dictatorship are closed forever,” said Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday after signing the historic 18th Amendment to the country’s 1973 Parliamentary Constitution.

World page: Ceremonial hat sits uneasy on ambitious Zardari

Ash in air: Over 41k travellers stranded in Delhi, Mumbai
Control room set up to clear backlog
New Delhi, April 19
With over 41,435 passengers are stranded at Delhi and Mumbai airports following disruption of most west-bound flights due to Icelandic volcanic eruption, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has set up a control room to clear the backlog.

World page: Ash clouds cost airlines millions

Power blues for MPs on Manic Monday
New Delhi, April 19
Normally, the verbal duels between the treasury and Opposition MPs generate heat inside the Parliament. But Monday was different, with the cruel summer coming to haunt members, who had to sweat it out all day as the Parliament House witnessed unprecedented power cuts --- more than 20 in a single day!

Punjab, Haryana told to lower grain tax Private players choose to go wheat shopping to UP, Rajasthan, MP & Gujarat Chandigarh, April 19 The Centre has asked Punjab and Haryana to lower their tax structure and bring it on a par with that in other states so as to encourage more participation by private players in foodgrain procurement, according to highly-placed sources.