India should not hold talks with Pak: BJP chief
Wants Kasab’s death sentence to be executed swiftly
Chandigarh, May 12
A day after Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna announced that he would pay his maiden visit to Pakistan in July to hold talks with his counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the Bharatiya Janata Party has vehemently opposed resumption of any dialogue. In doing so, India’s principal opposition party has thrown a major dampener over the outcome of the talks.
BJP president Nitin Gadkari at The Tribune office at Chandigarh on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

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Honour Killing
Mother-in-law, bride killed
Patti, May 12
In an act of savagery that smacks of honour killing, Gurleen Kaur, a newly married 19-year-old woman, and her mother-in-law were hacked to death and her husband was chased out of his house and shot at in Bahmniwala village in the wee hours today by father, brother, two uncles and four armed cousins of the girl.
A file photo of Amarpreet and Gurleen Kaur

Special to the tribune
A first: S Asian in Cameron Cabinet
A Pakistani-origin lawyer has become the first South Asian ever to join the British government as Cabinet Minister. Sayeeda Warsi (39), who was born in Yorkshire town of Dewsbury, is an unelected member of the House of Lords. She has been also slotted to take over as the new chair of the Conservative Party, which comes with a Cabinet rank.

Koli gets death in Nithari case
Ghaziabad, May 12
A special CBI court here today awarded death sentence to Surinder Koli, a convict in the sensational Nithari killings case, for rape and murder of seven-year-old Arti. The death sentence to 38-year-old Koli, a domestic help of businessman and accused Moninder Singh Pandher, was awarded by special CBI judge A K Singh, in the second of the 19 cases of the Nithari killings.

Chawla in Trouble
Raids on centres of Sahni’s kin deliberate, says BJP panel
Chandigarh, May 12
Punjab Health Minister Laxmi Kanta Chawla is in big trouble with the two-member state BJP committee probing her spat with Chief Parliamentary Secretary (CPS) Jagdish Sahni ruling that the raids on three ultra sound diagnostic centres associated with Sahni “seemed deliberate” and were the cause for the resultant attacks on her by the CPS.

103 die in Libya plane crash
n Explodes on landing n 8-year-old boy sole miracle survivor
Tripoli, May 12
A Libyan plane arriving from South Africa disintegrated on landing at Tripoli airport today, killing 103 persons but leaving an eight-year-old boy as the sole miracle survivor, officials said. 
Rescue teams search the site of the Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane crash in Tripoli on Wednesday. — AP

Sikh Marriage Act ready for Cabinet nod Chandigarh, May 12 If the assurances given by Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily to a delegation of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee on Wednesday are any indication, the draft of the Sikh Marriage Act is ready for ratification by the Union Cabinet. After clearance by the Cabinet, it will be introduced in Parliament at its next session.