Unified Command to battle Naxal menace
Centre okays more logistic support 
New Delhi, July 14
In what is a first step at forming a common strategy for states hit by Naxal violence, the Centre today announced setting up of a Unified Command in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal. Realising that development and action in Maoist areas should be together, the Centre also announced that over Rs 1,750 crore would be spent on developmental projects in the four states.
What is Unified Command?
Tribal areas lagging: PM

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, flanked by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, presiding over a meeting of the chief ministers of Naxal-affected states in New Delhi on Wednesday. — PTI

Ample evidence on 26/11,  now act, Krishna tells Pak
Flying into Islamabad on the most significant assignment of his career as the Foreign Minister, SM Krishna today firmly told the Pakistani leadership that it must act on confessions made by 26/11 suspect David Coleman Headley, clearly suggesting that it can’t be business as usual between the two neighbours until Islamabad took the Mumbai massacre probe to its logical conclusion.
On peace mission: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna being received by the Pakistan High Commissioner to India, Shahid Malik (R), in Islamabad on Wednesday. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao is seen at left. — PTI
Krishna airlifted to hotel :World page

Chlorine leak leaves 92 sick
Mumbai, July 14
At least 92 persons, including several students of a maritime college near the Mumbai Port Trust, were hospitalised after chlorine gas leaked from a cylinder which was part of a consignment of scrap material on Wednesday morning.


A fireman being treated at a hospital on Wednesday. — PTI

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Threat Row
Punjab cops raided trader’s house, HC told
Chandigarh, July 14
Just over a week after Delhi businessman Ashish Kumar created a flutter in the Punjab and Haryana High Court by claiming that Punjab Vigilance chief Sumedh Singh Saini was out to eliminate him, his counsel today claimed his house in Delhi was raided by the Punjab Police.

More trouble for Shyam Jaju in fraud case
BJP leader issues statement, says he’ll cooperate with investigators
New Delhi, July 14
Bharatiya Janata Party office secretary Shyam Jaju -- a virtual permanent fixture at 11, Ashoka Road -- has made himself scarce following reports of major financial bungling. In a written statement issued in his name yesterday, Jaju said: “I am shocked to see the news about issuing of summons to me by ACMM Ajay Pandey regarding alleged involvement in financial irregularities. 

ACRs within purview of judicial bodies: Tribunal
Chandigarh, July 14
Holding that the courts cannot close their eyes if flaws and illegalities in Annual Confidential Reports (ACRs) are brought to their notice, the Armed Forces Tribunal had rejected the contention of the Defence Ministry that ACR matters cannot be looked into by judicial bodies.