Tragedy on the Tracks
With train driver dead, probe may yield little
New Delhi/Kolkata, July 20
An on-the-spot inquiry began today by the Commissioner of Railways (Safety), RP Yadav, into yesterday’s train accident at Sainthia in Birbhum district, 191 km from here. The death toll touched 64 today with one of the injured passengers succumbing to his injuries in the hospital.

A woman searches for her son amid the mangled remains of the trains that collided in Birbhum district on Monday. — PTI

Day after, near-miss in Sangrur
Sangrur, July 20
The alertness of a railway employee averted a major accident as a majority of the bogies of an express train was detached from the engine and four bogies due to breaking of an iron hook minutes after the train left the Lehragaga railway station at 8.52 am today.

Act on Headley’s revelations, Krishna tells Pakistan
On Board Special Aircraft, July 20
Talking tough, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna today told Pakistan to take "seriously" the revelations made by LeT operative David Headley on the Mumbai attacks and not "push these under the carpet". Faced with a series of flip-flops from Pakistan, India's concerns with regard to the 26/11 attacks would only be addressed "slowly" by that country, the minister believed.

TN, Bengal to pitch in for paddy loss in region
Chandigarh, July 20
With the floods affecting paddy production in Punjab and Haryana, the Centre is looking at Tamil Nadu and West Bengal to ensure high procurement of rice in the 2010-11 kharif marketing season (KMS).

Siraj Hussain FCI chief

Spy diplomat Madhuri Gupta chargesheeted
Planned to marry ISI handler who ‘treated her like dog’
New Delhi, July 20
The Delhi Police today filed a charge sheet against the arrested Indian junior diplomat Madhuri Gupta, accusing her of spying for Pakistan and passing classified information to its officials during her posting at Islamabad.

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UP Youth Cong leader goes missing, found injured
Lucknow, July 20
Youth Congress activist Nishant Patel, who mysteriously vanished from his hotel room in Hardoi district yesterday, was found injured near Buddheshwar crossing on the outskirts of the state capital.

Nishant Patel being taken for treatment in Lucknow. — PTI

Anti-ragging crusader left out of panel New Delhi, July 20 More than 14 months after the Supreme Court directed the government to nominate an independent agency to monitor the progress of anti-ragging measures in colleges, the government has zeroed in on one. Ironically, the government enterprise — Education Consultants Private Limited (EdCIL) — tasked with selecting the agency has rejected the entry of Dr Rajinder Kachroo, father of Aman Kachroo, killed last year during a ragging incident in Tanda, for a private research firm based in the capital.