Mirchpur Mayhem
MPs panel sees police hand
Says it colluded with dominant castes

New Delhi, July 26 Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s troubles over the April 21 Mirchpur carnage in Hisar might just be beginning. After being pulled up by the Congress high command for atrocities on Dalits in the Jat heartland, the CM is in for castigation by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on SC/ST Welfare, which	Sons of victim  Tara Chand
has found the state government and district police prima facie responsible for the April mayhem which claimed the lives of septuagenarian Tara Chand and his 17-year-old differently bled daughter Suman.
Won’t go back: Dalits

Intelligence leak: ISI aiding Taliban in Afghanistan
Pakistan is allegedly allowing representatives of the Inter Services Intelligence agency to meet directly with the Taliban in “secret strategy sessions” to organise militants fighting US troops in Afghanistan as well as plot the assassination of Afghan leaders, according to leaked US military field reports.

Fake Encounter
Ex-cop turns approver
Shah seeks bail, Ram Jethmalani is his counsel
Ahmedabad, July 26
A former police officer, NK Amin, an accused in Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, today turned approver and moved a court, in a shot in the arm for CBI that could spell more trouble for Gujarat's jailed former minister and key accused Amit Shah.

The approver?

Bovine Theft
20 hurt as police, protesters clash in Samba
Residents block Jammu-Pathankot National Highway for 10 hours
Samba, July 26
A 10-hour-long blockade and violent clashes between a mob and the police took place on the Jammu-Pathankot National Highway here today after a person was caught stealing bovine.

Policemen lob teargas shells on protesters in Samba on Monday. Violent clashes broke out between a mob and the police on the national highway after a person was caught for bovine theft. Photo: Anand Sharma

No relief for Samba case petitioners
New Delhi, July 26
The 32-year-old “Samba spy case” that has been through many an emotional turn of events for the accused and their families, resulted in a major setback to eight of the indicted personnel of the Army today. The Armed Forces Tribunal dismissed their petitions saying similar pleas had already been rejected by respective high courts.

Permanent Commission
Submit rules that bar women: SC to Army
New Delhi, July 26
The Supreme Court today asked the Army to produce within a week the relevant rules that prevented it from granting permanent commission to women even as the Centre argued that it was a policy decision not to allow such a facility.

In Punjab, wheat worth Rs 800 cr goes waste annually Chandigarh, July 26 Antiquated food storage methods and technologies have been costing India dearly. The chairman of the Food Corporation of India (FCI), Siraj Hussain, admits that food worth Rs 50,000 crore is wasted every year. This comes roughly to 20 per cent of the total food produced by the country.