Saturday, November 20, 2010, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 2:30 am (IST)

CHANDIGARH SKYLINE IN DANGER: A TRIBUNE INVESTIGATION - IV
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The list of beneficiaries of the Tata housing project reads like the who’s who of Punjab politics. Here’s the complete list and what they did to get there
Chandigarh, November 19
The biggest money spinner in the region is the shrinking land in and around City Beautiful. Little wonder then that all big names in the real estate sector in the country want to get into this lucrative realty market, which in turn provides a perfect opportunity to local real estate agents, land aggregators and consolidators to make their millions by selling off land to the big daddies of the realty world.

Complete list of Camelot beneficiaries
DGP submits irregularities about project to 
High Court
Kansal project meets rules: THDC

This is how the Tata towers would dwarf the Secretariat in Chandigarh

An artist’s impression — photo montage not to scale

2G case: Attorney General to represent PM in apex court
Kapil Sibal seeks ways to recover revenue losses
New Delhi, November 19
The Union Telecom ministry, in the eye of a storm for allegedly ‘deliberately under-pricing spectrum’ (radio frequency) for mobile service providers, today hinted that the government might consider ways to recover the loss. Companies had paid Rs 1,651 crore in 2008 for spectrum and broadband access while the Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) has put the ‘presumptive loss’ to the exchequer at Rs 1.76 lakh crore.

Yeddy feels the heat, kin return plots
Bangalore/New Delhi, November 19
With Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa under mounting pressure over alleged land scams, his son, daughter and two relatives surrendered their plots, as BJP’s top brass today weighed the pros and cons of his continuance in the post.

Bajrang brings India’s 2nd gold
Guangzhou, November 19
Bajrang Lal Takhar created history by notching up the first rowing gold medal in Asian Games as India climbed to the 11 position on the table, riding on the performance of the rowers who added three more medals to the kitty on Day 7 of competitions here today.

IAF copter crashes after blast on board; 
12 dead
n Lt Col, 3 IAF officers among dead n Probe ordered
Guwahati/New Delhi, November 19
Twelve persons, including a Lieutenant Colonel and 11 Indian Air Force men,were killed today when an Mi-17 helicopter crashed after an explosion on board at Bomdir near Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh. Tezpur-based defence spokesman Col Rajesh Kalia said the explosion on board the chopper occurred minutes after its take-off from the Tawang helipad at around 12 noon.

Mecca Masjid blast accused held from Haridwar ashram
Haridwar, November 19
In a secret operation, a Central Bureau of Investigation team raided a Haridwar ‘ashram’ and took into custody evasive Jatin Chatterjee alias Swami Asimanand and his aide for their alleged involvement in Mecca Masjid (Hyderabad), Ajmer and Malegaon blast cases.

Ayatollah’s Kashmir remarks irk India New Delhi summons Iran envoy, conveys its deep disappointment New Delhi, November 19 Strains in the India-Iran ties came to the fore today. A day after it abstained from voting for the first time on a resolution at the United Nations slamming Iran for its human rights record, India summoned Iranian Charge d’affaires to the foreign office and conveyed its deep disappointment over certain comments made about Jammu and Kashmir by Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.