Monday, March 7, 2011, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 2:30 am (IST)

DMK ups the ante against Congress
Karunanidhi moves to next phase of seat-sharing process
Chennai/New Delhi, March 6
A day after the DMK decided to pull out its ministers from the UPA government, the Congress maintained a studied silence with neither side moving ahead to end the stand-off over the collapse of their seat-sharing talks for next month’s Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu.

SP may come to UPA’s rescue, hints Mulayam
Nation page: Pro-LTTE allies jubilant

DMK ministers to resign today: “Nobody from the Congress has got in touch with us. Our ministers are going to Delhi on Monday to submit their resignations to the Prime Minister.”
— TR Baalu, DMK leader

Interceptor missile test-fired
Balasore (Orissa), March 6
In a leap forward to fortify its skies, India today successfully test-fired its indigenously developed interceptor missile which destroyed a ‘hostile’ target ballistic missile, a modified Prithvi, at a height of 16 km over the Bay of Bengal.

The interceptor missile takes off from Chandipur on Sunday. — PTI

600 ex-ultras want to return from PoK
Jammu, March 6
The Jammu and Kashmir Government has received over 600 applications for rehabilitation from relatives and parents of former militants in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) who want to return to the state.

Shaheed-e-azam Bhagat Singh Punjab Games 2011
Jalandhar finishes at top
Jalandhar/Chandigarh, March 6
Curtains came down on Sunday evening on the country’s ‘first’ state games carrying cash prizes and dedicated to the memory of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh at the Surjit Singh Hockey Stadium in Jalandhar. But the packed stadium sent tongues wagging at the overdose of Bollywood both during the opening and closing ceremonies.

STARRY FINALE: (L-R) Sukhbir Badal, Sunny Deol, Dharmendra, Daler Mehandi, Parkash Singh Badal and Bobby Deol at the closing ceremony of the Punjab Games in Jalandhar on Sunday. Tribune photo

Shameful past of medical trials prompts new US investigations
Shocking as it may seem, US government doctors once thought it acceptable to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital.

Varun Gandhi’s marriage solemnised
Varanasi, March 6
The much-awaited marriage of firebrand BJP leader and Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi to Yamini Roy Chowdhury was solemnised with full Hindu Sanatan rituals early this morning ushering in the first Brahmin bride of the Nehru-Gandhi family since Kamala Nehru.