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FINALLY, BAIL FOR BINAYAK
Possession of Naxal literature is not sedition, rules SC
New Delhi, April 15
The Supreme Court today granted bail to civil rights activist Dr Binayak Sen, holding that possessing Naxal literature or visiting jailed Maoists did not amount to sedition.
A file photo of Dr Binayak Sen. (Below) Sen’s wife Ilina and daughter Aparajita outside the SC in New Delhi on Friday. — PTI

  TRIAL OF A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST

Divisions in PAC over 2G issue
New Delhi, April 15
All the hype generated in the last few months over Parliament Public Accounts Committee (PAC) probing the 2G scam ended in an anti-climax today with the committee abruptly ending its proceedings without examining the Attorney General and the CBI director today. It also abandoned the examination of the Cabinet Secretary and the Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary, which was scheduled for tomorrow.

India, Kazakhstan to ink N-pact 
PM in Astana, will meet President Nursultan Nazarbayev today
Astana (Kazakhstan), April 15
The Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan is keen to buy small nuclear reactors from India and the two countries propose to carry out a feasibility study in this regard soon.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives at Astana Airport, Kazakhstan, on Friday. — PTI 

India will seek access to Rana
Nuke facilities to have foolproof security

Rs 32 lakh is Hazare’s Lokpal campaign cost
Received Rs 82 lakh through donations: Activists
New Delhi, April 15
A day before the joint committee to draft the Lokpal Bill meets for the first time, the civil society members, who are part of the panel, today fielded questions on corruption charges levelled against some of them.

Centre okays wheat bonus of Rs 50 
New Delhi, April 15
The Centre is understood to have cleared the proposal for a bonus of Rs 50 per quintal for wheat over and above the minimum support price of Rs 1,120 per quintal for the current procurement season. A senior Agriculture Ministry official said the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared the proposal at a meeting last week but the formal announcement had been kept on hold because of Election Commission restrictions in view of the ongoing state assembly elections.

Nation page: FCI to lift wheat directly from mandis

Jagan has assets worth Rs 365 cr
Hyderabad, April 15
If elected to the Lok Sabha in the May 8 byelection from Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress Party president YS  Jaganmohan Reddy will become the richest MP in the country with declared assets of Rs 365 crore.

5-fold jump in 2 yrs!

Infosys HR chief Mohandas Pai quits
New Delhi, April 15
Infosys today announced that Mohandas Pai, the Human Resources chief, and K Dinesh, co-founder, member of the board and head of quality, information systems and communication design group, would be quitting the company. Their resignation would come into effect from June 11, 2011. The company has reported y-o-y growth of 17.1 per cent and sequential (q-o-q) growth of 2.1 per cent in its net profit for the quarter ended March 31, 2011.

Gen Kayani is not a hawk, says cousin Sanawar, April 15 Stating that though the younger generation in Pakistan is moving away from the psychological inhibitions that affected Indo-Pak peace initiatives in the past, Air Cmde Farooq H. Kayani (retd), Pakistan army chief’s first cousin said “mental blocks somewhere down the line,” continue to be the biggest impediments to the peace process. Farooq H Kayani, principal of Lawrence College, Pakistan with his wife Sajda at Lawrence School, Sanawar, in Himachal Pradesh on Friday. Tribune photo: Vinay Malik