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Hegde stays on Lokpal Bill panel
Team Anna to ignore ‘smear campaign’, maintain focus
New Delhi, April 23
Welcoming Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s public commitment to the Lokpal Bill, veteran activist Anna Hazare and his civil society group today managed to persuade a member of the joint drafting committee, Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde, not to quit the panel in a huff. The civil society members, Shanti Bhushan, Prashant Bhushan, Santosh Hegde, Arvind Kejriwal, Swami Agnivesh, and Kiran Bedi, met here today under the chairmanship of Anna Hazare.

The camp meeting: Santosh Hedge, member of Civil Society panel. Tribune photos: Mukesh Aggarwal

Woes of Punjab industry-III
Go all out and woo industry
Chandigarh, April 23
Political will to promote industry, backed by an industry-friendly policy, is the only way that Punjab can market itself as ultimate investment destination. The need of the hour is to go all out and woo industry, not just by fiscal concessions, but by offering best infrastructure and reducing timelines in getting various departmental clearances for setting up new industry.

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Assembly Poll
West Bengal sees 85% turnout in 2nd phase
Kolkata, April 23
An estimated 85.32 per cent of the electorate today exercised their franchise in the second phase of Assembly poll in 50 constituencies in three districts of West Bengal, which was entirely peaceful.

Voters show their identity cards as they wait to cast their votes at a polling booth on Saturday. — PTI

PM takes on Left Front, calls for change in West Bengal
Kolkata, April 23
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today expressed concern over the law and order situation in West Bengal and called for a political change by ousting the Front and electing the Congress-Trinamool Congress alliance.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee during an election campaign rally for Assembly polls at Dum Dum in North 24 Parganas on Saturday. — PTI

Efforts on to ensure smooth succession
Rift in the all-powerful Sathya Sai Central Trust
Hyderabad, April 23
As the health condition of the renowned Godman Sathya Sai Baba continues to be very critical, the Andhra Pradesh government has stepped up its efforts to ensure smooth succession in the multi-crore spiritual empire he has created over the last six decades.

Sachin unlikely to celebrate birthday

India-Pak panel okays repatriation of prisoners
New Delhi, April 23
The India-Pakistan Judicial Committee on Prisoners has recommended to the two governments to facilitate the nationality verification process and repatriate to their respective countries at the earliest all those prisoners who have completed their sentences and whose travel documents were available.

For 11 months, they stared death in the face" Freed from pirates’ clutches, sailors recall ordeal Chandigarh, April 23 Eleven months as a hostage on a ship adrift on the high seas, with alien gun-toting outlaws bearing down every second of the day, is a nightmare nobody would forget easily. So when 26 hostages aboard the RAK Afrikana were released last month, it was virtually the beginning of a new life for them. Second Officer Partap Inder Singh (right) and Cadet Navdeep Singh, who spent 11 months in the captivity of pirates, recall their horror in Chandigarh on Saturday. A Tribune photograph