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

Arunachal CM’s chopper not traced
Inclement weather prevents search operation
Guwahati, May 1
There has not been any clue to the fate of the Pawan Hans Eurocopter AS350 B3 that had Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu on board after it had gone out of communication at 10.15 am on Saturday after take off from Tawang helipad in Arunachal Pradesh at 9.50 am. According to defence sources at Tezpur and Shillong, helicopters of the IAF and the Army could not launch search operation to trace the missing helicopter throughout Sunday because of bad weather.

Inside The other Kashmir
A TRIBUNE SPECIAL Starting today, Raj Chengappa, Editor-in-Chief, The Tribune Group of Newspapers, begins a series of articles based on his recent visit to Pakistan. He was among a select group of journalists, invited by the Pakistan Government to talk to a cross-section of people apart from travelling to sensitive zones to understand the changes taking place inside India’s troubled neighbour. In the first part, Chengappa writes about his visit to the Line of Control in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and finds people talking more on peace and trade than on conflict and confrontation.

On the Line of Caution
The other Kashmir looks for a change in the narrative between India and Pakistan
FROM Islamabad, the Line of Control at Chakothi in Pakistan occupied Kashmir is a breath-taking 45-minute journey by helicopter. Flying at 8,000-feet and looking down at verdant valleys and snow-tipped massifs, with fresh mountain air rushing through a porthole and the roar of rotor blades muted by bright-yellow ear muffs, I experience a fleeting sense of regret. This part of Kashmir could still have been with India had the 1948 aggression by Pakistan been anticipated and thwarted.

Chaos all over after AIEEE paper leak
Exam delayed by 3 hours; one nabbed in Kanpur
New Delhi/Lucknow, May 1
The question paper for the All-India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) was leaked in Uttar Pradesh today and the copies were reportedly sold for Rs 6 lakh each, forcing the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to postpone the exam by three hours.

Angry parents with their children protest outside an AIEEE examination centre in Chandigarh on Sunday. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari

Joshi is PAC chief again
New Delhi, May 1
A day after Murli Manohar Joshi expressed apprehension that his critics in the Congress may oppose the renewal of his Public Accounts Committee chairmanship, his party and the main Opposition, the BJP, promptly nominated him to head the committee for a second successive term this year.

Split wide open in AI union
New Delhi, May 1
In what seems to be a vertical split between the striking pilots of Air India and its other employees, the Air Corporations Employees Union (ACEU) today questioned the pilots over the continuation of the strike in view of the threat of a “lockout” and the losses the company was suffering.

In Bengal, chemistry works for Mamata Kolkata, May 1 While the English alphabet starts with ‘A’ for apple, the corresponding letter in the Bengali alphabet, for some curious reason, has for ages been taught as ‘A’ for ‘ajgar’ or the python. No wonder, a wall cartoon in Kolkata depicts Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee clambering up a tree after being chased by a slithering python.