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New law to curb doping on cards
Ministry wants WADA norms applicable 
to all sports
New Delhi, July 11
Rattled by the doping scandal that has rocked Indian athletics, the Sports Ministry is planning to bring a new law to deal with the menace in the forthcoming monsoon session of Parliament.

2 more athletes’ B-samples fail

Now we have asked the NIS, SAI and NADA to be more vigilant. I have asked NADA to carry out more surprise checks, increase the frequency and change the dope officers and I am hopeful of positive results. — Ajay Maken, Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs

Guwahati-puri Express derailed near rangia
Bodos suspected behind train blast
Guwahati, July 11
The police suspects that the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), anti-talks faction led by Ranjan Daimary, is behind Sunday night’s bomb blast on the track that derailed four coaches and capsized another four of the Guwahati-Puri Express, leaving 77 passengers injured.

Rescue personnel at the accident site, where the Guwahati-Puri Express derailed. — PTI

Editorial: Safety must top rail agenda
Nation page: Kalka Mail toll reaches 69
Minister ignores PM’s directive to visit site

SC wants tribunal to resolve Hansi-Butana canal dispute
Slams Centre for keeping quiet, allowing dispute to become bigger
New Delhi, July 11
Slamming the Centre for its inaction in resolving the water disputes between Punjab and Haryana, the Supreme Court today suggested that the controversy over the Hansi-Butana canal should be referred to a tribunal.

Nod to Food Security Bill draft
New Delhi, July 11
An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) has cleared the draft Food Security Bill, which will provide highly subsidised wheat and rice to the poor as a matter of legal right but not quite in the shape and size the Congress president Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council had recommended.

Nation page: Non-basmati rice export allowed

‘Inadequate remunerative price’ for crop
Declare ‘crop holiday’, Punjab farmers urged
New Delhi, July 11
Consortium of Indian Farmers Association (CIFA), a leading farmers’ organisation, has hit upon a unique idea to register farmers’ protest against the Centre’s “unattractive remunerative price” for wheat and rice produce.

PM to reshuffle Cabinet today
New Delhi, July 11
In what is seen as an image-makeover exercise, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will undertake a reshuffle of his Council of Ministers tomorrow.

Telangana on the boil again

Pro-Telangana students pelt the police with stones in Hyderabad on Monday during their “Chalo Raj Bhawan” agitation demanding the introduction of Telangana Bill in Parliament. Students at Osmania University clashed with the police, which resorted to lobbing of teargas shells and baton-charge to bring the situation under control. — PTI (Detail on Nation page)