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PM snubs Anna who vows to go on Aug 16 fast
l Says the social activist should take his grievances to the concerned statutory authorities
l Gandhian had sought PM's intervention over strict conditions imposed by police for fast
New Delhi, August 13
The UPA government and the Team Anna were locked in a confrontation today as a fuming Anna Hazare categorically rejected the conditional permission given by the Delhi Police for his fast for a stronger Lokpal Bill, limiting it to three days and 5,000 persons. Hazare also shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, seeking his intervention for the protection of his fundamental rights.

Heavy rain wreaks havoc in Punjab, 17 dead
Ludhiana/Chandigarh, August 13
Heavy rain during the past 24 hours at various places, especially in central Punjab has played havoc leading to the death of 17 persons, besides disrupting normal life.

A truck driver was killed when his vehicle tripped into a caved-in portion of the road near Maharaj Nagar in Ludhiana on Saturday. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan

US diplomat caught in row over remarks on Tamils
Chennai, August 13
A US diplomat was caught in a row over her remarks in which she used the term “dirty and dark” for Tamilians, prompting the American Consulate here to term them as “inappropriate”.

                 Maureen Chao, US Vice-Consulate

Centre seeks review of SC verdict on SPOs
New Delhi, August 13
The Centre has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a review and recall of the judgment prohibiting the use of special police officers (SPOs) for dealing with Naxalites in Chhattisgarh and other states.

Voice sample of 26/11 accused matches handler’s: Pak agency
Islamabad, August 13
A prosecution witness today told the Pakistani court conducting the trial of seven suspects in the Mumbai attack case that the voice of one of the accused had matched with that of a handler who directed the terrorists involved in the assault.

‘Taliban’ kidnap American in Lahore
Lahore, August 13
Twelve heavily armed suspected Taliban militants barged into the residence of an American national and kidnapped him in the wee hours today after overpowering his guards in Pakistan’s Punjab provincial capital.

Akalis, Congress sound poll bugle
SAD terms SGPC elections as semis 
Baba Bakala (Amritsar), August 13
Dubbing the SGPC polls as semifinals ahead of the assembly elections, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal, today exhorted the party workers to get ready for the “finals” (assembly polls) as well while attacking the Congress for making indirect bids to take over the control of SGPC. (Details on Punjab Page)

Political crisis hits Nepal again
Kathmandu, August 13
Political crisis in Nepal deepened today as a crucial meeting of the main parties failed to agree on a national unity government even as the embattled Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal refused to quit till a consensus is formed on a new coalition.(Details on World Page)