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Terror mail traced to J&K
n IM now claims responsibility for Delhi blast
n ‘Chotoo’ warns of fresh attack on Sept 13
New Delhi/Jammu, September 8
Investigators today detained five persons, including a cyber cafe owner in Jammu and Kashmir, and questioned two in Bihar and Srinagar as they groped for definite leads into the briefcase bomb blast outside the Delhi High Court yesterday.

Editorial: Terror strikes Delhi

NIA officers collect evidence from the blast site at the Delhi High Court on Thursday — afp

NDA protest rocks Parliament
BJP says injustice meted out to its 2 ex-MPs held in cash-for-vote scam
New Delhi, September 8
The NDA today staged a protest in Parliament complex demanding Prime Minister's resignation over the cash-for-vote scam after BJP leader LK Advani was not allowed to speak in Lok Sabha on the alleged "injustice" meted out to two former party MPs arrested in the case. Senior BJP leaders, including Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, along with those of NDA partners gathered around the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the Parliament complex and raised slogans against the government on the cash-for-vote scam.

Oil, Civil Aviation, Navy & IAF singed by CAG reports
New Delhi, September 8
Although not as damning as some of the earlier reports, three CAG reports tabled in Parliament on the last day of the Monsoon session today, made the Government squirm again.

Nation page: CAG slams Navy for buying MiGs without weapons
Business page: CAG critical of Oil Min, RIL on KG-D6 contract

IT sleuths seal house of Gaganjit Barnala
Chandigarh, September 8

A few days after former Tamil Nadu Governor and senior Akali leader Surjit Singh Barnala announced his return to active politics, a real estate firm in which his son Gaganjit Singh is one of the directors was raided by Income Tax officials today.

Policemen outside Gaganjit Barnala’s house in Chandigarh.

Govt bans onion export
New Delhi, September 8
To prevent a repeat of last year’s onion crisis, the government today banned export of the bulb with immediate effect. It, however, lifted the four-year ban on wheat export and allowed the export of grain, including non-basmati rice, following record production and storage constraints.

China not allowing Tibetan traders into India
Shimla, September 8
Although Indo-Tibetan border trade resumed in 2004 along the old “Silk Route”, authoritative sources said not a single trader from Tibet had been allowed so far to enter India for trading.

monsoon session LS lost 45% time to disruptions, RS 44% New Delhi, September 8 The monsoon session ended on a caustic note today - just as it had begun on August 1 - with both Houses being adjourned sine die after the BJP sought the suspension of Question Hour to discuss the arrest of two former MPs in the cash-for-vote scam and party veteran LK Advani dared arrest in the matter, sending Treasury Benches into frenzy.