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Latest news, updated at 4:45 pm  2G note: Pranab meets Sonia Gandhi BJP wins Karnataka Assembly bypoll Food inflation rises to 9.13 pc PM announces Rs 1000 crore for Sikkim Harbhajan dropped from ODI squad

2G note not mine, Pranab tells PM
Says it was put together with inputs from various ministries
New Delhi, September 28
Caught between a belligerent Opposition and his feuding Cabinet colleagues, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is yet to resolve the dispute over the controversial 2G Spectrum document though Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has written to him a letter to explain that he had no role in preparation of the note which was put together with inputs from various ministries, including the Prime Minister’s Office.

FIR against Maran soon: CBI to SC
Nation page: 2G: New loss figures enthuse Congress

A Tribune Investigation Punjab Public Transport - 3
How the transport policy was manipulated for private profit
Chandigarh, September 28
Soon after it came to power in February 2007, the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (SAD-BJP) alliance government headed by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal decided to review the existing public transport policy.

Tatas not to get Singur land back: HC
Kolkata, September 28
The Calcutta High Court today granted legal sanctity to the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act and endorsed it as constitutionally valid. The court also rejected Tata Motors’ petition, filed on July 20, challenging the validity of the Act passed in the Assembly on June 26.

Mamata wins Assembly bypoll

ED to send team abroad to collect info on Hasan’s assets
New Delhi, September 28
The Enforcement Directorate has decided to send a team of its investigators to Switzerland, Singapore, UAE and the UK to gather data on investments and assets of stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan who is being probed for allegedly evading income tax of over Rs 50,000 crore.

ISI ‘warns’ CIA of backlash
Islamabad, September 28
Upset over the “blunt” American assessment about its links with Haqqani network, the ISI has told the CIA that Pakistan will be forced to retaliate if US forces attempt to launch a unilateral strike on its tribal belt, dubbed as a safe haven for Taliban, a media report said today.
(Details on World page)

Gursharan Singh dead
The doyen of Punjabi theatre Gursharan Singh died in Chandigarh on Tuesday night. (Details on Punjab page)

Oped: Theatre’s iconic missionary

cash-for-vote scam
Amar Singh denied bail, to be arrested again
New Delhi, September 28
Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh faces arrest again in 2008 cash-for-vote scam as a Delhi court today dismissed his regular as well as interim bail pleas saying his role was "major" in the entire episode aimed at "disgracing" parliamentary democracy. (Details on Nation page)