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Army Chief’s Age Row
 A matter of Honour vs Propriety
 The second big anomaly
The Twist in the Tale
 The General’s Gambit
 The General gives his ‘word’
 A matter of propriety vs integrity

Monday, March 19, 2012, Chandigarh, India
Edition update time 2:30 am (IST)

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 We intend to vote in favour of resolution against Lanka: PM...more
 Mulayam rules out SP joining govt at the Centre...more
 Have patience: Gadkari to Yeddyurappa...more

Mamata prevails, Trivedi goes
Kolkata/New Delhi, March 18
 Dinesh Trivedi Dinesh Trivedi resigned today as Railway Minister ending his defiance and bringing to a close five-day drama after he incurred the wrath of Trinamool Congress for hiking passenger fares in the Railway Budget.

Kidnapped Italian national Paolo Bosusco. — AFPMaoists abduct two Italian tourists in Odisha’s tribal area
 Bhubaneswar/New Delhi, Mar 18
 Two Italian tourists were abducted in the tribal-dominated Ganjam district of Odisha by Maoists demanding an immediate end to anti-Naxal operations and release of some jailed colleagues.

Raids on M’rashtra babu yield property worth Rs 200 crore
Mumbai, March 18
 In growing instances of corruption singeing the country’s bureaucracy, searches by Maharashtra’s Anti-Corruption Bureau sleuths on the premises of bureaucrat Nitesh Janardhan Thakur have yielded properties and cash worth Rs 200 crore so far.

AGENDA
2012-17
FOR THE NEW PUNJAB GOVT
Beginning today, The Tribune flags key areas for the new SAD-BJP government. Part I features the critical area of finance where the Parkash Singh Badal government would have to take some tough decisions as the state is virtually broke. (Details on Punjab page)

Cong U’khand crisis simmers
New Delhi/Dehradun, March 18
 The political crisis in the Uttarakhand Congress refused to die down with sulking Union Minister Harish Rawat today saying he had not received any “concrete” proposal from the Central leadership to end the stalemate.


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THE TRIBUNE DEBATE: NCTC
  Why states alone cannot deal with terror
  STATES ill-equipped to handle terror
  WHAT THE STATES CAN AND must do (N N Vohra)
   AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME (Sankar Sen)
  Inadequate consultation is the bane (B. Raman)
  Grey areas need to be addressed (Prakash Singh)
  States fear the ‘Centre’ more than ‘terrorism’ (Prof. Madabhushi Sridhar)
  Raising policing standards is the key (R.K.Raghavan)
   Coalition politics in the way of countering terror (Shyamal Datta)
  Counter-terrorism requires close cooperation (Ved Marwah)
  Centre & States both failed to deal with terror (K P S Gill)

 

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 After the Assembly poll debacle, the Congress today took the first step towards revamping its Punjab unit by deciding to appoint Abohar MLA Sunil Jakhar as its legislature party leader. An official announcement in this regard will be made by Gulchain Singh Charakh tomorrow.

Virat Kohli after scoring a century during the Asia Cup match against Pakistan in Dhaka.
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After Noorie, next cloned Pashmina goat in
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Veterinary scientist Dr Riaz Ahmad Shah holds Noorie, who weighed 1.3 kg at birth.Srinagar, March 18
 The buzz around Noorie has continued to grow since March 9 when scientists at the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology (SKUAST) announced the successful cloning of the world’s first Pashmina goat, a rare and dwindling breed found in the upper reaches of Ladakh and Tibet.

The man & his creation: Veterinary scientist Dr Riaz Ahmad Shah holds Noorie, who weighed 1.3 kg at birth. — Reuters

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