Advt

Attention NRI's from Haryana State


WEEKLY SPECIALS

EDUCATION
 JOBS & CAREERS

HEALTH & FITNESS

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
REAL ESTATE

 

Tribune analysis
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

Tuesday, March 20, 2012, Chandigarh, India
Edition update time 2:30 am (IST)

Latest news, updated at 11:40 am

 Voting on NCTC amendment in RS 
 Yeddy's camp claims support of 70 MLAs 
 15 killed in UP train accident

With DMK & SP on board, govt staves off crisis in Lok Sabha
 TMC, BSP walkout marks defeat of Opposition amendments on NCTC
Manmohan SinghNew Delhi, March 19
Days of uncertainty and suspense over the fate of Manmohan Singh government ended today with the Lok Sabha adopting the Motion of Thanks to the Presidential address amidst high drama marking the defeat of four successive Opposition amendments.
Editorial: Trivedi’s exit

India takes tough stand on Lanka ‘war crimes’
 Karunanidhi welcomes PM’s move
New Delhi, March 19
Amid mounting pressure from the DMK, a key ally of the UPA government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said India was inclined to vote in favour of a resolution initiated by the US on ‘war crimes’ in Sri Lanka to be taken up at the 19th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva later this week.

Irate Gurgaon factory workers go on rampage 
 Torch vehicles, damage property; many hurt
Gurgaon, March 19
Enraged over an assault on fellow workers by a contractor, several workers of a garment manufacturing-cum-export company here in Sector 37 turned violent and went on a rampage today, torching vehicles and damaging property.
Workers burn vehicles outside a factory in Gurgaon on Monday. Workers burn vehicles outside a factory in Gurgaon on Monday. Tribune photo: Sayeed Ahmed


The Tribune
Punjabi, Hindi Publications

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)

 

The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History


TRIBUNE SPECIALS
2011: THE YEAR OF UPRISINGS
Punjab Public Transport, an investigation
WORLD CUP 2011: CRICKET SPECIAL
Turbans
EARLIER FEATURES

TN Govt gives go-ahead to Kudankulam N-plant
Chennai, March 19
Ending the eight-month uncertainty, the Tamil Nadu Government today gave its nod to the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, a move that could give much respite to the power-starved state.

Yeddy camp fields rebel for RS poll
Bangalore, March 19
Political scene in Karnataka is threatening to slip into chaos once again with disgruntled BJP leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa today fielding a rebel candidate for the March 30 Rajya Sabha poll from Karnataka.

Amarinder may be down, but says he is not out 
Amarinder SinghChandigarh, March 19
Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh has said that he would not step down from the post till he was asked to do so by party president Sonia Gandhi. “I am the party head and will remain there till the party high command wants,” he said. He told his detractors in the party that they should not waste their time picking on him as “he was there to stay”.

OTHER PAGES

HOROSCOPE

WEEKLY





THE TRIBUNE MAGAZINES

On Sundays

On Saturdays


First session of new Assembly begins
Chandigarh, March 19
14th Vidhan Sabha came into being today with all MLAs, barring one, present to take the oath of allegiance to the Constitution as a legislator on the opening day of the Budget Session.Starting with the leader of the House, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, and followed by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, the session saw the entire Punjab Cabinet take oath. (Details on Punjab page)
Special to the tribune
Mughal diamond necklace up for auction next month
A mirror diamond necklace from Mughal times is expected to attract worldwide interest when it is auctioned next month in London. Valued at £20 million, the necklace consists of five pendant diamonds that are of table cut or ‘parab’ design with a central stone of 28-carat dimension. Like the famous Kohinoor on the British Queen Mother’s crown, all these five diamonds are from the famous Golconda mines in Andhra Pradesh.

TODAY'S SPECIALS

 HARYANA PLUS
 EDUCATION


EARLIER TOP STORIES

| Punjab | Haryana | Jammu & Kashmir | Himachal Pradesh | Regional Briefs | Nation | Opinions |
| Business | Sports | World | Letters | Chandigarh | Ludhiana | Delhi |
| Calendar | Weather | Archive | Subscribe | E-mail |

Editor-in-Chief, Publisher & Printer: Raj Chengappa
Published from The Tribune House, Sector 29-C, Chandigarh, India, 160030
for The Tribune Trust. Phone: (91-172) 2655066. Fax: (91-172) 2651293 & 2657149
Copyright : The Tribune Trust, 2007.