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Monday, March 26, 2012, Chandigarh, India
Edition update time 2:30 am (IST)

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 Govt orders CBI probe into Army Chief's bribery claim...more 
 
Maoists reiterate demands to free second Italian...more
Team Anna comes under sharp attack in Lok Sabha...more

One Italian freed after 11 days in captivity
Fate of other two hostages, including BJD MLA, unknown
Bhubaneswar, March 25
A TV grab of Claudio Colangelo after his releaseOne of the two Italians abducted by Maoists, tourist Claudio Colangelo, was today released unharmed by ultras, 11 days after being taken hostage in Kandhamal district, while his compatriot was still in captivity. A visibly relieved 61-year-old Colangelo, who was handed over to a group of media personnel by the Maoists, told reporters, "it was frightening".
A TV grab of Claudio Colangelo after his release

File clemency plea before Prez: SAD panel to SGPC
Balwant Singh RajoanaChandigarh March 25
The SAD core committee today moved towards getting former Chief Minister Beant Singh’s assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana’s death sentence commuted to life. It directed the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee to file a clemency appeal before the President immediately.

Punjab page: Day after, Cong changes stance
BJP steers clear of row, says it’s for court to decide

Patil’s foreign jaunts cost exchequer Rs 205 cr
New Delhi, March 25
President Pratibha PatilPresident Pratibha Patil's foreign trips has cost the public exchequer a whopping Rs 205 crore on her foreign visits, surpassing the record of all her predecessors. Since assuming office as the country's first woman President in July 2007, Patil has undertaken 12 foreign trips covering 22 countries across four continents.

India, S Korea to boost ties
Seoul, March 25
Seeking to expand their strategic ties, India and South Korea today agreed to step up political and security cooperation, as they vowed to double the bilateral trade to an ambitious $40 billion by 2015. "We agreed to expand our political and security cooperation," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said after his talks with President Lee Myung-bak here.




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  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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Jammu, March 25
For many years, Altaf Mir (50) has stuck to a daily routine. He walks down to the banks of the Jhelum near Muzaffarabad in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and stands there gazing at the gushing waters of the river. “The water brings with it the fragrance of my motherland, Anantnag, where I was born,” he says, pointing towards the Indian side of Kashmir. His misty eyes have just one dream in them - to travel to his homeland.
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