Pranab’s strengths: Amazing memory, sharp intellect
New Delhi, June 15
The over four-decade long journey of Pranab Mukherjee, a quintessential politician gifted with phenomenal memory and sharp intellect, is expected to culminate at Raisina Hill, five years after he set his heart on it.

NDA left with not much choice

Army Chief in J&K, takes stock of security situation
Srinagar/Udhampur, June 15
On his first visit to any state after he assumed office last month, Chief of the Army Staff General Bikram Singh arrived in Jammu and Kashmir on a two day-visit today.

Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh (L) with Jammu and Kashmir Governor NN Vohra on Friday. A Tribune photograph

Gupta guilty of insider trading
New York, June 15 
Former Goldman Director Rajat Gupta, the poster boy of Indians at the Wall Street, was today found guilty of illegally tipping off his friend Raj Rajaratnam of confidential market information, in one of America's biggest insider trading cases.

Bellary police in a tizzy over soiled notes’ recycling
Bangalore, June 15
Technology developed by an Indore industry to turn waste currency notes into eco-friendly sheets for making doors and furniture recently sent Bellary police into a tizzy.