Ruckus in Punjab House over memorial
Cong legislators ask ruling alliance to clear stand on twin issues of memorial, Rajoana
Chandigarh, June 21
The Punjab Congress today forced two adjournments in the Assembly, asking the ruling SAD-BJP combine to clarify its stand on the issue of raising a memorial for those killed in Operation Bluestar in 1984 and ‘honouring’ ex-CM Beant Singh’s assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana.

 Badal on Bluestar memorial
 Punjab page: BJP: Rajoana no martyr

Paes to partner rookie Vishnu; Sania in mixed doubles
New Delhi, June 21
The All India Tennis Association took the “middle path” when it selected Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna as one team for the men’s doubles while Leander Paes will partner rookie Vishnu Vardhan in the second team for the London Olympics tennis events.

Major fire in M’rashtra Secretariat; 2 dead
Offices of the CM, Deputy CM gutted
Rescue suspended as embers flare up
Probe ordered
Mumbai, June 21
A major fire broke out at Mantralaya, the secretariat of the Maharashtra Government, this afternoon gutting the offices of the Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister, Chief Secretary and senior officials.

CET row
IIT-Delhi to hold its own entrance test
New Delhi, June 21
The Ministry of HRD today came under renewed pressure from the IIT faculty to advance its proposed common engineering entrance test (CET) beyond 2013, with the Senate of the IIT-Delhi rejecting the idea and resolving to conduct its own test next year.