Army to try 5 officers for Pathribal killings
NC hails decision, victim’s kin disappointed
Srinagar, June 29
The Army has decided to try in a military court five of its officers allegedly involved in the Pathribal fake encounter killing of five civilians in Anantnag district of Kashmir in March 2000.

Physicist Arun Grover is new PU VC
New Delhi, June 29
Sixty-one-year-old Arun Kumar Grover always dreamt of serving his alma  mater. Today, his dream of 40 years came true. His phone hasn’t stopped ringing since noon when news broke that Vice-President Hamid Ansari, also Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh, had appointed Grover as the new Vice-Chancellor.

Six AIIMS-like institutes to begin operations in Sept
Additional 300 MBBS seats for wannabe doctors
New Delhi, June 29
Aspirants of medical education will have wider admissions choices from this September. Six new AIIMS-like institutes are all set to start operations with batches of 50 students each.

Sensex soars 439 pts on EU meet in year’s highest single-day gain
New Delhi, June 29
There is renewed optimism in the air with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh taking charge of the finance portfolio as stock markets responded today with the biggest single-day gain of 439 points in 2012 due to draft norms for General Anti Avoidance Rules and positive news flow from the EU summit. (Details on Business page)

Clean chit to union carbide
NGOs to file appeal against US court ruling
New Delhi, June 29
Surprisingly, there were no protests in India after a US court’s “no-liability” clean chit to Union Carbide Corporation and its former chief Warren Anderson — those responsible for the world’s worst industrial disaster on that dark night of December 2-3, 1984, in Bhopal.