Big win for BJP in Dasuya
Sukhjit Kaur Sahi beats Arun Dogra of Cong by over 47,000 votes
Dasuya, July 14
Sukhjit Kaur Sahi of the BJP beat her nearest rival Arun Dogra of the Congress by 47,432 votes in the Dasuya bypoll, the counting for which was held on Saturday.
BJP’s Sukhjit Kaur Sahi with her son and daughter greets her supporters. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh

Upset Congmen want Capt to own up defeat
Chandigarh, July 14
Punjab Congress leaders today held Pradesh Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh responsible for the party’s humiliating defeat in the Dasuya bypoll and urged the party high command to immediately intervene and set things right in the state.

Khaps term female foeticide as murder
Want drive against menace, guilty punished
Bibipur (Jind), July 14
A mahapanchayat of leaders and representatives of over 100 khaps from Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh took a tough stand against female foeticide on Saturday.
SONG ‘N’ DANCE: Women participants at Saturday’s khap mahapanchayat near Jind. Photo: Manoj Dhaka

9 dead as bus falls into gorge in J-K
Batote, July 14
Nine Amarnath pilgrims were killed and 21 seriously injured when a bus they were travelling in rolled down into a gorge at Ramban on the Jammu-Srinagar Highway at 11 pm on Saturday.

40 Kingfisher flights cancelled as ‘unpaid’ pilots go on strike
Mumbai, July 14
After the management of Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher Airlines failed to pay salaries to all employees on Friday as promised, pilots of the airline in many places across the country went on a strike forcing 40 flights to be cancelled - till afternoon today.

cartoon row
NCERT’s apex body slams Thorat report
New Delhi, July 14
Following day-long discussions on the SK Thorat panel suggestions to remove 21 politically and communally sensitive cartoons from senior secondary school textbooks, NCERT’s apex academic body today slammed the report as “deeply inadequate” and said it didn’t offer cogent intellectual arguments for the deletion of cartoons.