Sonia meets Jind gangrape victim’s kin, promises action
Raps khaps’ idea of lowering marriage age to curb rape
Jind, October 9
Congress president Sonia Gandhi today offered condolences and a hug to the family of a teenage girl who killed herself in Jind after she was allegedly gang-raped. The Congress chief pitched for “stringent action” against the perpetrators of the “horrific” crime, but rejected the khaps’ demand to reduce the marriageable age of girls to 16.
Nation page: Till Sonia came, Team Hooda did not bother to meet victim’s family
Khaps stick to demand of lowering girls’ marriage age
To improve rape statistics, police drags its feet on registering FIRs
Haryana page: INLD women workers take to streets

AICC chief Sonia Gandhi coming out of the rape victim’s house in Jind on Tuesday. Photo: Manoj Dhaka

Maya to take call on support to UPA today
Lucknow, October 9
Attacking the UPA government for its "anti-people" decisions, BSP supremo Mayawati today said her party would take a final call tomorrow on whether to continue its outside support to the Centre.

HEROIN SEIZURE
Train took ‘unusually’ long to reach Amritsar
Amritsar, October 9
Even as the customs authorities are tight-lipped about any breakthrough in yesterday’s seizure of 105 kg heroin in rail cargo from Pakistan, it has come to light that the goods train from which the seizure was made took around four hours to traverse the 25-km distance between Attari and Amritsar.

Punjab page: Traders seek probe by Central agency

Tiger tourism ban to continue, for now
New Delhi, October 9
The Supreme Court today permitted the Centre to notify within a week its fresh guidelines for tiger conservation and regulating tiger tourism.

Special to the tribune UK Sikhs divided over attack on Lt Gen Brar While the British Police continues their efforts to round up all those involved in the knifing of Lt Gen KS Brar, discussion in Southall is dominated by questions about the real motives of those behind the attack.