Chill in Indo-Pak ties persists; no substantive talks with Ashraf
Jaipur, March 9
Amid the chill in India-Pakistan ties, Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf today offered prayers at the famous Sufi shrine at Ajmer but New Delhi refused to hold substantive talks with him to express its anger over the recent killing and beheading of Indian soldiers and Pakistan’s continued support to terrorism emanating from its soil against India.

Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf at the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer on Saturday. — PTI

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LoC violations won’t be tolerated: Army Chief 
Chandigarh, March 9
While declining to comment on the visit of Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to India in the backdrop of two Indian soldiers being killed recently by Pakistani troops, Chief of the Army Staff, Gen Bikram Singh today said that violations of the ceasefire on the Line of Control would not be tolerated.
Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh presents a silver salver to Brig Sant Singh (retd), the only surviving officer to have been decorated twice with the Maha Vir Chakra, in Chandigarh on Saturday. Tribune photo

Boxers in the drug ring
Probe into drug haul set to get wider
On the basis of evidence, police may raid NIS 
Patiala, March 9
The investigation into Rs 130-crore drug racket busted by the Fatehgarh Police on Thursday is set to get wider, with the police indicating that it could conduct raids inside the Netaji Subhash National Institute of Sports (NIS) here.

(L-R) Barinder Singh Bunty, Vijender Singh, Ram Singh.

Rape convict Bitti Mohanty held
Kannur, March 9
Nearly seven years after he jumped bail while serving a seven-year sentence for raping a German national in Rajasthan, absconder Bitti Mohanty from Odisha was today arrested by the Kerala Police and remanded in judicial custody.

Another blaze at M’rashtra secretariat, no casualties
Mumbai, March 9
Ten months after a major fire gutted Mantralaya, the Maharashtra Government's headquarters in South Mumbai, another fire broke out in the same area which is presently under renovation.
A fire truck enters the Mantralaya following a fire on the fourth floor of the building in Mumbai on Saturday. — PTI 

Punjab to SC: Haryana has no right to benefit from Ravi and Beas New Delhi, March 9 Punjab has rejected Haryana’s objection to its control over the Shahpur Kandi Dam, Modhopur Headworks and Thein Dam/Ranjit Sagar Project contending that the neighbouring state has no legal right to any benefit from these projects.