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Major offensive against Maoists in Bastar jungles
* 1,000 securitymen comb area
* NIA team begins probe
Raipur, May 27
Two days after the deadly Maoist attack on the Congress ‘Parivartan rally’ in Chhattisgarh, over 1,000 security personnel have been sent into the jungles of the Maoist-dominated Bastar region for a major offensive against the Left extremists.

Editorial: Maoist challenge
Nation page: Maoist attack: Security forces lacked synergy
Congress pays homage to its dead leaders

Faridkot minor’s rape: Nishan gets double life imprisonment
Mother, former Akali councillor, seven others get seven-year RI
Faridkot, May 27
The Faridkot District Sessions Judge today awarded double life imprisonment to Nishan Singh for kidnapping and raping a minor girl. Nine other accused in the case have been sentenced to seven-year rigorous imprisonment.

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Nishan Singh outside the Faridkot District and Sessions Court on Monday. A Tribune photograph

Faridkot rape case
Jail term to Nishan a message to society, says court
Says no to leniency in quantum of sentence
Faridkot, May 27
Sentencing Nishan Singh to double life imprisonment in two rapes and kidnapping cases, the Faridkot District and Sessions Judge today relied heavily upon the “deterrent” theories of punishment suggested by various high courts and the Supreme Court.

Japan keen to sell bullet train knowhow to India
New Delhi, May 27
Covering a distance of 1400 km between Delhi and Mumbai in eight hours by train could well become a reality if India were to adopt Japan’s high-speed rail technology or ‘Shinkansen’, Tokyo has claimed.

Manmohan Singh arrives in Japan

PM Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur are received by Japan’s Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Minoru Kiuchi upon their arrival in Tokyo on Monday. — PTI

CBSE XII result: Girls ahead, pass percentage up
New Delhi/Chandigarh, May 27
Girls outperformed boys in the CBSE class XII examinations, results of which were declared today. The pass percentage of girls (87.98) remained higher than that of boys (77.78) at the national level.

Chandigarh page: Aakriti tops tricity with 98.2%

Jubilant students of Chandigarh’s Sacred Heart High School after the results were declared. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

Books Maluka bought for Punjab’s schoolkids Chandigarh, May 27 At an age when children should be reading stories about princes and princesses, Punjab Education Minister Sikander Singh Maluka “gifted” them literature suggesting how to court their sisters-in-law or to mock at Parkash Singh Badal and Rajiv Gandhi for their alleged weakness in addressing Sikh issues. Punjab page: Ambala firm develops cold feet Controversial books supplied to primary school libraries in Punjab include Kanwal Kehnda Riha, Bacche di Sambhal te Sikhiya, Punjabi Lok Geet and Kaale Likh na Lekh