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Telangana storm hits Cong as 8 MPs quit, 4 ministers ready to go
New Delhi, August 2
Precipitating crisis in the Congress, which recently granted a separate state of Telangana, eight party MPs from the state today resigned in protest against the decision to divide Andhra, while four Cabinet ministers offered to quit before being persuaded by the Congress leadership to stay put “in the larger interest of the party”.
MPs from Seemandhra, who resigned to protest Andhra’s bifurcation, at Parliament in New Delhi on Friday. — PTI

Army stages flag march in Assam : Detail on Nation page

Centre says can’t give super powers to CBI
New Delhi, August 2
The government today rejected most of CBI’s demands for making it an autonomous investigation agency, contending that “authority without accountability will be draconian,” particularly for the investigation agency which, like the police, had the power to arrest, seize and raid, besides keeping the accused in confinement.

SC verdict to seal fate of Punjab, Haryana farmers in Gujarat
Ahmedabad, August 2
The Gujarat Government and farmers from Punjab and Haryana settled in the border district of Kutch are keeping their fingers crossed waiting for the Supreme Court verdict on the state government’s move to oust “non-Gujarati farmers” from the state.

EXCESS PAYMENTS
Give back recovered amount to pensioners, apex court tells Punjab
New Delhi, August 2
The Supreme Court today directed the Punjab Government to return crores of rupees recovered from thousands of employees and pensioners. The government had recovered the amounts contending that it had made excess payments to them due to wrong fixation of their pay scales while they were in service.

Flash floods hit Kargil; cloudburst in HP
Srinagar, August 2
Reminiscent of the flash floods that caused heavy damage in the Ladakh region three years ago, rains and flash floods hit Kargil district, causing damage to roads disrupting connectivity and damaging several houses last evening.

A washed away portion of the Leh-Srinagar highway in Kargil on Friday. — PTI

Moderate quake jolts North India : Details on J&K page

Bridge, road stretch washed away in Lahaul Spiti

Decks cleared for first National Cancer Institute in Haryana * To be set up at Bhadsa in Jhajjar * Karnal to get North zone centre offering treatment up to tertiary level  Chandigarh, August 2 Two of the country’s five proposed specialised cancer treatment hospitals will some up at Jhajjar and Karnal in Haryana. The first National Cancer Institute (NCI) will come up on the premises of Phase II of the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) at Bhadsa in Jhajjar. Karnal will get the North Zone Hospital for treatment up to tertiary level among the four National Zonal Cancer Hospitals to be set up.