Sunday, March 23, 2014, Chandigarh, India,
Edition update time 2:30 am (IST)

Ignored veterans sulk, BJP fights dissent
Jaswant attacks leadership over Barmer seat
Sena angry over raw deal to Advani
New Delhi, March 22
Jaswant Singh has known his party and the company he keeps. Yet, so little did he know: the BJP he knew for decades denied him the party nomination from Barmer, his native place in Rajasthan. Today, the maudlin party veteran talked of the "real" and "fake" BJP being "encroached upon."

Big guns revive Congress hopes in Punjab
Chandigarh, March 22
The chips were down for the faction-ridden Punjab Congress some days ago, but the high command’s strategy to have its big guns lead from the front has enlivened the battle in the state.

Amarinder Singh was initially reluctant to contest from Amritsar, but fell in line after Sonia Gandhi intervened

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Chinese satellite spots new possible debris off Australia
Kuala Lumpur/Perth, Australia, March 22
China said on Saturday it had a new satellite image of what could be wreckage from the missing Malaysian airliner, as more planes and ships headed to join an international search operation scouring some of the remotest seas on Earth.

World page: The final 54-minute conversation between pilots and control tower

A flight officer aboard an aircraft prepares to launch a sonar buoy to trace the missing Malaysian jetliner on Saturday. AP

Coalgate: CBI questions PM aide Nair
New Delhi, March 22
The Central Bureau of Investigation has questioned TKA Nair, Adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, over alleged irregularities in the allocation of coal blocks. As the agency prepares its submission before the Supreme Court later next week, CBI sources said a detailed questionnaire had been sent to Nair, which was replied by him.

Reliance biz jet grounded for safety violation
New Delhi, March 22
The DGCA today grounded a business jet owned by Reliance Industries for carrying expired safety equipment on board and suspended its pilot for flying without a licence. The aviation regulator, which carried out surprise inspection at Delhi's IGI Airport this afternoon, also searched Jindal Steel and Power Limited's Global Express BD 700 aircraft and found several major lapses, official sources said.