S P O T L I G H T

Miraculous escape for Sangma
IMPHAL, Feb 10 (PTI) — Nationalist Congress Party General Secretary P.A. Sangma today said that he and his wife had a miraculous escape when their rest house was “attacked” by Assam Rifles personnel at Moreh in Manipur’s Chandel district on Tuesday night. He said he and his wife did not stay at the room booked earlier and had they stayed there they would have been killed. His guards were reportedly mistaken as militants.

CJs appointed
NEW DELHI, Feb 10 (PTI) — Mr Justice Bhagavati Prasad Saraf of the Bombay High Court was today appointed Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said. He would replace Jammu and Kashmir High Court Chief Justice Bhawani Singh, who would take charge as the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.

N. Irish legislation
LONDON, Feb 10 (Reuters) — Britain’s House of Lords passed emergency legislation today allowing the suspension of a fledgling power-sharing Assembly in northern Ireland if the Irish Republican Army makes no move to give up its weapons. The bill, rushed through Parliament in three days, now requires the formality of Royal assent from Queen Elizabeth. Thereafter, direct rule from London could be reimposed.