Saturday, May 13, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Anti-quota medicos face teargas, water cannons
Hundreds detained; IMA calls for closure of hospitals
New Delhi, May 12

Hours after they made the announcement to intensify the fight against reservation for OBCs in higher education, medical students took to the streets in the Capital demanding the Prime Minister’s intervention on the issue.
The police arrests an agitating medical student during a protest over the government’s proposed reservation policy in New Delhi on Friday. — PTI photo Delhi page: Medical students up in arms against quota

Walkout as wheat import rocks House
New Delhi, May 12
The issue of wheat import rocked the Rajya Sabha today with the BJP-led NDA charging the government with compromising on the interest of farmers, before staging a walkout in the House.

CBI nabs its legal adviser on graft charge
New Delhi, May 12
Adopting a “pro-active” approach against corruption within, the CBI arrested yet another agency official on charges of bribery taking the total number of such cases to five.

Strike against sex racket cripples life
Srinagar, May 12
Police used teargas and batons today to disperse stone-pelting demonstrators protesting the government's alleged failure to act against those involved in a sex racket as this summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir observed a complete shutdown over the scandal.

In video (28k, 56k) Jawans and protesters throw stones at each other during a bandh call by the bar association and Dukhtareen Millat in Srinagar on Friday. — Tribune photo by Amin War

MP gets 10-yr jail for rape
Purulia, May 12
Forward Bloc MP Bir Singh Mahto and four others were today sentenced to ten years jail by a local court after being convicted in a rape and arson case on Renubala Bhagat of Bagmundi village of Purulia district in 1983.

Minor raped by grandfather
Nation page: Rape case verdict in 34 days

Nine IAS officers transferred in Punjab
Chandigarh, May 12
The Punjab Government tonight transferred nine IAS officers in the state with immediate effect, an official spokesperson said here.

Interpol notice on kin of Navy chief
New Delhi, May 12
A worldwide arrest notice was issued today against one of the main accused in the Navy war room leak case Ravi Shankaran, a kin of Naval Chief Arun Prakash. The Interpol issued the Red Corner notice after the CBI approached it on May one, a CBI spokesperson said here.

Candidate loses, postpones marriage Chennai, May 12 It was a double blow for an AIADMK candidate in Tamil Nadu, for whom the defeat at the just-concluded Assembly elections meant postponement of his marriage by another five years. Rama Ramanathan, known as ‘kudumi’ Ramanathan for knotting his long tresses, was drubbed in the elections by the DMK’s old war horse Ko Si Mani for the third consecutive time in Kumbakonam.