Thursday, August 10, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Key inputs ignored: Natwar
New Delhi, August 9
Seeking to defend his case in the Volcker controversy, former External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh, who has been suspended from the Congress, today cited a communication to the government by Permanent Mission of India (PMI) to the United Nations saying that the UN-appointed Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) had the inclination to discredit the opponents of US policy.

Govt ready to expose Natwar
New Delhi, August 9
The gloves are clearly off. With suspended Congress leader K. Natwar Singh launching a personal attack against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today, a combative government is preparing to take him on, word for word.

Graveyard of unborn daughters
Over 100 female foetuses dug out of well near Patiala

Patran (Patiala), August 9 A mass grave of female foetus was detected today in a vacant plot owned by quacks Pritam Singh, an ex-serviceman and his wife Amarjit Kaur of this town, by a high-level team of state health authorities after it raided the premises of the local Sahib Hospital run by these quacks.

Experts of the Health Department try to take out foetuses from a 30 ft well of Saheb Hospital, Patran, 65 km from Patiala, on Wednesday. — Tribune photo by Rajesh Sachar

India: The Tasks Ahead
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS,
INAUGURAL SESSION

Punjab pay panel today
1300 doctors to be appointed in rural areas
Sangrur, August 9
The Punjab government will constitute a pay commission tomorrow. The government will also appoint 1300 more service providers (doctors) soon to provide better health service to a population of 5000 by a doctor in the rural areas of the state. Octroi will be abolished from September 1 in the state.

Ganguly back in reckoning
Bangalore, August 9
Sourav Ganguly was on the comeback trail today after being selected among 30 probables for the ICC Champions Trophy along with other ODI discards Zaheer Khan, V.V.S. Laxman and Anil Kumble.

Shaun Pollock to write for The Tribune
Former South African Test skipper Shaun Pollock will be writing five articles for The Tribune during the forthcoming cricket tri-series between India, Sri Lanka and South Africa to be played from August 14 to 29. The articles will be a preview of the four matches to be played by South Africa and the final match.— Editor-in-Chief

Yesteryear Bollywood actress Rakhi Gulzar protests against the amendments to the Right to Information Act at August Kranti Maidan in Mumbai on Wednesday. — PTI

PM lays out contours of BIMSTEC cooperation
New Delhi, August 9
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, today unveiled his vision of linking South Asia to Southeast Asia. He made a strong pitch for using BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multisectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) to improve land connectivity by building road and rail network, step up people-to-people contacts through film festivals and make the region a trade hub by innovative Free Trade Area (FTA) agreement.

Mahesh Bhatt leads Muslim protest Mumbai, August 9 With the Mumbai police summoning scores of Muslim youths for questioning in the wake of the serial bomb blasts, community leaders are coming together to protest, what they call, harassment of innocent people.