Sensex on Thursday
Down 770
Mumbai, March 13
Global turmoil crippled the domestic stock markets today with the benchmark Sensex nosediving to six-and-a-half month low of 15,357.35 points in its sixth biggest fall of 770.63 points. Market analysts attributed today's steep fall mainly to crude oil prices spiralling to record peak of over $110 a barrel.

2 Haryana Cong MLAs disqualified
Chandigarh, March 13
Two Haryana Congress MLAs, Dharam Pal Malik (Gohana) and Rakesh Kamboj (Indri), close associates of former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal and his MP son Kuldeep Bishnoi, were disqualified from the membership of the House here today by Speaker Raghubir Singh Kadian for “voluntarily giving up the membership of the Indian National Congress, on the ticket of which they had won the elections.”

Can sign N-deal with minority govt: US
New Delhi, March 13
The US has made it clear that it was not averse to wrapping up the nuclear deal with a minority government in India, seeking to set at rest questions over the fate of the agreement if Left parties were to withdraw support to the ruling UPA.

Ludhiana, March 13 Three students were killed when a passenger train coming from Ludhiana to Ahmedgarh collided with a car at the unmanned level crossing near Gill railway station today.
This is what remained of the car at an unmanned crossing near Gill village on Thursday. — Tribune photo by Sayeed Ahmed

Police claims to solve Scarlette murder
Prime accused confesses killing
Panaji, March 13
The Goa police has arrested yet another man today and claims to have cracked the case of the murder of British teenager Scarlette Eden Keeling, who, it said, died due to “drug overdose and drowning” after being repeatedly raped on the beach.

Probe into incubator death
Ahmedabad, March 13
The Gujarat government has formed a three-member inquiry committee to probe into an incident in which a three-day-old baby was charred to death in an incubator following a short-circuit at the Shardaben hospital here. The committee, comprising an additional director of the health department, chief electric officer of the state government and a senior officer of the Forensic Science laboratory, will probe into the technical details of the fire mishap, official sources said today.

Bharatpur bird sanctuary faces water crisis
May lose Unesco recognition
Agra/New Delhi, March 13
India’s famous Keoladeo National Park at Bharatpur in Rajasthan is facing de-recognition from the list of Unesco’s world heritage site after a two-member team of the world organisation pointed out the persistent water crisis in the sanctuary.

Farmers find a new messiah in Rahul New Delhi, March 13 Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP from Amethi and scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family, today sought more relief for farmers by way of flexibility in land ceiling and a localised cut-off date to enable farmers to benefit from the loan waiver scheme. ‘No breach of security’