Govt directive to central institutes
Go ahead with quota
New Delhi, April 20
Almost a week after the Supreme Court ruled in favour of 27 per cent OBC quota in aided educational institutions, the ministry of HRD has issued instructions to the IIMs and other central institutes to go ahead with reservation.

FM launches veiled attack on Left
Kannur (Kerala), April 20
Terming the current inflation in the country as largely imported, finance minister Palaniappan Chidambaram today said “no Prime Minister or finance minister can ever roll back prices of essential imported goods”.

Feeling ‘ignored’, Munde quits BJP
Mumbai, April 20
Gopinath Munde, former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra and general secretary of the BJP, today resigned from the party post to protest appointments of senior office-bearers in the Maharashtra unit without his consent.

Huge cache of arms recovered from ex-SP’s house
Chandigarh, April 20
If you are a cop with cupboards full of skeletons, make sure your house is not burgled. And if it is, think twice before calling the police home for investigation. Surinder Singh Atwal, a former superintendent of Punjab police learnt this simple lesson, the hard way.

A view of the roads near Kaza in the Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, on Sunday after a spell of snowfall. — PTI