No lie detector tests: SC
‘Narco, polygraph & brain mapping invade privacy’
New Delhi, May 5
In a verdict expected to weaken cases against terrorists, other dreaded criminals and high-profile offenders, the Supreme Court today cited “mental privacy” to rule that police and other prosecuting agencies cannot forcibly conduct lie detector tests — narcoanalysis, polygraph or brain electrical activation profile (BEAP, popularly known as brain mapping) — on accused, suspects or witnesses.

SC ban on Narco tests

Shahzad admits he trained in Pak
New York, May 5
Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad, arrested for the failed Times Square bomb plot, has admitted to attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan. 
Local man Nazirullah speaks to the media in Shahzad’s ancestral village on Wednesday. — Reuters 

LS War of Words
Speaker’s reprimand fails to sober MPs
New Delhi, May 5
Speaker Meira Kumar’s attempt to bring some order into the Lok Sabha by reprimanding Trinamool Congress MP Sudip Bandopadhyay for using intemperate language in the House failed to deter and sober BJP leader Ananth Kumar who, within minutes of the House resuming order, called RJD chief Lalu Prasad a traitor causing another series of adjournments.

Aiyar’s ‘fascist’ remarks stall Rajya Sabha (Nation page)

Special to the tribune
Two NRIs capture public imagination 
Whatever the outcome of Thursday’s general election in the UK, two Punjabi NRIs and prospective parliamentary candidates, known locally as PPCs, are on course to enter the record books.

Record number of Asians in fray

MCI issue: Law Ministry says it has no role to play 
New Delhi, May 5
The Ministry of Law and Justice is learnt to have told the Health Ministry that it had no role to play in the Medical Council of India as per the existing laws. The legal experts reacted in a negative to a clarification sought by health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who wanted to know if he could put eminent doctors in charge of Medical Council of India affairs while its president Ketan Desai faced a CBI probe for bribery charges.

No decision in Gian Sagar College case

Cobalt-60 Fiasco
All radioactive material recovered
New Delhi, May 5
Delhi can breathe easy as the Department of Atomic Energy today said its experts have accounted for all radioactive Cobalt-60 pencils originally present in the gamma cell sold by Delhi University to scrap dealers. In brazen violation of laid down rules, DU had auctioned off the gamma cell and one person later died and seven were injured due to radiation from the radioactive material. It is said to be India’s worst ever radiation leak and the world’s biggest such crisis in the past four years.