Thursday, January 6, 2011, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 2:30 am (IST)

Pak delivers onion blow, halts export
Says it is facing a crunch back home
Amritsar, January 5
Onions are set to bring more tears to your eyes as the Pakistan Ministry of Commerce has banned their export through Wagah-Attari land route. The traders in Pakistan had started exporting onions to India on December 19.

Moderate maulvis warn liberals against grieving Taseer
Opposing blasphemy laws would lead to similar fate, say over 500 maulvis
Islamabad, January 5
Five hundred Pakistani religious scholars have warned that anyone who expresses grief over the assassination of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer who opposed the country's blasphemy law could suffer the same fate.

Taseer’s assassin Malik Hussain Qadri being garlanded outside a Pak court on Wednesday. — PTI 

Taseer laid to rest in Lahore (World page)

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Gujjars call off stir 
Jaipur, January 5
Gujjars, demanding five per cent quota in jobs in Rajasthan, tonight called off their 17-day agitation after the state government assured them that it would complete within six months the quantifiable data collection for the purpose. “I have called off the agitation. I am satisfied with what the state government has offered to us,” Gujjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla, spearheading the agitation, told reporters after holding talks with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and a Committee of Ministers.

Chandigarh colder than Srinagar
Jalandhar, January 5
Chandigarh recorded its coldest day ever today, making it colder than Srinagar and Shimla, as piercing chill continued to sweep Punjab and Haryana.

Chandigarh residents woke up to a frosty morning on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

Dronacharya did injustice with Eklavya, says SC
New Delhi, January 5
The Supreme Court today upheld the conviction of four persons for stripping a tribal woman and parading her naked in a Maharashtra village in broad daylight, describing the incident as “shameful, shocking and outrageous”.

Alagiri threatens to quit?
Chennai, January 5
Differences appeared to have hit the top DMK leadership with MK Alagiri, Union Minister and elder son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, reportedly expressing his readiness to quit over the party’s “inaction” against former Telecom Minister A Raja. Though DMK maintained total silence on the issue, party sources said that Alagiri is understood to have written to Karunanidhi demanding stripping Raja of the post of propaganda secretary in the party to repair the damage caused by him.

Powerless babus lament: Can’t buy chai-samosa Chandigarh, January 5 “Babus” of Punjab, who are considered to be virtually ruling the roost in the state, have come out with their tale of woe. The deputy commissioners (DCs) from most of the 20 districts of the state, who met Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today to review implementation of governance reforms, expressed their helplessness on the issue of governance in the absence of adequate powers. Taking a serious view of the situation, the Deputy Chief Minister ordered Chief Secretary SC Aggarwal to take immediate remedial steps to empower DCs so that “they have no excuse for poor-performance”.