Friday, January 7, 2011, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 2:30 am (IST)

Srikrishna panel for united AP
Telangana Regional Council to address core concerns
Hyderabad, January 6
The much-awaited Justice BN Srikrishna Committee report has strongly advocated maintaining united Andhra Pradesh along with creation of a statutory Telangana Regional Council to address the core socio-economic concerns of the backward region.

Cong in a fix on Telangana
Editorial: Debate Telangana report

Telangana activists fume
Hyderabad, January 6
The threat of a violent agitation loomed large over Andhra Pradesh with Telangana protagonists rejecting the report of Justice Srikrishna Committee, which favoured united AP with sufficient statutory safeguards to Telangana region.

Buses being burnt on the Osmania University campus in Hyderabad on Thursday. —PTI

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Rethink ban on onions, govt urges Pakistan
n Punjab feels the pinch, prices start moving up n Lahore traders protest government move
Delhi/Amritsar, January 6
As onion import came to a grinding halt, with Pakistan not allowing even a single truck carrying the vegetable to cross over at Wagah, India asked Islamabad to reconsider its decision. “It is shocking and unfortunate that Pakistan has banned export of onions to India via land route.

Business page: Food inflation soars to 18.32 pc

Intense cold grips North
New Delhi, January 6
Eleven more persons died in Uttar Pradesh as the intense cold wave sweeping north India maintained its firm grip over the region today with Kargil town in Jammu and Kashmir freezing at minus 16.4° C.

Fourth FIR lodged in CWG scam
New Delhi, January 6
The CBI has lodged its fourth FIR in connection with the alleged financial irregularities committed by the Commonwealth Games’s Organising Committee and the latest criminal case concerns the overlays at different CWG venues in which the OC officials are suspected to have defrauded the exchequer of tens of crores of rupees in league with private firms.

Big boost for states that run power plants
Cabinet okays 50% energy share for them
New Delhi, January 6
The Union Cabinet today approved a new policy for allocation of power to be generated by upcoming state-run thermal power plants, earmarking 50 per cent to the ‘home’ states, while also fixing an overall target generation capacity of one lakh MW for the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17).

Passengers thwart bid to hijack Turkish plane
Istanbul, January 6
A Turkish passenger on a Turkish Airlines flight from Oslo to Istanbul tried to hijack the plane before being overpowered by other passengers, security sources said.The would-be hijacker, named as Yasar Cuma, who comes from a Kurdish village in the southeastern region of Anatolia, headed for the cockpit of the Boeing 737-800 less than an hour before arrival at Istanbul and demanded that the aircraft return to Oslo, claiming to have a bomb. (Details on World page)

Chandigarh loses ‘safe city’ tag with murders most foul Chandigarh, January 6 Chandigarh is no more the City Beautiful. Every day its face is smeared with the muck of murders, kidnappings, snatchings, robberies and thefts further defiling the city that was once a perfect picture of peaceful existence. The numbing murder of five-year-old Khushpreet, found 16 days after his kidnapping, showcases the baser elements that have crept in slowly, but, definitely, as a reality of the life. Editorial: Murder of a child Chandigarh page:75-yr-old woman found murdered Chandigarh page: Burail remains on edge