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Ministers lose discretionary powers
PM accepts report of GoM on corruption, government gets into combat mode
New Delhi, September 14
As social activist Anna Hazare’s movement picks up momentum, the UPA government today pushed ahead several key steps aimed at combating corruption.

on the cards All-party meeting on poll reforms Union Law Minister Salman Khursheed with MoS in PMO V Narayansamy at a press meet in New Delhi on Wednesday. PTI

IIT Council wants one test for engineering colleges
Gives nod to four-fold fee hike at the premier institute
New Delhi, September 14
The IIT Council, the supreme decision-making body on matters concerning the premier institute, today took two major decisions — one to introduce a single entrance test for all engineering colleges across India by 2013 to de-stress students; another to raise annual fees at IITs from Rs 50,000 to Rs 2 lakh to ease the financial burden on themselves.

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Two Delhi terror mail senders in police net
Class XI student duo arrested in Kishtwar
Jammu, September 14
Investigators on Wednesday arrested two persons from Kishtwar and charged them with criminal conspiracy in connection with the terror mail traced to Jammu and Kashmir claiming responsibility for the Delhi High Court blast.

STF picks up ‘chotoo’ in kolkata

After uproar, cash flows in for hockey champs
New Delhi, September 14
Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Ajay Maken made a magnanimous gesture towards the members of the Asian Champions Trophy-winning men’s hockey team when he sanctioned Rs 1.5 lakh to each of the players, who won the title in Ordos (China) last Sunday.

Punjab page: Sukhbir announces Rs 25 lakh for hockey players Sports Minister Ajay Maken with Indian hockey team captain Rajpal Singh in New Delhi on Tuesday. — PTI

Petrol prices may go up by Rs 3/litre as rupee weakens
New Delhi, September 14
State-owned oil firms may have to raise petrol prices by as much as Rs 3 per litre as the rupee touched two-year low against the US dollar, increasing the cost of importing crude oil. "Oil retailers are losing Rs 2.61 per litre or Rs 15 crore per day on the sale of petrol.

Special to the tribune
‘Islamist, Hindu terror India’s twin worries’
India faces a twin threat from indigenous Islamist and Hindu terrorism, according to a new Congressional Research Service (CRS) report. The authors of the report say: “Despite New Delhi’s reluctance to openly acknowledge the fact, India also has its own indigenous Islamist terrorism threat.”

US CONG REPORT: 2014 poll may be Rahul vs Modi affair

Special to the tribune Jackie Kennedy found Indira pushy, horrible Jacqueline Kennedy was sharply critical of world leaders, including Indira Gandhi, according to newly released audio tapes recorded months after the assassination of her husband, John F. Kennedy, in 1963. The former First Lady also described civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as a ‘phony’ and a ‘terrible’ man