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Monday, March 12, 2012, Chandigarh, India
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Within days, govt forced to lift ban on cotton exports
* Pawar had objected to March 5 decision
* Move to benefit Malwa
New Delhi/Bathinda, March 11
The government today decided to lift the ban on cotton exports following widespread criticism of the move, even by some of its key allies. “Keeping in view the facts, the interests of farmers, traders and industrialists, a balanced view has been taken to roll back the ban on cotton exports,” Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said. The formal order to lift the ban will be issued tomorrow. On March 5, the Commerce Ministry had imposed the ban on cotton exports, which had come under fire from the states of Punjab, Gujarat and Maharashtra as well as Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.

Govt frees Jat protesters, but standoff continues
 Agitators refuse to listen to leaders, continue to block tracks
Hisar/Chandigarh, March 11
Jat protesters with the body of Sandeep (in pix), the youth who was allegedly killed in police firing, at Mayyar village in HisarThe Haryana Government today released 101 activists arrested during the Jat agitation to press for job reservation under the OBC quota, but the stalemate continued. Protesters blocking the rail track near Hisar refused to listen to their leaders and Khap representatives and did not allow the cremation of 20-year-old Sandeep, allegedly killed during police action. The government and Khap representatives had late last night agreed that the Jats would call off their agitation and cremate Sandeep’s body after some jailed activists were freed.
 Jat protesters with the body of Sandeep (in pix), the youth who was allegedly killed in police firing, at Mayyar village in Hisar. Photo: Manoj Dhaka

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THE TRIBUNE DEBATE: NCTC
  Why states alone cannot deal with terror
  STATES ill-equipped to handle terror
  WHAT THE STATES CAN AND must do (N N Vohra)
   AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME (Sankar Sen)
  Inadequate consultation is the bane (B. Raman)
  Grey areas need to be addressed (Prakash Singh)
  States fear the ‘Centre’ more than ‘terrorism’ (Prof. Madabhushi Sridhar)
  Raising policing standards is the key (R.K.Raghavan)
   Coalition politics in the way of countering terror (Shyamal Datta)
  Counter-terrorism requires close cooperation (Ved Marwah)
  Centre & States both failed to deal with terror (K P S Gill)


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19% Punjab MLAs facing criminal cases
Chandigarh, March 11
The hue and cry against criminalisation of politics notwithstanding, the voters of Punjab this time have elected 19 per cent MLAs, who have criminal cases pending against them. The situation is more alarming in Uttar Pradesh with almost half of the 224 newly elected Samajwadi Party MLAs facing criminal cases. Almost 25 per cent of these are facing cases with serious criminal charges like murder, attempt to murder, theft, robbery etc. In Uttarakhand, 19 of the 70 newly elected MLAs have criminal background, according to Uttarakhand Election Watch.

Army jawan’s widow wins battle that he couldn’t
Chandigarh, March 11
About 49 years after her husband was discharged from the Army and nine years after he passed away, the widow of an Army jawan has been sanctioned family pension even though her husband never got his post-retirement benefits. It was only after the death of Sep Gurdayal, an Army Ordnance Corps reservist from Gurdaspur, in 2003, that his widow Piaro, took up the case afresh with the Army authorities and the Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Pensions) for the grant of reservist and family pension. Gurdayal had taken up the case for his pension earlier, but to no avail. The sanction of pension came without the family members having to seek judicial intervention.

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World Cup Indo-Pak semi-final at Mohali was ‘fixed’
 London, March 11
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is to investigate allegations that Indian bookies, with the help of a Bollywood actress, have been fixing the results of English County Championship matches and international games, the Sunday Times reported. The report also mentions last year’s World Cup semi-final match between India and Pakistan being tainted.

THE TRIBUNE DEBATE: NCTC
The way out of counter-terror impasse
The Tribune has been carrying a series of articles by top security experts. With the Union Home Ministry convening a meeting of all state DGPs today to break the deadlock over setting up of the National Counter Terrorism Centre, here is a summary of the solutions offered
AN EXECUTIVE Order issued on February 3 this year set the ball rolling for the functioning of a National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) within the Intelligence Bureau. Several States, ruled by non-Congress governments, opposed the move on the ground that powers of detention, arrests, search and seizure conferred on the NCTC infringed on the rights of the States and federal principles.

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