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Wednesday, March 14, 2012, Chandigarh, India
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 Rail Budget: Trivedi announces marginal hike in passenger fares...more
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 Badal sworn in as Punjab CM...more
  Mamata sends minister to Punjab, none to PM's dinner...more

Bahuguna sworn in CM, sulking Rawat cries foul
Rumblings of revolt in Uttarakhand Congress on Day One
Dehradun/New Delhi, March 13
Former Mumbai High Court Judge Vijay Bahuguna, who is also an MP from Tehri, was today sworn in as the seventh Chief Minister of Uttarakhand with less than half the elected Congress MLAs present.
Uttarakhand Governor Margaret Alva administers oath of office to Vijay Bahuguna in Dehradun.

Badal to begin fifth innings as CM today
10 new faces in the list of 18 ministers
Chandigarh, March 13
The top leadership of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)-BJP alliance is working overtime to define the shape of the Punjab Cabinet that will come into being tomorrow. After days of hectic parleys, the names of Cabinet ministers have finally been decided.

NCTC a necessity, will go ahead with it: Chidambaram
 New Delhi, March 13
The government today made it clear that it had no plans of junking the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) even as its main ally, the Trinamool Congress, demanded immediate withdrawal of the proposal to set up the anti-terror hub, stating it was infringing upon states’ powers.


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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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Rail Budget
 Trivedi likely to walk a tightrope
New Delhi, March 13
 Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi is ready with his Rail Budget speech.Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Dinesh Trivedi will have to walk a tightrope during his maiden Railway Budget presentation in Parliament tomorrow. It will be hard work to maintain a balance between improving the financial condition of the world’s second largest railways and continuing with the populist measures adopted by his predecessors.
Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi is ready with his Rail Budget speech. Tribune photo: Manas Ranjan Bhui

Death penalty for rapist-killer of 75-yr-old woman
Sirsa, March 13
A local court today awarded death sentence to a youth for the rape and murder of a 75-year-old woman at Sawantkhera village in Sirsa in February last year.  

SC stays attachment of Kripashankar properties
New Delhi, March 13
 The Supreme Court today allowed the continuance of the investigation into allegations of corruption against Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh and his family members, but stayed the process of attaching their properties. A Bench comprising Justices HL Dattu and AR Dave asked the Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik to conduct the probe and gather evidence relating to all movable and immovable properties of Kripashankar and his family, including his wife, son, daughter and daughter-in-law.

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‘War crimes’ against Tamils in Lanka rock Parliament
DMK, AIADMK, BJP, Left want govt to clear stand on vote in UN body
New Delhi, March 13
Rival Tamil parties DMK and AIADMK today joined hands in Parliament to demand that India clear its stand on a resolution moved at the UN Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) against Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes. India has so far been non-committal on the UN vote.
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Only 5% families in India own a four-wheeler
New Delhi, March 13
 In a telling reminder of the wide chasm between urban and rural India, the latest Census being conducted by the Union Home Ministry has thrown up figures that would shock country planners. Despite significant improvement in living standards over the last census of 2001, the 2011 figures show a picture that is far from respectable for a country aiming to be on the global high-table of decision making.

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