CBI chargesheets Laloo, Rabri
Non-bailable warrants issued
PATNA, April 4 — The Rabri Devi government in Bihar today plunged into a crisis within three weeks of assuming office with a CBI court passing order for issuance of non-bailable warrants of arrests against Chief Minister Rabri Devi and her husband and RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav in a disproportionate asset case.

2 Ikhwan men among 4 killed
SRINAGAR. April 4 — Four persons were killed and three injured when masked militants opened fire on a taxi in Pulwama district of south Kashmir today, the police said. Elsewhere in the valley, three militants, including a foreigner, were killed and two arrested as security personnel smashed several of their hideouts, even as militants made an attempt to blow up a security picket in Srinagar today, an official spokesman said.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh with Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Karnataka Chief Minister S. M. Krishna at the seventh meeting of the standing committee of inter-state council in New Delhi on Tuesday. — PTI photo
Badal supports statute panel (Nation page)

UP govt plunges into crisis
LUCKNOW, April 4 — The BJP-led coalition government lurched towards a crisis in Uttar Pradesh late tonight as its allies the Loktantrik Congress Party and the Janata Dal (Rajaram) boycotted a Cabinet meeting in protest against the Chief Minister’s style of functioning.

Ex-Chief Secretary booked
SHIMLA, April 4 — The state Vigilance Department has finally registered a case in connection with the alleged irregularities and favouritism in allotment of khair wood quota to a private industry by the previous Congress government.

Bengal ‘mahajot’ on cards
NEW DELHI, April 4 — West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee President A.B.A. Ghani Khan Choudhary has been “authorised”by Congress President Sonia Gandhi “to go ahead” to force a “mahajot” (grand alliance) to fight the CPM without compromising on the party’s ideology.