Nepal lifts emergency

No word on Press freedom, political activity Kathmandu, April 30 Under increasing pressure from India and other countries, Nepal’s King Gyanendra today lifted the state of emergency imposed after he grabbed power on February 1.
Nepal’s King Gyanendra (R) is watched by his son Crown Prince Paras as he addresses media representatives at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on Saturday night. — AFP photo

India reacts with caution
New Delhi, April 30
India today cautiously welcomed the royal decree lifting the three-month-old emergency in Nepal and indicated that King Gyanendra still had to do a lot.

Commission of inquiry sought on Nepal

BJP to fight next poll under second-rung leader: Naqvi
Sitapur (Uttar Pradesh), April 30
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday said that it would contest the next general elections in 2009 under a second-rung leader.

Japan to give Rs 22,000 cr for 2 rail projects in India
India tells Japan it will not sign non-proliferation treaty
New Delhi, April 30
Japan will extend a long-term soft loan of Rs 22,000 crore for construction of Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Kolkata railway freight corridors, a move that will be the rail version of Prime Minister’s Golden Quadrilateral highways project.
(Details on Nation page)

Road pile-up leaves 8 dead
Pachranga/Kala Bakra (Jalandhar), April 30

Eight persons were killed and 11 injured as a Qualis, Sumo and a truck rammed into each other after the Sumo hit a buffalo, which strayed onto the Jalandhar-Pathankot road in the wee hours here today.
The mangled remains of the three vehicles, which collided with one other on the Jalandhar-Pathankot road, near Bhogpur on Saturday. — Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma

Law Ministry to prepare note on probity in public life
New Delhi, April 30
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Law Ministry to prepare a comprehensive note on ‘probity’ in public life. This was stated by Law Minister H.R. Bharadwaj here today.