Tuesday, August 1, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Lok Sabha passes profit Bill
56 posts exempted; reprieve for over 40 MPs
New Delhi, July 31
Amid stiff resistance from the Opposition, Parliament today gave its approval without any change for the controversial Office of Profit Bill. This now exempts 56 posts and gives reprieve to over 40 MPs who could have faced disqualification, a measure returned by President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam for reconsideration

Lashkar targeting N-sites
Special measures to check attacks: Pranab
New Delhi, July 31
Acknowledging that Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Toiba is planning strikes on critical infrastructure, military targets and religious places, Union Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee told the Lok Sabha today that the government was taking all possible steps to ensure that such attacks did not fructify.

India seeks SAARC help in fighting terror
Saran takes up terror issue with Pak
Journalist held for links with LeT

Family of seven hacked to death
5 children among 7; septuagenarian couple also killed
New Delhi, July 31
It was a day of murders in the Capital. In all nine persons were done to death, including a family of seven and a septuagenarian couple.




Policemen, mediapersons and residents gather outside the house of Om Parkash, who was found dead along with his wife Santosh and five children, in New Delhi on Monday. — PTI photo

CBI begins probe into missing trucks
Gurdaspur, July 31
The CBI has initiated an inquiry into the 86 trucks loaded with foodgrains of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) meant for Jammu that had gone missing.

Bedi named CJ of Mumbai HC
Jain to be CJ of Punjab and Haryana High Court
New Delhi, July 31
The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the appointment of four high court chief justices, including Mr Justice Vijender Jain and Mr Justice H.S. Bedi as the Chief Justices of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and the Bombay High Court, respectively.

UPA for executive say in SC, HC judges’ appointments

CIC raps PMO for denying access to file noting
New Delhi, July 31
The Chief Information Commissioner, Mr Wajahat Habibullah, has rapped the Prime Minister’s Office for denying access to files pertaining to the appointment of CIC and other Information Commissioners under the RTI Act on the grounds that they were “confidential.”

Jaswant replies
New Delhi, July 31
Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Jaswant Singh is understood to have replied to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who had written to the former yesterday, virtually rejecting his claim of a ‘mole’ in the PMO during the previous Congress government of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao.

Sidhu Damdami is Editor of Punjabi Tribune Chandigarh, July 31 The Tribune Trust has appointed Mr G.S. Sidhu Damdami Editor of Punjabi Tribune. He will take over the new charge tomorrow, Mr H.K. Dua, Editor-in-Chief of The Tribune group of newspapers, said here today.