Thursday, January 11, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Cash-for-query Scam
Expulsions fine: SC
New Delhi, January 10
The Supreme Court today upheld the expulsion of 11 MPs in the cash-for-query scam and one in the MPLAD case but emphatically said if such action was taken by Parliament for ‘collateral’ purpose, the same was open to judicial review as the apex court has been given unfettered power to define the Constitution.

Nation page: A lesson for legislators: Somnath
Editorial: Blow against the corrupt

Muktsar bodies: Evidence hints at rape, sexual abuse
Muktsar, January 10
A high-level probe was ordered today by the Chief Minister in the case of recovery of bodies of four children from a rice sheller here. Meanwhile, the police today concluded that it was a work of a sexual pervert who had kidnapped the four children and sexually abused them before strangulating them to death. In video (56k)

Editorial: Children are not for killing
Punjab page: Bodies in Brar’s sheller: SAD for CBI probe

Amarinder orders probe Police rounds up 10 persons Nothing incriminating against Jagmeet Brar Bodies are not burnt DNA tests to ascertain identity of the deceased Helpless relative of a victim. — Photo by Kulbir Beera

Nithari: CBI takes charge
New Delhi, January 10
The CBI today finally took over the probe into the killing of children and women at Nithari in nearby Noida from the Uttar Pradesh Police by registering some cases.

Pandher, Surendra undergo medical check-up

NSE GAINS
Enter: NYSE, Goldman Sachs
New Delhi, January 10
Marking the opening up of the Indian stock exchanges to foreign investment, the world's largest stock exchange — New York Stock Exchange — today entered India by inking a deal to pick up a 20 per cent stake in the National Stock Exchange along with Goldman Sachs and two other private equity funds for $490 million.

Sidhu to surrender in HC today
Chandigarh, January 10
Former Indian cricket star-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu and his accomplice in the case of death of a 65-year-old Patiala resident, who was beaten by them in 1988, will surrender before the Punjab and Haryana High Court tomorrow morning.

Weary Iraq waits for Bush’s new way forward
Baghdad, January 10
US President George W. Bush was on late Wednesday expected to propose sending about 20,000 more troops to Iraq but there was scepticism in Baghdad the plan would end the constant violence.

India: The Tasks Ahead
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS,
INAUGURAL SESSION

	PUNJAB: Ancient handwritten bir replaced with printed one
	HARYANA: Sampat threatens Singur-like agitation to oppose SEZ
	HIMACHAL: Delimited Assembly constituencies notified
	J&K: 30 teachers hurt in police lathi charge in Jammu
	CHANDIGARH:  Claims, counter-claims rule mayoral poll debate
	LUDHIANA: BJP’s 'eroding' support base worries SAD
	DELHI: Submit schedule for municipal polls: HC
	OPINIONS: Blow against the corrupt
	BUSINESS: Battle for Hutch hots up
	NATION: Govt vows to eliminate ULFA
	WORLD: Nine Koreans kidnapped in Nigeria
	SPORTS: Sania marches into semis

India talks tough on N-deal
New Delhi, January 10
Noting that it has certain concerns with regard to the recently enacted US law on civil-nuclear cooperation, India today made it clear that it would “walk out” of the deal if at any point it seemed to undermine its national interests.

Frozen calm: A Kashmiri fisherman works near a frozen portion of the Dal Lake in Srinagar on Wednesday. Amritsar recorded minus one degree celsius. — AFP

PSLV-C7 up The PSLV-C7 rocket took off from the Indian Space Research Organisation at Sriharikota, about 110 km northeast of Chennai, on Wednesday. (Details on Nation page)

WW-II veteran dies fighting for dues
Chandigarh, January 10
For 45 long years, a bullet embedded in his body was a constant reminder of battle - not only against the Japanese whom he had fought during World War II, but also the against the bureaucratic establishment here.

iPhone: Smart future is here San Francisco, January 10 Apple on Wednesday debuted its much-anticipated take on the smart phone, a sleek device with a large screen that combines a phone, an iPod and instant messaging, sending its shares to a record high. Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO and chief showman, pulled an iPhonefrom his jeans pocket at the annual Macworld conference and drew a standing ovation at the end of his speech. $ 499. Will you buy it?