Monday, May 14, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Maya takes charge
Lucknow, May 13
Mayawati was today sworn in as 40th Chief Minister of the state heading a government of ‘sarvjan’ (all castes), elected by the ‘sarvjan’ and promising a piece of the development cake for the ‘sarvjan’.

UP Governor TV Rajeshwar with BSP supremo Mayawati after she took oath as Chief Minister of the state at Raj Bhavan in Lucknow on Sunday. — PTI photo

Spells out priorities Maya’s wrath: 3 officials suspended 100 UP cops transferred Editorial: EC wins

After Kalam, who?
Cong, Left await BSP stance
New Delhi, May 13
With the process of consultations having begun in the UPA for choosing a candidate for the presidential elections, both the Congress and Left parties are awaiting feelers from the BSP which is set to play a significant role in the choice of nominee for the highest constitutional office in the country.

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

DMK in no hurry to decide on strategy

Fresh violence in Karachi
Three more killed, toll rises to 39
Karachi, May 13
Three more persons were killed in fresh violence in the tense Pakistani city taking the toll in yesterday’s bloody clashes to 39 dead as President Pervez Musharraf and supporters of suspended Chief Justice Iftikar M Chaudhry blamed each other for the deaths.

Editorial: Killings in Karachi

Maran resigns from cabinet
Chennai, May 13
High-profile communication and IT minister Dayananidhi Maran tonight resigned from the union cabinet after the DMK decided to get him removed from it in the wake of the severe embarrassment to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi following the exposure of chinks in the party’s first family.

  ‘I have not betrayed DMK’

Slowdown in farm growth
Full planning panel meets today
New Delhi, May 13
The full Planning Commission, headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, meets here tomorrow to discuss the proposals to provide better technical and financial assistance to the agriculture sector and to arrest the slowdown in farm growth.

Bomb attacks: More than 60 Iraqis killed
Baghdad, May 13
A suicide truck bomber crashed into offices of a Kurdish political party today, killing at least 45 persons and wounding scores, including a mayor, officials said. It was the second suicide attack in Kurdish areas of the north in four days.

Road blockade over ‘fake encounter’
Tea workers attack protesters; curfew in Tinsukia
Guwahati, May 13
Indefinite curfew has been clamped in areas under three eastern Assam police stations in Doom Dooma, Dolla and Kakopathar in Tinsukia district following violent clashes between ULFA sympathisers and tea garden workers at Dholla.