Wednesday,
July 4,
2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Terror Plot 2 Indian docs held in UK, Australia London/Melbourne, July 3
Two Indian doctors have been held in Britain and Australia in connection with last week's failed terror attack in the UK as the hunt for conspirators intensified across the globe.
An unidentified 26-year-old Indian medico has been arrested in Liverpool
in Britain in connection with the plot to target London and Glasgow, a
media report here said today.
Suspects’ profession not a surprise London:
The suspected terrorist cell that allegedly attempted three car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow last weekend was dominated by foreign-born physicians working in British hospitals, according to British officials and news reports.
Pak
Rangers, seminary students clash: 9 killed
Islamabad, July 3
Nine persons were
killed and a few hundreds injured in gunbattles that
erupted between security forces and militant madarsa
students in the heart of Islamabad today in a flare-up
triggered by security deployment around the famous Lal
Masjid.
A masked Pakistani
radical student (left) of Lal Masjid takes cover
behind a tree as veiled students run to avoid tear gas
during an exchange of fire between radical students
and paramilitary soldiers outside the mosque in
Islamabad on Tuesday. — AFP photo
Ambani’s
land deal ‘illegal’
Mumbai, July 3
The Maharashtra government today
termed as “illegal” a land deal by Reliance Industries chief Mukesh
Ambani’s group for a posh mansion now under construction in the plush
Malabar Hill area of south Mumbai.
Suicide
by Capt Police
probe murder angle Jammu, July 3
The police is probing the murder angle in the suicide of Megha Razdan,
an Army Captain, here. She was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her
room yesterday.
No
wild home for Dhanda Chandigarh, July 3
The Punjab forest department has decided not to allow chief
parliamentary secretary Punjab Harish Rai Dhanda to “misuse” the
Pallanpur rest house as his residence.
HC
takes suo motu notice of Tribune report on jails Chandigarh, July 3
Taking cognizance of The Tribune investigations into the plight of women
prisoners housed in Punjab jails, the Punjab and Haryana High Court
today issued suo motu notices to Punjab chief secretary, DGP (Prisons)
and the home secretary for July 17.
Chandigarh, July 3
For the 50-odd children lodged in jails across Punjab, life will never take off the right way. Given a choice, they would have chased butterflies off the petals, spent hours trying to hold raindrops or just letting them stroke their faces.
Fractured
lives: Mother and son look for hope, from behind the bars in one of the central jails in Punjab.
— Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma
Slim is fat: Mexican richest Mexico City, July 3
Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the world’s richest man, worth an estimated $ 67.8 billion, after overtaking Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates, according to a respected tracker of Mexican financial
wealth. 67.8 billion-dollar man
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