Thursday, August 9, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Police on high alert
Pak plans to impose emergency?
A flurry of meetings and consultations at the Army House triggered speculations in the capital that President Pervez Musharraf has finally decided to impose emergency in the country that is being contemplated for the past couple of weeks.         Pervez Musharraf

Left Plea Rejected
No going back on 123: PM
New Delhi, August 8
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh categorically told the Left leaders that the 123 agreement would not be renegotiated and the government would operationalise the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement.

MCs go to SAD-BJP
Chandigarh, August 8
Complaints of rigging in Patiala and stray incidents of violence in Amritsar, Jalandhar and Ludhiana notwithstanding, the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janta Party (SAD-BJP) alliance raced to a clear majority in all four cities where municipal corporation elections were held today.

Punjab page: Bhawna youngest winner
 Congress decimated in Patiala

Rigging charges ring out in Punjab
	A woman looks through the broken windscreen of a car was smashed during a clash between Congress and Akali supporters in the Gumtala area Ward Number 5 in Amritsar on Wednesday. — Tribune photo by Rajiv Sharma

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It’s final: SC won’t vacate quota stay
New Delhi, August 8
The Centre’s move to get the OBC reservation implemented in education institutions from the current academic year received a setback today as the Supreme Court declined to grant a relief to the government.

Judgment no setback, says Arjun
Anti-quota groups rejoice
Editorial: Arjun disarmed

HC can quash prosecution in case of compromise: Bench
Chandigarh, August 8
Pronouncing an order of major consequence, which overruled the three-judge judgement of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, a full Bench of the court today said the court was well within its powers under Section 482, CrPC, to quash an FIR if the parties had entered into a compromise and settled disputes.

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NHRC seeks report on poison deaths in jails
New Delhi, August 8
The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Punjab government to submit within a month a factual report on the death of jail inmates due to insecticide poisoning.

SC to hear Sanjay Dutt’s appeal tomorrow
New Delhi, August 8
The Supreme Court will take up actor Sanjay Dutt’s appeal against conviction in the Arms Act case and his bail application on Friday next even as the film star has made a plea for invoking the provision of the Probation Act for the commutation of his six-year sentence.

Phalke for Benegal
New Delhi, August 8
Noted film-maker and Rajya Sabha member Shyam Benegal has won the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke award for 2005. The award - the nation's highest honour for cinema - is given by the government for outstanding contribution to the field of Indian cinema.

Rising inequality danger for Asia, says ADB Beijing, August 8 Inequality is rising across most of Asia, darkening growth prospects and increasing the risk of potentially violent social strains, the Asian Development Bank said on Wednesday. The bank blamed the widening gap partly on globalisation, which it said favours the well educated at the expense of the less skilled, and recommended a range of policies to redistribute wealth and create more equal opportunities.