Saturday, August 25, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Poacher Salman on the run Court dismisses plea against jail term; may give up on Monday

Jodhpur/Mumbai, August 24 Yet another Bollywood star Salman Khan today faced arrest after a Jodhpur court dismissed his appeal against a five-year jail term given to him for poaching an endangered chinkara. Rs 80 cr riding on Salman

Chinkara Case An endangered species The Chinkara is a species of gazelle found in South Asia. Found in grasslands and desert areas in India, parts of Iran and Pakistan. It is also known as the Indian Gazelle Gazella gazella bennetti. This gazelle stands at 65 centimetres and weighs about 23 kilogram. Certain researchers consider the decline in the Chinkara population as the reason behind the extinction of the Asiatic Cheetah in India. It is classified as extremely vulnerable and endowed in the highly endangered species list.

Closer home, ‘Peacock Goyal’ is back
Chandigarh, August 24
On a day when a Jodhpur court upheld the five-year imprisonment handed down to actor Salman Khan in the chinkara poaching case, the Punjab government gifted a plum posting to its officer facing trial in the peacock poaching case.

123: A slip-up may help
New Delhi, August 24
Dark clouds of political uncertainty over the UPA government may soon be lifting as the government has shown signs of pushing the pause button on operationalisation of the nuclear deal.

Left to lose big in case of snap poll: Survey

Cong to hold talks with Left next week
New Delhi, August 24
After holding a round of consultations with her senior party colleagues tonight, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is now expected to open a dialogue with the Left next week in a last-ditch effort to resolve the crisis over the Indo-US nuclear deal.

I don’t see a crisis: Yechury
Yechury meets PM

‘Blacky’ the black buck is born in lab
Hyderabad, August 24
In a first such experiment in the world, scientists at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) here have produced a black buck using a non-surgical, artificial insemination method.

Sharif may be arrested on return
Exiled Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif could be arrested on return here by revoking the remaining part of the remission of his unfinished jail term after he was convicted of hijacking Musharraf’s plane prior to the military coup, attorney-general Justice (R) Malik Muhammad Qayyum said on Friday.
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