Petrol cheaper by Rs 5, diesel Rs 2
LPG cylinder to cost Rs 25 less
Revised rates effective from midnight
New Delhi, January 28
For the second time in as many months, the government tonight cut petrol price by Rs 5 a litre and diesel by Rs 2 per litre, while the domestic LPG rate was also slashed by as much as Rs 25 per cylinder.

Khoya Khoya Chand...
His wife Fiza claims he has been abducted by
Kuldeep Bishnoi’s men
Chandigarh/Mohali, January 28
This is the story of Chander Mohan aka Chand Mohammed lost and found. His lady love and second wife, Fiza, earlier Anuradha Bali, cried herself hoarse maintaining that he had been “kidnapped” this morning from her residence in Sector 48.

A weeping Fiza, earlier Anuradha Bali, at her residence in Chandigarh on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Vicky Gharu

No bail for Raju brothers
Hyderabad, January 28
The disgraced former chairman of Satyam Computers B Ramalinga Raju will remain in jail as a local court here today dismissed bail petitions filed by him and other top executives of the software giant. After hearing the arguments from both sides, the sixth additional chief metropolitan magistrate Ramakrishna rejected the bail pleas of the accused in the Rs 7,100-crore accounting fraud in Satyam.

Life term for five accused in German
rape case
Chandigarh, January 28
Additional district and sessions judge, Raj Shekhar Attri, today sentenced all the five accused Manvir Singh Jolly, Pankaj Punia, Harpreet Singh Dalli, Sukhwinder Singh Sukhi and Sompal-to life imprisonment for gang raping the German tourist who was abducted from the parking lot of Hotel Taj in Sector 17 and raped.

John Updike dead
John Updike, a giant of the written word best known as a prolific chronicler of American suburban mores, manners and misbehaviour in best-selling novels, died at 76 on Tuesday after a battle with lung cancer, his publisher announced.

Opinions page: Updike explored virtues, vices and spent hopes  of the middle class

Haul of Heroin
Another NCB top cop in police net
Mumbai, January 28
The arrest of senior IPS officer Shaji Mohan on Sunday last with a haul of heroin is turning into a major embarrassment to the country's police establishment, with the complicity of more law enforcement officials coming to light. The Anti-Terror Squad of the Mumbai police, which is probing the drug case, today took into custody Balwinder Singh, a SP of the Narcotics Control Bureau in Chandigarh.

The dead fish may be as much as 10 tonnes Nangal, January 28 The teams of Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) and Punjab State Council for Science and Technology (PSCST) today visited the Bela Dhyani village where a large number of dead fish was found floating in the Sutlej waters on January 25.