Saturday, January 15, 2011, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 2:30 am (IST)

Centre for troops cut in Valley
Not aware of such plan: Army Chief
New Delhi, January 14
The Union Home Secretary GK Pillai and Army Chief General VK Singh today seemed to talk on different wave lengths over confidence-building measures in Jammu and Kashmir. However, they did not contradict each other.

J&K page: Separatists hail move

Maghi Mela conferences
Akalis, Cong blow election bugle
Sukhbir’s impressive show of strength
Manpreet not far behind
Cong puts up united face
Muktsar, January 14
If one goes by the gathering in political conferences organised here today on the occasion of Maghi Mela by the three main forces — ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), the Congress and the SAD rebel Manpreet Singh Badal — then the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal has won the trial of strength. Manpreet’s show was also beyond expectations of his lieutenants.

Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal addresses the crowd in Muktsar on Friday as Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and other SAD leaders look on.

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Manpreet for formation of ‘new front’
No one is above party: Badal
Amarinder hits out at Badals
Administration fails to manage traffic

90 crushed to death in Sabarimala mishap
Idukki (Kerala), January 14
At least 90 pilgrims returning from Sabarimala Ayyappa temple were killed and 100 injured tonight when a vehicle ploughed through the devotees in a narrow forest stretch at Peeramedu in Idukki district of Kerala, triggering a stampede.

Anil Ambani barred from stock market
New Delhi, January 14
The country’s stock market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) today said that industrialist Anil Ambani cannot make investments in listed stocks in the secondary market till the end of this calendar year. The regulator also barred two of his group companies, Reliance Infrastructure and Reliance Natural Resources Ltd (RNRL) from making any such investments till 2012 end.

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Punjab rural kids know their math
New Delhi, January 14
In the largest household survey of the status of education in India, Punjab has emerged as the only state to post consistent improvements over the past three years in learning outcomes and arithmetical abilities of children aged 6 to 14 attending government schools in rural areas.

Special to the tribune
Charles wants to build town for India’s poor
Prince Charles has taken a leaf out of Le Corbusier’s book by expressing a strong interest in helping to develop a brand new mini town, or urban utopia, for the poor, on the outskirts of Kolkata or Bangalore. Charles was only a few years old when Jawaharlal Nehru commissioned Swiss architect and designer Le Corbusier, real name Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, to help build Chandigarh as the beautiful new capital of Punjab and (later) Haryana.
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SC: Why isn’t govt disclosing black money details?
New Delhi, January 14
The Supreme Court today questioned the government on its reluctance to disclose the names of Indian citizens who had stashed away billions of dollars in a European bank even after getting the details of their accounts from Germany.