India, not Kashmir, Lashkar’s true goal
Aim to set up Islamic state in South Asia: Experts
Recent actions by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) have fuelled a belief in Washington that the militant group’s agenda is much broader than a resolution of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan.

Police commandos keep vigil near the Jewish Synagogue in Kochi on Saturday. The city has been put on red alert following an MHA warning of a possible Lashkar attack. — PTI

CJI for family courts in all districts of Punjab, Haryana
Panchkula, March 13
Chief Justice of India (CJI) KG Balakrishnan has called upon Haryana and Punjab to set up family courts in all their districts. Inaugurating a two-day international conference of jurists here today, the CJI said these courts would require senior judicial officers as the job involved experience, maturity and even innovation.

Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan inaugurates an international conference of jurists by lighting a lamp in Panchkula on Saturday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

21 caught using cellphones during Class XII exam in J&K
Jammu, March 13
In probably the biggest-ever case of using mobile phones during the exam, as many as 21 students of Class XII of a private college were caught by the police at village Kulian in Miran Sahib here.

N-liability Bill likely to be tabled in LS tomorrow
New Delhi, March 13
With less than a month to go before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh goes to the US, the government is planning to introduce the contentious Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill in the Lok Sabha on Monday.

It’s illegal, says Left

Bareilly still tense; 20 shops torched
Lucknow, March 13
Despite the continuing curfew in communal riot-hit Bareilly, unruly mobs torched nearly 20 shops in the city today. Tension mounted in the conflict-ridden city forcing the state government to rush in additional forces and a helicopter to rein in the spiralling violence.