ALLAHABAD: Union Minister Murli Manohar Joshi on Tuesday said the government was consulting the attorney general on the conversion of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts into a private trust, a day after the BJP demanded a CBI inquiry into the alleged multi-crore fraud by Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

Maruti hikes prices

NEW DELHI: IN a surprise move, the Maruti Udyog has increased prices ranging from Rs 4,000 to Rs 10,000 for five variants of its popular Maruti-800 and Zen car models.A few months ago, Maruti had slashed rates.

MiG crash

UDHAMPUR: Flying officer R Sisodia was killed when a MiG-21 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed in Usuh forests near the Udhampur-Pahlai road, about 20 kms from here, on Tuesday morning.

Booker nominees

NEW DELHI: Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Vikram Seth's An Equal Music are the frontrunners for the prestigious Booker Prize nominations to beannounced in London tomorrow.