Quicktakes

Mobiles in cell

LUCKNOW: In a surprise raid, police has recovered four mobile phones, cash and foreign literature on firearms from the district jail premises here. During the raid yesterday, police also recovered a register containing the names of the jail staff on the pay rolls8217; of the criminals.

Karnataka team

BANGALORE: The Janata Dal ministry in Karnataka became the largest-ever in size in the state8217;s history today, when Chief Minister J H Patel inducted four more ministers, raising its strength to a record 51. Patel included four Ministersof State and elevated lone woman Leeladevi R Prasad to Cabinet rank.

Yeltsin hospitalised

MOSCOW: Russian President Boris Yeltsin has been admitted to hospital again following an examination of his stomach ulcer, even as his Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov flew to black sea resort of Sochi for a ten-day holiday, signalling Yeltsin8217;s state of health was not serious. In January, he was treated for acute bleeding of stomach ulcer for two weeks.