Ordinance soon to repeal POTA

Sonia not super PM, says Manmohan Singh New Delhi, September 4 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today the government would come forward with an Ordinance soon to repeal POTA and dismissed as “without foundation” the Opposition charge that Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi is the “super Prime Minister.” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addresses a press conference in New Delhi on Saturday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

Business page: PM rules out legislation on quota in pvt sector, hopes to arrest inflation

Control terror, Manmohan tells Pakistan
New Delhi, September 4
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today made it clear that his government would stick to the previous government’s no-first-use policy in context of nuclear weapons and that dialogue with Pakistan “can move forward only if terrorism is under control”.

PM plays perfect strokes at press conference
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RSP threat to withdraw support to UPA
Army to stay in Manipur: Pranab

Kasuri breathes fire, mellows
New Delhi, September 4

Hours after his statement on Kashmir kicked off a controversy, Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmmod Kasuri today said Islamabad was not “unifocal” and was ready to resolve all issues.
Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar (right) and his Indian counterpart Shyam Saran gesture prior to the Secretary-level talks in New Delhi on Saturday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal In video (28k, 56k)

Russian school siege toll 322 Beslan (Russia), September 4 At least 322 persons, including 155 children, were killed during the bloody end to the hostage crisis at a school in southern Russia, a senior prosecutor said today. Fatima, mother of a killed hostage, cries at her house in Beslan in North Ossetia on Saturday. — Reuters photo World page: Manmohan Singh, Bush deplore hostages’ killings

Lathicharge: Bar Council for probe
New Delhi, September 4
The Bar Council of India (BCI), the apex body of lawyers in the country, today demanded probe by a sitting Supreme Court judge into the brutal lathicharge on advocates by the UP police in Lucknow.

Shortage of judges to be blamed for backlog: CJI
New Delhi, September 4
A two-day conference of the Chief Justices of the High Courts in the country commenced here today with Chief Justice of India (CJI) R.C. Lahoti expressing concern over the lack of infrastructure and shortage of judges and described it as a major contributory factor to the burgeoning pendency of cases with the courts.

Indians in Iraq asked to return
Kozhikode, September 4
India today urged its nationals working in Iraq to return home in view of the situation prevailing in the war-torn country.

Sachin out of Champions Trophy London, September 4 As if the current disasters in the field were not enough, the Indian cricket team has been dealt with a body blow as Sachin Tendulkar has been ruled out of the Champions Trophy starting September 10. Sports page: Gavaskar to replace Sachin