Monday, December 11, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Pranab to brief  Parliament on  N-deal today
New Delhi, December 10
With country's nuclear scientists and the main Opposition, BJP, opposing the US legislation on nuclear deal with India, the Union Government today said External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukhejree would make a statement on the deal in Parliament.

Nation page: BJP goes full blast against N-deal
Editorial: Deal is done

After Kalpana, Sunita soars into space
Houston, December 10
After years in training and two launch countdowns, Sunita Williams today became the second woman of Indian origin after Kalpana Chawla to reach the orbit along with six other astronauts on board space shuttle Discovery that blasted off into the night sky on a 12-day repair mission to the International Space Station.

In video (56k) The Space Shuttle Discovery streaks across the sky over Daytona Beach, Florida, after lift-off from Kennedy Space Center on Saturday. — AP/PTI photo

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Gita, Ganesh, samosas give Sunita company

Washington, December 10 Carrying among other things a copy of the Bhagavada Gita, a statue of Lord Ganesh and a packet of samosas, Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams soared into space on board space shuttle Discovery toward the International Space Station that would be her new home in the stars for the next six months. Sunita Williams just before she entered Discovery on Saturday. — AP/PTI photo

All’s fair for house in Chandigarh
DC made Special Secy to retain govt accommodation
Chandigarh, December 10
To have a house to live in Chandigarh is a big deal. Big enough for a senior Punjab-cadre IAS officer who, when asked to evict a government house he was occupying unauthorisedly for over four years, managed a “substantive posting” in Chandigarh so that he could hold on to the accommodation.