Monday, August 13, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

N-deal: Left unmoved
PM to brief Parliament today
Thiruvananthapuram, August 12
Asserting there was no going back on the Left’s opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal in spite of its support to the UPA government, the CPM today said the onus of running the coalition was on the Congress.

PM to meet Left before statement
No threat to UPA govt: Pranab
Withdraw support: V.P. Singh to Left

Sensex Meltdown
Top five lose $10 b within a fortnight
New Delhi, August 12
The rout on stock market has left no one untouched - not even the country’s richest billionaires - with the top five led by Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani losing more than $10 billion in just about a fortnight.

Heavy rain claims 11 lives in HP
Shimla, August 12
Eleven persons were killed, about two dozen houses either collapsed or suffered damage, six bridges washed away as widespread heavy rain over the past 24 hours played havoc with private and public property in most parts of the state.

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The remains of a house that collapsed at Gadhari village in Gohar subdivision of Mandi on Sunday. Three persons were buried alive in the house collapse. — Photo by Hem Kant

Six more Hindi-speaking workers killed
Guwahati, August 12
Continuing with their dastardly design of ethnic cleansing, the Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front shot dead six more Hindi-speaking persons of two families late last night.

Nation page: Gogoi ready to release ULFA leaders to facilitate talks

Depot fire: Army rules out sabotage
Srinagar, August 12
One more person, a civilian labourer, has succumbed to injuries as a result of the fire that broke out yesterday at the Army’s ammunition depot at Khundru even as an Army spokesperson ruled out sabotage by militants.

Pak to free 135 Indians today
New Delhi, August 12
As a follow up of a recent meeting between Directors General of the Indian Coast Guards and the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency, Islamabad has agreed to release 100 Indian fishermen and 35 civilians.

Big B takes a dig at govt
‘Put me in jail if I have no right to own farmland’
New Delhi, August 12
Amitabh Bachchan has indicated that the problems he is facing over acquiring farmland in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra were due to politics and dared the government to put him in jail if it felt he was guilty of a wrongdoing.

I-Day
Security forces on high alert
New Delhi, August 12
Security forces were put on high alert across the country and anti-terrorist commandos positioned at vital installations like nuclear plants and airports in the run-up to the Independence Day.

IT boom leads to spurt in divorces? Chennai, August 12 Along with the boom in the IT, BPO and ITES sectors in the South, there is also a sudden rise in divorce in these industries. Chennai, which is the latest on the list of "cyber boom" cities in India, has recorded a rise in the cases of split marriage by about 200 per cent.