Saturday, August 18, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Support now only on merit, says Bardhan
New Delhi, August 17
Keeping up the pressure on the Manmohan Singh government, the CPI today said the support of the Left should “not be taken for granted” and it would only extend help to the UPA coalition on the “merit of each issue.”

"Marriage may continue, but there is no love in it. Marriage without love leads to divorce."

WILL THEY CONTINUE TO SUP WITH UPA? CPM general secretary Prakash Karat (centre) shares a lighter moment with senior party leaders and politburo members R. Uma Nath (right) and Ramachandran Pillai at the party headquarters as they attend a politburo meeting on the issue of Indo-US nuclear deal in New Delhi on Friday. — Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal

CPM will support UPA for entire term: Basu
Kolkata, August 17
“The CPI (M) does not want the BJP and other communal forces to come to power and run the government once again and destroy the nation.

PM dines with Buddha
No voting, only discussion on N-deal: Speaker
Editorial: Left is not right
Nation page: BJP leaders organised havans for my death: Manmohan

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N-test up to India: Burns
But... “India is a sovereign country.” Provisions of the 123 Agreement which will govern the nuclear deal give the US President the “options in acting in the event that there is a (nuclear) test”
— Sean McCormack, State Department spokesman

Remarks on PM
No apology: Fernandes
New Delhi, August 17
Under attack from the ruling Congress over his statement against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, NDA convener George Fernandes on Friday refused to apologise for it.

Angry Cong men stall RS proceedings

No separate quota for women
New Delhi, August 17
In a significant ruling on judicious implementation of reservation, the Supreme Court today held that there could not be a separate quota for women of reserved categories in government employment within the quota fixed for SCs, STs and OBCs under the law.