Monday, September 24, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Setu row gets intense
BJP office ransacked in Chennai Chennai, September 23 A day after Tamil Nadu electricity minister and DMK leader Arcot N. Veeraswamy asked party workers to give a fitting reply to Ram Vilas Vedanti’s “fatwa” against Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, the BJP office here was ransacked and its workers attacked today, while the house of BJP state general secretary attacked in Sivaganga district allegedly by DMK workers.	Rein in DMK, BJP to Congress Bhopal, September 23 Condemning the attack on its Chennai office allegedly by DMK workers, the BJP today termed it as an act of “political fascism” and asked the Congress to ‘rein in’ its Dravidian ally and ensure stern action against the culprits.
Rajnath Singh addresses a press conference in Bhopal on Sunday. — PTI photo Editorial: Back to Ram

Comrade rules out mid-term poll Don’t rush with N-deal, Karat advises UPA
Chandigarh, September 23 Locked in a tug-of-war with the UPA government over the Indo-US nuclear deal, a mellowed CPM today called upon the UPA government to go slow on the deal saying that the CPM would not support any pact that would make India a strategic ally of the USA.

Maoist Bandh
3 killed, rail tracks blown up
Patna, September 23
Maoist rebels enforcing a 24-hour strike killed three persons, set ablaze several trucks, blasted one railway station and two rail tracks in separate incidents of violence in Bihar and Jharkhand today.

Several Pak Oppn leaders detained
Islamabad, September 23
Ahead of Pakistan's October 6 presidential poll in which Pervez Musharraf is seeking re-election, the police detained several top opposition leaders, as premier Shaukat Aziz threatened to extend by one year the tenure of assemblies if lawmakers resign in protest against the General’s second term.

‘Mush begged for Kargil ceasefire’

Singur Impact
Tatas asked to acquire land directly in TN
Chennai, September 23
After witnessing the Left Front’s fiasco in West Bengal over land acquisition for Tata’s small car project at Singur, in a paradigm shift the Tamil Nadu government has asked the Tata group to directly negotiate with the farmers and acquire land for its Rs 2,500 crore titanium dioxide project in southern part of state instead of being a party to it.

Dev Anand plans another book
Mumbai, September 23
After penning his autobiography “Romancing with Life”, to be released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday, Bollywood’s evergreen hero Dev Anand plans to write another book as he had much more to say.

All set for Jung of Jo’burg
Final begins at 5.30 pm
Johannesburg, September 23
Having conquered much-fancied rivals, resurgent India and Pakistan will clash here tomorrow in a high-voltage duel for the Twenty20 world title with not much to choose between the two youthful sides without their ageing stalwarts. (Details on Sports page)

Japanese women allege gangrape in Agra
New Delhi, September 23
Two Japanese women today filed a police complaint here alleging that three men in Agra raped them after confining them for three days there. An FIR was filed at the airport police station here after the women informed the Japanese Embassy about the incident, a senior police official said. The Japanese nationals, aged 24 and 25, arrived in Delhi on September 16 and left for Jaipur the next day from where they headed to Agra on Sept 19.