Agreement on N-reactors elusive
IAEA: Consensus talks with Left still on, says PM
Moscow, November 12
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today that the process of evolving a national consensus on the Indo-US nuclear deal was still on. Talking to the media after his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin — the 8th annual summit meeting between India and Russia — Manmohan Singh said talks with the Left parties for approaching the International Atomic Energy Agency on the Indo-US nuclear deal were still on.

Government may get elbow room
World page: Court summons Musharraf
Editorial: Vote at gunpoint

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday. — AFP photo

No third term for Bhutto, says govt
Islamabad, November 12 Toughening her stand, main opposition leader Benazir Bhutto today ruled out further talks with President Pervez Musharraf on a power-sharing arrangement even as the government said she would not be allowed to run for a third term for the post of the prime minister. Draconian: Jahangir	Asma Jahangir
Oped page: The losing battle of a dictator

HP VOTES
Pangi residents feel politically ignored
Shaur (Pangi valley), November 12
Residents of Pangi valley say they are the victims of a vicious political circle created by two dominant lobbies of the Congress and the BJP. They have no choice but to vote for one candidate once and the other the next time.

TALKING SHOP? Volunteers of a political party woo two shopkeepers in Chitkul village, on the border with China, in Kinnaur, which goes to the polls with two other tribal districts — Bharmour and Lahaul- Spiti — on Wednesday. — Tribune photo by S. Chandan

CRPF enters Nandigram
Kolkata, November 12
The CPM’s “recapturing drive being over”, the CRPF that has been camping at Garbeta for the past three days today entered Nandigram when the Congress, the SUCI, the Trinamool Congress and the BJP were separately observing a bandh in protest against the CPM’s vandalism and killings in Nandigram.

Editorial: Cadres turn criminals

ThirdGen telephony, number portability is here
New Delhi, November 12
Steering India towards a new level of wireless telephony, the government today announced immediate release of spectrum for ‘third generation’ (3G) mobile services and allowed users to switch operators while retaining the cell phone numbers.