Centre, Nagas enter truce lane
n Protesters to lift blockade temporarily
n Decision after govt decides to use force
New Delhi, June 14
Finally, the 64-day-old blockade of the two crucial national highways leading to Manipur would be suspended tomorrow, but “temporarily”. An announcement in his regard was made by the Naga Student Federation in a release today evening but not before the Centre toughened its stance and decided to use force to end the blockade.

Naga students interact with media after meeting the Prime Minister on Monday. — PTI

Bhopal Row
Give report in 10 days, PM tells GoM
New Delhi, June 14
With late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi being implicated in the ongoing controversy over the release of Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson following the world’s worst industrial disaster 26 years ago, the UPA government and the Congress moved quickly today to quell the barrage of criticism directed against them.

Obama urged to act against Union Carbide

78 Indians evacuated from Osh, taken to Kyrgyz capital
New Delhi, June 14
Amid spiralling ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan, the Indian mission on Monday night safely evacuated 77 Indian students and one professor from Osh to the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek. Efforts are on to get around 38 Indians from Osh to Jalalabad, sources in the External Affairs Ministry said.

Ethnic trouble

8 Punjabi youths face murder trial in Sharjah
Moga, June 14
Eight Punjabi youths are facing charges of murdering a Pakistani youth at Sharjah in the UAE for the past about 10 months. They were produced before a Shariat court today, which fixed July 12 as the next date of hearing in the case.

UK probing misuse of education aid to India
London, June 14
Britain has launched an inquiry into reports that millions of pounds of aid for education and the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan has disappeared into the depths of corruption without any benefit to the poor children.

The Last Word
Sunil Bharti Mittal
A Whole New World — His
New Delhi, June 14
He is an entrepreneur at heart, the biggest telecom player in India and the fifth-largest in the world. Attribute it to his being born in the entrepreneur nursery of Ludhiana, his starting business in the city with a borrowed Rs 50,000, or shrewdly grabbing every opportunity he ever got, Sunil Bharti Mittal has carved out a success story that has few parallels.