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Live coverage aided Mumbai attackers
* Headley says LeT handlers used TV to guide terrorists
* Terms ISI officer Major Iqbal, who called himself Chaudhery Khan, as 26/11 mastermind
Chicago, May 25
Watching the 2008 Mumbai carnage live from Pakistan, the Lashkar handlers guided the attackers on phone and even asked them to change tactics to challenge the advancing commandos.

Editorial: ISI all the way

A TRIBUNE special
The IAF dilemma: To upgrade its Mirage fleet or buy new jets
New Delhi, May 25
The Indian Air Force has a dilemma: should it go ahead and upgrade it’s 51-strong Mirage fleet or purchase new fighters for Mirages’ specific role? Talks between the Ministry of Defence and Mirage’s French manufacturer Dassault are in the final stage and a decision is expected soon.

A tearful farewell to Surinder Kaur
	Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son and Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh break down near the body of Surinder Kaur Badal in their native Badal village on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Pawan Sharma

‘Wrongful’ Arrest
Indian envoy’s daughter sues New York admn
Was held on suspicion of sending obscene emails to teacher
New York, May 25
An Indian diplomat’s daughter is suing New York City’s government for $1.5 million for what she claims was a wrongful arrest on the suspicion of sending obscene emails to her teacher in Queens’ John Browne High School.

CRYING FOUL: High school student Krittika Biswas, daughter of an Indian diplomat, addresses a press conference in Manhattan on Tuesday. — PTI

India, Africa underscore need for UN reforms Addis Ababa, May 25 India and Africa today underscored the need for urgent and comprehensive reform of the UN system and backed each other's aspirations to become permanent members of the Security Council with full rights. PM Manmohan Singh with his Ethiopian counterpart Meles Zenawi in Addis Ababa on Wednesday. — PTI

12 dead as plane crashes near Delhi
Faridabad, May 25
A single-engine air ambulance crashed on a house in Parbatiya colony here around 10.30 pm today killing at least 12 persons, including seven on board the ill-fated aircraft that was ferrying a critically ill patient from Patna. The plane, which had taken off from Patna, crashed shortly before landing in Delhi.

The Last Word Tarun Gogoi An uncommon commoner
His common touch, winning smile and commitment to governance gave Gogoi a third term as CM in a state that is among India’s most troubled HE SAW Jawaharlal Nehru from close quarters when he was a Class III student. In school he declared that he wanted to be the Prime Minister. The childhood dream came true in a different form as he became Chief Minister, not once, not twice, but three times.

Punjab’s poorest also crack the IIT-JEE Chandigarh/Patna, May 25 Jatinder Singh’s father sells ‘kulchey chholey’ in Sangrur’s Majha village. Satish Kumar’s father is a petty shopkeeper. Both belong to Sangrur. The father of Priyanka Sharma, who hails from Ludhiana, has a mobile phone repair shop. Nation page: Andhra boy is IIT-JEE topper