PM ends US visit
New York, September 26
Wrapping up his “highly successful” visit to Britain and the USA, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today left for Geneva on his way back home.

PM turns 73, cuts cake mid-air
Pak offer on glacier
Pervez: N-pact with India possible
Editorial: A new beginning
World page: Pak media welcomes absence of rancour

A Pakistani reads a magazine with pictures of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a book stall in Islamabad on Sunday. — Reuters photo

Punjab backs Pawar for BCCI President’s post
Chandigarh, September 26
Now it is official. The Union Agriculture Minister, Mr Sharad Pawar, has managed to get a nomination from north zone for the forthcoming general body meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, to be conducted at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on September 29.

Congress for Pawar as BCCI chief?

Controversial Haryana officer Khemka shifted
Chandigarh, September 26
Mr Ashok Khemka, Director of Secondary Education, Haryana, who had taken upon the all-powerful Chief Minister’s Office on the issue of frequent transfers of teachers, apparently in violation of the policy approved by the government, has been shunted out.

HC summons Air chief’s service files
Air Force rebuts report
New Delhi, September 26
The Indian Air Force today rebutted reports that the Delhi High Court had summoned service files of the Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal S. Krishnaswamy, in connection with an ongoing case regarding the denial of promotion to an Air Vice-Marshal.

Maya promises quota in all sectors
Garhshankar September 26
Ms Mayawati, BSP chief, condemned thinkers of the Manuwadi ideology and said they had crushed the Dalits of the country for centuries together on account of which they were still leading miserable lives.

3 Britons join terrorist group
London, September 26
Three British citizens who travelled to Iraq to fight the coalition forces have joined Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi’s terrorist group, currently holding the Liverpool engineer Ken Bigley, a media report claimed today.

BJP leaders discuss Uma’s future
New Delhi, September 26
BJP General Secretary Arun Jaitley today left for Bhopal to ascertain the views of party MLAs on the question of reappointing Ms Uma Bharti as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.

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