Tuesday, September 19, 2006, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Pak, India to jointly fight terror: PM
On Board Air India One, September 18
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that President Pervez Musharraf had assured him “Pakistan has no hand” in perpetuating recent terror acts in India and had given an “explicit commitment” to work with India “to do all that in their control to control the scourge”. In video (56k)

Editorial: Victory at NAM
World page: Joint Indo-Pak protest for peace

N-deal will sail through, says Talbott
New Delhi, September 18
Brookings Institution President and former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott has said categorically that the Indo-US nuclear deal will go through smoothly. “We are going to get the nuclear deal and we have to work with it,” he said during a talk on US foreign policy at the Observer Research Foundation here today.

Nation page: Saran leaves for US to hold talks on N-deal

Nation page ‘Professor’ Lalu’s wagon rolls into IIM-A Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav greets students of IIM Ahmedabad on Monday. — PTI

SC notices on another PIL against Navin Chawla
New Delhi, September 18
The Supreme Court today took cognisance of yet another petition challenging the appointment of Election Commissioner Navin Chawala and issued notice to the Centre and the Election Commission with the direction that the fresh PIL would be heard with that filed earlier by BJP leader Jaswant Singh.

3 members of family, 2 others murdered

Jammu, September 18 Unidentified assailants brutally hacked to death three members of a family as well as their driver and servant in the posh locality of Trikuta Nagar here last night. Grieving relatives of Ravi Chopra, who was found dead along with his family members, a servant and a driver at their residence in Jammu on Sunday. — PTI photo

IIT admits ST boy after Arjun’s intervention
New Delhi, September 18
The IIT, Kharagpur, has increased the number of seats to accommodate Balram Tudu, a Scheduled Tribe candidate who had failed to make it to the IIT counselling, owing to a lapse on the part of the Postal Department. This has been done following Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh’s intervention. (Details on Nation page)

Koda sworn in as CM
Ranchi,September 18
Madhu Koda (35), leader of the ruling UPA coalition, here was sworn in as the first Independent Chief Minister of Jharkhand today. He was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor Syed Sibte Razi at Morabadi Maidan in Ranchi. (Details on Nation page)