Friday,
October
10,
2008, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Pak police hq blown up
At least 11 persons were killed and 18 wounded in two bomb blasts targeting policemen, including one in Islamabad, just as the military was briefing members of Parliament on the progress made in the ongoing operations in tribal areas.
123 law makes no change in fuel assurances: Bush President George W. Bush on Wednesday allayed India’s concerns about nuclear fuel supply assurances, saying the legislation he was signing “does not change the fuel assurance commitments that the United States government has made to the government of India, as recorded in the 123 Agreement.”
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh applies tilak on Ram as Lakshman and Hanuman look on during Dussehra celebrations
at Subhash Maidan in New Delhi on Thursday. — Tribune
photo by Mukesh Aggarwal
Canal system in tatters: Punjab Jalandhar, October 9
Punjab’s rapidly deteriorating 14,500 km-long canal system will pose serious threat to country’s food security. Punjab government has informed the 13th Finance Commission in this regard.
Dalai
Lama may be operated upon New Delhi, October 9
Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai
Lama was on Thursday admitted to the Sir Gangaram Hospital here after he
complained of abdominal pain.
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The First Challenge Special supplement
to mark the 150th anniversary of India’s
first War of Independence.
8 houses burnt near Kandhamal Bhubaneswar, October 9
Unable to create trouble in Orissa's riot-hit Kandhamal for about a week due to tight security, rioters sneaked into neighbouring Boudh district and set afire eight houses, the police said today.
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Jaish man killed Srinagar October 9
Two Pak militants of Jaish-e-Mohammad,
one of them a “chief operational commander” for Kashmir, were killed
in an encounter near Sopore in Baramulla district today.
‘Nomad’
Clezio gets Nobel literature Stockholm, October 9
French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le
Clezio, described by the Swedish Academy as a “nomad” for travels
around the world that are reflected in his work, won the 2008 Nobel
prize for literature today.
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Tribune Special: Uneven Growth I Punjab
is growing but only in five cities Chandigarh, October 9
Accusations, allegations and
counter-allegations over stepmotherly treatment meted out to one area or
region by one popular government or the other has been the bane of
Punjab. Most politicians forget that Punjab also exists beyond Amritsar,
Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala and Bathinda.
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