Monday,
November
9,
2009, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
PM
promises decisive changes in economy New
Delhi, November 8
India’s long-stalled
reforms in its financial sector got a fillip when Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh said he would push through legislative changes,
including those in the insurance sector which foreign players
are eyeing.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of World Economic Forum, at the 25th India Economic Summit in New Delhi on Sunday. A Tribune photograph
Tawang
all smiles as Dalai Lama arrives Guwahati, November 8
Despite strong objections raised by
the Chinese government, the Tibetan spiritual leader-in-exile Dalai Lama
today arrived at the bordering Buddhist monastery town atop Arunachal
Himalayas much to the glee of thousands of his disciples and monks. Nation
page: Expected
of China to target me: Dalai Lama
Advani’s
b’day gift: K’taka crisis resolved New Delhi, November 8
The BJP chose the 82nd
birthday of LK Advani to finally resolve the fortnight-long crisis
in its Karnataka government by bringing together dissident leader
G. Janardhana Reddy and Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yedyurappa.
Apart from these two, BJP president Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj,
Arun Jaitley, M Venkaiah Naidu and Ananth Kumar were also present
at the occasion.
Himachal
IGP commits suicide Shimla, November 8
Jagjit Kumar Gupta, Inspector
General of Police (IGP), Railway and Traffic, today committed suicide by
shooting himself with his service revolver. He was 57. The incident took
place in the wee hours and his family members informed the police
immediately. He was reportedly upset due to family problems for the past
quite sometime. His wife had died about five years ago.
Falling
water table puts Punjab in ‘danger zone’ Hyderabad, November 8
Punjab, the land of rivers, is
drying up rapidly. The overexploitation of groundwater is leading to
drastic depletion of water table in the state, prompting the scientists
to call it a “danger zone”.
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