Mulayam all set to win trust vote today
Lucknow, September 7
With a breakaway Bahujan Samaj Party faction already joining the ruling coalition in Uttar Pradesh, the Chief Minister, Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav, appears to be all set to win the trust vote tomorrow in the state.

Expansion family affair for Mulayam
Lucknow, September 7
The sudden expansion of the Mulayam Singh Yadav one-man Cabinet late last night proved to be a family affair, with son, brother and “close lieutenants” finding places in the Cabinet. He inducted six ministers — two each from the Samajwadi Party, the Rashtriya Kranti Party of Kalyan Singh and the Rashtriya Lok Dal of Ajit Singh.

In video: Mulayam Singh inducts six new ministers in his cabinet. (28k, 56k)

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256 fishermen return from Pakistan Vadodara, September 7 India and Pakistan have pressed into service an aircraft and a ship to locate 12 missing fishermen and a “khalasi” who were on their way in two boats to the Okha port in Gujarat from Karachi after their release from Pakistani jails. Ten-year-old Bhagwan Babu (centre) is hugged by his father Babubhai as he arrives at the port of Okha, about 350 km from Ahmedabad, on Sunday. — AFP photo

Hurriyat splits, breakaway group removes Ansari
Srinagar, September 7
Capping two months of internal squabbling and a war of attrition in public, the Hurriyat Conference, the biggest separatist outfit in Jammu and Kashmir, today split with 13 of its 25 constituents removing its Chairman Maulana Mohammad Abbas Ansari and replacing him with Masrat Alam as its interim chief.

Pension scheme fiscally prudent, says Sahib Singh
New Delhi, September 7
The establishment of a stringent regulatory mechanism is of paramount importance for ensuring that the desired objectives are achieved from the proposed contributory pension scheme for government employees, Union Labour Minister Sahib Singh Verma has said. He, however, hastened to add prima facie he “did not find any fault” in the scheme as it would reduce the increasing burden on the government exchequer.