BREAKING NEWS
Jagir Kaur returns as SGPC chief after four years

PM for expanding Security Council
Group of 4 presses for permanent seats
New York, September 22
After the famous and sometimes notorious P-5, it is now the turn of the G-4. In a bid to challenge the might of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, India along with Japan, Germany and Brazil, better known as the Group of Four (G-4), had their first meeting yesterday. 

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with his Japanese counterpart Junichiro Koizumi in New York on Tuesday. — PTI photo by Subhash Chander Malhotra

Pervez strikes conciliatory note on Kashmir
Opposes more UN seats
New York, September 22
In sharp contrast to the stinging attack he launched against India in his annual address at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) session last year, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf today struck a conciliatory note on the issue of Kashmir.

World page: Pak not averse to mediation on Kashmir: Pervez
Opinions page: A troubled neighbourhood

Grenades explode as Mufti files papers
Srinagar, September 22
Five pedestrians were injured, three of them seriously, in four rifle grenade explosions in Anantnag town this afternoon when the Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was filing his nomination papers for the Pahalgam Assembly seats.

Sikh students can wear patka, says French envoy
New Delhi, September 22
Taking serious note of the resistance of the Sikh community to the ban on wearing ostentatious religious symbols in public primary and high schools in France, the French government has decided to allow Sikh boys enrolled in these schools to wear discreet ‘patka’.

Foreign experts offer to resign, Left elated
New Delhi, September 22
Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia is expected to convene a meeting next week, soon after his return from trip abroad, to consider the offer of resignation by experts from multilateral agencies, following a threat from the Left economists to quit the panel.

Terrorist Babla lands in police net
Ludhiana, September 22
An alleged Khalistan Commando Force terrorist, Gursewak Singh, alias Babla, was nabbed by the Jagraon police here today. 

Badal authorised to nominate SGPC chief, executive
Amritsar, September 22
SGPC members, belonging to the Shiromani Akali Dal authorised Mr Parkash Singh Badal, to finalise the names of the next president, office bearers and executive members of the Shiromani committee at a meeting held here today.

Jagsir yet to decide on bringing wife home Kotbhai (Muktsar), September 22 Even as Mohammad Arif, who spent about five years in Pakistani jails, has decided to take Gudia, his wife, back though she got married to Taufiq in his absence, his friend in jail, lance naik Jagsir Singh is yet to decide on whether to bring his wife back or not. Nation page: Gudia under pressure, says women’s forum Delhi page: L’affaire Gudia: TV channels indulge in one-upmanship