Naga leaders meet PM
Seek peaceful, honourable solution
New Delhi, December 7
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today told the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (I-M) leadership that the Centre favoured a “mutually acceptable and honourable” solution to the decades-old problem in Nagaland.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with a shawl and traditional Naga spear presented by Naga leaders at his residence in New Delhi on Tuesday. — PTI photo

Pak blocks road to Muzaffarabad
Says no to passport
New Delhi, December 7
The first ever technical-level talks between India and Pakistan on the proposed Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service, which began here today, made no progress at all, despite India showing a marked flexibility on its earlier insistence that passport and visa could be the only acceptable travel documents for the bus service.

Supreme Court asks Haryana cops to
protect couple
Inter-caste marriage
New Delhi, December 7
The Haryana Police was today directed by the Supreme Court to provide adequate protection to a boy and girl from Gurgaon who had defied caste barriers to tie the nuptial knot. They had also defied the diktates of the village panchayat that had declared their marriage illegal.

India win 3-1 in Champions Trophy Arjun Halappa is tackled by German defender Eike Duckwitz during the Champions Trophy Hockey match at Lahore on Tuesday. — Reuters photo Sports page: India bounce back to beat Germany Lahore, December 7 India bounced back from a one-goal deficit to beat a spirited Germany 3-1 for their first win in the Champions Trophy hockey tournament here today. Cricket tour to Bangladesh cleared Detailed report on Sports page

Kidwai clears controversial Bills
Chandigarh, December 7
The three controversial Bills seeking to advance the panchayat and municipal elections in Haryana are now Acts, following the Governor, Dr A.R. Kidwai, giving his assent to them today.

Experts restore damaged tapestries National Museum to conserve remaining 9 tapestries Chandigarh, December 7 Conservation work on two of the 11 tapestries which Le Corbusier created for Chandigarh is over. Five months after they were removed from the courtroom of Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice, the two richly-woven tapestries will be heading back to courtroom number 1. Expert conservationists from National Museum, New Delhi, busy restoring the priceless Le Corbusier tapestries that were removed from the courtroom of Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice in July this year. The tapestries, completely preserved, have been handed over to the UT Administration. — Tribune photo by Pankaj Sharma